Russell Williams Timeline

  • Russell Williams attands training for the military

    Russell Williams attands training for the military
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    Russell Williams

  • Williams was promoted to captain in the air force

  • Williams was promoted to Major and began a new job working as Director General Military Careers in Ottawa

  • A woman in Tweed is tied up and sexually assaulted in her home.

  • A woman is sexually assaulted in her home on Cosy Cove Lane, where Williams has a cottage

  • Corporal Marie France Comeau is found dead in her home in Brighton, Ont.

  • Williams and his wife move to Ottawa

  • Williams is awarded his First Clasp for 22 years of "faithful service to the Canadian Forces and Canada."

  • Jessica Llyod goes missing

  • Williams is arrested in Ottawa and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd and Marie-France Comeau.

  • Williams is charged with 82 more offences in connection with break-ins in Ottawa, Belleville and Tweed

  • Williams pleads guilty to all charges against him, including two counts of first-degree murder, two counts each of sexual assault as well as 82 counts of breaking and entering and attempted breaking and entering.

  • A judge sentences Williams to two terms of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murders. Williams is also sentenced to 10 years for each of his two sexual assaults, as well as one year for each of the other charges he