just a mystery. absolute mystery. >> it was usually dark when he arrived. the women were alone. and he never knocked. >> and that's when i realized, someone had been in the house. >> she started to cry. now, everything is gone. >> flipping. steele out. >> she tried to them, let me live. >> his crimes were chilling. his crimes were bizarre. >> it's a little creepy to hear something like that. >> very creepy. >> and i just heard a scream. >> i felt so scared. for her, for me, for all the women. >> i just about fell off my chair.

>> we were in that much danger and didn't even know it. >> what were you be willing to give me today to move past the police investigation? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it was january, 2009. brenda konstantin and her husband brian rodgers, and their three teenagers, two boys and a girl, spent the new year's holiday the way they always had. a trip out of town and then back to their home. a mid class suburb in the capital city, ottawa. >> it's a very family oriented community, lots of young families. lots of kids. >> but as you say? in a town which is very safe,

orlean seemed particularly safe. >> there's never a lot of crime. >> in january, when brian and brenda got into their home on friday evening. the family house in orleans seemed exactly as they left it. but bryan did notice something odd. >> the digital clock in the room, on the left side of the bread, was blinking. i thought it was unusual but did not think much of it. >> and then you went ahead and just continued? >> carried on our lives. >> and never dreamed, why would they? that they're digital clock was blinking out of warning. two days passed during which the 15 year old daughter lived out of the close in her suitcase, as teenagers sometimes do. then came sunday. >> she is taking her shower. she went into her room, she went to her dryer, and that's when she discovered that all of her underwear had been taken from the drawer. >> so she told her parents. >> she's a teenager, and, clothes are everywhere. i said, did you check your laundry basket, your suitcase, the floor. >> no ma'am, everything is gone. >> she was freaked? out >> yeah. >> terrence said what parents say. >> i said look again. so she started to cry. and she said, everything is gone. everything.

>> but she did check again, and found more things were missing. >> she is running out, she's crying, very upset. then we realize that something that was very weird was going on here. >> but what was going on? >> i went upstairs and looked. and saw, it sure enough. it was missing. >> we immediately call the police and reported it. >> although they were worried enough to cover the police, they weren't sure what reception they would get. >> i thought it was a joke, i thought it must of been kids playing a joke. >> but the police did not think so. they were at the house in a matter of minutes, and they were all business. they spent five hours combing through the place. then, came back the next day to take apart the family computer. >> did they find anything? >> now. they didn't find anything. >> not in the computer. but in the daughter's bedroom. disturbing discoveries. along with 15 pairs of missing underwear, a number of the daughters bathing suits, dresses, tank tops, also vanished. they discovered the intruder had rifle through the family photo albums and remove pictures. but only those that showed the

daughter. >> and those were vacation pictures down in punta cana. so they were all beach pictures, bathing suit pictures. >> and then. it got ugly. >> they said they found some dna evidence on my daughters dresser. that was the one that was really weird. >> investigators said the sample was consisted with tried semen. they found it on the top of the daughters dresser. where the underwear had been stolen. all of that, along with the fact that no one else in the house reported anything missing. lead investigators to issue the kind of warning that no parent ever wants to hear. >> they told us that, luckier doors. secure your house. >> we have to be careful. we have to watch her daughter. they said she was targeted, it wasn't a random break-in. >> targeted? not random? that was when the fear called in. and in fact it there once, comfortable lives. everything from this moment, different. >> do you take your safety for granted. and then all of a sudden, there

is nothing you can do that's really good enough. >> after that, their daughter was never alone. brian and brenda put in a new alarm system. and kept asking, who was it? who would do this? they tried to come to terms to, with the other troubling news that they had learned from police. that theirs was by no means the only breaking of its kind in orleans. >> so they knew it was a pattern. >> a little creepy to hear something like that? >> very creepy. >> in fact, almost a dozen such break-ins have been reported in orleans in the past year. the police had issued a warning for residents legs -- though brian and brenda did not know about it. now, officers told a couple of their biggest concern. that the intruder, whoever he was, would escalate from stealing lingerie, to more dangerous behavior. >> they were very concerned at the time that there was escalation. >> and rightly so, because in a

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called a neighborhood wheeling. but they say the police asked them to cancel it. >> the objective was to keep this man doing it, and they thought they had to catch him in the act. >> wait a minute. using the neighborhood as bait? >> exactly. >> the police were doing what they could without success. by november 2009, almost a year after the break in at the home, the intruder was still out there. more than a dozen break-ins had been reported. many involving store lynn underwire. shockingly high, with a snuggie, safe neighborhood. brenda and brian, now on the nervous alert. could not stop wandering. who. >> who? who could've done this? >> a woman named and martin cook. and a friend named howard gray

started asking that question. she lived in this lovely farmhouse 150 miles away from brenda and brian. howard lived on the same busy highway, not far from the small city of belleville. november 17th 2009, late that afternoon. and hurried home to change interparty clothes. it was her birthday. she was heading to howard's place to celebrate. >> i was really rushing. i was looking forward to going. >> and lived alone much of the time at his own place, and that suited her fine. she's a music teacher and artists. she wanted time and space to herself. >> i like to have space, as my art grows i like faith. >> but did you feel insecure ever before? did you lock your doors and windows? >> now. >> and friend, howard gray, grew up down the far. >> to take the keys out of the ignition of the cars. that's what i grew up in. >> that's safe? >> where you know everybody? >> yeah.

>> back on that november day, when and got up to her bedroom on the second floor, she looked in the mirror thinking about what to wear. it was then that she noticed something strange in the mirror 's reflection. a bedside table with a drawer open. >> so i looked at it and thought, i did not open this. >> she looked at the other bedside table. >> the drawer was open, all my sex toys and some stuff was gone. and that was when i realized somebody had been in the house. >> had to be a prank? had to be howard? he had a set of keys to her place because he often did handyman jobs there. she hopped in her car, drove the 200 yards to his house. >> she came right in and then said, are you playing a practical joke on me? no. so then she proceeded to tell me. trade in the car, we'll follow overnight. >> the two of them troops upstairs to the bedroom. discussed at length whether to reports the missing sex toys to the belleville police. >> my words were, don't fall in

the police. there will be nothing good. >> my first reaction was to phone the police, because someone had been in the house. but then he said, think about it. >> so really it was embarrassment. >> no! it was just. >> we were just thinking the reality of what would happen if you found. >> they were also trying to decide if maybe they should be them [inaudible] maybe really was a joke. but if so? who could've been behind it? >> i was thinking. somebody that knows me. >> it will come up in the morning, maybe a mailbox with a ha or something like that. >> there's a reason they recalled that in minor detail. a terrifying reason. but on this evening, they did not know that yet. as they prepare to return to howard's house for the birthday party he was throwing her. and it was simply an excess of caution when he told her. bring her pajamas. >> i said to her, obviously someone's been to the house. you're not staying alone tonight. >> and this was important,

before they left. they locked an's house of tate. just in case. >> all we did was just go along to the windows and doors. she won in front of me, and i went behind her. and double checked everyone. >> that night they partied with friends. drank howard's homemade strawberry wine. made light of the bizarre theft. and perhaps the light of day would reveal the prankster. then, 7:45 the next morning. they were back at the farmhouse. she ran upstairs to her home office to do some photocopying. howard waited below. then he heard her terrifying scream. >> she was like howard! my work boots were still on. and in three steps i was up where she was. and she was staring with her hands like this. >> standing in staring at the old desk computer she had not fired up for months. and the screen was glowing in the day morning light. a message, that shook and to the core. >> i took it so personally. this is, i knew someone was out there for me. and that was very, very scary.

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so they decided not to call. but after and spend that night at howard's and return home first thing in the morning. this is what greeted her on the computer screen. >> go ahead and call the police, i want to show the judge your really big deal those. eventually, and would wonder about those typos. but just now, she froze. >> it was almost like she had a gun to my head at that moment. >> this time, and called 9-1-1. and then she and howard waited for the police to arrive. they became in a disturbing conclusion. whoever wrote the message, literally some have crazy. must of been hiding in the house the evening before. when they debated whether to report the theft. >> it was proof that he was there. we have no evidence that he was there. >> they have been talking just

outside of ends bedroom. down the hall, in this closet, they say. they found evidence to support their chilling theory that the intruder had been hiding their. >> it was all upside down. >> yeah, so he's. he had to be listening. to have a message like that. go ahead, phone the police. >> and then, a second dreadful discovery. they searched the house to see if anything else had been stolen. and in her bedroom, and discovered that all of her underwear had disappeared. >> and the god, that was sickening. >> she loved lingerie. owned more than 100 sets. all gone. >> she was a basket case. she really was. i gotta go downstairs. >> only to make a third, gut wrenching discovery. >> i said we lock that door last night. >> and she said yes. >> well that doors open. >> she goes, no it's not. >> but it was. >> and, then the two of us looked at another and we started talking about the possibility that whoever was here let themselves out. >> they had to. >> the rest of that day passed

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and 150 miles from brenda and bryan's orleans. and here in tweed, larry jones. the former government surveyor. the picture of grandfatherly responsibility, was about to be caught up in a monstrous crime story. he is loved in tweet all his life, the last four decades on this lakeside lane called cozy cove. >> cozy covid is one of the most ideal places to live. you have the whole lake as your backyard. >> it was a safe place. also. and the ability so. >> we never had a problem here with anything. never. >> though there was one disturbing incident back in 2007. larry confessed. his daughter chris, who live nearby, was with her brother dave when she surprised an intruder in our home. >> chris heard a noise, and she says dave, dave, is someone in the house? she opens the door and this is

this guy, running out the door, jumps over the, fencing goes into the woods. he took off two quick. they could not catch him. >> the intruder got away. and that was that. or so larry and his family thought. then, came september 2009. and the events that trouble then cook. the first call came in at 3:15 am. september 17th. a terrified young mother described how she had been awakened by an intruder. blindfolded, tied up, stripped. and forced to pose for degrading pictures. after a couple of hours, the man left. >> and there are issues that would cause the police some concern. >> craig is a former fbi investigator and profiler. dateline nbc asked him to evaluate these cases. >> you have an individual taking pictures. >> what does that say? >> it suggests that the individual is playing out of fantasy. that is fantasy driven behavior. it also says that it's somebody who would do it again. >> and so, apparently, he did.

13 days later, another terrifying call to the police in the early morning hours. once again, a woman alone had been blindfolded, tied up, stripped, photographed. and then the intruder left. >> he clearly has engaged in reconnaissance behavior. of knowing the victims alone. that he would have the opportunity to spend 2 to 3 hours with her. without fear of somebody coming in. >> he's done some research? he >> has done some research. which shows planning. >> what happened would've been shocking everywhere, but it was doubly so here in tiny little tweet. two sets of assault on two women alone at night. within days of each other, within blocks of each other. not rape, but terrifying. and weird.

two attacks that seemed to bear the same signature. so, two attacks when maybe just one attacker? >> the ontario provincial police, the opp, responded to both results. and after the second sexual assault, they began canvassing the neighbors. >> i was down there, and they wanted to see if i had heard anything. >> he says he had nothing to tell them. by now, the news of the two assaults was all over tweed and beyond. >> i remember saying to my guys, look, we have to get more on this. >> chris was then the city editor of the intelligence, the newspaper on the nearby city of belleville. >> we will given nothing. we were told that the investigation is ongoing. no further information will be released. >> around cozy cold lane, the women were terrified. >> everybody was just scared to death of what was going on after the person was assaulted. and some of the girls did start knocking their doors. and take the keys and take

their things in the house. that kind of thing. and be more leery about what is going on outside. and then the second one? everything just went haywire then. >> everyone thought it had to be someone local. but who? >> it was just a real mystery. who live this could be. and nobody could find out who it was. >> nobody, that, is until the day that barry jones came home from a partridge hunting. to find his house crawling with cops. >> i said, what's going on? somebody broke into my house? >> they said no it's more serious than that. >> and way more serious it was as he was about to learn. first, he was escorted into a cruiser by one of the officers. >> he says, well we think you have something to do with the two sexual assaults down the road. >> it was a shocker! larry, a 65-year-old grandfather and 44 year resident of tweets cozy cove lay in was now a suspect in the double assaults. >> he says, so you're gonna tell us why you did this?

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matched that of her intruder. >> he said, well [inaudible] the second house, i was in the house three years ago. >> larry says that he was so shocked by the question that it was all it could do to answer them. >> i could not even believe that they would even think that. >> because, if there was one thing that larry jones knew without a doubt in the world, it was that he was innocent. . >>, may of all people, who's lived here for 40 years. and after living for 44 years. i start raping and pillaging are single women on the road? that's ridiculous. >> larry gave the police dna samples and fingerprints. and he promised to return to the station for a light detector test. which he did, in due course. and which he says he aced. but that didn't mean that larry jones got his old life left back. or his reputation. >> i've always done everything honestly and truthfully. and then, all you've done all your life is gone out the window? it's just not right. >> larry jones would eventually be cleared.

and meanwhile, police investigating had a series of break-ins and brenda and bryan 's neighborhood in ottawa several miles that way seem no closer to napping their intruder. and mars and cook was trying to put her home invasion and the computer message behind her. but still, no investigators were able to connect any of these crimes. but, then, why should they? so far apart. and when something truly often happens. in a nearby town in that direction, again, nobody, nobody was able to think of any reason why there should be a link. >> murray france como, was by all accounts vibrant and by beiges. a dedicated consumer of great meals, new countries. a pretty dress. she was captivated the moment

he saw her. >> the first thing that caught me was her smile. she had a beautiful smile. >> sadly for him, she already had a boyfriend, so he waited. a year later in the spring of 2004, she approached him. and he? well. he was done waiting. >> we start dating, and then it went pretty well. it didn't take so long for me to move in with her. >> he took his two sons with him. >> so she essentially became a mother, or. >> stepmother yes. she did her job pretty well. >> what did you like about living with marie france? >> basically, she was in love with life in general. yes. >> both allana and marie-francoise french canadian. they both came from middle terry families. early on, she chose to make the military her life to. what be called coming a traffic tech. >> people who study the

aircraft. and have to balance the weight of the aircraft. >> she served in germany, and dubai. afghanistan. then in 2008, after more than a decade in the military, corporal murray france como became a flight attendant with the 4:37 squadron. here at the smiling, canadian forces base in trenton. the base is just on the road from belleville, and not far from tweed. and soon, corporal cuomo was chosen to work the flights for canada's top leaders. >> she was happy? >> oh yeah. she loved her job. >> but it was also that year, after four and a half years together, they split up. he moved away, she stayed close to the base. living here in a town called brighton. they were a part, he says, but still in close contact. he remembers a conversation that they had in late november, 2009. >> she just got back from india, japan, singapore. and she was telling me, this new countries that she discovered. and all the new nails that you can taste. and, and that was fun.

>> it was the last conversation. the three days later, november 25th, 2009. corporal memory france como's body was discovered in her home. lying on her bed. >> i was told on the 26. >> told only that she was dead. nothing more. and with a heavy hearts, and 100 questions, allen plant went to brighton to find out for himself. what happens to the women that he still loved? horror awaited. >> and, that's when i found out that she was murdered in the house. >> what is it like to hear that? >> i was in shock. but how to describe that? >> there were no words in any language. he would learn. cuomo's murder had been brutal. a sexual homicide. former fbi investigator craig examine this question at dateline's request. he had no role in the investigation. >> what was clear was that

somebody had raped her. and somebody had killed her. and somebody had spent time in the home. >> which, again, in the dismal business of investigating the sort of thing. this has been organized criminal. instead of a disorganized criminal. >> sure, it suggests somebody who spent some time planning the offense, understanding that he had time to go into the house and spend whatever time he needed with the victim. which suggests, reconnaissance activity. >> at the base, in trenton, his grieving colleagues held our memorial service. even the base commander, colonel williams, got involved. send a letter of condolence to her father. but who could've done this?

investigators were stumped. although they looked at anybody close to marie, anybody including mr. plant. >> the one time, one police came to me and asked for dna. that's when i freaked out. and i had to explain to him that i wasn't even there. i was four and a half hours from there. >> he cooperated with investigators. and he was cleared. and when the forensics people were vanished in the house. and police handed over the keys, it was him as her executor, who had it cleaned and emptied. >> so i saw the crime scene. >> what was that like? >> you see blood on the walls. you see blood on the floor. it's like, csi. but it's not csi. >> he had to step outside for a cigarette to study himself. and then he went back in, resolve to take care of murray france cuomo's last business. and to laugh in his broken hearted way. about the easygoing woman whose life he had one shared. >> we got rid of her civilian clothes. so, in every, coat in every pan she had money. just change. dollar bills.

so, it made me laugh. because that was marie. that was marie. >> then, march and cook, and howard gray, live just a 45 minutes drive from the house. they heard about the murder on the news. they never connected it to and sprayed in. or the tweet attacks for that matter. >> no, absolutely not. >> it was, you know, she was military. >> but that was before they knew what they had no now. before another awful crime shook their community. only then, with all these crimes be connected. only then would the perpetrator be unmasked. in a story that would rock the nation. >> coming up! >> a 47 year old woman wouldn't believed back her blackberry, purse, wallet, kharkiv, how skis. >> a young woman disappears without a trace. >> it's just a mystery. an absolute mystery. >> when dateline continues!

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inside the house, the bed was made. and the personal stuff was still there. >> a 27 year old woman wouldn't believe behind her blackberry, her purse, her makeup, her wallet, her car, keys her huskies. >> they called everyone they could think of. learned that she had watched tv at a friends house the night before. and when she left, she had gone straight home. texting the friend at 10:36 pm to say that she was home. and going to bed. that was the last anybody heard from jess lloyd. the young woman who loved to yank it up during the video game, guitar hero. the just lloyd who had a ton of friends but no current boyfriend. the sister who love to crack wise with her older brother. >> you call her name, and she'd have a better one right there

waiting. >> but where was she now? >> it was just a mystery. an absolute mystery. and nobody could come up with any answers. >> they didn't wait long to call the police. >> she was reported to us missing on the friday. >> cory was then chief of the belleville police service. >> and with the information that the family provided, us we realize that it had the potential to be very serious case. >> when the police arrived, along with the forensics people. andy lloyd said that he and his cousin went outside. with police permission, to scout the grounds around the house. no idea that what he was about to discover would not just break the case. but sends a shockwave right across the country. the first thing, says andy, the footprints. >> there was a couple of different ones in the block here. >> he called into the cops working into the house. >> i just said, there's footprints in the backyard. might want to go look at it. and they told us they might want to stay away from it. >> so andy in his cousin handed over to the field by just his house. took a walk around. and that's when they found them. the tire tracks.

tire tracks where they should not be. >> we saw them come right off the road. so then, instantly, we thought. there's been a strange vehicle next door. >> and he says they's went straight to the cops with this to. and then the investigating officers were handed another clue from one of their own. because the night before, about 9:30 pm. while jess loyd was at that friends house, and observe it member of the belleville police force happen to notice and suv parked in the field by her house. >> there was an officer who wasn't regular patrol. and thought there was something suspicious. >> driving along the hallway? >> just driving along. >> it was sitting in somebody's backyard? >> it was in the field. and the officers stopped. knocked on the door. check the house, and nobody was home. and, took detailed notes. of the vehicle. and, carried on. >> but the officers notes were not as complete as they might have been. she left out some rather significant details. they suvs make, and its license number. though it may not have seemed so important at the time, after all nobody was home, there was no evidence of any crime.

so, imagine how it was when the officers learned that jessica loyd was missing? >> obviously it's upsetting. it's gonna be upsetting to anyone. but this officer went above and beyond, and we're very proud of her. >> at what point after jessica loyd went missing did she say, hey, i saw that as uv. >> as soon as she became aware that jessica was missing from that resident, she immediately came forward with the information. >> that really weekend, andy was running on coffee and cigarettes. out searching every day. >> it was overwhelming, how many people just volunteers who showed up. and there was police officers everywhere. >> but no jessica, not a word, not a call, not a hint of her whereabouts. chris, then with the local newspaper, the intelligence. >> i remember what i was thinking at the time. i don't think this is gonna end well. but, and there was always hope against hope that she would taken off or if someone did

take it with her, she would come back because it was just not something that happened around here. >> he could not know it then, no one could. but the mystery of jesse floyd 's disappearance wouldn't be solved. in a matter of days. her case, and the other unsolved crimes. the marie friends cuomo murder, the sex assault in 20, the break in it and mark's place. and before that, at brenda and bryan's orleans home. they pulled into one horrific vortex. and the outcome? would stun not just the small city of belleville, and the committees around it. but a nation coast to coast. >> i was blown away. i just couldn't take it all in at first. >> everybody was on edge. just waiting for good news to come through. >> it never came. >> her face, posted across the country. >> the 27-year-old bearable woman went missing. >> the story was all over the local news. >> i think for a span of several days, we had page one stories almost every day.

>> it never occurred to anyone at the paper to link her disappearance to other unsolved crimes in the region. the two sex or sultan tweed, or the murder of a military woman. corporal murray france cuomo. a four short drive away at the police called brighton. >> we were thinking okay, where in bad luck. we're in this committee right now. >> the lloyd family did not make the connection either. though andy says her sister was well aware of the sex assaults in nearby tweed. she even had a name for the man responsible. >> his nickname, around my sister and her friends, was that tweet creeper. that's what they called him. lock your doors, the tweet creeper will get you. >> the belleville cops, and other police forces, declined to discuss details of the investigation. into jessica loyd's disappearance. but, cory mcmullin, chief of the belleville police service had this much. her officers were scrutinizing links to other unsolved crimes

in the region early on. >> because we just had this reporting missing to us, and because of the unusual circumstances, we were dedicating as many as we could. and that includes looking at what is happening in your neighboring jurisdictions. >> and what was happening? >> we were aware that there had been two serious crimes out in tweed, against women. and that there was another situation in brighton where a woman was murdered. >> and that's far away? >> no it's not too far away. it was enough that at the beginning, it's let's make some contact have some conversations and see if there's any potential connections. >> but first, there was work to be done. starting with clues, and he says he discovered. outside of jessica's house. there were three sets of footprints, one going towards the house.

the other two, one smaller than the other, heading out of the house across the field. investigators quickly realized the smaller set was a likely match for jess loyd's boots. and those tire tracks preserved in the field? no one's going off road into the field? they soon nails the tire type. they were -- . because there were reports that an suv in the park in that field the night just lloyd vanished, they could narrow down the make of the vehicle. >> from the wheel base, they narrow down that there were three possible makes it could've been. >> only three makes. a toyota forward run, or a jeep cherokee, and a nissan pathfinder. but which one? could they track it down? on thursday february 4th, a week after just floyd wetland missing. the police set up a roadblock at a busy highway in front of her home. stopping cars. one officer, turning up the driver. another, checking tire trails. afterwards, the police called andy.

they had made some discovery. >> they just said, we found something that possibly could be very very crucial. and that's all that we knew. >> soon after, teams of officers went door knocking on the highway. in front of the residents. and marcy koch lived five miles down the road. her friend howard live nearby. and that's how they found themselves telling again, a couple of cards, the story of the november break-in. >> when they came into the door, then i said okay. i don't know anything. but have i got a story for you guys that's gotta be connected to this? >> howard told the officers about the break-in. the undertaken, sex toys stolen. he told them to that he and strongly believed her break-in was linked to the sex or solves five months before in tweed. >> they got it? >> they got it. yes they did. >> now, she was convinced her case was linked to jessica's disappearance. >> it had to be related. i mean, i felt so scared, for her. for me.

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law is all that they knew, just that they had an unnamed suspect in custody. it wasn't until andy and his cousin turned on the radio the next day that they learned the identity of the suspect. >> they said his name and i thought oh no, and then they explained his position and who he was, and i said oh! >> shock wasn't big enough word. this was news that would explode like a bomb. >> this is the story of the century for us. everybody hit the ground running saying, boy this is the biggest story we will have. >> it was winter dark when the break came that police roadblock outside of just floyd 's house, they were hoping to find a set of tire trucks, that match those find in the field, it was a long shot, of course. and then 6:57 pm, a nissan was pulled over for questioning.

the officer approached the vehicle, ask to see the drivers license, had to have been a coincidence. the driver was canadian forces colonel russell williams heading home after a day at the airbase. in fact, williams's base commander, for -- trenton, the largest air base in canada. -- celebrated, decorated military big league, reputation impeccable. so, he asked him a question or two and let him go on his way. but also, they put detail on him. just in case. but this guy couldn't be the suspect, not possible. lucy could have told him that. she is a retired sergeant who once worked for colonel williams. >> i have never seen colonel williams ever conduct himself i'm professionally or inappropriately, never. >> those cops could've had assurance of his character from the men who might have known him the best.

>> their three friends in my life that have been close friends, gotten into my inner circle, come to my family and that, russell is one of them. >> as close as they get? >> yes, as close as they get. >> he met russell williams when he was 19, it was the first day of college, toronto. they were assigned to the same residence where jeff discovered he was living with a controlling neat freak. >> i started calling him a couple of names like drill sergeant, mother goose, that kind of thing. >> didn't last, before long they were buddies, close buddies who shared an offbeat sense of humor's. >> he was associated with the residence life. >> like what? >> -- when you're sitting at your desk studying or you just went to bed and looking back those are all fun memories. i have a lot of fun memories with his high jinx. >> russ, he was call that was the athletes a dedicated jogger.

he kept his room remarkably clean. folded his laundry just so. rarely talked about family, rarely visited them either, his parents were divorced. and for a college kid, he was extraordinarily self discipline. obsessively. >> if i got him to come off or beer and chicken wings it was exactly two beers, i never saw him have more, never seen him intoxicated. and as soon as we got home, he will take out the change in his wallet and see how much he spent. >> when he was done by his first big love, he -- said jeff, he worried when his friends found solace at endless screenings of the movie top gun. >> i was concerned when he kept playing the top gun movie, it was all about getting the grow girl. back. >> getting the girl and flying the plane. so maybe it shouldn't have come as a surprise when after college, with an economics and political science degree in

hand, russ confided he wanted to join the air force. >> there was no way i would've guessed he wanted to be in the military knowing what he was studying. in fact when graduation came, i said to him so what are you gonna do now, russ? he said, you know, i'm gonna go into the air force. i was dumbfounded. i said why the hell did you do all this? he did a pretty lofty degree, four year, at uf t, that's nothing to sneeze at, not that i'm putting the military down but i thought there was another route to get there, maybe a little easier. but he said, no, i really want to fly. >> and he did, joined the canadian forces at 1987, earned his wings in 1990. and up he went. captain in 91, major in 99. colonel in 2004. >> i would describe him as a great boss. >> lucy started working for williams in 2004, he was quadrant commander than.

she, his squadrant master. >> i never saw colonel williams upset. he was just very low-key, very even. and he was easily approachable. >> and not half bad as a pilot. >> we didn't bump and trump jump when we landed. he knew his job, he knew it well. >> by then, williams is flying canada's top leaders. in 2005, he flew the queen of england around. his buddy jeff was hugely impressed when he saw a few autographed pictures in william 's office. >> i pulled it off the wall and i said are you kidding me? and i said, did you meet the queen? he said yeah, i met the queen. so, here i am feeling like a goof because i'm making a big deal out of it and he's thinking it's just my job. >> just the sort of modesty that becomes a standout officer with an impeccable record and a big future. in 2007, williams was working for the commanding officer of

the country's air force, lieutenant watts, now retired. >> he worked hard he did his job well, provided good advice and he did good stuff for what i needed it. >> we wish you the very best for your life together. >> but he had a life to. >> jeff got married, russ william was the mc. when russ himself got married in 1991, a small affair in an art gallery, jeff was there to mc for him. jeff liked his wife mary elizabeth, mary liz to friends. >> she was a classy lady. so, very classy and intelligent. fun to be with two. i thought it was a good match. >> over the years, jeff said, she clearly learned to laugh about her husband's obsessive behavior. jeff remembers going to their house when night for dinner. >> russ was taking our jackets at the front door, and i opened the closet door and in there

were all these jackets, mary liz and rushes and i swear to you they were all lined up with an inch of each other. and it was a thing of beauty, i thought it was a men shop or something. i threw my jacket, i said forgot sakes, you do it. mary liz laughed and said, i told you, jeff. let him do it. >> russ and mary liz gardens and golf together, they didn't have kids, a cat instead in a home in orleans. she worked long hours as a senior official at the heart and stroke foundation of canada. in 2004, after 13 years of marriage, russ and mary liz bought a second home by a lake in tweed. jeff was invited up immediately before the deal even close as he remembers it, russ was taking photos that day as he did during almost every visit. >> boom, out came the camera. he set up the tripod, we had some self portraits, self photos done. >> photography have been williams passion for decades.

he loved to shoot landscapes, birds. and then, stored the lot meticulously. he showed the set up to jeff. >> i really felt we it was a well organized photo lab, a personal museum of photos. >> in 2009, as far as jeff could tell though russ and his wife were increasingly living separate lives during the week, they seemed happy. >> to professionals who went their separate ways? but got together? >> they both had careers pulling them in different directions but i think they made it work. >> then came the night when colonel williams was pulled over in that roadblock. that night for the first time, investigators began scrutinizing the decorated colonel. could he be their suspect, the man responsible for the disappearance of jessica lloyd? and what about the other times crimes nearby, the murder of the military woman. marie -- the two --

six assaults in tweed? could this man be responsible for those crimes? could this respected military leader be thatch monster? soon the loved friend, the respected boss, the military man with the glittering resume would reveal his true self in a remarkable and disturbing encounter. cop and colonel, that would reverberate across the entire country. coming up. >> have you ever been interviewed by the police in a room like this? >> on camera and then the pressure the colonel gets a chance to clear his name. can he? >> what would you be willing to give me today to help me faster in this investigation? >> what do you need? >> when dateline continues. om experian. it's got everything i need to help my finances. got my fico® score, raised it instantly, i even found new ways to save.

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roadblock identified a suspect. well when they saw his uniform, mind-blowing. the man whose tire treads turned up next to jessica's house was colonel russell williams for. commander of the country's largest air force base. they kept an eye on him for a couple of days, did their homework and then invited colonel williams to the police station for an interview. when he agreed to come? he did. >> as you can see this room is videotaped, audiotaped. >> okay. >> have you ever been interviewed by the police in a room like this? >> i have never been in a room like this. >> williams sounds comfortable. he's interrogator is jim smith of the ontario provincial police, he tells the colonel about the continuing search for jessica loyd, he is gracious, welcoming. >> russell, i appreciate you coming in, an investigation like this, you can appreciate that it is big news. >> notice it is just russell

not colonel williams. >> that's why we're here on the sunday afternoon. i appreciate it. ex profiler has watched the tape of the interrogation and is impressed. >> the first thing he does that the detective does is gives russell williams the respect russell williams thinks he deserves but also places himself at the same level at someone that russell williams can respect. >> he is not subservient? >> the detective goes to work tells williams the police or talking to him about two murders, and to sexual assaults. it's a matter of proximity, they tell him. the murder of jessica lloyd because the colonel drove past her house on his way to work, -- williams subordinate. and this to sexual assaults because both happened a short walk from the colonel second home in tweed, a place he used during the week. whether williams knows it or not the detective's following a

playbook that has been tweaked and tweaked again. >> essentially but there was a connection between you and all four of those cases. would you agree? geographically -- >> i drive past -- yes, i would say there is a connection, yes. >> now, the details. where was williams the day jessica loyd was reported missing? >> friday, i was at home, most of the day i had a stomach flu. >> in ottawa or tweet? >> tweed. >> -- -- do you member how you found out? >> got sent an email, we'll, as soon as the of staff on the base learned, they told me. >> okay. >> i can remember what they of the week are talking about, but, yes, obviously, when one of your people gets killed, it

gets your attention. i very much -- >> and how did you know marie france cuomo? >> i've only met her once. she was on a crew i was on. >> next, the detective asks williams again, politely, respectfully, for his dna. >> what would you be willing to give me today to help me move passed you in this investigation? >> what do you need? >> well, do you mind supplying things like fingerprints, blood samples, things like that. >> sure. >> footwear impressions? >> yes. >> okay. >> williams sounds a little apprehensive. >> and i assume you will be discreet? >> as possible. yes. >> because this would have a significant impact on the base if they thought i did this. >> the news is tightening, the detective offers williams and

out. would there be some innocent explanation, he asks, to connect him to those victimized women? >> is there any contact that you may have had with any of those for women that you would not want your wife to be aware of? anything like that that we should know about to try and explain why -- for if they are firing just, to help us understand? >> absolutely not. >> not in the home of the six assault victims. and not in the homes of the murdered victims. >> have you ever visited marie france cuomo at her residence? >> no. >> okay. all right, your positive there would be no reason why your dna would be at the locations? >> absolutely. >> did you know jessica lloyd even in passing, for any reason? >> no, i didn't hear her name until it was on the news. >> okay. >> now, a big reveal from the detective. it is time to bring in the tire prints.

treads. williams has no idea the cops have them. >> four -- >> i think, toyota, i don't know the model. >> i will bring this to you, to see if it brings a bell. have you ever heard of toil open country? hts? >> yes. >> now william knows they have something on him. >> there's no room for ambiguity in russell williams world, what the detective does is he puts the information in a very structured, concrete, honest way. russell williams knows the fact better than anyone in the case. russell williams is a very intelligent man. he pauses before each and every response, he thinks things through, the detectives allow him to do this. >> next, the detective gets an important denial from williams.

his pathfinder with his toyota tires, has it ever been in that field? >> your pathfinder's wheel base is very close to the width of the tires that were left in that field, okay? do you have any recollection at all of being off the road? >> i was not off the road. no. >> what he is doing is building each fact that he presents builds on the fact before. and he allows russell williams to process each and every fact. >> and with each fact that is set before him, russell williams inches towards the abyss. he just doesn't know it yet. coming up. but this detective does. you and i both know that the unknown offender transported murray -- comeau's body --

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here, try to be as discreet as possible. >> the minutes tick past four hours, five. colonel williams doesn't know what he had but he is going down tonight. >> have you spend much time thinking about that? >> as he sits in this room, officers are in his home in tweed searching for evidence. they're in the swank newly renovated town house in ottawa that he and his house have moved into. a point out will soon make a difference. now, detective sergeant jim smith lets williams known that mr. nice guy is done. the tone changes. >> the problem is, russell every time i walk out of this room there is another issue that comes up, okay? it is not issues that point away from you, it's issues that point at you, okay? >> the detective is already let williams know the tire threats on his suv or the same threats treads found near jessica lloyd's house. he shows him the boot prince found behind the house, it's obvious they match the prince of his boots, the very boots he

is wearing in this interview rooms. >> your vehicle, which drove up the side of jessica loyd's house, your boots walked to the back of jessica loyd's house on the evening of the 28th, 29th of january. okay? you want to discretion, we need to have some honesty, okay? because this is getting out of control really fast, russell. okay? really, really fast. this is getting beyond my control. right? i came in here a few hours ago. and i called you the way i called you today because i want to give you the benefit of the doubt, you and i both know you were at jessica lloyd's house. and i need to know why. >> williams is busted. but not yet ready to admit it. so smith rushes up the

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colonel self image. >> imagine how people are going to view you, okay? if the truth comes out after the clear evidence, is presented to you when you finally go okay, i'm screwed now. >> he gets to the point, building a constant theme of sort of doing the right thing. how do you want to be viewed here? >> craig actually, the former fbi investigator and behavioral analyst. >> i'm doing everything i can for you, how do you want to be viewed? >> how do you want to be viewed as the driving force of this man's life. >> it's hard to believe this is happening. >> why is that? why is it hard to believe? >> long silences now. williams is cornered. >> it's just hard to believe. >> and then, this.

>> my immediate to concerns is from a perception perspective is what my wife must be going through right now. >> yes. >> and the impact this is going to have on the canadian forces. >> and one more thing. >> russ, what are you looking for? >> i'm concerned that they are tearing apart my wife's brand-new house. >> so am i. but if nobody tells them what is their, what's not, they don't have no choice. >> the confession is coming. it is right around the corner. >> i want to minimize the impact on my wife. >> so do i. >> so how do we do that? >> we'll, start by telling the truth. >> okay. >> okay.

so, we are sheet? >> here it comes. three little words. >> got a map? >> got a map so he could show detectives where he dumped jessica lloyd's bound body. for hours after they sat down, williams has cracked. thanks to the skill of one patient persistence detective. >> he allowed russell williams to arrive at the decision himself, he allowed russell williams to feel as if you have some control. even though he didn't. >> but williams was only getting started, he will talk for almost six more hours that night alone, spilling his guts, telling everything. directing the police to find troves of evidence in his home, bags and bags of women's underwear. tapes hidden in a piano in the tweet place. thousands of photographs he had taken, evidence of his crimes, stored on memory sticks in the ottawa home.

>> i'll tell you where the memory cards are. >> where are they? >> some in the camera bag which they found in my office. >> and late that very night, williams led investigators to the bound body of jessica loyd. he dumped it on a roll road near tweed. the formalities event, colonel russell williams 46 years old commander of canada's most important air force base, one of the military's best and brightest would be charged with two murders and two sex assaults. and later, more charges, 82 lingerie break-ins and attempted break-ins in tweed in the belleville area, and in orleans, the ottawa suburbs where brenda and brian lived. williams and his wife had lived there to, just around the corner. but how did he do it? how did he live this incredible double life? it wasn't hard for investigators to figure it out,

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colonel williams with russell williams, the deviant. >> after all, this was the man who supervise canada's supply missions to afghanistan, and that nations disaster relief flights to haiti after its earthquake. his friend jeff are quote heard the news and threw up. >> can't be, couldn't be. i just -- it didn't make any sense at all. >> but it was true, the friend he thought he knew had carefully, obsessively recorded his depraved double life on thousands of photographs but. here he was, a highly regarded officer by day, a lingerie thief and worse, far worse, by night. >> you look at this individual and say, how could he lead this double life? >> craig, former fbi agent. >> russell williams is somebody who -- everything he did was compartmentalized, categorized. not just in his behavior but in

his thoughts. >> williams double life began in september 2007, the lingerie rates, the first one here and ideally cozy lane in tweed, larry jones home turf. soon larry jones daughter near home was broken into, she, surprised the intruder he, ran. not far. because russell williams second home was right there on cozy cove right next to larry jones. once williams was arrested police called larry's daughter, gave her the news. the whole family was astounded. >> no clue that it could be him, we trusted this guy next door. >> typically williams told police he would break into an unlocked door, a window. he would head to the bedrooms, try and female underwear, photograph himself wearing it. he would steal keepsakes which he would photograph later at home in meticulously order

displays. >> in essence, russell williams was creating his own pornography collection, in which he was the star. >> the collection was buried in william's computer in a complex file folders system, the lured photos timed and date stamped, every offense logged, every location noted. >> he could go back and look at it. relive? >> would relive it over and over, as he is doing this the fantasies become stronger, and stronger. and the acting out has to escalate. >> because the tension is greater? >> the tension is greater. and so now the risk taking. part of russell williams personality structure is one in which he adheres to rules, regulations, part of it is a feeling of powerlessness, even though he is in a position of great power. >> he worked the area near his tweet home for eight months with impunity, virtually all his break-ins had gone

undetected. then william started with his other neighborhood, new orleans. he committed the first of two dozen break-ins in the spring of 2009, some owners had never knew they were burglarized. but remember brett brenda konstantin and brian rogers? they knew. williams broke into their house in january 2009, left his semen in their daughter's bedroom. >> this is now into an arena of showing you, i have been in your home. i can come in here anytime that i want. >> it was just completely shocking and horrible and you don't even want to think about it. >> then came july 2009, colonel russell williams took over the top job at canada's biggest air force base, in charge of some 3000 people, cleared by all matters of security checks. by then get broken into more than 40 different homes in orleans and tweeze, some,

multiple times. occasionally he would enter a home stark naked. here is williams later that summer presiding over one of the many ceremonies part of his duties as the face of the base. >> i understand that there are challenges, i congratulate the members of the squadron. >> as he spoke, his secret behaviors were about to escalate. to rape and murder. >> in september, williams blew flu a supply mission to a remote canadian base in the arctic with a local official. he returned to his tweed home on september 16th. that night he committed his first sexual assault. >> very impressive. >> each day he presided over a publicity stunt, the strongman calling a huge plane over the tarmac, attempting to break a guinness world record. >> they have decided to dedicate the upcoming season to

the men and women here. >> days later he cheerfully fielded reporters question in a local hockey arena. >> i think i would have the opportunity to drop the puck. >> a week later the second sexual assault, a neighbor three doors down. on october 29th, the same-day police hold larry jones away for the sex assaults. he was photographed as a book signing at the base. and two weeks after that, he broke into their farmhouse, left that message on the computer, urging her to call the cops. >> i would imagine for russell williams it was the ultimate feeling of power, probably quite exhilarating for him. >> i think that night i was a target. >> and his crimes escalated. >> he went from her house, next was the murder. >> one week later the murder of corporal murray france comeau. she was williams subordinate he had access to her personal files, her address, her schedule, the day marie friends cuomo's comeau's body was

discovered, williams was taking part in a fund-raiser called jail and bail charged with being too young for being a -- wing commander at 46. he took part in a mock arrest. >> he is smiling, completely at ease, he didn't feel anxious over what he did. >> as base commander williams sent sincere condolences to marie's grieving family and then he welcomed center to the base. january 2010 disaster relief operations sending aid to haiti after its earthquake, williams oversaw the effort hosted canada's defense minister on a tour of haitians bound supplies one praised for his handling. days later broke into jessica lloyd's house, took her back to his place in tweet that's where he murdered her after hours of torture. and then left for work, left her body in his garage.

while her body was lying in his garage, he drives to the air force base, gets into an airplane and flies to california, how is that even possible? >> he has a complete lack of anxiety in that sense because once that tension is reduced from acting out he is fine. >> so, what was to be done with such a man? canadians would find out soon enough. coming up. but would they ever find out the answer to this question? >> have you spend much time thinking about that? >> about what? >> could there possibly be an answer? when dateline continues. ateline continues.

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he was brought to court each day, handcuffed, head bound. bowed. there was never any doubt about the outcome of this hearing. williams had decided to plead guilty to all 88 charges against him. there was never any doubt either about the sentence in a country with no death penalty. williams would be locked up for years and years to come. the detective inspector chris nicolas of the ontario provincial police led the investigation and went to court each day. >> the nation is getting a good dose of reality, just how evil people can be. >> but there were those who had already had their dose of reality. >> still so hard to get around that fact that we were in that much danger and didn't even know it. >> evil had touched them. >> it is about being with -- you know? just all over.

>> she tried to -- tell him i am good person, let me live, he didn't listen. >> during the four-day hearing, the evidence was on display day after day, those pictures, that blank stare, the last pleading words of his victims. and on screens nationwide that confession tape on which the killer recites his evil acts as if they were a trip to the grocery store. like what he did to jessica loyd, even as she begged him, if i die, tell my mother i love her. >> well, i raped her in her house and then i took her to the car and took her to tweed. and spend the day in tweed and i hit her as we were walking. she thought we were leaving. i hit her in the back of the head.

>> the murder of marie france comeau -- >> -- tied her up, upstairs. and then strangled her. -- i suffocated her. had some tape, left her there. >> the details were horrific, how she fought back, how viciously he beat her before he raped her and the final obscenity, videotaped her death. what in heaven's name was he thinking? the detective tried to understand. >> let me ask you this, did you like or dislike these women? >> i didn't know any of them. >> okay.

>> i had met mary france that one time in the airplane. >> and jessica, she was there with you for the whole day, right? >> what kind of feelings were you experiencing while you were with her that day? >> she was a very nice girl. >> do you know why you killed her? >> why do i think i killed her? because i knew that her story would be recognized. because she knew i was taking pictures. so because of the stories in tweed -- >> so if you didn't take pictures, what would you have done with her? >> i don't know. >> williams was given to life

sentences to be served concurrently. no chance of parole for 25 years, at least. and so they carded him off to prison and finally the canadian public could let it go. the russell williams horror story had finally come to an end. but not for everyone. jeff wanted answers, he was convinced something happened to push his old friend over the edge, perhaps it was something that had to do with the medication williams was taking, perhaps it was stress. he didn't contact his old buddy immediately after the story broke but he did consider visiting him in jail. >> russ is still a friend of mine, i hate the crimes but i don't hate russ. >> the canadian forces took care of some business after williams was sentenced, his commission was rescinded, a very big deal, and his uniform was burned. what the former commanding officer of the air force, and guess what says williams deserved it.

>> we take our honor very seriously in the military and he betrayed that honors so profoundly, i don't see much room for most military people to forget that betrayal. >> as for -- she believes she was given a second chance, she and howard married in 2013, but she can't leave her past behind. >> i haven't written, i haven't painted, i haven't done anything. i'm just living day by day. it will come back, i'm sure of that. i have no worries, but now i feel like if it comes out, it might just be a scream. a. scream that goes forever. >> in the ottawa suburb of orleans, there is a new wariness, or so it seems. so many break-ins here, for brenda konstantin and brian rogers what matters now is telling their story so that no

teenage girl is targeted as there was. >> no child should have to go through that -- >> hearing the stories is one thing but having the experience, living it is another thing. >> and having hearing that he committed murder -- victims after that. how horrible could that be? >> andy lloyd has his good days and bad, he still struggles with an evil he can't fathom, and the question, why? >> she was my only sister, i will never have any nieces and nephews from my lloyd side, i won't. >> thinks of his murray france -- >> i always had the hope at the back of my head. i was always hoping that she would come back one day to me. >> not now, not ever. the colonel, of course, claimed another victim during he's

murderous run. mary elizabeth has yet to speak publicly. it has been widely reported in canada she had no idea of her husband's double life, she filed for divorce after he pleaded guilty. as for the former colonel, he was sent first to canada's stately kingston penitentiary, later too a prison in quebec, locked away for years to come. so there will be time for russell williams, the man who ran the big important base to contemplate the question to detective asked him in that airless room. >> why do you think these things happen? >> i don't know. >> have you spend much time thinking about that? >> about why? >> yes. >> yeah. but i don't have any answers. and i'm pretty sure the answers don't matter. >> they may not, to him. but for those who lost a sister, a daughter, a lover, a friend,

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