A highly decorated Canadian military commander Col. Russel Williams has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences on Thursday for the murders of two women, several sexual assaults, and many so-called fetish burglaries, as reported from Paula Newton of CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/21/canada.colonel.killings/index.html?hpt=T2)
First off, I need to state that this story makes a lot of people just cringe and scratch their heads for the whole reason that it is a "decorated military commander" that has been convicted of such gruesome crimes. Not only are the victims on my thoughts, but I can't help but think to myself, "What was going through this man's head? What was he thinking?" I can't answer that (personally, I don't even think the shrinks can answer that). It just doesn't make sense, but I would like to know what had caused this man to do it.
As any loyal audience that follows court cases, there are only certain questions you would want to know, other than the typical, "who, what, when, where, why, and how." But I want to know the story before this. I want to know if this man had shown signs or behaviors prior to the killings that something was wrong with him. And the fact he was the kind of killer who, according to CNN.com, "saved and catalogued hundreds of photos, videos and hundreds of pieces of lingerie as 'trophies' of his crimes," tells me something was highly wrong with this man, that he possibly even obsessed with his crimes.
Personally, I don't even believe that he is even remorseful for his crimes. Again, according to CNN.com, Williams had stated, "I have committed despicable crimes ... betraying my family, my friends and colleagues and the Canadian Forces. I shall spend the rest of my life regretting that I have ended two vibrant, innocent and cherished lives." It's also important to add that Williams had told the victims' families he pled guilty to spare them more pain. It's sounds like a pretty bad sob story, but I don't think it's even the truth. I think he pled guilty because he knew he was going to lose the case, that whether or not he fought it, he still was going to be found guilty. A person who is remorseful for their crimes would not keep trophies of the crimes committed, (that's just sick, and tells me he enjoyed the act of committing them a little too much).
Another thing that I'm dancing over is the fact that this man is a commander for the military. I'm sorry, but don't they give psych-exams in the military? Wouldn't you recognize if something was wrong with one of your soldiers? I want to know exactly what would cause this man to go out and do these things. Was it an aftereffect of him being in the military? A PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) result of him seeing battle? Or could he be a sociopath? Could this have been a collapse of his entire life come down into one huge attack? I want to know what's going on with him mentally, but, unfortunately, with him going for life in prison, we might never know.
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