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  • Poor man. I understand his fetish to wear women under clothes.

  • @YoungMoney835 I hope you don't identify with the rest of his behavior which was killing people. I read in detail about how he killed these people and let me tell you it takes it out of the abstract and makes it nauseatingly clear that he has no right to be alive today.

  • being called awesome, is subjective. Again, the reason that he is called as such, was not revealed. So silence lil girl. You are arguing with everyone, and totally ignoring the arguments that others have stated. You are not mature enough to bother with IMO

  • wtf

  • as a canadian i can say without hesitation that this man is an embrassment and a disgrace to canada; he has been stripped of his rank and medals in the canadian air force; as a person with mental health issues i can also say that mental illness probably did play a part in this, but that isnt any sort of excuse; he had all the friends and family to talk to that he wanted, he could have gotten himself help before it got out of control. the women he killed were both very pretty, may they r.i.p.

  • @MrToiletface While I agree with your post entirely, the fact that the two women he killed were 'pretty' shouldn't really make any difference.

  • @volvomantom just pointing it out since i dont actually know them you piss headed loser, go fuck yourself with a brick.

  • @MrToiletface I don't know about mental illness in his case. I think he has an issue with control. He had a lot of respect in the military, but that wasn't enough. He wanted to control women by rendering them submissive, and he used sex, that is, rape in order to make them 'respect' and obey him.

  • Slot

  • That detective is like mr maki on sp he says ok slot

  • canadas' best and brightest...

  • @onceANexile fucking frightening, isn't it?

  • In another clip he describes the things he did to Jessica Lloyd, sick and depraved. He deserves the absolute panick he must be feeling when the cops let him know he's busted and there is no out. The absolute worst legal trouble a human being possibly be in with all the embarassment and repudiation possible. He will never get out and must serve a mandatory 25 years.

  • @edge9090 yeah, judgement day came in the form of facing the public in the courtroom and all over the news. Cannot escape that.  Too bad his family has to suffer his bad deeds.

  • Jim Smyth does a good job

  • ABOOT

  • Constant long distance flying does put people under enourmous stress at times. Even as a passenger there are times after flying i come back home and i look out my window and it makes me feel about 3 feet tall after beign so high up and you get that wobly feeling in your legs. I'm not saying it causes people to become killers but i definitely notice flying does have emotional effects on me. IT makes you think differently about the world

  • i have followed this case throughout the years and cannot believe this segment where he acts like "it's not me" just to know that they got their man.

  • This case fascinates us b/c it shows, in an obviously extreme form, how all-consuming the human sex drive can me. As many have already posted, this man had it all, and was willing to humiliated himself and wife, destroy his life (not to mention the lives of his victims), and spend the rest of his life in prison, all over his sexual fantasies.

    It's a MUCH more extreme version of men (and women) risking their marriages and careers for affairs and short term sexual gratification. Unbelievable.

  • @mlc2005 This is not about sex drive, and he was not thinking he's willing to risk humiliating himself and his wife: he thought he would never be caught. He thought it was so easy to choose and control and kill his victims, and because of who he was, no one would even suspect him. These are not sexual fantasies, they're the stuff of snuff movies, which is what he did with the corporal. Sexual gratification, yes, but in a sick way.

  • @mlc2005 The book "A New Kind of Monster" reveals tons of unknown facts about Williams. Women have come forward and reported him in their yards, trying to lure them into his car etc. His behavior was obviously getting out of control. It's the Belleville Police that insisted he be put under surveillance at the roadside check and a Belleville Officer who first noted an SUV in Jessica Lloyd's field along with a civilian witness. This helped narrow the search and likely saved another life.

  • this is edited the interview i belive took like 6 or 8 hours

  • He's a totaly sociopath AND a psychopath. Only one of those could sit there so calmly and describe how they murdered someone. I live in Ottawa. This is one of the scariest things I've ever had to live through here. To think he broke into 82 homes in and around MY neighbourhood. F8ckin hell...

  • @EuroStatus1985 Psychopath and sociopath is literally the same thing. Trying to find a difference between the two is like splitting hairs.

  • @sk8tafrnk no sociopath is more about sociological factors that affect behaviour, whereas psychopath involves psychological factors

    the difference is in the name obviously

  • @thefireinside29 Well I took classes in psychology and all my teachers said that trying to find a difference between sociopath and psychopath is like splitting hairs.

    If there are differences, the discussion isn't useful in conversation.

  • @sk8tafrnk You took a "Class" well that sure make you and expert doesn't it guitar boy...stick to what you are good at....oh wait ...that wouldn't be anything...

    Oh and clean up that basement you are in I am surprised your mother let's you live like that...

  • @Magcomplex It makes be smarter than you because at least I've at least bothered to research things beyond mindless conventional thought.

  • @sk8tafrnk Yawn.....

  • @Magcomplex Reading about things bores you, and that is exactly why you are a fucking idiot.

  • @sk8tafrnk

    Well there ARE things that bore me...Frank, like for instance mentally ill people who try to pass them selves off as being smarter then they really are; by using big words and making sure we all know they take college classes. Or think that the use of the word fuck or fucking in everything they say, makes them the automatic winner in any verbal sparing match. ---- know any body like that - FRANK??

  • @sk8tafrnk Wow dude you spend a lot of time online....are you a social outcast....??

  • @sk8tafrnk Psychopathy is what one is born with and there is no known cure. Psychopaths have no conscience or empathy for others and those qualities cannot be taught. Sociopathy is the consequence of bad upbringing and negative social atmosphere from early childhood.  Sociopaths do feel, and they do have conscience, but they need to learn to deal with their emotions. Therefore, nature versus nurture.

  • @hope14alison Sociopath is an equivalent to psychopathy that refers to social causation why psychopathy refers to more indirect personality judgements. The both refer to someone who lacks empathy and you have to split hairs to find a useful difference. Please don't discuss things you haven't bothered to read about.

    To say that we can't find a cure is literally the most ignorant thing you could say. You can't logically use science to observe things in a world of absolute certainty.

  • @sk8tafrnk try: Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare. He spent his life studying psychopaths. He talks about GENUINE psychopaths. Psychopaths don't feel nor understand as we do. They cannot be rehabilitated. They can learn to act the part in order to fit in with society, but they fail to follow through as human beings. Not all psychopaths are killers.

  • @hope14alison Psychopaths don't have the empathy dictating what they do and don't do like the rest of human beings. I understand this. Not all psychopaths are killers, I know... most aren't killers.

    I also understand we cannot treat or cure them right now. Obviously. I never said we could. But to say we will never discover a way is absolute ignorance and a self fulfilling prophecy. Scientific discoveries consist entirely of things we now understand but didn't before.

  • @EuroStatus1985 I'm sorry he invaded your neighbourhood. I don't even want to imagine what it's like to have such a neighbour.

  • the investigator is amazing. thx to him and the team this crime has been solved.

  • "Essentially what we're talking aboot here" - Canadian accent

  • While Williams is without excuse for his unspeakable crimes, he is not a "serial killer" as stated in most Canadian newspapers. A serial killer murders three or more people - Williams murdered two women. Nevertheless, he should be executed for his crimes, along with Clifford Olsen, Paul Bernado and Robert Pickton. But being "civilized," we keep them alive, give them 3 meals a day, cable TV and prompt medical treatment when required, not to mention "counseling."

  • Lets from now on only hire long standing Canadian citazens for these high officess as it it appears to me he delibeately tried to disgrace the Canadian Military and more than likely had a serious problem with his father.

  • @guytitanic It's not whether a person is Canadian, and he didn't do those things to disgrace the Canadian military. Anyone that sick will do such things no matter who they are or wherever they live. He has a serious problem with mother. He blamed his mother for the breakup with his stepfather.  His parents, the Williams, swapped partners with the Sovkas, Humiliated, and having to suffer his mother and stepfather's divorce.

  • This is freaky. He was my neighbour before I moved. No joke.

  • i don't like how they removed the faint hope clause for all murders back in february because it doesn't allow judges and juries to take mitigating circumstances, also if an inmate knows they are in for 25 years they'll be more violent since they have nothing to lose, and giving a faint hope clause doesn't mean they will be paroled any faster than if they serve 25 years since less than 100 of the 5,000 inmates apply a year and on average less than 80 of the faint hopers actually get paroled.

  • @ultradumbass They did not remove the faint hope clause, It doesn't apply to a person who has murdered more than one person. Therefore Williams will spend at least 25 years in prison before he's eligible for parole.

  • @hope14alison they removed the faint hope clause last year. personally i am against it. i think the mandatory sentence when serving life sentences is 5 years. after 5 years your sentence can be commuted if on good behaviour and the courts decide you no longer pose a risk. i believe in the 5 years or so the inmate serves their life sentence they should be rehabilitated and make sure they become literate and skilled in a trade to reduce the risk of reoffending.

  • is the video that he was filming while raping over in the internet, for me to see, i dont want to see the rape just the killing and her saying i love my mommy!

  • @shoeib123 You are fucked up man.

  • @Sammas2255 no just the part that they shoed in court like idont care about the sex part just wana see how he was hitting her and all that, beside im sure you watch scary movie like saw and shit, so i guess you are fucked up too!

  • @shoeib123 Ya I do watch movies like that, but they are not REAL. I understand that you want to watch the stuff that was shown in court but you make it seem as though you would enjoy watching someone be raped and tortured to death. That is really messed up.

  • @Sammas2255 i know i said it wrong, i was twitchy alot and had nightmers when i saw 2 guys and a hammer (dont watch) but very intrested of what happend, and beside the movie taxis chansaw massicare is baset on real story and many other scary movies

  • @shoeib123 I have seen it, along with most other 'shock' videos that people know of. Are you saying you enjoyed watching it...?

  • @Sammas2255 no i did not, but tell me this, if a friend tell you like "oh i saw this video" gives you the title "and sayes its scary or disturbing, but those not tell what it is about, would it not make you wana search for the vid?

  • @shoeib123 Depends on the content of the video. If they told me 'not to watch' someone shoot themselves I would not watch it. Does that answer your question?

  • @Sammas2255 wow thats you, if you tell me not to watch something it just makes me want to watch it even more, even though i throw up most of time

  • @shoeib123 The film was never available on the internet because it never left the hands of the police. Thankfully for that.

  • heard of this evil pedo ba$terd on the ABEL DANGER WEB SITE,and plenty more info of who he's connected with,Jaw dropping  info when high ranking names are mentioned,involving the Jonbenet Ramsey case she was the 6 yr old beauty queen murdered on xmas day....

  • @reillog the Abel Danger website is shit because it accused Williams' wife of participating. Now that is really sick! They are IGNORANT!!! They should do their homework before opening their fat traps.

  • sadistic cunt

  • the ONLY reason why i am "LIKING" this is BECAUSE i am glad he's caught & in jail...so just wanted too make that clear too YouTube

  • @djsrouji Good point, I often wonder when someone likes or dislikes a video, do they like or dislike the content or the fact that the video has been posted. I like this video not because I approve of what Russell Williams did but because it is important to see the impact of what he did. What an evil smirking bastard he is.

  • @poodledreams thank you for responding

  • RUSSELL W = KY JELLY

    ALL THE BOYS LOVE RUSS'S BUM BUM

  • @MrSlingblade22 They won't get near him, or to do anything of the sort. In fact, he's not getting ANY for the next 25 years, and by then he may be impotent. Hopefully.

  • @indya96 yeah i feel i'm mentally alright, i simply took exception to your equating this man's disturbing mental illness with his skin colour. the issue lies in his mind not in his ethnicity

  • watch the scum turn 3 shades of blood red later in the interview...die you piece of shit...only a matter of time...

  • and some things we do not wish for...a fucked up brain as he murdered my friend...Gemma

  • He had all the things in world that most of us could only wish for....career ,money, respect, prestigde.....but it wasn't enough. He had everything , now he has nothing .

  • @mbkirk Even sick fucks can have it all. How easily he threw it all away.

  • @indya96 are you mentally alright?

  • He's dying alright. To go from what he was to where he is now is arguably a death sentence. Jim Smyth knows his job but with William's house being searched as they spoke (& all the stuff in his house) plus the tyre tracks, dna etc, William's knew he was done. I think he would have confessed regardless of who was doing the interrogation/interview. He's no idiot, this was a Col who picked things up quick, a very clever man.

    He got slack. Sh't happens & he was caught. He's in pain now.

  • Watch: Programmed To Kill/Satanic Cover-Up Part 21 (Col. Russell Williams)

  • @donwest420 LOL maybe he was too busy trying to put a pervert in prison. Just saying

  • take this mother fucked out in the street and shoot him in the head.

  • guy got owned!! sik fuk

  • this is the same detective who found Victoria Stafford.

  • This guy is awesome..... he is going on like he is reading the fine print of rental agreement for a car.

  • @brothaman007 hoping he can find a mistake somewhere in the boot print and tire tracks to get him off. Relief, huh? Not!

  • @hope14alison after reading much of this topic, and seeing how you act like a 10 year old...

    please do not quote me again.

  • @brothaman007 I am not acting like a 10 year old...and he is NOT awesome!

  • This Det. is very different from that lazy ass black detective on The First 48 show here in U.S. example, black detective sits with perp & asks. "Hey, you want to talk to me?" (knowing damn well he can work a little to get info or get the murderer to confess but instead...) "You sure you don't want a lawyer? Or do you want to talk to me?" Then he walks out the interrogation room & tells his Sergeant, "He doesn't want to talk, he wants a lawyer now." Fucking lazy ass Det, I swear! Frustrating

  • Det. Jim Smyth is a veeeery sharp Detective. Extremely. Great job!

  • @BluntSmokeBluntSmoke Why would you want to see the details of how those women were murdered dude? Unless you're studying criminal law, that's kind of extreme don't you think? Who would want to read, see, or watch how those innocent women were tortured and murdered? I'm not judging but you need to check your motives. Get some help man.

  • @BluntSmokeBluntSmoke also check out the book "A New Kind Of Monster" by Timothy Appleby.  Its got all the in-depth details. Its quite disturbing.

  • @BluntSmokeBluntSmoke

    Basically Williams video taped raping, torturing and killing these women. So in the court transcripts there is a written description of what is in those tapes. YOu can find parts of them online. Just look for Russell williams trial transcripts.

  • Canada takes the lead of Europe too much. Execute people like this.

  • I read the details of what Russell did to these women and he really needs to burn in hell right now. He's a living breathing pig.

  • @copperpaint He IS in Hell. He messed up his life and that of his entire family. Unfortunately they still have to face the world everyday for the rest of their lives. AND he ruined the lives of his surviving victims and the families of his dead victims. I'm sure he now realizes that a tiny cell in solitary confinement is excrutiating. He just hasn't been in long enough to feel the full effect of actually LIVING in prison.

  • i love how he knows hes fucked now

  • Our class at UNI talked about this. It was a great discussion about how composed the interrogator is during this whole process.

  • @k2p11 When he walks in he has no idea the cops have boot prints and tire tracks. They arrives at his house in Tweed in late afternoon. The search warrants were ready to go as soon as he arrived at the station. He looks relaxed at the start but inside he's panicking. You're called in for questionning in 2 murders and 2 rapes and you're guilty, you're nervous. If the military find out you're a suspect, life gets really complicated. He'd likely be relieved of his command because he's a suspect.

  • @acidXxqueen wow.... but you are OK, he's rotting in jail where he'll die after spending hopefully decades caged like the beast he is... thinking about his horrible crimes and what could await him beyond the grave...

  • @sixchiensblancs The way he's living now is worse than anything beyond the grave. The way he is living now is HELL ON EARTH. I can't say 'RIP' in prison because when he wakes up every morning he knows where he is and there is nothing he can do about it. They are watching him like a hawk so that he cannot commit suicide to ensure that he lives out every moment of his punishment. Every morning he wakes up to SHAME SHAME SHAME. What could be worse for him personally?

  • @tantawi1992 Hopefully, it goes to his wife.......

  • This guys wife new everything what he was doing...he transfered everything to her house, accounts..I feel NO SYMPATHY for her..hope she rots also.

  • @mic01 There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that she knew anything about her husbands activities. If there had been evidence to suggest this she would have tried as an accessory to his crimes. All psych exams suggest that he is a highly functioning, mentally disturbed individual who was capable of maintaining 2 distinct & separate lives. As base commander he was often away from home, for him to be gone at all hours was normal. To say she was privy would be to accuse everyone who knew him.

  • @shinken13 Im not sure if youare married but, lets say if you went to your spouse and said..honey lets just put everything in you're name..you dont think he/she might ask..she new what he was doing..I just thank god she's not getting his pension.

  • @mic01 I don't know if your married, but different marriages have different dynamics based on the people in the relationship. Me, I believe in financial autonomy with a partner. I know people who have put everything in their partners name, for various personal reasons. Different couples = styles of relationship. What you find odd isn't proof of her involvement here. You are making a sweeping generalization about how all marriages work in order to make an unfounded, almost personal, attack/point.

  • @shinken13 My mom has always maintained that my dad's money is hers and vice versa. People like mic01 don't have a trusting relationship and wouldn't understand the act of sharing. Mine is mine unless I sign it over to you. How sad.

  • @mic01 He put everything in her name AFTER the fact, not before, which is what you're suggesting. Perhaps you didn't read the news correctly: he transferred his assets to her (he kept his cottage) several weeks after he was caught and while he was incarcerated. Get the facts straight!

  • @mic01 She did not know what her husband was up to. She gave him $62,000 for the down payment that he put into the house. Now she has a larger mortgage to pay off by herself. He did not transfer a fully paid for $700,000 house over to her. His young victim is quite innocent about that fact. Most people don't have $700,000 sitting in the bank waiting to pay for a nice house. Don't YOU know how most people buy a house?  Down payment, 25 year mortgage, unless you pay it off sooner.

  • creepy. the character that played a guy in the same situation behaved exactly like this guy. you can tell law and order used lines from the confession

  • @laamnas1 Hi, do you please know or remember the title of that episode? thank you! if not no worries of course, I'll find it somehow...

  • This cop should give seminars on doing what he does. People could learn a lot methinks!

  • NEVER agree to be interviewed by police!

  • @MEpianist Hahahahaha! What do YOU have to hide? Are you trying to be funny?

  • Law and Order LA did a show about this case.

  • my dad had coffee with him

  • @whyhood25 did he died?

  • @whyhood25 Did you're dad sense something wasn't right about him at the time? Just wondering.

  • i dont know people are scared of him hes just flesh and blood if someone wanted to they could kill williams easily. hes not smart or clever at all. hes not even human so techically it wouldn't be against the law. be like putting down a rogue bear that has the taste of human flesh

  • this confession is so chills... which gives me chills!!!

  • i saw on news that he did child porn also.

  • @TheNumbuh975 He likes teen girls.

  • @hope14alison They were going to charge him with child porn as well. He was willing to plead guilty to rape and murder but not child porn. The 2 murders puts him away for life so they let it go, likely to spare the victims a lengthy trial.

  • This scumbag should be dead. Not laughing. He should have beem hung by the neck until dead the very next day after the trial.

  • @TracyFClark he tried to commit suicide during the case so I think he would have wanted to be hung right away. why give him what he wants? i say let him live in a jail cell for the rest of his life and let the guilt eat him up until he dies inside.

  • Why in the he'll was he laughing he will be in jail for the rest of his mested up life

  • @SuperGamesandmore Desperately trying to show he has nothing to worry about so he's smiling. Innocent people called in for questionning in a murder would not act this way and the cops know this. The detective is a behavioral specialist. He likely spent days researching Williams and was ready.

  • he rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • @MrKevinjualin In solitary confinement!

  • no more tweety pie for this cat lol

  • @1dreamalways3 I agree. If the detective did try harder to get answers from him as to why he really did these things, it did not show up on the youtube interview. It's sad, isn't, how people resort to guessing and/or suggesting why he behaved the way he did? In a crazy way, I wish I could visit him in prison, perhaps get to know him, in order to get answers from him. I think that everyone deserves to know WHY, especially the victims, their families, the police and doctors.

  • If you google, Russell Williams medication you will find the article at the top from the Toronto Star. I do not wish to revisit this case, so I ask you not to comment any further on my link.

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  • @stellartunes i saw the comment you removed. I should clarify something. I studied to become a medicinal chemist and was offered employment while enrolled. I have personally synthesized Fentanyl and have worked with and studied Buprenorphine because of its unique relationship with mu Opioid receptor sites. My studies were redirected when i was hired by a large pharmaceutical company.  I left the industry in 2002. While i may not be as smart as you... I am certainly not a moron.

  • @Biltospill ...

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  • @Biltospill Actually, I just saw on the news that he is still collecting his 60K pension and did not pay into a fund that supports victims support. He shows no remorse, which is unconscionable. Comprehending the behaviour at this point makes no difference, as I thought perhaps it was the meds that had influenced him at the time, however at this point it's clear he may be more sinister than originally thought.

  • @stellartunes It's not the meds. He planned it out methodically and then carried out his sick acts. First degree murder is planned and well thought out.

  • @hope14alison the spilloff pain and suffering he's caused is hard to comprehend, and then the tax payer has to pick up the tab to house and feed him... it's around 110K per year!

  • @Biltospill Let me suggest something to you, which I feel you should give some serious thought to. In the future, you may have an opinion or feel strongly about something, but others have a right to their opinion as well. Being aggressive and antagonistic only discredits your intelligence. And just to 'clarity' something. I have worked in the health industry, and have seen the devastating and fatal effects of opiates and prescriptions drugs which you have 'synthesized'.

  • I never suggested that OCD was a side affect of opiate withdrawal? I assumed he was on some type of Opiate, which he very well may have been, however, the article in the Toronto Star dated Nov. 13, 2010, states that he was taking Prednisone,which may cause euphoria, mania, and bipolar disorder. It may have been a combination of stressors, as stated by the RCMP officer interviewed.

  • @stellartunes what exactly did you mean, u said: 'My main point is that his obsessive compulsive tendencies were perhaps enhanced by the use of pain meds adding to his escalation' ? That was YOUR MAIN POINT, has it changed? and it appears you are trying to google your way out of this. You want to know why people kill... read a book by Dietz or get an education... ANYTHING other than repeat what you hear on TV and in the paper. lol ... it just occurred to me I am talking to a complete MORON.

  • another thing... you say you assumed he was on some type of opiate... but earlier you said this: 'I am referring to his best friend, who said in an interview on Dateline that he was on pain meds for a back problem' so which is it... did you assume it or hear it? I guess in your case it would depend on how it benefits you most. I think you are trying hard to come across as an expert or knowledgeable on this subject but in reality you just repeat anything you hear that sounds reasonable.

  • @Biltospill This case has been front line news in Canada before the Date Line Interview which is obviously your sole source of information, I was referencing the Toronto Star Interview so you could read the responses of his co-workers, which you obviously didn't read. Name calling, poor spelling and your provocative attitude only proves that you are the moron here, and some delusional expert. I've asked you to refrain from commenting on my link, Please respect that.

  • @stellartunes None of which made him it 'it' together or combined. He ENJOYED doing what he did.

  • First, there is no need to get insulting or abusive, so a little decorum would be appreciated. "Fascination in sinister beings" You are commenting on here, so let's leave the finger pointing elsewhere, shall we. If you've ever experienced the first hand effects of Oxycontin you will know it can alter one's behaviours radically, specifically during withdrawal. I was merely suggesting it ADDED to his deviant atrocities. He may very well have carried out this behaviour regardless.

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  • overall, great police work.

    the detective is like an artist. he knows exactly what he's doing the whole time and knows exactly what to say.

  • it is interesting how we are all complete;y absorbed by these tragedies...how life goes on?????? It unfortunately will happen again...it IS happenning now in Libiya the congo on my street corner...this is why I believe as Keats said you cannot know joy unless you know sorrow....you cannot know riches unless you have been poor...you cannot believe in God unless you believe in Satan......two sides to every story

  • Russell knew when he was presented with the search warrant papers is when he realized the game was over. He knew they would find all the embarrassing evidence, PLUS THE VIDEOS of the murders. THAT's why he gave up. There was no way out and he knew it. He was trapped. Think about this,... if he had sold his SUV a day before the police roadside checkpoint, he would have been free to kill more women. That was the key in nabbing him. He was already surveillancing his next victim, I am sure.

  • He would have been afraid he might be investigated due to its unusual tire treads. Then he would have been relieved. There would be a need for two criteria for him to still be caught: 1) the owner would have realized he/she is buying a car from a high profile person, and choose to report the purchase of the SUV to the police if the police provided tread marks in the newspaper, and 2) possibly give up the car and lose that money, after all a murdered person was transported in it.

  • Det Sargent Jim Smyth deserves a big raise. Wirh his patience and determination he helps to put this monster behind bars

  • I hope the victims families, his community, collegues and his wife can heal and have some peace. He was obviously deeply disturbed, and I'm sure that the pain meds he was taking only compounded his escalation.

  • @stellartunes I don't know about the pain medications. His lawyer had almost eight months to investigate and to leave no stones unturned in his quest to have his clients' 1st degree murder charge downgraded to second degree murder. He would have hired only the best to represent him because he could afford it. Still there were the photograph and video evidences, and his own confessions. So he would have been done like dinner anyhow.

  • @hope14alison I am referring to his best friend, who said in an interview on Dateline that he was on pain meds for a back problem. My main point is that his obsessive compulsive tendencies were perhaps enhanced by the use of pain meds adding to his escalation. When I watched the interviews, something seems to be missing . I always try to look for other possible reasons for the behaviour. With knowledge there is understanding.

  • @stellartunes While I understand you are interested in human behavior, in particular very sinister beings, it sickens me how anyone can pass responsibility off to pain medication. I am also confused by you overall. It appears you are uneducated or at the very least have NO clue on this subject. PAIN medication is synthesized from the poppy plant and contains many alkaloids which have a chemical structure similar to endorphin. OCD is linked to the neurotransmitter serotonin. YOU ARE WAY OFF.

  • ... What i dont understand is how you are able to make this diagnosis and pass it off as knowledge and understanding. What is your education background? You say, i look for other reason for this behavior.... im curious, what reason are you trying to disprove with this pain med theory? OCD is VERY common and you would need to first prove OCD caused him to kill before making the link from pain medication to ocd. It is unlikely. Opiates/opioid is a known cure for OCD but has limitations.

  • ... it appears to me that your conclusions were drawn by simply watching a 1 hour show. You heard a deranged friend of the killer suggest pain medications could be the cause and all the sudden your an expert ready to give your knowledge and understanding to those willing to listen. Did you once consider how the family interprets someone who in one breath offers sympathy and in another breath tells them your confident you know they were murdered because of pain medication?

  • @Biltospill I offer No sympathy to this man. Twisting my words and making blind assumptions is extremely juvenile. I was simply trying to gleam some comprehension as to why he did this. Rather than attacking and vilifying, perhaps you could enlighten us with your expert opinion.

  • @stellartunes First of all it was you who claimed a fascination on this subject 'I always try to look for other possible reasons for the behavior' I was simply pointing out that i understood the interest but do not understand the need to fabricate a reason. If my comments were rigid it is for several reasons. 1. David Russell was ocd prior to using pain medication 2. OCD is NOT a common side effect to opiate/opioid withdrawal 3. you are not an expert

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  • 4. this theory was introduced by his life long friend who for his own selfish reason did not want to believe he misjudged this persons character and looking for an excuse, you are allowing this narsasist credibility and basing it on personal experience with substance abuse. 5. 100's of MILLIONS suffer from OCD or ADD and are not KILLERS, there is no scientific evidence OCD or ADD causes someone to become a MURDERER.

  • @Biltospill It's true that it WOULD be farfetched that OCD can cause a person to commit murder, but this is not just a person who just went berserk and murdered someone. This is a person who cased the neighborhood looking for houses to break into and victims to assault/kill. Perhaps OCD combined with psychosis of some sort? But NOT in his case. You would think his wife would know him best. Whether or not she suspects his medications HELPED to cause him to spiral out of control, she

  • @hope14alison cannot tolerate the consequences of his actions that adversely affected survivors, families, and surrounding communities. I believe that too often "experts" come up with "causes" that are pure excuses to get their patients/clients off easily. I know some people here speak as if they're experts, but this IS the forum for amateurs to offer their opinions and sometimes it seems as if they're offering "expert" advice. So we can offer them our opinions or explanations that makes

  • @hope14alison more sense to us. I love reading what everyone else has put in about this case because I am fascinated by it, even the things that way off base. I am curious about his wife's personal life, and at the same time I'm hoping that she will be granted privacy regarding her finances and her medical records and anything else she wants sealed from the public. I believe that as a society we should grant her such wishes to that she can move on with her life.  She's a victim too.

  • 6. EVEN if opiates caused OCD... see 5. Its obvious this man is a narssasist and had an obssesion and acted on it. He broke into doezens of homes seeking garment while avoiding detection. He may have killed to protect his secrets or became frightened or enraged. Its not as if this guy woke up and started killing soon after he started taking medication. Anything is possible however his 'behavior' clearly points to a secret he DID not want exposed and that may be his logic that led to murder.

  • And finally I did not suggest you offered sympathy to the killer but instead referred to the family. Its like saying 'my prayers are with you and your family during these very painful times... and ohh BTW he killed them because the pain medication enhanced his OCD... I know this because i was a former addict, case solved.... but again im very sorry for your loss.' I obviously put a dramatic spin on your comment but you did say 'im sure pain medication caused' directly after offering sorrow.

  • @Biltospill shut the fuck up, holy shit

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  • This is what happens when you stereo type..When a white person, good looking, nice car comes to your neighborhood, you'll assume that he/she is there for a good cause..But a native person or black, immediatelly 911 regardless. "suspicious behaviour". I hope people learn from this, and stop stereo typing people...

  • Jim Smith you were in your best. Congratulations for your wonderful work to put this monster behind bars