Hidden in Plain Sight — David Russell Williams

Liam Hall
5 min readSep 27, 2020
David Russell Williams

People wear masks to hide their true intentions or feelings. We behave differently depending on our situation, such as being at work versus being at home by yourself. Some people you meet will be plain as day, and you will never have to guess at intentions because their mask is really close to their true selves.

And some people are just really good at lying.

David Russell Williams was a “shining star” in the Canadian Military, a model officer with 23 years of service under his belt. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1987, received his flying wings in 1990, and served as an instructor for 2 years. He earned a Master of Defence Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada in 2004. In 2009 David was promoted to colonel. He was described as an elite pilot, He had flown Queen Elizabeth II, the Governor-General of Canada, the Prime Minister of Canada, and many other dignitaries across Canada and overseas in Canadian Forces VIP aircraft.

This guy was the real deal, but the mask he was wearing hid a very dark and sinister secret.

David liked to break into women’s houses, but that proved to be not enough fairly quickly. He progressed from there to rape and eventually murder. David would take pictures of his crimes and kept a hidden stash of them, including pictures of his victims, pictures of…

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Liam Hall

I like to write about crime, among other things. Studying computer security. Join Medium using my referral link https://zeph456.medium.com/membership