Before being punished to two concurrent life sentences on Thursday, the Canadian military commander unmasked as a serial sexual marauder and killer admitted in a halting voice and on the brink of tears that he had "committed despicable crimes."The commander, Col. David Russell Williams, 47, was sentenced to two extra 10-year terms for sexual assaults, and one-year concurrent sentences for each of approximately 80 break-ins. He will have no chance of parole for 25 years. He was also fined 8,800 Canadian dollars -- 100 dollars for each offense he confessed to -- to be paid into a victims' impact fund.
The verdict ends a hearing that over four days tracked, often in horrifying detail, a series of crimes that began several years ago with break-ins of houses near his own two homes to steal girls' and women's underwear. But the crimes grew ever more shameless and reckless, culminating with two sexual assaults in September 2009, a rape and murder in November that year, and another this January.
Colonel Williams, the commander of Canada's busiest air force base during the period covering the crimes, kept compulsively detailed records, photographing himself thousands of times in the underwear and comprehensively videotaping the most brutal attacks.
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