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Bags removed after search of home

Bags removed after search of home

OTTAWA -- Ontario Provincial Police investigators removed two grocery-sized bags of belongings Tuesday after searching the Ottawa home of a Canadian Forces base commander charged with the first-degree murders of two women and the sexual assault of two others.

They searched the house Tuesday after the weekend arrest of Col. Russell Williams, a decorated pilot and commander at CFB Trenton in southeastern Ontario.

Police searched Williams's cottage in Tweed before turning their focus Tuesday to his Ottawa home, where he lived with his wife, Mary-Elizabeth Harriman, a Manitoba native.

During the investigation of the sex attacks, police also searched the home of Larry Jones, a local man. Jones said OPP told him the women had their hands bound with zip ties and their heads were covered. They were then photographed by their attacker.

Jones was initially a suspect in the attack.

Jones said the special type of tire treads on Williams' vehicle tipped off police to his possible involvement in the murders. Police said Monday it was a roadside canvass on a nearby highway that made Williams a person of interest in the case.

-- Canwest News Service

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 10, 2010 A7

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