If you check the papers from Guelph or London, you might be able to find something. Following are the names and dates of his known victims. He started attacking and raping in and it progressed to murder. He strangled the first 6 and stabbed the last one. In between 5 and 6 there were al least 2 attacks but the women survived. They later identified Russell as the person who attacked them and probably would have been killed also but in both instances, he was interrupted and fled.
One of Canada's most notorious serial killers, a man who terrorized women in southern Ontario during the s, is making a temporary move to Brockville. John Bradford said Monday that Russell Johnson will be transferred to the medium security forensic unit at the Brockville Mental Health Centre for what he called a temporary treatment consultation.
That consultation, which Bradford said will examine what types of treatment are suitable for Johnson and their possible effectiveness, was ordered by the Ontario Review Board following a hearing last October. Bradford will conduct the assessment and would not say when the temporary move will happen, or if it has already. We will be implementing the order," said Bradford, associate chief of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group responsible for forensic psychiatry. Johnson, 61, has been confined to the maximum security Oak Ridge psychiatric institution in Penetanguishine since when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killings of three women.
Johnson was sent to trial for the murders of two women from London, Donna Veldboom, 22, and Luella George, 22, as well as year-old Diane Beitz of Guelph.
According to published reports, since that '78 court decision, he has confessed to killing four other women and several sexual assaults. He has been dubbed the 'Bedroom Strangler' because his victims were smothered to death in their beds. In some of the attacks, Johnson scaled apartment walls as high as 15 storeys to reach his victims. He said the serial killer's move to the Brockville psychiatric facility is not currently a concern to police. He's got restricted conditions on him and the mental health people will advise us if there are any concerns," he said.
Bradford said if Johnson were to have any access to the community during his temporary stay, "It would be under police escort. Bradford stressed the review board, which controls the movement of patients within Ontario's forensic mental health system, closely examined the request last fall. The hearing would have included input from the Crown on any public safety concerns, information about security at the Brockville facility and Johnson's decades-long record while institutionalized.
Although he would not reveal the exact timeline for Johnson's stay, Bradford said, "It's a matter of months rather than a year. He dismissed the suggestion the assessment here is necessarily a step toward Johnson being permanently transferred to medium security. Johnson's request for a transfer to Brockville from Penetanguishine has been turned down in the past. A London Free Press article on a transfer request Johnson made during a hearing in quoted the counsel for the attorney general as opposing the move.
Beasley, then an assistant Crown attorney in London, had been connected with Johnson's case for 11 years. When asked yesterday about the threat Johnson presents to staff and patients, Bradford conceded in forensic psychiatry, "there is never such a thing as no risk.
She had been stabbed to death and sexually assaulted postmortem. Eleanor Hartwick. Doris Dodi Brown. Donna Veldboom. Serial killer Russell Johnson to remain in maximum security mental hospital, National Post, July 30, Mellor, Lee. Previous Next. Russell Johnson. Early Crimes Russell Maurice Johnson experienced a lot of trauma in his childhood including sexual abuse at year-old.
Mary Hicks. Alice Ralston. Luella George. He was described as obsessed with cleanliness and was a compulsive hand washer. He wore gloves and petroleum jelly at work and at the gym. He stalked his victims for days and would break into their homes to watch them sleep for hours.
He was able to crawl up the sides of apartment buildings to gain access through balcony doors. Johnson graduated to murder on October 19, when he murdered Mary Hicks, a year-old student in London. Her death was attributed to an allergic reaction to medication because she was found in a natural sleeping position with no obvious signs of violence on her body.
Johnson took great pains to methodically clean-up the Hicks crime scene and make her death appear natural. He did the same with his next three victims. Only a month later, another woman was found dead in a Guelph apartment. Alice Ralston, 27, was also found with no obvious signs of violence. On March 4, , Eleanor Hartwick died at her home in London and, as in the case of Alice Ralston, her death was put down to a reaction to prescription drugs.
Doris Dodi Brown, 49, was found dead in August, and although the pathologist discovered minor abrasions to her body, as well as blood in her throat and rectum, her death was attributed to pulmonary edema. Diane Beitz, 23, was found dead in her Guelph apartment on December 31, She had been strangled to death with her bra and sexually assaulted postmortem.
Louella Jeanne George was found dead in her home in April, She had been strangled and sexually assaulted postmortem. Some of her jewellery and underwear was also missing. The items were later found in a garbage can nearby. She had been stabbed to death and sexually assaulted postmortem. Mary Hicks, 21, was a senior at the University of Western Ontario when she was found dead in her ground floor Talbot Street London apartment on October 19, Mary was found dead the next morning in her bed by her room-mates.
She had a pillow partially covering her face. Diane Beitz, 23, was found dead in her Drew Street apartment in Guelph apartment on December 31, Beitz had just become engaged to her fiance, Jim Britton, on December 30, Jim and Diane enjoyed an early breakfast at her before he left for work at am. At am, Johnson calls police to report a suitcase of clothing has been stolen from his car.
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