Lance Williams
Abductions
SS - Friday 26 January (early Friday morning, Australia Day Public Holiday) 1996
JR - Sunday (early Sunday morning) 9 June 1996
CG - Friday (Around Midnight) 14 March 1997
About Lance
* 40 years old in 1997
* A loner with no friends who has lived most of his life with his parents
* Public Servant with MRD (Main Roads Department)
* He had lost his license long term for DUI but regained it a couple of days after SS disappearance. He had a car at the time of SS disappearance
* He drove a late model white Hyundai Sedan
* He was an expert stalker of women. He could do it without the women knowing they were being watched. He stalks up to 30 women per night.
* At 14 he fell off some ropes at North Cottesloe Scouts (across the road from where he lived) and was concussed
* Has his first nervous breakdown at 23
* Had a crack at living alone in from mid December 1995 to June 1996 (in the beach front unit cnr Marine Pde and Pearse St) but in June 1996 is plagued with depression and admitted to a psychiatric hospital. * * He then went on to live back at his parents on September 26 1996. He again lived in his Marine Pde unit from June 1997 until June 2002. After that he is back home at his parents.
* He had a drinking problem earlier on. Also had a gambling problem earlier on too. And a smoker. Gave up all three cold turkey (only a year prior to the murders). LW's self discipline and self control is well noted.
* In 1995, one of LW's close friends died, triggering him to stop drinking and smoking.
* When question by police he was measured in his answers, often taking long pauses to consider his answers. He was nonchalent, cool and detached as if the questions were being asked of someone else.
* He failed a lie detector test (resoundingly)
* He doesn't have an alibi for any of the nights. The best he has is on one night he was at home with his parents (because the other 2 nights he lived by himself in his unit). But police believe he would have gone out at 11:50am like he does every other week and his parents were none the wiser.
* He had a knife in his car. LW says it was a pocket knife like a nail clipper knife. We don't know the truth.
* In a search of his house police found a receipt for car detailing a few days after CG abduction
* Criminal profilers and psychologists have reported on everything LW has said in response to being asked if he is the killer. They have all said that it is extremely rare and very strange for a person not to get angry, upset and flustered when being wrongly accused of murder. LW has always remained very calm, and softly spoken when accused of the killings, which is inconsistent with what a normal person does when wrongly accused. During police interviews he would sometimes wait 30 secs or more before answering questions, he literally thought about and rehearsed each response. Then he failed the Polygraph and the polygraph examiner with 40 years experience had absolutely no doubt he was the murderer.
* Police bugged his parents house. When police would visit, after they left the Williams' (Lance, his Mum and his Dad) would just go about business as if nothing happened. They didn't discuss it.
* Lance was treated like a 14 year old at home. 40 years old and his Mum would sometimes send him to bed with no dinner. Lace appeared to be female emasculated.
* He has a history of violent acts, one in particular that is alarming
* He regularly visited prostitutes. Always hand relief, never sex. He'd go for young blondes.
* He once went to the home of one of the hookers he was frequenting. She was young and lived at home with her parents. They didn't know. She told him to f-off. She doesn't know how he knew where she lived but it is assumed he followed her home. She was young and blonde.
Surveillance and Arrest
* Macro commandeer so speed cameras and set them up around Claremont and startn covert surveillance. In late September 1997 (6 months after CG disappearance) they notice LW is stalking women. They start immediate surveillance on LW.
* LW's habits are like clock work. He goes out every Thursday to Sunday from precisely 11:50pm. Occasionally it is 12:30am, but no other time. Mostly 11:50 on the dot, occasionally 12:30 on the dot, no other time. He drives straight to Claremont and does a few laps and then goes through Hungry Jack's (Burger King) Drive through and gets a large chocolate shake. He then drives onto Northbridge with his choc shake. Same route every night. Uses the same bin every night to dump his finished shake. He slowly drives through the red light district around Northbridge, then back to Claremont, and repeats up to 30 times a night.
* LW picks up a female undercover agent from the cnr of Bay View Tce and Gugeri St (same cnr JR was last seen). She asks where the bus stop is. He asks where she is going and offers her a lift. She accepts. * They get near her destination, she says she wants out of the car and gets out. DM says in her book that LW sensed something was wrong. This is speculation.
* They set up a sting on April 5 1998. LW is following a woman/undercover officer. He has passed her numerous times and looped back around. The pull out and arrest him.
* Female work colleagues had been known to request not to be left alone with him because he sometimes flies off the handle for no reason. Has a no pressure job but sometimes just cracks and loses it.
* LW is taken in for questioning on 7 occasions within 18 months. Never complains, never refuses, never gets angry.
Circumstantial Evidence and Theories
* The 3 guys at the bus stop who were the last known people to see CG reported that she was talking to the occupant/s of a white car
* Is the death of one of his close friends also the trigger for the murders?
* Apparently many psychologists believe many serial killers suffered trauma to the head in early childhood (I've never heard of this before but it's in DM's book). As a child Lance fell off some ropes and hit a concrete floor and was treated for concussion.
* I have been lead to believe there was no evidence of sexual assault with CG. LW doesn't have sex with the hookers he pays.
* How he reacted to the accusations and questioning is odd. If I were innocent, after the first few times I'd tell police to "f-off, it's not me, you're wasting time a resources on the wrong person and you should be trying to find the right person".
* He fits the profile in all ways - local, intelligent, female emasculated, early head trauma, stalks women, has OCD traits, a loner who may feel rejected by local girls, detailed his car after at least one of the murders, likes blondes, prefers hand relief than sex, no alibi, history of violence, failed polygraph, didn't get angry at police.
* The two biggest questions remain;
1.How did he convince them to get in his car?
2.Why was no evidence found in his car when searched?
reference: Debbie Marshall's book among other sources.
* I can't substantiate everything written.
