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Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote a novella called The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The long and short of the story without going into too much detail is about a man with a dual

personality. Dr. Jekyll is a well-to-do individual and is supposed to be the representation of a good

person. While Mr. Hyde is the pure embodiment of evil, even his features, while resembling Dr.

Jekyll ever so slightly, they take on more of a primitive look.

Throughout the story Jekyll tries to keep Hyde at bay, but it proves to be extremely difficult.

This is just fiction and not fact, though. We know that a person cannot physically

transform into a monster. Our features cannot drastically change when our true nature takes hold of us.

However, maybe a comparable transformation doesn't occur on the outside, but on the inside.

And maybe Stevenson never realized that his tale would have a baseline of fact when it comes

to the story we're about to discuss.

You're listening to The Apex and the Abyss, and this is the story of Colonel Russell

Williams.

He was a killer with the ultimate cover.

As a base commander in the Canadian Air Force,

Colonel Russell Williams comforted families of the fallen,

rub shoulders with the Prime Minister, and even flew planes for the Queen.

But no one, including his wife, knew that he was also a sexual deviant, burglar, rapist, and murderer.

This story's main player is a man by the name of Russell Williams.

On paper, before his crimes were revealed, Russell was a motivated and accomplished man. Her the Canadian Forces website long before his profile was taken down, it read,

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