Could serial killer Russell Williams have been caught sooner, preventing the loss of a second womans life?

That was the question the Star had in mind when it asked the ministry that oversees police in Ontario to make public the dates when Williams DNA was submitted for testing.

But the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services refused, citing an unjustified invasion of personal privacy.

Apparently, Williams own.

The ministry is also refusing to release dates when the samples were uploaded to a national DNA data bank.

All the Star is asking for is dates.

DNA samples that matched Williams profile and could not rule him out were taken from a sexual assault scene and, months later, from the first of his two murder scenes.

With timely DNA testing, could the second victim have been saved? Or was everything possible done, and was the second murder largely unpreventable?

Releasing the dates when DNA samples were submitted, tests were completed, and the resulting DNA profiles were fed into a national database would help clear up those questions.

The Star sought access to the dates in a freedom of information request last October. The ministry, which oversees the Ontario Provincial Police and the Centre of Forensic Sciences, denied access in a letter last month.

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Releasing serial killer Russell Williams DNA testing dates unjustified invasion of privacy