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This article was published more than 12 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. The Canadian Press. As Michael Rafferty was led away to begin an automatic life sentence for the murder of Tori Stafford, his empty, utterly unremarkable life offered no answers to the prevailing question: How could a grown man do that to an eight-year-old girl?

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Murderers come in all shapes and sizes, and in 30 years of covering crime in Canada and conflict abroad I've encountered most: clumsy gangsters, skilled hit men, jealous husbands, suicide bombers, pedophiles. Nearly 20 years ago in a St. Catharines courtroom, I locked eyes with Karla Homolka. They were flat, dead. It was like staring at the ocean floor.

The Russell Williams story in dispatched shock waves, not just because of what he did but because of who he was. More recent was the unspeakably sad tale of the Canadian-Afghan Shafia family in which four women were drowned to salvage the arrogant patriarch's "honour.