A line forms outside a Belleville, Ont., funeral home Friday as mourners wait to pay their respects to the family of slaying victim Jessica Lloyd. (Kathleen Hunt/CBC)Hundreds are expected to attend the funeral Saturday afternoon for Jessica Lloyd, the 27-year-old Belleville, Ont., woman whose body was found at the side of a rural road on Monday.
Friends and community members lined up at a Belleville funeral home Friday for the visitation for Lloyd, one of the alleged victims of Col. Russell Williams, the former commander of CFB Trenton.
The funeral service will be in the chapel of the John R. Bush Funeral Home on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.
Lloyd's body was found near Tweed, a small town north of Belleville, more than two weeks after she vanished.
She was reported missing Jan. 29 when she didn't show up at her job. Police organized a massive search, and more than 45,000 people joined a Facebook group dedicated to finding Lloyd.
Jessica Lloyd was reported missing after she failed to show up for work. (Belleville Police Service)“I think with Belleville being a small town, there’s a lot of people that did know her, there’s a lot of people that knew her family and family members and friends,” Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis said Friday,
“She’s touched so many lives, and I think that’s when you have the big circle, and that circle is huge in a small community.”
Williams, 46, is in custody and has been charged with first-degree murder in Lloyd's death. He is also charged with first-degree murder in the death last November of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, who served at Trenton, and with two sexual assaults in Tweed last September.
CBC News learned this week that Williams led investigators to Lloyd's body. Sources said Williams provided a full statement to police, who are now looking at other unsolved cases based on that statement, including breaking and entering.
The Canadian military on Friday named Lt.-Col. Dave Cochrane the new commander of CFB Trenton.
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