Russell Maurice Johnson (born 1947), also known as The Bedroom Strangler, is a Canadian serial killer and rapist who was convicted of raping and murdering at least three women in London and Guelph in the 1970s although the total number of victims later turned out to be higher.
He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and indefinitely confined at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in Penetanguishene.
[1] In the span of four years, Johnson, an automotive store clerk and weightlifter who worked for Ford Motor Company of Canada in Talbotville, raped and strangled at least seven women in their apartments in London and Guelph.
According to Police Inspector Robert Young, Johnson, who had voluntarily admitted himself to the London Psychiatric Hospital in 1969 and been diagnosed as a sexual deviant,[3] told him that he wouldn't have killed the girls if he had gotten proper medical treatment.
As he demonstrated an inability to grasp the harshness of the crimes, Johnson was found not guilty by reason of insanity and indefinitely confined to the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.