Based on a shocking true story, An Officer and a Murderer on Lifetime® is about a high-profile Canadian Air Force Officer, Colonel Russell Williams, who was arrested and sent to prison for a string of brutal crimes. Starring Gary Cole (The Good Wife), Laura Harris (Defying Gravity) and Rossif Sutherland (King), the film follows William's downward spiral. Starting with home invasions, his lust, power and deviant behavior escalated all the way to murder.