A dangerous offender by almost every measure
Three years after the shocking murder of high school student Serena Vermeersch by a lifetime criminal, he has finally pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Raymond Lee Caissie, 46, entered the plea in court on Sept. 14. His guilty plea may be the only decent thing he has done in the past 25 years, Caissie was let out of jail in June, 2013 after serving a 22-year sentence for raping a woman in Abbotsford at knifepoint in 1991. It was a particularly brutal case. He confronted her while she was working at a museum in Abbotsford, abducted her, sexually assaulted her and left her tied to a tree, but not before making her withdraw money from her account at a bank machine. He also stole her car. Two days later, he robbed a woman pushing a two-year-old child in a stroller. That incident took place in a park. Caissie had been in trouble before that. He was in and out of jail from the time he was 15. He was released from prison a short time before the Abbotsford case, after being c...