Adam Williams was only 13 when he was killed.

A 13-year-old boy who died while tied up and confined to a bedroom may have swallowed some pills prior to the incident, the court heard Monday during the first day of a B.C. Supreme Court trial for his stepfather.
Lloyd William Cook pleaded not guilty to one count each of manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, unlawful confinement and interference with a dead body in relation to the January 2000 death of Adam Williams-Dudoward.
His body was not found until four years after his death in January 2000 and only after his mother, Judy
Elaina Williams, went to the RCMP in Oliver with her story. 
Williams is currently serving two years house arrest for interference with a dead body. She was sentenced in March after pleading guilty to the charge.
Testifying on Monday, Williams said she, Cook and her two sons were living in a mobile home on Glenview Drive in the Hart when Adam started saying some strange things -  that he was
molesting his brother, then seven, among them.
There were no locks on the doors, so Cook, who had began living with the family the year before, tried tying the
doorknob on Adam's room to lock him in and keep him away from his brother.
But that didn't work, Williams told the court, and said Cook then took Adam into the adults' bedroom and put his hands together so they rested on the front of his body and tied his feet together with a piece of rope and left him lying on the floor. Sometime later, he was put on the bed and tied to the frame so that his arms and legs pointed to the bed's four corners, Williams continued. 
And then, when it was time for the adults to go to bed, he was put on a mattress on the floor, with his hands and feet tied together in the same fashion as before.
Williams also said that just prior to being tied up, Adam told her he had taken some pills, possibly Valium, either stolen from his grandmother or obtained from her ex-husband and Adam's biological father. 
Williams said they tried to make Adam "poop it out" but also that she didn't notice anything different about Adam when he claimed to have taken the pills.
She said Adam died on the night of Jan. 7, 2000 on the second or third day that Adam had remained tied up inside the home. 
The other three were outside playing on a slide in the back yard. Williams said she heard Adam "hollering" and told Cook, who went inside. When the hollering stopped, Cook went back outside she said.
Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Steven Taylor, Williams said they went back inside the house about a half hour later after they had finished playing and Adam was in the bedroom making gurgling noises. 
She said Cook untied the boy and took him into the bathroom to perform CPR while she took her other son into his room so he wouldn't know what was going on.
Williams said Cook told her to go wait in the living room and about five minutes later came out to say Adam "was gone." Taylor indicated Adam may have been vomiting before he died, although Williams denied she had to wash it up.
She said Cook told her not to call 911 because they would both go to jail and the next day he wrapped Adam in a blanket and with her help put his body in the trunk of their car. Two to three weeks later, they drove out to a secluded spot off North Nechako Road and, while she took her other son for a walk, Cook disposed of his body.
Williams went on to recount that after some months of hopping from home to home in Prince George to avoid social workers, her other son was finally taken away. When asked about Adam, Williams said she simply told her other son he was away with friends.
Following the apprehension of her other son, she and Cook moved to a rural property just outside Oliver owned by one of Cook's brothers and his wife. They lived in the couple's home for a spell but then moved to a one-room trailer in the back of the property with another of Cook's brothers for about four years.
About three-and-a-half years into that stretch, Cook found a new girlfriend and she also moved into the trailer, the court heard. Finally, one day, when the other three had gone out for coffee, Williams said she went to the couple's home and got them to contact the police.
She said Cook had hidden her away so that when she did present herself, the couple did not initially believe that she had been living in the trailer. "They said I looked clean and Lloyd and Dale didn't," Williams told the court.
Williams said she made the move in part because she was upset with Cook and the living conditions but also because she was feeling guilty about what happened to Adam. She then led police to the area where Adam's body was buried.
Taylor suggested that it was only when the new woman moved in that she decided to go to police.
Throughout her testimony, Williams said she did what Cook asked of her because she was afraid of him although she agreed with Taylor that she took the actions she did because she was also afraid of getting in trouble with the authorities. 
"You made choices because you didn't want to suffer any of the consequences, you didn't want to go to jail," Taylor told Williams, who responded with a yes.
Williams showed little emotion and gave mostly short answers during her day of testimony. When Williams was questioned about the events, Cook broke into tears as Taylor recounted his efforts to revive Adam.
The trial continues today.
-Prince George Citizen