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Already a subscriber? Log in or Activate your account. No thanks, return to homepage. Edit Close. Log In Subscribe Now. My Account Logout. Share this. And with her final recorded words, she defied Bernardo, prosecutors said Tuesday. At a. Ferrons boyfriend arrived and noticed a man standing in bushes near her car. He and Ferron chased the man, but he got away in the SX. The officer looked it up and found out that the car was registered to Paul Kenneth Bernardo.
But St. Catharines—was not the only stalking that came to the attention of police. Catharines doughnut shop drinking coffee when they saw a gold sports car drive by several times. The car eventually stopped its drivebys, and the women thought nothing of it. But then they noticed the. Catharines when she saw the car again. Lazurak reported the incident to Niagara police.
Instead, they conducted a massive search for the cream-colored Camaro that witnesses had reported near the scene of the abduction. Until Karla Homolka told her story to Crown prosecutors a year later, police did not know that at 6 p.
He killed her just hours later. Stalking women, Homolka told Crown prosecutors, was something of a hobby for Bernardo. LeSage also ruled as inadmissible a stun gun that Bernardo bought after the killings—Homolka had told prosecutors that her husband bought it for the sole purpose of helping him kidnap young women.
Should police have known about Bernardo and his obsession before it turned fatal? Before the murders of Mahaffy and French? In fact, they did. In January, , a year-old girl reported to Toronto police that her ex-boyfriend was a pervert and had been sexually violent with her.
She said he had raped her frequently, and both physically and mentally abused her. By mid, the Scarborough rapist was headline news. Using a knife, the rapist would intimidate his young, petite victims into vaginal and anal sex, and then into oral sex.
Composite sketches of the rape suspect—a blond man with heavy-lidded eyes—were plastered on bus shelters throughout the city. Acting on tips that he closely resembled the sketch, Toronto police interviewed Bernardo on Nov. He was a bit concerned that Karla was using the same halothane that killed Tammy to subdue Jane, but Karla convinced him that she was in control of the situation this time around.
Once they undressed Jane, Paul videotaped Karla as she made love to the sleeping girl. Then Paul took her virginity. With that accomplished and memorialized in the videotape, he moved on to his favorite fun — a brutal kind of anal sex.
Jane was so drugged that she did not wake up during the whole ordeal. Karla was left to clean the blood off the fifteen-year-old girl and put her to bed for the night. The next morning, Jane, who was very sick to her stomach and understandably sore, met Paul, -- she thought for the first time. Jane had no idea what had really happened to her. While Paul seemed very grateful for the gift of Jane's virginity and was continually amazed at the things Karla would do for him, he was having second thoughts about marrying her.
She was, after all, getting old, having already passed her twenty-first birthday and she was a far cry from being the virgin for which he lusted. Despite his concerns, he went through with it and married Karla in a huge, lavish wedding. He would not allow the minister to pronounce them "husband and wife. Paul viewed the entire process as a great business opportunity. Leslie Mahaffy was a troubled youngster. Her strong, independent personality seemed to be at the root of the problem, which manifested itself in ignoring her curfews, engaging in promiscuous sex, skipping school and even shoplifting.
Her parents responded by getting tough on Leslie when she broke the rules. On Friday, June 14, , Leslie went out for the evening with her friends and stayed out well past her curfew. Leslie told her girlfriend that she was going back home to wake up her parents. Her friends and family never saw her alive again. Leslie had actually gone back to her home to see if there was any way to get in without waking her parents. With the worst possible luck imaginable, she encountered Paul Bernardo who was prowling around the neighborhood looking for license plates to steal.
Paul had begun augmenting his income by smuggling cigarettes across the border and needed the stolen license plates to disguise his frequent visits across the American-Canadian line. He pulled a knife on Leslie Mahaffy and forced her to go in his car. Paul took his catch home. While Karla slept, he began to videotape the fourteen-year-old Leslie naked and blindfolded.
When Karla woke up, she was very angry that Paul had used their best champagne glasses to entertain his new toy. Finally, Karla came around and started being the obedient wife that Paul demanded. Paul gave Karla elaborate instructions on how to make love to Leslie.
It was the voice of a director in an important film. Every moment had to be just perfect for the videotape he was making. After the prelude with Karla, Paul went in for the rough stuff, while his wife held the camera. The brute force of his anal penetration caused Leslie to scream in pain.
On the evening June 29, , a man and his wife were canoeing on Lake Gibson when they came across a concrete block with some pieces of animal flesh encased in it. Later, he went back to the spot and, with the help of a fisherman, pulled out the concrete block and looked at it closely.
Inside the block was the calf and foot of a young woman. Soon, the place was alive with cops, who found a total of five concrete blocks that had been dumped there in the shallow water. Police theorized that whoever dumped this body in Lake Gibson was not familiar with the area or he would have dumped the concrete blocks over the bridge where the deep water may have kept them a secret forever.
Not long afterwards, the torso of a young woman was found in the water. The body parts that had been found in the concrete block had been cut from her torso with a power saw. Paul deprived of his eccentric entertainment was prone to ill humor. This simply would not do. Karla, the ever-dutiful wife called Jane back into service. But Jane was far from the ideal sex slave. First of all, the girl upset them both by refusing to let Paul have intercourse with her Jane thought she was still a virgin.
Oral sex was all she would agree to. The result was that Paul and Karla had less opportunity to enjoy themselves with Jane. One night, things got out of hand again with the halothane and Jane stopped breathing for awhile. This scared the daylights out of Paul and Karla. Not only that, Paul was become annoyed with his new wife. He questioned her competence with the halothane. Karla was frantic. She had to do something to put some new romance back into their relationship. November 30, , pretty and vivacious fourteen-year-old Terri Anderson disappeared.
For a while, another willing girl satisfied their needs, but eventually she moved back to Youngstown, Ohio, and the Bernardos were bereft once again for entertainment. This always created tensions in their marriage — tensions that were unbearable to Karla. On April 16, , a very popular and attractive teenager named Kristen French was abducted from a church parking lot.
Karla had lured the pretty girl over to their car on the pretense of asking directions. At the outset, both Paul and Karla knew that Kristen would have to die. She had clearly seen them, knew where they lived and had seen their dog. Kristen, who was a smart girl, did everything she could to cooperate with this depraved couple and their outrageous and humiliating demands. She believed that cooperation was her only chance for survival.
The ordeal became worse and worse. The more she cooperated, the more sadistic Paul became. Finally, he stood over her and urinated. Then he moved. Turning his buttocks into her face, he squatted over her face and tried to defecate on her without success.
The indignities went on for a day or two, all meticulously captured on video for the future enjoyment of the newlyweds. Then came the final and worst indignity of all for Kristen French, but her death was not captured on film. On May 23, , the body of Terri Anderson, who had been missing since the previous November, was found in the water at Port Dalhousie.
The coroner ruled that her death was by drowning, probably as a result of drinking beer and taking LSD. Anderson to accept that his daughter, who had been an excellent student, cheerleader and a generally well-adjusted child, had, under the influence of a few beers and a hit of blotter acid, gone out and in a stupor neither he nor her friends had perceived, walked into the freezing November waters of Lake Ontario and drowned.
The Investigation. The police first became aware of the handiwork of Paul Bernardo in his incarnation as the Scarborough Rapist. There were a lot of similarities in the stories the victims told and police were sure that it was one man. As Stephen Williams points out, serial rapists are fairly rare creatures. He had fondled them sexually, penetrating the last one with his fingers…the descriptions of a well-groomed young man who had good teeth and did not smell bad.
The rapist talked all the time he was assaulting his victims, and he wanted to hear certain, specific things. He was good looking, about six feet tall, clean-shaven and had no tattoos. Her description and the composite picture she helped develop resulted in the exact likeness of Paul Bernardo.
But the police did not publish the photo. There were coincidences which tied Bernardo to the rapes that were going on at that same time: the rapist drove a white Capri and so did Bernardo; Bernardo lived in the vicinity of where the rapes took place. A report was filed, but nothing came of it.
Finally, in May of , years after the rapes began, the police decided to finally publish the composite picture, which the victims had agreed upon as the likeness of their attacker.
By this time, Paul had quit his position with Price Waterhouse and was living entirely on his cigarette-smuggling income. But once his former colleagues at the accounting firm saw the newspaper picture, they marveled at how much it resembled Paul.
However, at this point in time, the police were inundated with similar calls and did not have the manpower to follow up on all of them. Detective Steve Irwin centralized all the physical evidence gathered from the rape victims under one individual, Kim Johnston, in the forensic laboratory. From the semen samples, she was able to determine that the rapist was a non-secretor and his blood type factors, which put him in Paul did not strike Irwin as the kind of personality to be a serial rapist, but he took a blood, saliva and hair sample from Paul anyway.
The samples, along with samples from other suspects, were handed over to Kim Johnston. Only 5 of the samples fit the blood factors of the attacker. Paul Bernardo was one of those five.
His sample was resubmitted for additional testing in April of By that time, the Scarborough Rapist had mysteriously ended his attacks and the case did not have the urgency and priorities that it had two years earlier when the attacks were in progress.
The Scarborough Rapist samples went onto the back burner. Now that Paul and Karla were living and murdering in St. Superintendent Vince Bevan was in charge once the body of Leslie Mahaffy was found. Hotlines and a base of operations were set up just outside St. Forensic experts of the American FBI advised the task force. Later when Kristen French was abducted, a woman remembered seeing a struggle going on in a car at the scene.
While she was not familiar with various makes of cars, she thought it was a Camaro. Vince Bevan focused on tracking the ownership of all the Camaros in the region. Two policemen called on Paul at his 57 Bayview home. Paul was very gracious and polite during the interview and admitted that he had been a suspect in the Scarborough rapes because of his facial similarities to the composite picture. The police noted that Paul was very clean-cut and good looking, that he was intelligent and cooperative and that his home was very clean and orderly.
They also noted that he drove a Nissan, which looked nothing like a Camaro. Nevertheless, the two policemen tried to contact Detective Steve Irwin in Toronto to ask about the results of the inquiry into the Scarborough Rapist. Thus, technically, Bernardo had not been cleared as a suspect. Consequently, Bernardo was not pursued as a suspect. Incredibly enough, in February of , several years after blood samples had been taken from Paul Bernardo, the forensic laboratory in Toronto finally got around to analyzing his blood.
The tests proved conclusively that Bernardo had raped the three women victims from whom they had semen samples. Had the laboratory been speedier, Paul Bernardo would have been in jail instead of raping more women and murdering several school girls! Despite this irony, Detective Irwin excitedly put Bernardo under surveillance. What he learned was that Bernardo had just been charged with assault in St.
The assault charges had been filed by his wife Karla. When Paul started using Karla as a punching bag in the summer of , he really compromised his future. Regardless of the insane things that Karla put up with from Paul, physically abusing her pushed her to the limit. The Niagara police were brought into the situation and took Karla to the hospital.
All of this was before the Toronto police had the forensic evidence to convict Paul as the Scarborough Rapist. Initially, several Toronto detectives interviewed Karla for almost five hours. By the kinds of questions they asked, Karla understood that the police had tied together the Scarborough rapes with the murders in St. Karla was understandably nervous and told her uncle that Paul was the serial rapist and that he killed Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.
Karla got herself a real good lawyer. As a veterinary assistant, Karla had taken special care with the cancer-stricken Dalmation of lawyer George Walker. Over a period of many interviews with Karla, George Walker realized that she was not necessarily the innocent victim of Paul Bernardo that she painted herself to be. Yet, he did not really understand at that point just what exactly her role had been in these crimes.
In mid-February, Bernardo was arrested in conjunction with both the Scarborough rapes and the murders of Mahaffy and French. Karla was shocked and afraid. She assuaged her anxieties with large amounts of painkillers and alcohol. Paul had a written description of every one of the Scarborough rapes plus an extensive library of books and videos on sexual deviation, pornography and serial killers.
The police also found one brief home video that indicated that there had been more than one lascivious person in the Bernardo household. Quite explicitly, the short video showed Karla as an enthusiastic lesbian in sexual acts with two other women. A week later, George Walker and Murray Segal, a plea-bargain specialist for the attorney general, discussed the deal for Karla. Karla would get twelve years in prison for each of the two victims, but the sentences would be served concurrently.
She would be eligible for parole in a little over three years with good behavior. Segal would do what he could to arrange for Karla to serve out her sentence in a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. The trial would be very brief and she would waive her right to a preliminary hearing. In exchange for this leniency, Karla would agree to tell the absolute truth about her involvement in the crimes and everything she knew about them.
Karla agreed unconditionally. In early March, Karla was checked into a psychiatric hospital for assessment. She was given heavy doses of drugs and insisted on being given even larger doses. Eventually, Karla got up the nerve to write an important letter to her parents:.
Dear Mom, Dad and Lori,. Paul was "in love" with her and wanted to have sex with her. He wanted me to help him. He wanted me to get sleeping pills from work to drug her with. He threatened me and physically and emotionally abused me when I refused. No words I can say can make you understand what he put me through. So stupidly I agreed to do as he said.
But something — maybe the combination of drugs and the food she ate that night — caused her to vomit. I tried so hard to save her. I am so sorry. But no words I can say can bring her back…I would gladly give my life for hers. Karla -XOXO. Burnside and Cairns described the defendant: "Karla sat impassively, wearing a green jacket over a one piece green dress that seemed oversized and somehow too broad for her slender shoulders. The majority of those assaults took place in , a year before what police termed the reign of terror by the Scarborough Rapist.
Authorities suspected Bernardo was the culprit in other crimes, such as a string of rapes in Amherst, N. He has never acknowledged his involvement. It was reported that Bernardo's lawyer, Anthony G. Bryant, had forwarded this information to legal authorities the previous November. In , Bernardo gave an interview in prison suggesting he had reformed and would make a good parole candidate.
He was not eligible for release in under the "faint hope" clause, since he was convicted of multiple murders.
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