Karla Homolka

Case Study: Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka Marlee Gadway Melissa Johannes Qais Nasseri Kurt Nguyen Edward O’Grady FRSC 1010H Miss. Drago F05 Background The case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka is one of the most profound cases in Canada. Paul Bernardo is known as a Canadian serial killer and rapist, specifically in the southern Ontario area. He came from a home of abuse and neglect. Despite his childhood, he graduated from University of Toronto in the Scarborough area with

Abstract Paul Bernado and Karla Homolka were Canadian serial killers who attracted worldwide media attention when they were convicted of raping and murdering teenage girls, including Karla's own sister, Tammy Homolka. The Ken and Barbie Killers Karla Homolka and Paul bernardo had met in the 1987 Paul was 23 and she was a young teenager

High Profile Crime: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka Throughout Canada’s history, we have seen some very deviant and high profile crimes. A series of crimes that struck me as exceedingly nauseating are the crimes committed by Paul Bernardo and his wife and, accomplish Karla Homolka in the nineteen nineties. Although the act of rape is considered to be extremely deviant, a prevalent ‘rape culture’, and within it victim blaming, has caused the characteristic of being a rape victim to also be deviant

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka: Canadian Rapists/Murderers Paul Bernardo was a well liked child by all the parents in the neighbourhood, he was pleasant and friendly.  Although, when he was a sixteen, he got into an argument with his mother and she told him about how he was a illegitimate child and showed him the picture of his real father for whom she had an affair with.  Paul was devastated and after the incident he did not get along with his mother.  He started to hang around a tough crowd

still much debate surrounding the crimes that took place. In analyzing this crime, it can be found that there is still many grey areas to the serial murderers: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. A young 17 year old girl named Karla Homolka met 23 year old Paul Bernardo at a restaurant in 1987. By late 1989 Paul and Karla were engaged as a happy couple, while Bernardo was raping numerous women in the Scarborough region with Homolka’s approval. In total, he admitted to sexually assaulting 14 women

French’s body wasn’t discovered until April 30th, 1992, laying in a ditch naked in Burlington. After hearing these three incidents in particular I got a sense that Karla Homolka was in fact jealous of the girls they picked as victims. The girls were young, smart, beautiful, pure and intelligent. They possessed many qualities that Karla did not and that is probably why she helped choose them. Paul Bernardo in my opinion just wanted to take away purity. The girls were so young and pure that Paul looked

Swardson for the New York Times, looks back on Canadian Karla Homolka, the wife of Paul Bernardo, and her role in the rapings and killing of schoolgirls. All three appalling crimes, dubbed the “schoolgirl killer” murders, took place in the province of Ontario. Homolka was sentenced 12 years for two counts of manslaughter in 1992, for the deaths of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, the latter’s body was discovered on the couple’s wedding day. Karla and Paul met when she was 17, in 1987 and their relationship

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka are arguably the most famous and most hated serial killers of Canada. Dubbed the Barbie and Ken Killers for their good looks, they committed horrifying acts of murder and rape together. On August 27, 1964, Paul Bernardo was born as the youngest of 3 to Kenneth and Marilyn Bernardo. He was an illegitimate child, born from an affair his mother had with one of her exes. His father knew of the affair, yet he was still listed as Paul’s father on his birth certificate

The Bernardo and Homolka investigation was and continues to be one of the largest, and most influential police investigations in Ontario’s history. Between 1987 and 1992, Bernardo sexually assaulted no less than eighteen women in Scarborough, Peel, and St. Catharines. Furthermore, Bernardo and Homolka killed three women in St. Catharines and Burlington. The investigation was subject to a judicial review in 1996 by the Honourable Justice Campbell. The review resulted in the development of the

A 911 call was placed shortly after midnight. When paramedics arrived, Tammy was unresponsive. Paul and Karla claimed they had fallen asleep downstairs in the rec room and were awakened by the sounds of Karla’s 15 year old sister Tammy “choking”. Tammy was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, and Karla’s parents rode along with her. Karla, her sister Lori, and Paul stayed at the house, and were questioned by a rookie who had been on the job for less than two months, David