Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka are dubbed as the ‘Ken and Barbie Killers’ because of the crimes they committed as a couple during the 1990s. Paul was 23 and Karla was 17 years old when their relationship began. The two young adults were perfectly normal; with their good looks and charming manners no one suspected these average Canadian citizens to be psychopathic killers. Brief Background: Karla Leanne Homolka, born in 1970, grew up in Ontario with a loving family which included her two sisters
Paul Bernardo: A True Dangerous Offender? According to the Criminal Code of Canada the label "dangerous offender" refers to Canada's most violent criminals and sexual predators. The offender is considered dangerous if s/he demonstrates a pattern of repeated behaviour showing a failure to control the behaviour and the possibility of causing injury or death to others or if s/he inflicts severe psychological damage on other people. The offender is considered dangerous if s/he shows a pattern
Paul Bernardo: The Scarborough Rapist Paul Kenneth Bernardo was born to parents Kenneth Bernardo and Marilyn Bernardo on August 27th. 1964. As a young child, Paul was essentially the perfect son - a very happy and well-behaved boy, even participating in his local Boy Scouts group. Nick Pron, a Canadian crime reporter describes him as “...always happy. A young boy who smiled a lot. And he was so cute, with his dimpled good looks and sweet smile, that many of the mothers just wanted to pinch him on
The criminal case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka involved the kidnapping, raping and murder of three teenagers in Southern Ontario in Canada, crimes that horrified Canada. There are several legal issues, but the major one being the conviction of Paul Bernardo of first- degree murder. He raped and thereafter murdered Tammy Homolka, Kristen French, and Leslie Mahaffy. Paul Bernardo acting together with Karla Homolka drugged Tammy with a veterinary tranquilizer which made her unconscious. As Tammy
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
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
submissive to Paul. On the third day, they beat her gruesomely and strangled her until she died. Kristen 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
couple. In this case, we will talk about serial killers as a couple. We have the Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo who have a mix of hedonistic killers and power and control killers. We equally have Ray and Faye Copeland which also falls under power and control killers. The paper will focus on the background, victims, and trail of Ray and Faye Copeland and Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Paul Bernardo was born on August 27th, 1964. He had a very dark childhood. At the age of 15, he discovered the person
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 and being related to 53 charges in total. Paul wanted Karla’s younger sister’s virginity