Karla Leanne Homolka , also known as Karla Leanne Teale (born 4 May, 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian ex-convict who attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as the rape and death of Homolka's sister Tammy.
Paul Bernardo was arrested in 1993 and in 1995 was convicted of the three teenagers' murders. He received life in prison, the full maximum sentence allowed in Canada. Homolka, however, "portrayed herself as the innocent victim of a murderous monster. , she struck a deal with prosecutors (later dubbed the "Deal with the Devil") and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence. But videotapes of the crimes, found after the plea bargain, showed her to be a more active participant. Public outrage about Homolka's sentence had barely cooled by the time of her extremely high-profile release from prison in 2005". She lived in the province for a time and in 2007, was speculated to have left Canada for the Antilles, new partner and baby in hand.
Early life
Homolka is the eldest of three daughters (the others being Lori (b. 1971), and Tammy (1975-1990)). Her parents are Karel and Dorothy Homolka of St. Catharines, Ontario. Homolka attended Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School and began working part time in a pet shop at a nearby mall. In October, 1987, she attended a convention in Toronto where she met her husband-to-be, Paul Bernardo. After Karla received her high school diploma in 1989 she was hired as a veterinary assistant by Thorold Veterinary Clinic, from which she was terminated after being hired for a similar job at the Martindale Animal Clinic. Although she was accepted by both York University and the University of Toronto, she declined to attend college, opting instead to marry Bernardo.
Homolka meets Bernardo
On 17 October 1987, Homolka, then 17, met 23-year-old Bernardo at a Scarborough restaurant. Bernardo proposed to Homolka on 24 December 1989. Their relationship ended in 1993, after Homolka landed in a hospital wing because of Bernardo's brutal beating. Homolka went to the police and confessed to all the murders, then struck a plea bargain to testify against her husband.
Victims
Tammy Homolka
During the summer of 1990, Bernardo became obsessed with Karla's sister. Bernardo had told Karla that if she really loved him she would let him deflower her sister. Homolka agreed, seeing "an opportunity to minimize risk, take control, and keep it all in the family". In July, "according to Bernardo's testimony, he and Karla serve her younger sister, Tammy, a spaghetti dinner spiked with Valium stolen from Karla's workplace. Bernardo rapes Tammy for about a minute before she starts to wake up".
Six months before their wedding in 1991, Homolka stole the anesthetic agent Halothane from the Martindale Veterinarian Clinic where she worked. On 23 December 1990, "after a Homolka family Christmas party, Bernardo and Karla Homolka drug Tammy Homolka with the animal tranquilizers. Bernardo and Karla Homolka rape Tammy while she's unconscious. Tammy later chokes on her own vomit and dies. Bernardo tells police he tried to revive her, but failed, and her death is ruled an accident." Before calling 911 they hid the evidence, redressed Tammy, who had a chemical burn on her face, and moved her into her basement bedroom. A few hours later Tammy was pronounced dead at St. Catherines General Hospital without having regained consciousness. Despite the pair's behaviour — vacuuming and washing laundry in the middle of the night, as well as the presence of a "huge, bright raspberry-coloured burn" that consumed most of Tammy's left cheek — Niagara Regional Police accepted the pair's version of events.
Jane Doe
On 7 June 1991, Homolka invited 15-year-old Jane Doe for a "girls' night out" at their rented Port Dalhousie house. Homolka had befriended "Jane Doe" two years earlier, when Homolka still worked at the pet shop. The young girl idolized her as an older sister. After an evening of shopping and dining, Homolka took the girl to her Bayview Avenue house and began to ply her with alcohol laced with Halcion.
After "Jane Doe" lost consciousness, Homolka called Bernardo to tell him his surprise wedding gift was ready. They undressed "Jane Doe", who was a virgin, and Bernardo videotaped Homolka as she sexually assaulted the girl before Bernardo raped and sodomized her. The next morning "Jane Doe" was sick. She was invited back to Port Dalhousie in August, this time to "spend the night". She stopped breathing after she was drugged; Bernardo then began to rape her. Homolka called 911 for help but called back a few minutes later to say that "everything is all right"; the emergency crew was recalled without follow-up. "Jane Doe" visited the couple once more, on 22 December 1992. This time the pair pressured her to have sex with Bernardo; she became upset and left.
Leslie Mahaffy
On 15 June 1991, two weeks before his wedding, Bernardo — while stealing license plates to aid in a cigarette smuggling scheme he had devised — met Leslie Mahaffy, who was standing at the door of her Burlington home. Leslie had told her parents she would be home by 11 p.m., after attending the wake of her friend who had died in a car crash - she arrived home at 2 a.m. The two spoke for some time and went back to Bernardo's car for a cigarette, at which point he forced her into the car and drove her to his house, 53 kilometres away. There, Homolka and Bernardo held Leslie Mahaffey hostage for 24 hours, repeatedly sexually assaulting her. They recorded the assaults on videotape, including one scene in which Homolka pretties herself for the camera before raping the girl. Eventually, they killed her.
Homolka claimed later that Bernardo had strangled the heavily-drugged Mahaffey with an electrical cord. Bernardo said that she died while he was out of the room, that Homolka had killed her with an overdose of Halcion. Homolka, according to Bernardo, said Leslie Mahaffey's blindfold had slipped off and she would be able to identify them. They put her body into the basement until they could decide how to get rid of it.
The following day Homolka's parents and Lori visited for Father's Day dinner. After they left, the pair cut up Leslie Mahaffey's body and disposed of it in cement blocks. Bernardo dismembered the body with a circular saw in a makeshift plastic tent in the basement. The body parts then were encased in cement and dumped in Lake Gibson.
On June 29, a couple canoeing on the lake at the edge of St. Catharines found the badly prepared cement blocks, one of which had split open to reveal its contents. At about the same time, Homolka and Bernardo were married in a lavish ceremony, riding together in a horse-drawn carriage at Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Kristen French
On 16 April 1992, Homolka and Bernardo drove into a St. Catharines church parking lot, having spotted Kristen French. Homolka stepped out of the car with a map, pretending to be lost, and asking for directions from French. Bernardo then forced her into the car at knife point. There were several witnesses, who did not realize what they were seeing. A piece of the map, one of French's shoes and some of her hair were later found at the crime scene.
Homolka and Bernardo took French to Port Dalhousie, where for three days they sexually assaulted, abused, and tortured her. Because the pair were to spend Easter dinner with her parents, Kristen French's murder had to take place before they left; each gave an account blaming the other. Homolka claimed that Bernardo strangled her for precisely seven minutes while she watched. Bernardo claimed that Homolka had beaten Kristen French with a mallet as she tried to escape, and she was strangled on a noose tied around her neck secured to a hope chest. Homolka immediately left to blow dry her hair. After returning from the Easter dinner, Bernardo and Homolka cut off her hair and washed the body before dumping it in a ditch in Burlington less than a kilometer from Leslie Mahaffy's burial place. Kristen French's body was found on 30 April 1992.
From the outset, Kristen French's disappearance was treated as a criminal matter. Unlike Leslie Mahaffy, she did not have disagreements at home and had a dog that required scheduled walks and feeding; when she did not arrive on time her parents immediately contacted police. The witnesses recalled what they thought was a Camaro – Bernardo's car was a gold Nissan 240SX. A full-scale search ensued, with anyone driving a Camaro under suspicion until cleared by investigators.
Aftermath
Homolka and Bernardo had been questioned by police several times — in connection with the Scarborough Rapist investigation, Tammy Lyn Homolka's death, Bernardo's stalking of Sydney Kershen and the Patrich sisters (covered in the Paul Bernardo article) — before the death of Kristen French. Shortly after the discovery of her body, Bernardo's long-time friend Van Smirnis, speaking to a family acquaintance who was an Ontario Provincial Police officer, suggested that Bernardo would "make a good suspect in the Kristen French murder" and cited among other factors the time Bernardo raped a girl in his basement while Homolka was upstairs. The officer filed a report and, on 12 May 1992, an NRP sergeant and constable interviewed Bernardo briefly. The officers decided that he was an unlikely suspect, alt
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