Serial Killers: The Ken and Barbie Killers (Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka) PART ONE

hello everybody and welcome back to my channel I cannot explain to you what I've been doing for the past 30 minutes to set up you know sitting down to record this video it has been it's almost like it's one of those things that wasn't supposed to happen like if I didn't have to absolutely record this video today I would have been like okay this is a sign I hope I got a stop I got a stop and try this another day because the universe is telling me it's not a good time my tripod fell over so I need a new tripod I put the wrong memory card in so it kept not recording and I couldn't understand why but I was using the memory card that Aiden uses when he records himself playing for tonight so there's no space at all it's been stressful but here we are now I mean it's been about a week since I've sat down and recorded a video so maybe I just have to get back into the groove I am so sorry that I've been gone for awhile I haven't been feeling well it's a whole story if you follow me on Twitter Instagram you probably already know about it so I won't bore you with it now but we today have a really interesting video we have a really interesting case to cover and this is in addition to our serial killers series every couple of months I try to add to the serial killer series the cult series they take a lot of time and a lot of effort to research and script and record and edit so it's not every month but I try today we're adding to our serial killer series we're talking about the Ken and Barbie killers I know some of you watch my videos with your kids and I love that I love when I hear that you're watching videos of mine with your kids or your family your husband your coworkers it really does warm my heart but this one's not going to be a good one to watch with your children I mean if they're old enough up there if they're mature enough but nine ten eleven twelve year old probably not send them out of the room telling mommy needs her coffee alone so Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Fred and rosemary West Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka what do all of these people have in common well there are all people who met fell in love became a couple and then went on to kill and hurt other people now even though they only make up about 20% of killers couples who killed are often notorious for the most inhumane and brutal deaths and Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo Ken and Barbie killers they are no exception and that's the case we're diving into today they were known as the Ken and Barbie killers that was the name they got and that was because of their outward appearance the way they looked how they projected this sort of perfect image to the world but inside and behind closed doors it was ugly and and dark and twisted and horrible before we get started though I do want to have a word from our sponsor and our sponsor today is Magellan TV now I'm sure you guys have heard me talk about Magellan TV before they've been a sponsor of this channel for quite a while and I'm very grateful 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backgrounds their childhood hopefully we can see some red flags as to where things went wrong with these two people we're gonna talk about how they met and we're gonna talk about how they began their reign of terror in Canada I also want to mention I did a serial killer series like this on Ian Brady and Myra Hindley the Moors Murders and I'm gonna link that in the description box and I'll also put a card in here somewhere so you can click on it because I'm going to refer to Ian and Myra a few times these two people were talking about today remind me so much of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley so if you haven't seen the app maybe you should watch that first or watch this first and then watch that and then you'll see the parallels in the last video of this series we're gonna try to figure out the psychology of why Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were the way they were were they Psychopaths were they sociopaths were they just normal people who got screwed up in their childhood and developed some strange tendencies I don't know I haven't decided yet but we're going to figure that out together so let's talk about Paul and Karla Paul Bernardo has often been described as a very handsome attractive man he was tall sandy hair vivid blue eyes and a smile that showed off a set of deep dimples and you know girls love dimples I do Karla she was the girl I stole she had long blonde hair perfect skin spunky personality she had these green blue eyes on paper they were the perfect match and they were perfect for each other but the truth was much darker and far more twisted than anyone could have ever known between the two of them they were responsible for at least 18 sexual assaults and at least three murders one being Carla's very own little sister Tammy now if you're looking for a Wikipedia recitation of this case you better keep on keepin on but if you're ready for a deep dive into the lives and crimes of these two truly twisted individuals grab a cup of coffee and a snack and settle in so Paul Bernardo was born on August 27th 1964 to Kenneth and Marilyn Bernardo in Scarborough Canada his mother Marilyn had been born to Ross and Elizabeth Hamilton but for some reason which we still don't know Ross and Elizabeth ended up putting their children up for adoption so Marilyn and her two siblings were all put up for adoption and they were really never given a reason why luckily Marilyn was adopted by a wealthy lawyer and his wife in Toronto Gerald and Elizabeth Eastman she had a happy normal upper-class childhood she was well cared for and she was described by a friend as an outgoing and happy teenager who was raised by kind and understanding parents now Kenneth Bernardo Paul's father was the son of an Italian immigrant who built and ran a successful marble and tile business so Kenneth too grew up in a a well-off family with three older siblings but his father drank too much and when he did he would take out his frustrations on his wife and children this was the type of man who functioned in the old-school Italian way where men are dominant and both women and children should be seen but never heard now Kenneth remembered that the physical abuse against his mother stopped when he was about five but their marriage his parents marriage it wasn't a happy one even afterwards Kenneth didn't end up joining his father in the family business for whatever reason instead he decided to become an accountant he was good with numbers now Marilyn married Kenneth Bernardo only after her father disapproved of her original choice for a husband which was a boyfriend she was really in love with allegedly her father didn't think that this man had the right education level so he pushed her towards Kenneth Bernardo instead a man who was educated and had a good job and they got married in 1960 they moved into a nice house with a swimming pool in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Scarborough which was a suburb of Toronto and they had two children a son named David and a daughter named Deborah but their marriage really wasn't a good one and of course how could it be you know Marilyn didn't want to marry Kenneth she wanted to marry somebody else but she ended up marrying Kenneth because that was what her father wanted and Kenneth himself had taken a page out of his father's book it's reported that he was abusive to Marilyn and their children well she could only tolerate this for so long she eventually found herself searching outside her marriage for love and acceptance finding it in the arms of her previous boyfriend the one she wanted to marry from this Union Paul Bernardo was born on August 27 1964 8 pounds 10 ounces and 20 inches long now according to Marilyn when Paul was born she was shocked to see this a large purple mark on his face it was the kind of mark that like in the old days in the 1600s it would have been called a devil mark but for Paul it was really just a small transient Natal blood clot and it resolved itself within a few months but during Marilyn's labor the baby had been deprived of oxygen for an unknown amount of time which resulted in aphasia now in adults this would mean having to relearn language but for children it would cause delays in language and communication primary signs of this disorder are difficulty in expressing oneself through speech trouble understanding speech and difficulty with reading and writing now Marilyn recalled that Paul was the easiest of her three children his older siblings were incredibly loud and caused a lot of chaos but Paul was quiet and kept to himself but she also said he wasn't affectionate in the least and he could be extremely selfish and stubborn his quiet nature and easy frustration could have been due to the fact that he was born with a defect where his tongue was essentially fixed to the palate of his mouth preventing him from speaking until he received minor corrective surgery to fix this when he was five he wasn't able to speak he was only able to grunt and make noises to express himself after this it took many years of stuttering and speech impediments before he'd feel comfortable speaking in front of people self-conscious about the way he sounded to others as a small child in school he was constantly taunted by the other children who called him smelly barnyard playing on the last name of Bernardo now this nickname couldn't have actually been in more contrast to young Paul Bernardo who was fastidious with his appearance always making sure he looked neat and was clean NASA reported exactly how Kenneth Bernardo felt about the fact that Paul wasn't his biological son on Paul's birth certificate his last name is listed as Bernardo and later Kenneth would tell reporters it was not a hang-up for him he didn't care it was Paul who seemed to care later when he found out but Paul wouldn't discover this for many years and he was raised not knowing that the man he called dad wasn't his biological father Kenneth and Marilyn Bernardo would have violent arguments often and they slept in separate bedrooms for as long as Paul could remember and I have to think that this is where Paul learned how a marriage functioned how people treat each other in a relationship when you're a kid reality is basically you know what you see you don't know how other households function you don't know how other people's parents live and love you just know what you see and when your parents fight when your father calls your mother horrible names des means her and makes her feel about an inch tall you would grow up thinking that this is what marriages this is what love is when Paul was about seven his mother located her biological sisters and she began spending a lot of time with them which caused her to be away from home a great deal during his formative years she was escaping from an unhappy abusive marriage but she was also abandoning her children she would pack up every weekend leaving Paul and his older siblings alone and unsupervised when Paul was five he ran away from home and didn't come back for several days when he did come back it was as if no one had even noticed he was gone no one even asked him where he'd been but as he grew and overcame the obstacles of his childhood Paul came in to himself he was described as friendly and handsome a happy boy who was always smiling showing his deep dimples and perfect white teeth all the mothers in the neighborhood would feel compelled to pinch his chubby cheeks and tousle his sandy hair they all wanted children who were as polite well-mannered and sweet as Paul Bernardo he did well in school and by the time he was in middle school he was well-liked by his teachers and friends when he was 10 he became quite close with the boys across the street now these boys were named van Alex and Steve they were from a Greek family their father owned a restaurant and they all lived close together so they could play they went to the same school they were in Boy Scouts together Paul in the boys across the street they would you know play outside doing normal things that young boys do outside including using magnifying glasses to start fires with twigs and kindling and as they got older they liked doing other things together as well like hunt for underage girls in Florida on spring break now Paul at that time he was the epitome of what a boy scout should be you know he looked super cute and his little Boy Scout outfit he was awarded the chief Scout award and when he was a little older he'd work summers as a camp counselor and he was the most popular and well-liked of all the counselors the kids loved him because he would play with them give them attention he made them feel like you know they weren't a nuisance and they really just enjoyed being with him when he was 12 Paul got his first job working in the restaurant of a friend of his father's he worked hard he performed well academically and he was at at Boy Scout but for some reason it never satisfied his parents he never felt that they were proud of him like any human being Paul wanted that love approval and acceptance he wanted to feel like he was good enough for someone anyone and in 1981 when he was 15 he met a girl a girl he thought would finally give him that validation and acceptance her name was Nadine Bremer and she was pretty blond she had this cool Cyndi Lauper vibe going on Paul had been popular with the ladies you know for some time and many girls had tried to get him to ask them out but he hadn't loved any of these girls Nadine was the first one he actually could see a future with at 15 if you believe it or not Paul lost his virginity tane teen and the two dated for about a year from 1980 to 1981 some sources state that Nadine said Paul was controlling and overprotective but later after his arrest she would come out publicly and say there must have been some mistake they must have gotten the wrong person she said Paul was the least pushy guy she knew and he was very caring very kind however she felt about him Nadine would eventually break up with Paul after only one year of dating and she started dating his childhood friend and neighbor Steve the kid from across the street that's awkward right Paul's a stress during this time was only compounded when he and his mother had a talk right before he turned 16 she admitted to Paul that Kenneth Bernardo was not his real father and she showed him a picture of the man who was his real father and he looked at this picture and he said it was like looking in a mirror like he looked like this man he was looking at his biological father the man he'd been calling dad for almost 16 years wasn't his biological father and his mom was just springing this on him he got very upset very very upset he called our names called her [ __ ] you know things like that this secret that Marilyn had held on to for so many years it changed Paul's relationship with his mother forever he became incredibly verbally abusive and disrespectful to her he called her horrible names any time he could it was the way he knew to hurt her as he had watched Kenneth Bernardo do the same thing to her for years and he basically turned his heart off towards her after this she started referring to him as the bastard child from hell now Marilyn was no saint okay she's been described as verbally abusive negligent but to be fair to her she was in a loveless marriage with an abusive alcoholic and no clear escape the breaking point for Marilyn was when her husband began abusing their nine-year-old daughter sexually abusing their nine-year-old daughter Debra Paul later recalled sitting in the living room on Sunday evenings with his whole family watching Disney movies and hearing his sister cry out in pain from whatever it was that Kenneth Bernardo was doing to her just a few feet away from the rest of the family on the couch literally in the same room at night Debra would have to shut the curtains in her room so she could get dressed in undressed in privacy because her father would go outside her window and watch her sometimes he would climb on the roof outside her window and say he was inspecting the gutters and then just watch her through the window when bedtime came and everyone was asleep Deborah would surround herself with little garbage cans that had things like nut shells and coins in them and she did this so that when her father came into her room at night to molest her she would hear him she'd wake up and she'd shine a flashlight in his face now Marilyn knew that it was happening but she either didn't want to admit it or she was too afraid to I don't know tell him to stop or to confront him she fell into such a deep depression she failed to take care of herself she put on so much weight she was considered obese she stopped cleaning the house cooking meals she didn't buy groceries she didn't pay any attention to her children she locked herself in the basement hid food under her bed and withdrew inside herself trying to pretend that the outside world wasn't there Paul would go to school and tell his friends what was happening at home and a lot of them knew that his mother was a little off that she stayed in the basement and kept all the lights off she hid food in her makeshift bunker but their refrigerator her home was empty Paul would laugh when he told the story of how his father would have company over and when Marilyn walked up from the basement he would humiliate her in front of them saying boom boom boom here comes the fat cow Paul also told his friends that Kenneth would sneak down to the basement to have sex with the thing and then leave as quickly as possible I have no doubt that this story was true Kenneth was imposing himself on his wife without her consent and remember Paul was witness to all of this friends who visited his home were stunned by the filth and clutter everywhere there was never food or snacks or soda in the refrigerator like other houses and when Marilyn would emerge from the basement she resembled some sort of bridge troll her hair sticking up all over the place her eyes wild and darting I do think that this was the turning point for Paul whether it was his first love leaving him for his friend or realizing that he'd been lied to all his life a combination of both possibly but things that seemed to go downhill for Paul Bernardo at this time he set fire to all of the things Nadine had given him or the things that reminded him of her and after he graduated from sir wilfrid laurier high school at the age of 17 he started going to bars with his friends and he'd make up elaborate stories about himself and his life to trick women into sleeping with him he also began working at Amway and let's talk about Amway for a moment because I do think it's relevant Amway is an American company founded in 1959 by two men in fact Amway is short for American Way the two men that founded Amway are named Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos father of Betsy DeVos who is the current Secretary of Education in the United States before his death in 2018 Richard DeVos was the 60th richest person in the United States and the 215 in the world Amway is an MLM it's a pyramid scheme in pretty much every sense of the word yes they do sell health and beauty products but their main focus is on building a downline and those who choose to work there need to pay fees in order to be part of the business technically this company should not be allowed to function and continue their skin but I guess it helps to have money and friends in high places of government anyways Paul Bernardo worked there and as you know MLM lay it on heavy with the motivation you know the motivational speakers painting a picture of the life you could have by being a part of this company you're gonna be driving a BMW in two months you're gonna have a beach house in three you know they just they paint this picture of this fantasy life that you want to work towards and Paul loved that motivational aspect being able to move someone with words being so charismatic that you could convince someone to do something by creating a future for them that doesn't even exist yet he bought recordings of famous public speakers and motivational speakers and he studied and learned their techniques he would then take what he learned and bring it out to any given bar where he tried to pick up any given girl using these motivational manipulative techniques but like Kenneth Bernardo Paul had a mathematical brain he was good with numbers and figures so he decided to follow in Kenneth's footsteps and he had rolled at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus to be an accountant it was about this time that Paul began talking to his childhood friend of Van about something he called a virgin farm now this was a fantasy of Paul's that he would have endless amounts of young nubile virgins who were just waiting in line to have sex with him this seems to be where his extremely dark sexual proclivities begin showing themselves sure how long they existed inside of him before he felt comfortable voicing them to somebody else but he basically told man he'd like to bring all these girls to a place and breed them specifically for his sexual pleasure once Paul graduated from high school and started college he didn't move out of his childhood home but his mother did for a while Marilyn and Kenneth separated and she moved into a small one-bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor she didn't bother to furnish the place it was just a mattress on the floor and this apartment was located closer to her biological sisters but Kenneth Bernardo would still go and visit her every weekend it's such a strange dynamic like you're living in the same house but you sleep in separate beds she's in the basement year in the bedroom but then she moves and you're like oh I really want to spend time with you now it's just a very strange dynamic from 1984 to 1986 Paul dated many women and at first they would find him to be a very mild-mannered sweet attentive really perfect but these relationships would never last more than a month or two within no time Paul would begin to reveal to them what he expected from their sex life and it would usually involve him hurting them or doing something that they did not want to do he wasn't the kind of guy who seemed to be able to enjoy normal consensual sex the more scared his partner was the more she fought tried to tell him no the more he enjoyed it when these relationships ended he'd threatened these women saying if you ever tell anyone what I've done to you what we've done together I'll find you and I'll kill you now one of these girls was 16 her name was Jennifer and she actually dated Paul for a lot longer than a couple of months I think they were dating on and off probably for about three years they met and started seeing each other regularly on August 15 to 1986 when they were both on dates with other people Jennifer was 16 Paul was 22 and like I said they'd date for about three years what Jennifer said that through their relationship she felt that Paul loved and hated her at the same time when she said she wanted to study psychology he told her at that it would be a good subject for her since she was so messed up she could study herself another time at a Halloween party she'd dressed up as a harem girl but when they get to the party there's all these guys around she felt self-conscious she told Paul she was cold so she wouldn't have to take off her coat he yanked it off of her saying I'll show you cold before dumping ice water on her when she cried out he hit her when she graduated from high school Paul drove her to a secluded spot and tried to strangle her with a cord she could barely breathe but he did what he needed to do to her and then turned into a perfect gentleman saying oh sorry if I got a little rough you know giving her sweet kisses whispering sweet nothings like a switch was flipped but while they were dating and Jennifer was dating Paul exclusively Paul was you know all over the place he was the apple of many woman's eyes there was a woman that he worked with her name was Sheila Blake she was a receptionist at a firm he worked at and she thought that Paul was just the cat's meow good-looking outgoing friendly and then there was another girl named Lenore she liked Paul because he took her out to nice dinners and he never drank too much he never got too drunk and he bought her a LaSalle watch for Christmas of 1986 after they've been seeing each other for a little while though Paul told her it was time she should be punished for not being a virgin when she met him and he had her meet him in a deserted parking lot of a mall and he spanked her with a belt making her apologize out loud for ever having had sex with anyone else Paul also had a lot of issues with Lenore she wasn't his type she was older about his same age so older than the typical type of girls he he went for Paul didn't like that she was smarter than him Paul didn't like that when he hit her she hit him back he couldn't stand when she talked to other men but she was sure that he'd been cheating on her and this was confirmed one night when she was in his neighborhood and decided to stop by and surprise him when she came in she saw women's shoes in the foyer like through the door you know the front door it was glass and she could see the woman's shoes in the foyer a and and she knew that Paul had a girl with him upstairs in the bedroom Lenora was like knocking on the door Paul wouldn't answer it she finally was so aggravated she punched through the stained glass front door with her fist and after that both Jennifer and Lenore were really no longer interested in being a part of the dramatic comedy that was Paul Barnardo's life we're gonna talk about Jennifer more in a little bit because something happened later that was the real breaking point for her and we're gonna discuss that in a bit but Paul wasn't the only Bernardo man who had strange sexual proclivities Kenneth Bernardo wasn't just your typical [ __ ] alcoholic father he also wasn't a man who just sexually abused his own children it was reported that on February 8th 1984 57 year-old Kenneth went to court after being accused of fondling a young girl he was also known for prowling the neighborhood at night peeping into windows hoping to get a voyeuristic look at the women who lived there so Paul was left with a mother who had lied to him who had you know betrayed him in his opinion who was now a shell of the person she wants was and a father who was a known predator and molested his own children not the best family life not the best place to come from or to develop properly as we can see Paul Bernardo did not develop properly by the age of 10 he was collecting women's lingerie ads for magazines okay this seems pretty standard pretty normal for a young boy what wasn't normal was his neighbors catching him peeping into windows as he got older he traded his innocent bra ads in for hardcore pornographic movies and slasher films later his girlfriends would report his violent behavior when it came to sex many of his ex-girlfriend's has said that he would take them in a car to deserted buildings deserted parking lots where he would force them to do a variety of depraved acts he liked to choke his girlfriends not only with his hands but with a cord and he liked to force them to have anal sex with him he was living a double life smiling charming handsome college student but behind the scenes his brain was teeming with these insane and just disgusting ideas and fantasies he made extra money smuggling cigarettes out of Niagara Falls on the American side into Canada and after he graduated from college Paul took a job as a junior executive at Price Waterhouse Cooper an accounting firm in Toronto even after he'd gotten this prestigious job right out of college and he really didn't need the extra money he continued his illegal smuggling activities it's like someone who's shoplifts when they can afford to buy anything in the store Winona Ryder they do it for the thrill of it right was a thrill-seeker in every sense of the word he felt nothing unless he was doing something abnormal something out of the ordinary something that reminded him he was alive and he could feel now during the summer of 1986 Paul was dating two women regularly Carol and Susie he would still go out at night and have multiple one-night stands and Carol and Susie did eventually find out about each other but because Paul was so manipulative and controlling neither one of them left him eventually things would come crashing down around him he had two restraining orders taken out against him that summer one from his friend of man's ex-girlfriend who claimed he was making obscene phone calls to her and later from Carol one of his actual girlfriends who said he was doing the same thing to her now in 1987 he was still dating Jennifer right but something happened which we're gonna talk about in a minute he tried some antics with her and she told him she was going to go to the police and after that Paul stopped really dating women he didn't get into relationships anymore he just began attacking strangers strange women instead I think he realized it was risky pushing the limits of sex and violence with these women who knew his name and saw his face he realized that the only way he could truly live out his fantasies was by attacking a stranger and disappearing into the night and this is when Paul Bernardo became the Scarborough rapist Scarborough area was held hostage for years by Paul Bernardo reported attacks began in May of 1987 when a 20 year old woman got off the bus not realizing she was being followed she was attacked beaten and sexually assaulted right in front of her parents house this attack lasted 30 minutes the same month he followed another woman off the bus she was 19 and he attacked her in the back yard of her parents home and this attack lasted over an hour this is pretty important because you would think an attacker like this you know I let me open doing something illegal he'd want to make things quick that would make his chances of being caught less likely but Paul liked to take his time according to this article from April of 1988 in the Calgary Herald the Scarborough rapist was getting bolder he'd already attacked five woman and he would likely strike again soon sergeant Paul Talon said quote this man is a serial rapist this is a pattern he frequents side streets the strikes always at night intimidates with a knife he is brazen he doesn't hurry he doesn't rush in July of 1987 he tried to attack another woman but she fought back and he ran away in September of 1987 he broke into the home of a 15 year old girl climbed into bed with her covered her mouth and showed her his knife now this attack was cut short when the girl's mother entered the room she started screaming and he ran away and it is worth noting that another man was actually arrested accused and convicted of this crime while Paul Bernardo the real the real culprit was walking free his Mo was well defined he'd wait at Boss shelters at night and follow women home he would grab them from behind threatened them with a knife and raped them calling them horrible demeaning names doing all he could to make the attack as a violent and horrible as possible now the next month in October of 1987 Paul met the woman who would become his wife and accomplice the Bonnie to his Clyde or more accurately the Myra Hindley to his Ian Brady her name was Carla Homolka Carla LeeAnn Homolka was born on May 4th 1970 in st. Catharines Ontario about an hour and a half away from Toronto and near Niagara Falls her father Carl Homolka had been born in Czechoslovakia and he moved to Canada with his parents when he was just seven he worked as a traveling salesman he would sell velvet paintings and light fixtures you know outdoor markets those temporary kiosks in the mall Carla's mother Dorothy was a hotel administrator until she began to have children and then she decided to stay home and be a full-time mom and wife after Carla was born her younger sister Lori was born 14 months later and two years after that came Tammy the youngest daughter now first they lived in a trailer park in st. Catharines until Carla was aged and then they upgraded to a really nice house in a subdivision that had an in-ground pool so in a lot of documentaries that I watch about Carla and Paul it says you know Paul had this horrible childhood so we understand why he turned into what he turned into but Carla had a perfectly normal childhood with great parents etc etc I don't agree with that you don't need to be beating or abusing your children to screw them up like mentally psychologically and in Carla's parents had their own issues and Carla also suffered from a childhood illness now when you look at the similarities between the serial killers and people like that many of them had health problems in their youth or were hospitalized a lot during their youth look at the example of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker once again I have a three-part series on that case if you're interested I will link it but essentially I lost Boyle for you both Julia and Pauline went on to basically kill Pauline Parker's mother so they both had health issues in their childhood and spent some time in the hospital and Carla was hospitalized quite a bit during her youth due to her extreme asthma but it didn't seem to affect her physical or mental development at least it didn't seem to at that point in fact she seemed to be something of a prodigy her mother claimed Carla walk talked and read much sooner than the average child and when she was in the third grade she was given an IQ test that she scored a 131 on putting her in the 90th percentile her teachers loved her because she was an eager student you know she actually wanted to learn she enjoyed being at school she was the first person at her desk when the bell rang in the morning the first person back inside the building after recess however this also does seem to stem from her obsessive need to be perfect even in the second and third grade Carla would draw pictures and agonize over the smallest details needing the lines that she was trying to be perfectly straight she was also a very girly girl she gave a lot of attention to her appearance and she loved at doing the same with her dozens of Barbie dolls friends described her as bossy controlling it always had to be her way or no way if they came over to play Barbies with her she would control the whole narrative of their their play times she'd tell them what the storyline was what the Barbies would be wearing what they would say and if her friends didn't go along or if they tried to add their own spin she to throw a fit put the Barbies away and then pout for the rest of the day and when she was 12 she became a very interested in true crime and mystery she read every Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys book she could get her hands on telling everyone she wanted to be a detective when she grew up she also began purposely going out of her way to scare her friends finding a fun new hobby in the occult bring people over to use the Ouija board and summon spirits it seems in general she just enjoyed the ability to elicit negative emotions from people those who knew her said she could become absolutely savage with her words and she basically figure out what their pressure points were what she could do to push them to scare them or make them upset or make them angry in high school she once wrote in someone's yearbook bones rule death rules death kicks I love death kill the effing world she also told another friend that she wanted to put dots draw dots all over someone's body and then play connect the dots with a knife afterwards she wanted to pour vinegar on this person can you imagine like if your buddy in high school just sailed up to you at the cafeteria and was like I've really been thinking that I want to do this what do you think it's insane what what would you say what would you what would you do the fact was nobody would really say anything right people were scared of her she was a dominant type-a personality and if you crossed her you'd find out just how much of an ice queen she could be how vindictive she could be I mean if she felt comfortable sharing the connect-the-dots story it's really scary to imagine what kind of other torments she was cooking up in her brain and when she was 13 she started wearing all black she caught her long blonde hair short she died at multicolors her nail polish was black her makeup was dark and heavy people who knew her said she gave off a vibe that she didn't really care what other people were wearing or doing and she didn't care what they thought about her for what she was wearing or doing her attitude also shifted when her fashion sense did she became Moody distant she rarely smiled when she did speak it was abrasive she was described as loud stubborn willful with a dash of inability to ever admit she was wrong so this is the person who just can't say I'm sorry because she'd never believed she was wrong those who saw her everyday or on a regular basis said she suffered from mood swings and they never knew which person which version of her they were gonna get she was also an avid reader but her interests had evolved from Nancy Drew to horror novels she also enjoyed fantasy stories and books about the occult when she was a senior in high school her interest in the occult seemed to expand and she constantly thought about death or hurting herself her friends began to notice strange circular marks on Carla's arms wounds she had carved into her own skin and then filled with black nail polish it was at this time she also began experimenting with drugs and alcohol and sex while she was dating a boy named Doug who ended up being her first sexual experience he said that Karla was the girl that all the other boys in school saw as being different but personally Doug liked it because it kept him interested even though she was a nonconformist as far as fashion went Karla was considered to be one of the prettiest and most popular girls in school and she formed a clique of Mean Girls essentially the she ruled supreme over they called themselves the EDC which stood for the exclusive Diamond Club it sounds like something that airlines offer like you got upgraded Wi-Fi and an extra package of peanuts because you're part of the exclusive Diamond Club but the group was made up of Karla and her three best friends Kathy Wilson Debbie Purdy and Lisa Stanton and they all resembled each other right they were roughly the same height the same weight they all had these like permed blonde hairdos punk clothes Karla's group of Mean Girls also shared the same goal to find a rich successful handsome older man to marry one who would provide them with that highly coveted diamond ring a former member of the group were called the dynamic saying you didn't want to get in a fight with Karla because she was the leader she would always win now Carla's father Karl had to gain himself an unfortunate nickname amongst the woman who worked with his wife at the shaver clinic they called him the pervert when one of Dorothy's friends and co-workers was going through a divorce he showed up at her house and told her he loved her and that he was gonna leave his wife to be with her he seemed to have an incredibly high sex drive to the point where Dorothy admitted to her friends it was a relief when he went away on business overnight however it seemed like her marriage to him was important enough to save at any cost after Karl went to her friend's house and confessed his love he was sent home the friend was like he'd get out of here this is not happening and he told Dorothy everything so the next visitor - knock on door these friends door was Dorothy and Dorothy said listen you know I don't think my husband's in love with you don't worry I'm not crazy it's probably just an infatuation but if you would just do us the favor of you know sleeping with us both like you have some Minaj date Y action in here it could potentially save my marriage so when it's reported in these documentaries that Carla had like this completely normal upbringing good parents everything average it's not true don't believe that but Carla reportedly did love animals when she was in school she saw some boys poking at a bug on the playground she freaked out and she ran over to stop them she also spent hours training the family cat to do tricks she began working part-time at a pet store when she was about 16 now let's talk about this loving animals thing first of all I'm not sure how much Carla loved animals since she decided it would be a good idea to make a parachute out of a pillowcase attach it to her friend's hamster and throw him out the window spoiler alert the hamster didn't survive and later Carla dug the hamster up so she could see how his body had decomposed she thought it was gross but after doing research on a lot of these types of people you know killers Psychopaths bad people I seen something that that's kind of like a common thread a lot of them love animals Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian he was against hunting he loved animals so much that when the Nazis came to power he almost immediately passed a strict Animal Protection laws Jim Jones loved animals too he would take in and protect a strays Charles Manson once said you watch people feed tonnes of grain to animals then they kill the animals and they eat the animals why don't they just eat the grain and let the animals live they eat flesh and blood then they go to church and talk about how thou shalt not kill and they kill every day with every breath they take and remember Ian Brady and Myra Hindley they loved dogs and animals so much they preferred them to people John Wayne Gacy had two dogs who he shed many tears for at the time of their death but there's never any tears for the victims he killed I mean as many reports of animal cruelty in the early years of these people's lives these killers these Psychopaths there is just as many who loved and protected animals and there could be many reasons for this first of all it seems that a person who will turn to like violence and crime later in life preferred dogs to cat it's because dogs give unconditional love and cats just do their own thing nothing can make you feel more useless and irrelevant than the dismissive gaze of a cat other reasons could be that they're just antisocial they want company but they don't want anybody who's gonna talk back or you know bother them in their lives whatever the reason Karla's love of animals put her in a job that would set her on a collision course to meet the Scarborough rapist and become his wife when she was just 17 she went to a pet store convention in Scarborough with a couple of her coworkers the manager of the store whose name was Kristy man and Carla's friend Debbie Purdy who had started working part-time at the pet shop the convention was held at the Howard Johnson Hotel and the first night they were there Carla and Debbie went out drinking and when they got back to the hotel it was midnight they were hungry so they went up to the room changed into their pajamas and then went down to like the hotel restaurant which was open 24/7 to get some grilled cheese Carla was sitting there happily munching on her sandwich still tipsy dressed in her PJs when two men approached her table Paul Bernardo had noticed Carla from across the room and he was immediately attracted to her now the feeling was mutual because as soon as she laid eyes on him she was smitten remember Carla had always loved her Barbie doll so she loved Disney Princesses she wanted to be a princess and she told her friends that one day she would get a husband who was just as handsome and just as perfect as her Ken dolls and Paul from a very young age had always taken a great deal of interest in his own appearance but lately he'd begun adding you know son into his hair like blond highlights so that his already sandy hair would look blonder and he was working out at the gym to build up his muscles and this night he was clean-cut in a button-down blue shirt dark cotton slacks and his first line to her was playful asking her if she always went out to eat in her pajamas and he said this as he smiled you know showing his dimples he was confident he was forward he was bold he was seven years older than her and he enthralled her he was the bad boy with the face of an angel a dichotomy that has lured in many a woman Paul was with his friend van Carla was with her friend Debbie and those who were there that night when they mutt said that the canoe between Karla and Paul was instantaneous electric and tangible and they all went up to Karla and Debbie's hotel room and Karla and Paul F together he got her name and number which surprised his friends because Paul didn't usually get the names and numbers of the girls that he was having these one-night stands with and he hadn't dated anyone in a while I would just like to add here I think Paul's friends were a little Scott me as well I mean Paul told van about his virgin farm dream they watched and pick-up girl after girl usually when these girls were way too drunk to even give their consent and Paul was really open with them about the way he mistreated women that he was in relationships with he even went so far as to go to details about what he did joke about it so screw Paul Barnardo's friends this is how someone gets away with [ __ ] because the people around them allow them to okay so Paul and Carl are in love or whatever it's called when two unstable people attach to each other and become completely reliant on each other and remember he's already been attacking and raping women in the Scarborough area he's attacked two women and attempted to attack two more and you might think that he would hide something like this from his new girlfriend but something in Carla must have told Paul that he was in a safe space they hadn't been together that long before Paul was confessing to Carla all his twisted sexual fantasies and she didn't recoil she wasn't turned away she was excited she was encouraging she encouraged him later she would say the first time I met him I knew I'd marry him he puts women under a spell you know I fell in love that first night the weekend after they met Paul drove up to seeing Catherine's to see Carla she'd already told her friends and family about this handsome older men she'd met she said she found her prince charming at last and Carla's parents immediately liked Paul which shows you how deceiving appearances can be he was good on paper right handsome athletic college-educated good job irresistible charming he also regaled them with tales of his blossoming rap career you heard me right Paul Bernardo wanted to be a famous rap artist he heard he recorded some songs in his home studio he had a name his rap name was young hype and he claimed to people including Carla and her family he was so good established record producers were just banging down his door to like sign him Karlis parents thought he'd seem very loving and protective of their daughter and he called her his little princess which is weird Carla's sisters really liked him too especially twelve-year-old Tammy who he paid a lot of attention to and she thought he was really cute after meeting the family the couple went out on their first official date to see the Prince of Darkness at the movie theater now the Prince of Darkness was a 1987 American supernatural film written by John Carpenter the plot of which circled around an evil spirit roaming free and causing havoc in the world it's described as the terrifying battle between humankind and ultimate evil how fitting later they went back to Carla's house where she had a small party with some of her friends during which Karla and Paul snuck away for a little alone time which involved Paul handcuffing Karla to her bed and every weekend after that Paul visited Karla and he always had a winning smile and some little treat or gift for her and eventually Karla was able to get permission from her parents to let Paul spend the night so they could be together more often now remember Karla was 17 still in high school Paul was 24 and he'd already graduate from college but from what I can tell Carla's parents weren't very strict when it came to things like overnights with boyfriends or underage drinking or really anything at all right before she met Paul Karla had asked for permission to visit the United States to see a boy she was talking to and her parents said no she went anyways and she called once she got there she told them you know I'm here I went against your your instructions and I came anyways but I'll be home in two weeks and there's no punishment at repercussions when she returned home from this impromptu trip so it gives you an idea of what she thought she could get away with pretty much anything now Carla's parents did make Paul sleep on the couch but this of course it didn't stop him from sneaking up to Carla's room after everyone is asleep and doing whatever he wanted with her the thing about Paul was the average type of intimacy didn't get his engine going if you know what I mean he needed something out of the ordinary in order to see it to completion Karla would later say that he'd be unable to reach the finish line and would often appear bored or distracted unless he was doing something which demeaned her hurt her or put him in complete control this was true not only with his relationship with Carla but in his attacks on other woman and girls as well he preferred anal sex and I'm only going to use this term once but going forward when a victim of Paul and Carla's is involved you can assume that this is what was done to them one night Carla saw her prince charming go outside and watch her sister Tammy through her bedroom window now I guess this wasn't a red flag for Carla she had recently confessed to Paul that she hadn't been a virgin when they'd met and this upset him deeply like really deeply so maybe she thought he was just lashing out and listen it's not very clear when Paul confessed to Carla that he stalked and attacked girls during his downtime she claims it was on their wedding night but that's a hundred percent false so it's really not clear when when he did tell her but she certainly knew even before he told her that he was a sexual deviant and possibly dangerous her support her cooperation I believe it made him bolder and after six weeks of dating the Scarborough rapist would strike again she was 15 getting off the bus and heading to the warmth and safety of her parents home Paul's attack on this young girl lasted over an hour and then he was gone it was after this assault which happened on December 16th 1987 when the paper started referring to him as the Scarborough rapist a notoriety that undoubtedly fueled his ego exactly a week later on December 23rd the day before Christmas Eve he struck again the time between attacks was getting shorter the entire area was living in fear parents didn't let their daughters out at night they weren't allowed to walk anywhere alone a task force was formed specifically to investigate and put a stop to these attacks but the roadblocks in this investigation were numerous how would they find this person thousands of tips came in and they were all looked into which took up a considerable amount of manpower and resources the FBI put together a criminal profile for the Toronto Police telling them the offender was a white male between 18 to 25 years of age he was believed to have lived in the Scarborough area since he was familiar with the area especially the initial assault sites due to this they believed the suspect lived in the vicinity of those first assaults the profile also said that the offenders of friends and family would be aware of his anger towards women and he would speak disparagingly of women in general conversation with those close to him he'd be sexually experienced but his past relationships would have been stormy and ended badly now the FBI believed there was a high probability he had battered women he'd been with in the past and placed the blame for his failures on women his aggressive behavior would have surfaced at adolescence and he may have received counseling for it he would be bright but an underachiever in a formal academic setting with only a high school education he'd be nocturnal and spent a good deal of time on foot in the targeted assault area they also believed he'd be single and have an explosive temper and become easily enraged this rage would transfer over to the rest of his life and he would always blame others for his problems he'd have an inconsistent work record and he'd have a hard time keeping a job due to problems with authority he'd also be financially supported by either his mother or another dominant female in his life he'd be a lone wolf type of person able to interact with others on a purely superficial level but preferring to be alone now for the most part the FBI profile was right on when it came to Paul Bernardo right besides the fact that he would only have a high school education I think that was really one of the only things that didn't match up with Paul Bernardo but still you're looking for a needle in a haystack you're looking for one person out of thousands that year he spent Christmas with Carla and he gifted her a $300 dress of gold necklace and a gun to teddy bear she named bunkie she gave him a coupon that said upon presentation of this coupon Carla LeeAnn Homolka will perform sick perverted acts upon Paul Kenneth Bernardo these acts may be chosen by the recipient of the coupon Paul's fifth victim was a 19 year old college student on April 18th 1988 she tried to escape but he punched her several times and dragged her between two houses proceeding to assault her for roughly 30 minutes some of his previous assaults had lasted up to an hour or more it seemed this man was attacking in twos and the savagery of each attack was increasing most likely because the partner in crime he had acquired was so supportive of what he was doing that's my belief at least it seemed like as soon as Paul started dating Carla his attacks increased the savagery the violence increased the task force put together a stakeout with undercover policemen on May 25th and they focused on the areas around bus stations and they ended up chasing a suspect the suspect's description hanging out under a tree but they lost him after that the attacks stopped in the Scarborough area now Paul realized they around him because that was him that was him that they had like tracked there and chased after so he adapted instead of stopping his vile behavior he just moved his hunting grounds and he didn't even take a breather he didn't even take a break which kind of shows you that even though he was having to adapt to the fact that the police round him he didn't even shake him that he was being chased by the police and he almost got caught he attacked another woman an 18 year old woman just four days later on May 30th but this time the attack happened in Mississauga ten miles away from Scarborough and since the area of the attack was different the taskforce wasn't notified and no one really put two and two together according to a later Attorney General report when Bernardo switched his location he might as well have been operating in another country the report also says there was no system in place to recognize that serial predators are mobile and different jurisdictions did not communicate with each other when the attacks and Scarborough stopped the investigation was put on the back burner in favor of more pressing current crimes and cases now it is worth noting that Paul's name was on the task force suspect list as early as January of 1988 remember Jennifer the girl he dated for three years she had reached out to a friend of hers who also happened to be a police officer in Toronto she was seeking advice on how to get out of a relationship and get money owed to her by one Paul Kenneth Bernardo this police officer spoke with her in an informal way as a friend you know they were just hanging out and talking and during this conversation he began to suspect that this man she was talking about her ex-boyfriend might be the Scarborough rapist she told him that she'd met Paul in early 1987 and they had dated but then he became very manipulative and aggressive his behavior escalated from slapping her in a joking way to hitting her hard once in November of 1987 Paul had pulled a knife on her while they were in a car and told her he wanted to have sex while he held it to her throat another time later that month he drove her to an empty parking lot and began hitting her and yelling at her they had a fight but when she tried to get out of the car he wouldn't let her so he begins like looking around for his knife on the car seat so she's able to escape and run away but Jennifer claimed as Paul was searching for his knife you know fumbling under the Seaport he was mumbling to himself as well saying why do I do this why when Jennifer got out of the car she hid and when Paul finally got his knife he looked for her and he was yelling out threats but luckily he didn't find her and she was able to get away now this police officer friend of Jennifers filed a report with the task force and it included everything about Paul Bernardo what he looked like where he lived what kind of car he drove what kind of knife he used stiletto blade knife foldable with a black leather case unfortunately this report was handwritten like most of the reports in 1988 and it was lost in a stack of other papers related to the case it got lost in the shuffle Paul and Carla's relationship quickly spiraled he'd become incredibly controlling he told her what to wear how to do her hair what she could say who she could see he called her demeaning names and forced her to call herself these names while in bed with him the women he attacked would report the same behavior he wanted them to say these things he wanted to be in complete control in complete dominance he wanted a sex slave and he'd found a willing one in Carla but that wasn't enough for him her friends found handcuffs in her bedroom and she laughed telling them that Paul liked to play rough in the bedroom these were actually Carlos handcuffs real ones that a police officer would use and when Paul noticed that Carla had her very own set of handcuffs hanging in her room he knew he'd found the one in March of 1988 Carlos friend Lisa found a written list in Carla's room on this list Carla wrote about eating healthy exercising and taking care of herself but she also wrote never let anyone know our relationship is anything but perfect don't talk back to Paul if Paul asks for a drink bring him one quickly and happily remember you're stupid remember you're ugly remember you're fat I don't know why I tell you these things because you'll never change if you're feeling a little bad for Karla Homolka don't worry that feeling will soon pass I promise she didn't do everything that he wanted Carla had a strong personality so maybe that's what she meant by you'll never change in December of 1988 Paul told Carla that since she wasn't a virgin when they'd met she owed him something essentially that would be the type of sex he'd wanted which we previously talked about which I said I'm not gonna say again and she refused this she didn't want to do it and he didn't like that he was mad at her for two months he also demanded that she come up with a nickname for his member and she named it snuffles sure him a note during this time that he was the best he was a dream come true and she called him her big bad businessman she said in this letter quote I've been fantasizing what playful things to do with their body all day your strong chest your muscular arms your beautifully shaped legs your hard flat stomach and snuffles Oh wonderful snuffles I can't keep reading because what else she wrote it's worse than any of dalia de boletos texts I personally have no doubt that Karla was a willing participant in everything she and Paul did together everything later she would tell a psychiatrist that Paul had treated her like a princess in the early days of her relationship swept her off her feet she said he was the one guy who was always very nice to me he never bored me like the others with the other guys I could always do what I wanted and that was boring in all my previous relationships I was in total control I never cared what others thought being the dominant person in her romantic relationships her relationships with her friends even her relationships with her parents it was reported that she'd often just tell her father to shut up or calm a stupid immigrant it was boring to her being in charge and bossing everyone around I guess she wanted to be challenged it didn't take long for Paul to convince her to go that extra mile with him the mile she had not wanted to travel Paul threatened to leave her if she didn't comply so in February he brought her to his parents house while they were away on vacation and yet another surprise waiting for her a camera waiting and ready set up on a tripod he instructed her on what she should do while he snapped pictures some of these pictures included a paul with an eight-inch hunting knife and a cord to wrap around her neck he called these props and he told her they excited him so she went along with it for Paul for snuffles it turned out she quite enjoyed his sexual antics after all and she started bringing up marriage to her boyfriend according to Carla they'd been together a full year and Paul had never laid a hand on her anger until he asked her to wear a dog collar and she left at him an understandable response a laugh he answered with a slap across her face she ended up putting on the dog collar and Paul held the attached leash while he called her his little mutt even after all this she wrote him a letter on their first anniversary thanking him for the best year of her life and then she says this your little girl wants to be abused she needs her big bad business man to dominate her the best he can this is telling this is very eye-opening into the psychology of Karla Homolka in the book the Ken and Barbie killers by Peter Vronsky the author brings up studies on dominance done by psychologist Abraham Maslow using the results of this study we might be able to understand how a type-a controlling person like Karla Homolka would end up with someone who would expect submission from her you would think that someone with her personality would want to be in control of their relationship be the one to wear the pants essentially Maslow also interviewed college aged girls and he theorized that female sexuality is linked to dominance according to Maslow humans fall into one of three categories high medium or low dominance high dominance women would be the most sexually active they were the most adventurous and uninhibited and they'd seek out multiple partners medium dominance women they'd also be very sexual but they'd stick with one partner at a time and the low dominance women were found to have a very low opinion of sex and only engage in it when it was their intention to get pregnant Maslow also claimed that this difference in dominance had nothing to do with sex drive because he believed all the women shared the same level of drive but the amount of sex they had differed the majority of these women preferred men who were in the same dominance group as themselves but slightly more dominant than they were if partners from different dominance groups do end up together a strange and off-balance dynamic occurs Maslow believes the reason for this lies in some emotional or psychological disorder that leaves an individual to prefer mates from a different dominance class high dominance individuals with these disorders may seek out partners in a lower category since they are compelled to sadistically dominate their partners lower dominance individuals can also seek out higher dominance individuals in order to act out abusive scenarios the result is often ace leave master dynamic between two parties where one partner totally dominates the other but they're both dependent on each other meeting what the other provides so basically to sum it up it would be normal to seek out a partner who is the same level of interest in sex in the same dominance level the same dominance characteristic this would create the best healthiest outcome but if you are looking for someone who is higher or lower in dominance it's not really healthy and it won't turn out very well because there's always going to be one person who is more control and it creates an imbalance in equity Karla was a high dominance woman Paul was a high dominance man maybe she knew if she picked a man in a lower dominance class she would always have to be in control always calling the shots and a girl who'd been bullying people all her life may have wanted a break from it but how did she become so submissive to Paul Bernardo because she wanted to be because she enjoyed it because she was as screwed up as he was in a different study using monkeys Maslow discovered in captivity the most dominant monkeys engaged in almost constant sex and the nature of the sex was often abnormal these abnormal sexual impulses are not about biological needs to reproduce or primal sexual urges they're about control and domination this was Paul's drive the reason he attacked women the reason he had pushed the limits with every girlfriend he'd ever had the reason he kept wanting more and more from Carla neo malla muth of UCLA and his colleagues proposed a framework for explaining a sexual violence it identified several different risk factors that formed two paths towards it hostile masculinity which involves an attitude of distrust and anger towards women as well as adversarial views about relationships and impersonal sexual orientation which involves a preference for frequent casual relationships and a view of sex as a game to be won rather than a source of emotional intimacy these paths are predicted in part by early childhood experiences remember I explained that the model Paul had for marriage was his mother and father Kenneth would call Marilyn names and demean her hit her treat her like garbage add to that his first love left him for another man and he found out his mother had lied to him all his life about whose real father was this would create a hatred and distrust towards women compounded with the way he saw women treated in his own home while Karla was finishing up high school Paul continued his reign of terror on October 4th 1988 he attacked another girl but she fought him off not before he stabbed her in the lower body several times though she had to be admitted to the emergency room and she was given stitches the next month he attacked an 18 year old girl in her parents backyard and he was successful this time this same month November he started dating another woman named Anna in Toronto he didn't tell Carla he was seeing someone else but he was very clear that she should not be seeing anyone else the next month at the end of December Paul attacked another girl but luckily she was able to shout for her neighbor's help and he was scared off this event actually did seemed to shake him or something else happened to prevent him from being out there and attacking women as he would go almost six months that we know of without trying anything else in the spring of 1989 Carla graduated from high school and planned to attend the University of Toronto to study criminology however Paul told her that if she was planning to be his wife she couldn't be going into a job as dangerous as a police officer so if you saw my Moors Murders videos about Ian Brady and Myra Hindley it's so shocking to me how much they have in common with Paul and Karla Mayra also wanted to be a police officer and had plans on joining the police academy Ian wasn't really a big fan of that after Carlos started dating Paul she began to dress some more adult more sophisticated and Myra did the same thing after she started dating Ian on the point of Carla becoming a police officer though she didn't really fight back where it concerned her own life and career instead she just started working as a vet assistant in a clinic in st. Catharines they'd originally been planning to live in Toronto together but Paul had already charred the ground there and he was miserable in his white collar job thinking of quitting he want to be an outlaw and continue illegally bringing things over the border from the u.s. to Canada when Paul attended Carla's graduation party he made a spectacle of himself when he had too much to drink and he beyond accusing the other men at the party of like flirting with Carla they were Carla's friends from school you know people she knew they were like on the football team and it turned physical but the alcohol made him brave and he'd over write into a group of like big football players to fight it out he got hit he got a bloody nose but he kept going with a bigger if you were enjoying the fistfight let's examine some lyrics from one of Young hypes songs what appalls rap songs to better understand his reckless behavior you think I'm innocent but behind this I'm packing a lot of deadliness so come at come at me I got an effin nice face I look like a pretty boy why don't you come at me man take your best shot see what happens to you pal you're out of here man you come here with your beer-bellied and you think you're really tough I come back looking like I'm 13 years old I'll kick your ass I'll kill your parents I'll shoot your girlfriend and I F your wife that's me deadly innocence I mean this guy is the epitome of what every parent wants for their little girl right what do you think he comes back and look like he's 13 you I don't understand this at all but deadly innocence was the title track for his debut album which was called deadly innocence and he was kind of focused on this whole deadly innocence thing he was very well aware that even in his 20s he looked like a teenager and he had this round angelic face along with his blue eyes his dimples his hair he looked like a little cherub but he was trying to express in these songs like yeah I look innocent I look cute but I'm deadly really terrible lyrics in my opinion don't come for me in June of 1989 Paul attempted to attack another girl and she fought back - he ran away with scratches on his face and the sounds of her screaming for help chasing after him for the majority of the summer of 1989 Paul had been driving back and forth every weekend to see Carla which was an over two hour round trip drive during this time Carla's friends got to know mr. prince charming and most of them really liked him they thought Carla was lucky she had an older rich boyfriend with a car and any time they all went out he bought everyone's drangus however a few of the young women noticed that whenever he handed them a drink there was like white flax on top or a film of some sort first they joked that he was trying to roofie them but when they kept seeing the same thing in their drinks they stopped drinking the drinks during August of 1988 Carla lied to her parents and said she and Paul were visiting Paul's grandparents on Georgie and Bay but in reality she and Paul flew to Florida to spend ten days at Disney World Paul brought his camera Paul loved recording things both Paul and Karla loved recording things it's been said that there chip was the most well-documented relationship in the history of the world but he brought his camera and he made his first video featuring Karla wearing Mouse ears they were both wearing Mouse ears in this video and they were doing something that Mickey and Minnie would be ashamed of also in August of 1989 Paul stalked a 22 year old woman to her apartment and when she got home he attacked her for two hours brutally in November of 1989 Paul assaulted a fifteen year old girl after following her from the bus stop also in November Carla wrote to her friend Debbie about her new job working at the Thorold veterinary clinic and mentioned that she was obsessed she didn't really like there anymore because her boss had been accusing her of stealing ketamine from the clinic ketamine is a medication that's used to induce loss of consciousness as an aesthetic during surgery for the animals it can also be used for pain relief in both humans and animals but Carla would end up leaving this clinic in December of 1989 and giving a job at the Martindale Animal Clinic this time as a vet technician and not just an assistant and Carla would have more responsibilities she'd also have access to all the drugs at the clinic in December of 1989 Paul quit his job at Price Waterhouse where he'd been working a little over two years and he decided to focus full-time on being a smuggling outlaw the first week in December Paul brought Carla on a romantic trip to Niagara Falls where he proposed to her on December 9th as they walked hand-in-hand next to the majestic falls carla described it as a lover's paradise that night we thread in green christmas lights all along the falls soft falling snow and other romantic couples strolling in the soft moonlight as they approached the elf sized Christmas village Paul told her he had a gift for her he told her to turn around and he pulled out a glass unicorn music box hanging on the unicorn's horn was a perfect diamond ring Carla remembered this moment later and said quote as we waited for some noisy children to leave he whispered words of love in my ear and hugged me tightly in an effort to keep me warm it was very cold and windy finally the children left and we were all alone outside the elves Church they didn't wait long to start planning their nuptials Paul presented her with a wedding planner and while they were in Niagara Falls they purchased Carla's wedding dress from tatters layin on the US side of the falls this is one of those huge like Cinderella ball gown wedding dresses you know puffy shoulders and a big big skirt when you're wearing it you look like a perfectly frosted cupcake and they got back home Paul attacked a 19 year old woman in the stairwell of an underground parking garage on December 22nd the Scarborough rapist may have had a busy social life but he attacked two women every year in December for the last two years and a tradition is a tradition this young woman remembered vividly everything her attacker had said to her but she also felt that there had been someone else present at the time of her attack someone who was watching another woman possibly holding what looked like a camera the police wrote this off as the paranoid brain of someone who had been recently victimized after this there was another six-month gap between Paul's attacks I'm young vulnerable women they spent Christmas watching a movie called criminal law that Carla had rented now one of Paul's favorite movies was wall street you know the one with Gordon Gekko there was a remake of it recently with Charlie Sheen I think but Paul just loved the Gordon Gekko character and he'd have written out quotes from the movie and taped them to his wall so he could always be inspired by the Gekko isms like greed is good so Carla thought he would like this movie which was about a young good-looking serial rapist and killer and get this it was Carla's favorite movie she liked it so much she'd done an English project on it in school on January 4th Paul started work at a new job a Goldman Shulman Patel and company was a small but prestigious accounting firm in Toronto it was a good job with a great starting salary and since they'd already set their wedding date for the following June they'd need the money this jab and Carla were really the only good things in his life at this point still living at home Paul had begun to hate his parents more than ever before but Paul was never one to appreciate the good things in life especially if they lost his interest two months after starting at the firm he stopped showing up just know called no-showed every day and he began a worm picking business with a friend and AX co-worker from Price Waterhouse a guy named Joe Falzone they got this big van which needed the engine replaced Paul couldn't pay for it so Joe had to dish out the two grand this business would never get off the ground since it was a very rainy spring and you can't pick worms when it rains eventually Paul just sold the van applied for unemployment and they never talked about the worm picking during his free time he ran cigarettes from New York to Canada making a lot of money doing so and he listened to a lot of Tony Robbins and other motivational gurus he figured that all of these guys were just saying basically the same thing in their own unique way and if he could just figure out a way to put his spin on it he could be a motivational speaker as well there was money to be made in that business after all why not for him on May 4th Carla turned 20 years old she wrote to her old friend Debbie who had been there when she met Paul remember and Debbie had moved upstate to go to college she wrote that everything was great Paul was great their relationship was great life had never been better and would debbie consider coming to niagara-on-the-lake in June to be Carla's bridesmaid it had been months since Paul had attacked another woman but he had somehow gotten himself into $25,000 worth of debt and on May 23rd he filed for bankruptcy to get out from under the debt he was in he had the cash to pay this mind you but he'd rather keep the money he earned illegally collect unemployment and let his debt be someone else's problem paying off his credit card debt would mean many years of building his credit back up but if he declared bankruptcy he'd have a clean slate in six months and then if he needed credit for anything he had Carla but on May 26th he's struck again on his way home from visiting Carla for the weekend he saw a girl walking alone he parked his car he approached her looking like a normal clean-cut guy in a blue striped polo shirt and tennis shoes he walked up to her knee said hello before pulling out a knife and telling her that if she screamed he would kill her he also bit her which was new for him he pulled out some of her hair which was new for him and he stole her purse which was new for him the only problem was he slipped up and his victim sighs faced some of the other victims had seen his face as well but they hadn't gotten a really great look they were only able to describe him as young clean-cut good-looking but this woman must have had a photographic memory or something because when she was questioned by police in the aftermath she was able to describe her attacker in vivid detail a well-groomed young man good teeth white six-foot 180 pounds blue eyes slightly crooked nose small mole under the nose no accent or visible tattoos or scars smelled good and he wore two rings a gold ring with three diamonds on his right hand and a clasp rang with a red stone on his left the resulting composite sketch was a dead ringer for Paul Bernardo a computer-generated full-color drawing of the Scarborough rapist was published in Toronto newspapers on May 29th 1998 with a hundred and fifty thousand dollar reward for anyone who had information leading to the arrest of a suspect several people who knew Paul called in tips to the police when they saw the sketch most of his co-workers from Price Waterhouse gathered around the paper and they noted how much it looked like Paul on June 28th a teller at a bank Paul went to called and said it looked just like him but she hadn't seen him for about a month another tip was called in by the wife of Paul's friend Alex remember Ellis from across the street her name was Tina she'd call the police the following September she told them that the picture looked exactly like Paul and she knew through stories her husband would tell her that Paul liked to have more than one female friend at a time and he also liked to wait till they had too much to drink before taking advantage of the situation now Alex and Tina went together to the police station on September 26 to be interviewed it appeared that Alex was the one who'd encouraged his wife to call and once they were in the interview room he did most of the talking he produced pictures and videos from his wedding where Paul could be seen Alex was the brother of Vann and Steve Paul's childhood friends were across the street and they'd all known Paul for most of his life in fact van was the one who'd introduced Paul to the money that could be made by transporting cigarettes across country lines so Alex spilled all the tea on Paul I guess he found God since um you know his time as a kid running around the neighborhood with his brothers and Paul and he thought that there were some issues with the way Paul behaved he talked about his mother's mental health issues his anger when discovering Kenneth Bernardo was now his biological father and he talked about his mo when it came to choosing girlfriends he liked them young pretty and not that smart alecks informed the police that Paul was dating such a girl now her name was Carla and she'd been in high school when they started going together while at the same time Paul was carrying on a relationship with another girl named Maria who lived in Markham Ontario as far as Alex was concerned Paul's moral compass was non-existent and he let the police know that Paul was planning on moving to st. Catherine's with Carla Alex also gave some insight into the mind of Paul Bernardo he said Paul was domineering and like rough sex he also told the police that Paul had been suspected of sexual assault before additionally he gave information on the type of vehicle he drove an 81 white preper recently he just leased an 89 gold Nissan 240sx so the detectives claimed they got so much information they didn't know what to think you know they didn't know whether to take Alex seriously they didn't know where it was coming from they did however pull the Scarborough rapist files and in the file of the assault from December 27 1987 they found that report the one that had been made by the police officer who was friends with Jennifer one of Paul's and girlfriends and victims additionally the woman who had been assaulted on the 27th had told the police her attacker was driving a white Capri and the street she was attacked on was only two streets away from sir Raymond Drive where Paul lived but for some reason detectives did not dark on Paul's door for another two months during this time Paul was spending a lot of time at the home Olga's laying by the pool drinking beer Carla's parents called him their weekend son one day they ran out of booze and he was like yeah let me just go across the border and get some more Carla's little sister Tammy jumped up and she said she wanted to go to Tammy had a little schoolgirl crush on Paul pretty typical for younger siblings Carla knew about it and Paul told her that he had fantasies about her little sister but she didn't think anything of it in fact she had encouraged it during the day when Paul and Carla were alone they'd go into Tammy's room and use her bed while Paul pretended that Carla was Tammy Carla had even removed the blinds from Tammy's room so that Paul could sit outside her window and watch her undress and record her to his creepy little heart's content one night she'd even drugged her little sister she crushed up valium tablets and mixed them in with Tammy's dinner when the young girl passed out later Carla kept watched from the doorway of her bedroom while Paul pleasured himself onto the pillow next to Tammy's sleeping head Paul had told Carla that if she really loved him she would let him have Tammy Carla was the one who wasn't a virgin when they met she'd taken that away from him and it was only right that she give him a replacement a replacement virgin but until that day when Paul and Tammy drove away and didn't return for hours Carla had never considered it much more than like a passing fantasy by this time Carla knew what Paul was doing she would deny it later but she knew she had to have known she knew he was out there attacking women sexually assaulting them so when Paul and Tammy finally returned after midnight Carla was in a state she was angry she was worried not because she was worried about the welfare of her little sister driving around the rapist but because she felt that she was losing control over the situation over her relationship with Paul if he was going to have Tammy then Tammy would have to be offered up by Karla she couldn't have him going behind her back and secret with her sister Karla needed to be in the know and have her hands on the reins not be the girl whose boyfriend was you know cheating on her behind her back making her look like a fool she'd be the cool girl who drugged her little sister and handed her over to her fiance on a silver platter meanwhile the team investigating the attacks on women in the Scarborough area had come upon a break DNA evidence had been found in the underwear of one of the women who'd been attacked and they were able to pull blood type from it they figured out the attacker had been a non-secretor a person whose saliva doesn't show a blood type and this occurs in under 20% of the population the DNA technology was very new to law enforcement it just become commercially available in the u.s. in 1988 and it took two years for a DNA technician to be trained testing could be done at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police forensic lab in Ottawa but most of the time they'd be sent to the u.s. to be tested and it would take a little time 70 to 90 days roughly if you were lucky usually there was more because there was always a backlog by the time police had talked to Tina and Alex on September 12th the task force had submitted DNA for more than 130 suspects they wouldn't end up paying Paula visit until November 19th 1990 and when they got to the house they were told by Kenneth Bernardo that Paul wasn't home at the time they left their card and instructed Kenneth to have Paul call them and he actually did this guy was cocky he was overly confident he thought he was smarter than everyone else and he imagined he could charm these police detectives just like he charmed everybody else and he really did he kind of did when Paul walked in at 4:00 p.m. he was nervous and he made a joke immediately he was like this is worse than a job interview like I should hope so Paul yes a police interview is always gonna be worse than a job interview he told the police that he currently at that time was unemployed but he and his beautiful fiancee were going to get married and start a business factoring and selling motivational tapes when he saw the composite sketch of the suspect he said yeah I met this picture does look a lot like me but look at me guys do I look like I need to do this to get a woman I could have my pick he was asked to provide a sample of DNA however and although legally he didn't have to he cooperated and he gave them what they needed to eliminate him as a suspect he was only with the police for a total of 45 minutes and it would be two years before his DNA was run so it was two law enforcement officials who interviewed him detective Erwin and Sergeant of Monroe and allegedly they didn't think he really had anything to do with it they saw themselves in him he was a young guy starting his life with the woman he loved he was soft-spoken polite handsome well-educated additionally this young man wasn't angry or violent he was completely easygoing and he seemed to have a very happy life they must have the wrong guy so they sent his samples to the lab not expecting anything to come of it and they pulled Paul Bernardo out of their minds up to this point Paul had only attacked and raped women he'd not killed anyone yet but that would all soon change and when he took his first life his future wife was right by his side their first victim would be Tammy Homolka Carla's very own sister and that's where we'll pick up in part two thank you guys for being here with me I'm gonna record part two and edit part two before I even post part one so that part two comes up very shortly so hopefully part two should be up in just a day or two after this part posts and let me know in the comments we think about Carla at this point where we left off do you think she's being manipulated controlled forced against her will to do these things or is she doing it because she wants to everybody's gonna have a different opinion and always understand and realize that we can have different opinions we can talk about them and we don't have to hate each other or be upset it's just a different opinion this is how we learn how we grow by listening to others a few points on things that we might not agree on so let me know what you guys think I personally think Carla loved every minute of it to be honest but that's just my opinion see how that works I just say my opinion and you know let you know it's an opinion and then you don't attack me because I'm not saying it's a fact okay guys stay kinda stay beautiful stay safe stay home and I'll see you the next one [Music] Nevada's going straight [Music]

Channel: Stephanie Harlowe

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Keywords: stephanie harlowe, true crime, serial killer, karla homolka, paul bernardo, ken and barbie killers

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Length: 84min 47sec (5087 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 16 2020