Karla Homolka Essay

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Canadian couple Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo met in 1987 when Paul was twenty three years old and Karla was seventeen years old. The couple instantly became sexually obsessed with one another. Karla was very encouraging when it came to Paul’s sadistic sexual behavior and he enjoyed that. She would also encourage his fantasies towards other women and not only approved his behavior but even praised it. He would verbally and physically abuse her and she liked it. The twisted attraction between the two grew stronger and together they became not only serial rapists but also serial killers.
Paul grew up with an unusual family and definitely felt the effects of the mental and emotional turmoil in the household. His father was charged with child …show more content…

Friday, June 14, 1991, Leslie was out with her friends and stayed out past her curfew. Paul kidnapped her and brought her home with him, giving Karla specific instructions on how to make love to her. She suffered the brutal rape for hours and according to Karla’s testimony, Paul strangled her to death. The accusations between the two when being questioned went back and forth.. In fact, Paul claimed that she was the mastermind behind all the killings just because she was jealous of the younger women. The Barbie and Ken’s next victim was fifteen year old Kristen French. They found her on the roadside from a church parking lot and Karla got out of the vehicle and asked French for directions. After getting her attention, they forced her with a knife into the car. Kristen was brutally raped and tortured for three days while being shown the videotape of Leslie Mahaffy’s rape. She was then strangled to death with the same electrical wire that was used to kill Leslie. After murdering her, the duo tossed her body in a ditch near the cemetery where Leslie’s remains were buried. Because Kristen’s body was not dismembered like Leslie’s, the investigators mistakenly concluded that the murders of the two teenagers were not connected. Besides Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, the couple raped two other unnamed girls, who were thankfully, able to

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