SERIAL KILLER: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka (Patreon)

This is the February 2020 full-length episode

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Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka’s wedding day was a lavish affair -- horse-drawn carriage and all. While their guests toasted the happy couple’s new life together, fishermen and boaters on Lake Gibson were making a gruesome discovery: human remains encased in cement - 10 pieces in all. Those remains belonged to 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, who had gone missing from the backyard of her family’s home. She wasn’t the first teenager to die at the hands of Paul and Karla -- and she wouldn’t be the last. 

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Sources for this episode:

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka: The Ken and Barbie Killers 

by Peter Vronsky

Karla Homolka: CBC’s The Fifth Estate (November 23, 1997)

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka 

The Canadian Encyclopedia

Blood wedding 

People.com

When Paul Bernardo Stalked My Neighbourhood

The Walrus

Homolka testimony 

Maclean’s Magazine (July 1, 1995) via The Canadian Encyclopedia

Key events in the Bernardo/Homolka case

CBC

Bernardo: the Untold Story 

MacLean’s Magazine

Karla Homolka’s children will pay for her crimes 

Maclean’s Magazine

Witness describes finding body of partly buried Kristen French

The Buffalo News

Timeline of events in the case of convicted rapist and killer Paul Bernardo

The Hamilton Spectator