Chilling documentary raises questions about ‘Ken and Barbie Killers’ more than 30 years on

A chilling documentary about Canada’s Ken and Barbie Killers has raised questions concerning the case greater than 30 years on.

Paul Bernardo, now 58, with the assistance of Karla Homolka, now 53, kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered three teenage ladies – together with Karla’s personal sister – in one of the “sensational and sinister cases in Canadian history”.

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As a younger married couple with “apparent good looks”, Bernado and Homolka grew to become referred to as the Ken and Barbie Killers. 

The particulars of the case are laid naked in a four-part documentary Ken and Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes which you’ll watch without cost on 9Now.

Following the murders of Leslie Mahaffy, Kristen French and Tammy Homolka, Karla Homolka confessed to police that her husband was chargeable for their deaths. 

Karla claimed that she had been pressured to assist commit the ugly crimes and didn’t come ahead earlier for worry of what he would do to her. 

She additionally divulged that Bernardo video taped his horrific acts. But what these apparently tapes revealed was that not solely was Karla not a sufferer as she had claimed however she additionally willingly participated in these horrific crimes. 

Unfortunately by the point prosecutors found the tapes it was too late to analyze them additional. They had already made a plea take care of Karla that noticed her sentenced to simply 12 years in jail for her involvement within the rape and murders of the three ladies. 

The deal was in alternate for her testimony towards Paul Bernado and was made by prosecutors earlier than they knew the tapes existed.  

The documentary raises query as as to whether Homolka’s plea deal finally served justice.

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Michael Code, the Attorney General who authorised the deal mentioned on the time: “In a perfect world you would like to have both Bernado and Homolka in the box together facing murder charges. 

“We needed to compromise as a result of we did not have a case towards Bernado.” 

In an interview, the mom of sufferer Kristen French, Donna, mentioned that nobody was proud of the plea deal, not even police.

But even the mother and father of the victims had made their peace with all that had transpired.

“I nonetheless assume it [Homolka’s plea bargain] was the one factor that would’ve been carried out at that time,” Donna French said at the time.

The public was outraged at the Crown for making such a deal and felt it was “a grave insult to society” and a “travesty of justice”. 

One woman felt Karla was “simply as responsible” as Bernado.

“Someone who’s engaged in that type of exercise ought to by no means see the sunshine of day or see it once they’re too previous to be a hazard to the neighborhood,” journalist Kirk Makin claimed in the documentary. 

More than 300,000 Canadians put their outrage into action by signing a petitioning for new immunity rules for the future. 

But after serving her 12-year sentence, Karla was freed in 2005 and went on to live a normal life in Montreal. She since remarried and had three children.

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