Karla Homolka

In order to fully understand a serial killer and murderer, one must be able to examine them personally. We must be able to look into their past and see what shaped them into who they are as a person. Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were a married couple that committed heinous crimes together. They would kidnap girls before raping them, and often times, killing them together. Paul was a serial rapist before meeting Karla. However, none of his victims were found dead before her. He was the rapist, but she was the one that pulled the trigger, metaphorically. What made them this way? In the case of this couple, there were many crucial points in their lives that caused them to become the hardened individuals that we know them to be today. Whether these…

Karla Homolka is among the most notorious criminals (“Karla Leanne Homolka”). She is famous for the plea bargain she made with prosecutors before her trial. She testified against her then husband, Paul Bernardo, in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence ("Homolka's Plea Bargain Revealed”). Little did Crown officials know that she was just as involved as her husband in the rapes and murders of two school girls ("The Karla Homolka Files: A U.S. Perspective on Karla Homolka’s Plea Bargain”). Now…

pushed them to the back of the line and had to wait three years to hear an answer that many detectives had thought they knew anyways. What also upset me is that Paul Bernardo had the audacity to ask if he was able to have day parole. To even think that he feels he has a right to be in society is sickening, and the fact that he has shown no remorse for everything he has done proves that he is a psychopath. He still hasn’t even taken any responsibility for the three girls’ murders and still blames…

Real Story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka” (2009), Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were sentenced to jail after committing multiple illegal activities. Typically, many notorious killers have an unstable background, which leads them to commit these horrific killings. Paul Kenneth Bernardo was born on August 27, 1964. He had a very dysfunctional family in which he saw many unethical things his father would do to his mother (“The Ken and Barbie Killers,” 2009). According to murderpedia.org…

The Ken and Barbie killers were a couple that conducted murders together for their own pleasure. This case is very unique from when the study started because of its nature and type of crime. “Ken” real name was Paul Bernardo and “Barbie” real name Karla Homolka. This case is very unique because it was linked from an early age of Paul Bernardo, which led to his rampage. In Paul Bernardo early childhood his father Kenneth fondled with a girl and was charged with child molestation. From such an…

Homolka (figure 4) had reported him for physical abuse (Hunter, 2017). When his DNA was a match on victims Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, he was arrested and taken into custody (Hunter, 2017). Homolka agreed to testify against Bernardo for a more lenient sentence of 12 years in prison for manslaughter because she helped capture victims when they were isolated and videotaped all sexual related actions (Hunter, 2017). By having Bernardo's fingerprints recorded, this relates to anthropology…

Deliovsky (2008:52) argues that there are normative attributes of femininity that are nowhere near race-neutral. Furthermore, she states that the construction of normative femininity is never shown outside a “process of racial domination and negotiation”. Therefore, normative femininity means there are assigned values to a women’s body based on cultural and racial standards. In the case of Karla Homolka, Chann and Chunn (2014:34) discuss Homolka’s achieved status of “monstrous feminine” that was…

“Canada’s most notorious serial Rapist and Killers” Clarissa Trejo Criminal Law LEG 110 Instructor: Vicki Roland (12/07/2016) SBBCollege (Rancho Mirage, CA) Abstract Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka were the perfect couple of the 1990’s in St. Catherine Ontario, Canada. When Bernardo met Holmolka, it was “love” at first sight. “Canada’s most notorious serial Rapist and Killers” Paul had a rough childhood his mother was verbally abusive towards Bernardo and not to mention at the age of 16…

As a result, this situation included calling his own mom names such as “slut” and “whore” and badly treat women. Levy, Johnson, Clouthier, Scala, and Temes (2015) What’s more, this isn’t the only evidence that supports this theory. It mention that the attachment theory relates with personal disorders in which can make situations worst once included with other disorders such as narcissistic and aggressive personality disorders. They also mention the combination of two individuals with personality…

When a threat becomes apparent in society, the members of a community may result to moral panic. In Christie Barron and Dany Lacombe’s “Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl.” They examine the topic of female violence in the 1990s and societies reaction to the murder case of Reena Virk and the notorious couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka crimes that were committed. Barron and Lacombe explain the Nasty Girl is a social construct that has been formed in the perception of fear and risk in the…