Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale (born 4 May 1970 in Ontario, Canada), is a convicted killer, torturer and sexual deviant.She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as the rape and death of her own sister, Tammy. Her husband, Paul Bernardo, was arrested in 1993 and in 1995 was convicted of the two teenagers’ murders. He received life in prison, the full maximum sentence allowed in Canada. Homolka, however, “portrayed herself as the innocent victim of a murderous monster”. She struck a deal with prosecutors (later dubbed the ‘Deal with the Devil’) and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence. Videotapes of the crimes, found after the plea bargain, showed her to be a more active participant.
Prior to her imprisonment, Homolka had been evaluated by numerous psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health and court officials. Homolka, reported one, “remains something of a diagnostic mystery. Despite her ability to present herself very well, there is a moral vacuity in her which is difficult, if not impossible, to explain.” As Homolka proceeded through the Canadian prison system there were frequent flashes that illuminated this perception.In Joliette (a medium security prison, nicknamed Club Fed), Homolka had a sexual affair with Lynda Veronneau, who was serving time for a series of armed robberies and who re-offended so she could be sent back to Joliette to be with Homolka. Her letters to Veronneau, were “in French and on the same sort of childish, puppy-dog-decorated paper she once wrote to her former husband… the same kind of girlish love notes she sent to him.” Her language, Blatchford noted, was “equally juvenile”.
Homolka took correspondence courses in sociology through nearby Queen’s University, which initially caused a media storm. Homolka was required to pay all fees, as well as her personal needs, from her bi-weekly income of about $69,although, she told author Stephen Williams in a subsequent letter, “I did get some financial assistance”.Homolka later graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Queen’s. News of Homolka’s self-improvement courses was greeted in the media with disdain: “Nothing has changed. Concepts of remorse, repentance, shame, responsibility and atonement have no place in the universe of Karla. Perhaps she simply lacks the moral gene.”
One forensic psychologist, Dr. Glancy, wrote that she was a case of hybistrophilia, an individual who is sexually aroused by a partner’s violent sexual behaviour, but later changed that opinion.
Public outrage about Homolka’s sentence had barely cooled by the time of her extremely high-profile release from prison in 2005”. She lived in the province of Quebec for a time and in 2007, was speculated to have left Canada for the Antilles, new partner and baby in hand.
(That’s right - this bitch went to prison after raping and murdering two teenage girls, AND her own sister, there were multiple other rapes - and she came out with a university degree, a new name, and has moved down to the damn Caribbean somewhere with her new husband and baby!)
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