Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first. The Sun says it has spoken to the woman on three different occasions and has chosen not to reveal her identity. Bernardo—now 50—was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison in He was declared a dangerous offender for a number of offences, including the first-degree murders of French and Mahaffy, and two aggravated sexual assaults.
Bernardo was previously married to Karla Homolka, who struck a deal with the Crown in to serve 12 years in prison for manslaughter after she was convicted alongside Bernardo of crimes related to the rape and murder of French and Mahaffy and the drug-induced death of her year-old sister Tammy Homolka.
Kenneth Bernardo tolerated his wife's affair and is listed as the biological father on Paul's birth certificate. In , Kenneth Bernardo fondled a girl and was charged with child molestation; he also sexually abused his own daughter. Bernardo's mother became depressed over her husband's abuse, withdrew from family life and lived in the basement of their Scarborough home. Though the elder children felt the effects of the emotional and mental turmoil, young Paul appeared to be unscathed by it.
A young boy who smiled a lot. And he was so cute, with his dimpled good looks and sweet smile, that many of the mothers just wanted to pinch him on the cheek whenever they saw him. He was the perfect child they all wanted: polite, well mannered, doing well in school, so sweet in his Boy Scout uniform. Following an argument between his parents when Bernardo was 16, his mother told him of his actual parentage.
Repulsed, he began openly to call his mother "slob" and "whore". Bernardo graduated from Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute, opting to work for Amway, whose sales culture had a deep effect on him. By the time Bernardo attended University of Toronto Scarborough, he had developed dark sexual fantasies, enjoyed humiliating women in public and beat up the women he dated. In October , he met Karla Homolka.
They became sexually interested in each other almost immediately. Unlike the other girls he knew, she encouraged his sadistic sexual behaviour, also encouraging his acts as the "Scarborough Rapist. Sexual assaults. The Scarborough Rapist. Bernardo committed multiple sexual assaults, escalating in viciousness, in and around Scarborough, Ontario.
Most of the assaults were on young women whom he had stalked after they exited buses late in the evening. May 4, , Bernardo committed his first rape in Scarborough against a year-old woman, in front of her parents' house, after following her home.
The attack lasted more than half an hour. May 14, , Bernardo committed his second rape. He attacked a year-old woman in the back yard of her parents' house. This incident lasted over an hour. July 27, , Bernardo attempted his third rape.
Although he beat the young woman, he abandoned the attack after she fought back. December 16, , Bernardo committed his third rape, against a year-old girl. This rape lasted about one hour. The following day, the Toronto Police Service issued a warning to women in Scarborough travelling alone at night, especially those taking buses.
December 23, , Bernardo committed his fourth rape. During this attack, Bernardo raped the year-old with the knife he used to threaten his victims. It was at this point he began to be referred to as the 'Scarborough Rapist'.
April 18, , Bernardo attacked a year-old. The fifth assault, this one lasted 45 minutes. May 25, , Bernardo was nearly caught by a uniformed Metro Toronto investigator staking out a bus shelter. The investigator noticed him hiding under a tree and pursued him on foot, but Bernardo escaped. May 30, , Bernardo committed his sixth rape, this time in Clarkson, about 25 miles southwest of Scarborough. This attack, against an year-old, lasted 30 minutes. October 4, , Bernardo attempted a seventh Scarborough rape.
His intended victim fought him off but he inflicted two stab wounds to her thigh and buttock which required 12 stitches. November 16, , Bernardo committed his seventh rape against an year-old in the backyard of her parents' house. November 17, , Metro Police formed a special task force dedicated to capturing the Scarborough Rapist.
December 27, , an alerted neighbor chased Bernardo off after he had begun his attempted eighth rape. June 20, , Bernardo attempted to rape another young woman. She fought against him and her screams alerted neighbors. Bernardo fled with scratches on his face. August 15, , Bernardo committed his eighth rape, against a year-old woman.
He had stalked her the previous night from outside the window of her apartment and waited for her to arrive home. This particularly vicious attack lasted two hours. November 21, , Bernardo committed his ninth rape, against a year-old whom he saw in a bus shelter. This attack lasted 45 minutes. December 22, , Bernardo committed his tenth rape, against a year-old.
This attack occurred in a stairwell of an underground parking lot and lasted 30 minutes. May 26, , Bernardo committed his eleventh rape. This rape lasted over an hour. However, his year-old victim's vivid recollection of her attacker permitted police to make a computer composite photograph, which was released two days later by police and published in Toronto and area newspapers.
July , two months after receiving tips that Bernardo fit the Scarborough Rapist composite, he was interviewed by two police detectives. Investigation and release. Between May and September , the police had submitted more than suspects' samples for DNA testing when they received two reports that the person they were seeking was Paul Bernardo. The first, in June, had been called in by a bank employee. The second call was received from Tina Smirnis, the wife of one of the three Smirnis brothers who were among Bernardo's closest friends.
Smirnis told the detectives that Bernardo "had been 'called in' on a previous rape investigation — once in December, - but he had never been interviewed.
Alex Smirnis' phrasing was awkward and stilted and consequently left the detectives unsure of whether to take him seriously. But after cross-checking several files the detectives decided to interview Bernardo. The interview, on November 20, , lasted 35 minutes and Bernardo voluntarily gave samples for forensic testing.
When the detectives asked Bernardo why he thought he was being investigated for the rapes, he admitted that he did resemble the composite. The detectives concluded that such a well-educated, well-adjusted, congenial young man couldn't be responsible for the vicious crimes; he "was far more credible than Alex Smirnis who, with his awkward, strange way of speaking, might just be trying to collect the reward.
Following the interview, Bernardo drove to St. Catharines and held a secret meeting with Homolka, assuring her that he was not the Scarborough Rapist. Bernardo moved permanently to St. Catharines on February 1, The sexual assaults in Scarborough had stopped. However, on April 6, , Bernardo committed his 12th rape, this one in St. Again, the victim was young Unlike the other attacks, this one occurred early in the morning and he was not near a bus stop.
When she still worked at a pet shop, two years earlier, Homolka had befriended a then year-old girl. On June 7, , Homolka invited the teen, referred to as "Jane Doe" in the ensuing trials, for a "girls' night out.
After "Jane Doe" lost consciousness, Homolka called Bernardo to tell him his surprise wedding gift was ready. They undressed the girl, who was a virgin, and Bernardo videotaped Homolka as she raped the girl before Bernardo vaginally and anally penetrated her.
The next morning, the teenager was nauseous. She believed her vomiting was due to having drunk alcohol for the first time. She did not realize she had been violated.
She was invited back to Port Dalhousie a district in northwest St. Catharines, situated on Lake Ontario in August this time to "spend the night. Homolka called for help but called back a few minutes later to say that "everything is all right.
This time Homolka pressured her to have sex with Bernardo; she became upset and left. Schoolgirl Killer murders. By , Bernardo was spending large amounts of time with the Homolka family, who liked him. He was engaged to the eldest daughter and flirted constantly with the youngest one. He had not told them that he had lost his job as an accountant, and instead was smuggling cigarettes across the nearby U.
He had become obsessed with Tammy Homolka, peeping into her window and entering her room to masturbate while she slept. Karla Homolka helped him by breaking the blinds in her sister's window to allow Bernardo access. In July, Bernardo took Tammy across the border to get beer for a party.
While there, Bernardo later told his fiancee, "they got drunk and began making out. According to Bernardo's testimony at his trial on July 24, , Karla Homolka laced spaghetti sauce with crushed Valium she had stolen from her employer, Martindale Animal Clinic. She served dinner to her sister, who soon lost consciousness. Bernardo began to rape Tammy while Karla watched. Over the summer, he supplied Tammy and her friends with gifts, food, and sodas that had "a film and a few white flecks on the top.
Six months before their wedding, Karla Homolka stole the anaesthetic agent Halothane from the clinic. On December 23, , Homolka and Bernardo administered sleeping pills to the year-old in a rum-and-eggnog cocktail. After Tammy was unconscious, Homolka and Bernardo undressed her and Karla applied a Halothane-soaked cloth to her sister's nose and mouth.
Karla Homolka wanted to "give Tammy's virginity to Bernardo for Christmas" as, according to Homolka, Bernardo was disappointed by not having been Karla's first sex partner. With Tammy's parents sleeping upstairs, the pair filmed themselves as they raped her in the basement. Tammy began to vomit. The pair tried to revive her, then called , but not before they hid evidence, dressed Tammy, and moved her into her basement bedroom.
A few hours later Tammy Homolka was pronounced dead at St. Catharines General Hospital without having regained consciousness. Despite the pair's behavior — vacuuming and washing laundry in the middle of the night, and despite the presence of a chemical burn on Tammy's face, Niagara Regional Coroner and the Homolka family accepted the pair's version of events.
The official cause of Tammy Homolka's death was accidental — choking on her vomit after consumption of alcohol. The pair subsequently filmed themselves with Karla wearing Tammy's clothing and pretending to be her. They also moved out of the Homolka house to a rented Port Dalhousie bungalow, to let her parents cope with their grief.
Early in the morning on June 15, , Bernardo took a detour through Burlington, halfway between Toronto and St. Catharines, to steal licence plates where he found Leslie Mahaffy. The year-old had missed her curfew after attending a funeral, was locked out of her house and had been unable to find anyone with whom she could stay overnight. Bernardo approached her and told her he was looking to break into a neighbor's house.
Unfazed, she asked if he had any cigarettes. As Bernardo led her to his car he blindfolded her, forced her into the vehicle and drove her to Port Dalhousie, where he informed Homolka that they had a playmate. Bernardo and Homolka subsequently videotaped themselves torturing and sexually abusing Mahaffy, all while listening to Bob Marley and David Bowie. At one point, Bernardo said "You're doing a good job, Leslie, a damned good job.
Right now, you're scoring perfect. Mahaffy cried out in pain and begged Bernardo to stop. In the Crown description of the scene, he was sodomizing her while her hands were bound with twine.
Later Mahaffy told Bernardo that her blindfold seemed to be slipping, an ominous development as it signaled the possibility that she might be able to identify both her tormentors if permitted to live. The following day, Bernardo claimed, Homolka fed her a lethal dose of Halcion. Homolka claimed that, instead, Bernardo strangled her. The pair put her body into their basement. After the Homolkas and their remaining daughter, Lori, had left, Bernardo and Homolka decided the best way to dispose of the evidence would be to dismember Leslie Mahaffy and encase each piece in cement.
Bernardo bought a dozen bags of cement at a hardware store the following day. He kept the receipts which would prove damning at his trial. Bernardo used his grandfather's circular saw to cut the body.
Bernardo and Homolka then made numerous trips to dump the cement blocks in Lake Gibson, 18 kilometres south of Port Dalhousie. At least one of the blocks weighed pounds and proved beyond the pair's patience or abilities to sink. It rested near the shore, where a father and son on a fishing expedition discovered it on June 29, Leslie Mahaffy's orthodontic appliance proved definitive in identifying her.
On the afternoon of April 16, , Bernardo and Homolka were driving through St. Catharines to look for potential victims. It was after school hours on the day before Good Friday. Students were still going home but by and large the streets were empty. As they passed Holy Cross Secondary School, a main Catholic high school in the city's north end, they spotted Kristen French, a year-old student, walking briskly to her nearby home.
The couple pulled into the parking lot of nearby Grace Lutheran Church and Homolka got out of the car, map in hand, pretending to need assistance. As French looked at the map, Bernardo attacked from behind, brandishing a knife and forcing her into the front seat of their car. From her back seat, Homolka controlled the girl by pulling down her hair. French took the same route home every day, taking about 15 minutes to get home in order to attend to her dog's needs.
Soon after she should have arrived, her parents became convinced that she had met with foul play and notified police. Within 24 hours, Niagara Regional Police "NRP" had assembled a team and searched the area along her route and found several witnesses who had seen the abduction from different aspects, thus giving police a fairly clear picture. In addition, one of Kristen's shoes, recovered from the parking lot, underscored the seriousness of the abduction. Over the three days of Easter weekend, Bernardo and Homolka videotaped themselves as they tortured, raped and sodomized Kristen French, forcing her to drink large amounts of alcohol and to behave submissively to Bernardo.
At Bernardo's trial, Crown prosecutor Ray Houlahan said that Bernardo always intended to kill her because she was never blindfolded and was capable of identifying her captors. While Bernardo was out buying pizza on April 18 he was spotted by Kerry Patrich see below , whom he had stalked the previous month. Her report to NRP was mishandled by police, as noted by Judge Archie Campbell in his inquiry into the police investigation of Bernardo's crimes, thus negating any chance of Kristen French's being discovered at the Bernardo house.
The following day, the couple murdered French before going to the Homolkas' for Easter dinner. Homolka testified at her trial that Bernardo had strangled French for exactly seven minutes while she watched. Bernardo said Homolka beat her with a rubber mallet because she had tried to escape and that French ended up being strangled on a noose tied around her neck secured to a hope chest.
Immediately thereafter, Homolka went to fix her hair. French's nude body was found in a ditch on April 30, in Burlington, approximately 45 minutes from St. Malcolm Sinclair. Robert Taylor. Ville Virtanen. Thomas Brooks. Dan Cade. Ron Morehouse. Daniel Benson. He is now 57 years old. Paul sun sign is Virgo and his birth flower is Gladiolus. Before he was famous, He grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and attended the University of Toronto-Scarborough, where he began acting in a cruel and sadistic manner to several girlfriends.
His relationship status is married.
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