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♪♪

McCrary: He was physically very
punishing with the victims.

Beating them, abusing them,
and eventually murdering them.

Manipulative, controlling,
domineering, and astute enough

to get away with this for
a long enough period of time.

He is our worst nightmare.

♪♪

Welcome to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

From May 1987 to April 1992,
there were a series of

rapes, abductions, and murders
of young women

just north of
U.S.-Canadian border.

Authorities from
several cities in Ontario

and FBI profilers
from the United States

joined forces to try and capture

those responsible
for the vicious attacks.

Who was behind these
horrific crimes?

No one could have imagined how
disturbing the answer would be.

Here's Part One of
"The Ken & Barbie Killers."

♪♪

Rosen:
The city of Toronto sits on
the north shore of Lake Ontario,

and Scarborough is on
the eastern edge of the city.

It's not an unsafe place,
and that's what made the fact

that you had a serial rapist
running around

the eastern end of the city
so concerning.

♪♪

The Scarborough attacks
permeated the media.

Everyone heard about it.
Everyone knew.

Reporter:
Police have been tracking the
movement of this serial rapist.

The man has targeted young women
walking alone at night

at various locations
throughout Scarborough.

Pron: Women were walking home,
getting off a bus late at night,

and then they were
getting attacked,

all in that one area
of the city,

and that part of the city
became,

like, a forbidden zone
to travel at night.

Garofalo: Nobody could
understand, how is this person

doing this
time and time again?

Pron: He attacked all
his victims from behind

and none of them really got
a good look at his face at all.

They just knew generally
that he was mid-20s,

sort of blonde hair, white male,

and he was just
getting away with it.

Our fear was,
if he wasn't stopped soon,

that this is gonna
escalate to murder.

♪♪

Kenzora:
It was the Thursday before
the Easter long weekend.

15-year-old Kristen French
was walking home from school.

Hemsworth: And she didn't live
more than a few blocks

away from her school.

Pron:
And she passed by a church.

There's a parking lot in front,

and there was
a car parked there,

and there was this woman.

She had a big road map
on the hood,

and she was all fluttered

and she was trying
to find this street

and she couldn't find it,
and she saw Kristen walking by.

She asked her for help.

Rosen: And says, "We're lost.
Can you show us where to go?"

Pron: Kristen French,
being just a decent gal,

came over to help this woman.

♪♪

While she was helping her
find this street,

a man dragged her into the car.

Pushed her into the
back seat, and away they go.

Kenzora: Kristen would normally
come home right after school

and let the dog out.

Garofalo: She was the kind of
person that if she said

she was going to be home
at a certain hour,

she was going to be home
at that hour,

and if she wasn't,
she would call

and let you know why
she wasn't going to be home.

Kenzora: The mom had called home
from work to talk to her.

[Phone ringing]
She wasn't home.

So, the day that she disappeared
struck them

as unusual right away.

Garofalo:
And they were very worried
and they were calling around.

They thought maybe she had
gone to someone's home,

but they knew
in their heart of hearts,

this was not
their daughter's routine.

Just based on
the nature of Kristen French

and her dependability,
her disappearance

was immediately
reported to police.

Reporter: This is 15-year-old
Kristen Dawn French.

She's 5'5", weighs 110 pounds,
with brown hair and brown eyes.

She was last seen
wearing her school uniform

of a green plaid skirt
with a green v-neck sweater.

She was also wearing
a black leather jacket.

Kenzora: Kristen grew up in
St. Catharines,

and she, by all accounts,

was a very popular,
straight A student.

Garofalo: The first place
I went to was St. Catharines,

where I interviewed
the French family

for the syndicated show
"A Current Affair."

And it was gut-wrenching.

The life had been drained
from them.

It's such a hopeless feeling,
sitting at home,

knowing that
the possibility

that your daughter is going
through something just horrific,

and you can't do
a thing to stop it.

Garofalo: Kristen was ...
they called her Kristie,

and she was
the perfect daughter.

She was punctual and dependable,
reliable, responsible.

She was a figure skater.

She rowed for her high school.

Kenzora:
She was from a big family.

It was the second marriage
for her parents,

so she had older
brothers and sisters,

but they were all very close,

and I believe she'd had
her first boyfriend,

and she was excited because
I believe one of her siblings

was getting married soon.

Garofalo:
The Frenches' home was full
of photographs on the mantles

and on the shelves
of Kristen French.

Beautiful girl. Tall, dark hair.

You know, seemingly having life
in front of her,

which made those photographs
more poignant

and even sadder than, you know,
you could ever imagine.

Doug French: If anybody's seen
my daughter, Kristen French,

I'd like to phone the Niagara
police as quickly as possible.

The abduction of Kristen French
was a major case in Canada.

This is broad daylight.
She's walking home from school.

It's in the afternoon
in a populated area.

We had eyewitnesses.

Kenzora: A witness came forward
to say she had been driving

by the church parking lot,
looked over her shoulder,

and saw what she thought
were kids fooling around,

and they were kind of
pushing back and forth,

and someone got pushed
into the car,

but she thought about it
for a second, like,

"Oh, that's odd."

Then she said, "Oh, it's
probably just teenagers

goofing around,"
and she kept going.

And it's just so tragic
that no one knew

what was really happening.

Kenzora:
So as soon as she had heard
that Kristen was missing,

the woman who had seen
the incident

at the car called police.

Shlosberg: When police were
searching for clues

regarding the disappearance
of Kristen French,

they found a very crucial
piece of evidence.

They found her shoe in
the parking lot of the church.

McCrary:
A sign of the struggle there

when they forced her
into the car.

It was identified
for sure as her,

and there's no question
as to who the victim was.

Reporter:
Her shoe was found, suggesting
she struggled with her abductor

before being pulled into a car.

I know it's cliche, but it was
a parent's worst nightmare.

We just want her back.

♪♪

Reporter:
15-year-old Kristen French
was apparently abducted

in broad daylight from a church
parking lot on Thursday,

less than a kilometer from home.

McCrary: Kristen French had been
abducted in St. Catharines

while walking home from school.

She had been sort of lured
into a parking lot

of this Grace Lutheran church.

Stranger-based abduction
in broad daylight,

a very high-risk offense.

Reporter:
Police made the deduction
based on forensic evidence ...

a shoe and part of a makeup kit
that could have been lost

as Kristen
struggled with her abductor.

McCrary:
She was resisting, fighting,

shoving her into
the back of the car,

and the car took off
at a high rate of speed.

Reporter:
And based on what police call
a solid witness account,

they're also looking
for a car similar to this ...

a 1982 or newer Camaro
or Firebird,

off-white or cream in color.

Hemsworth: It seemed that
the best information

was that the person or people
who had taken Kristen French

were in a cream-colored
Camaro or similar car,

and there were billboards
even in our community.

There was a huge appeal.
"Have you seen this car?"

Malbon: They talked to a lot
of witnesses.

They thought it was
some kind of a Camaro,

and it turned out
it was not that car.

Hemsworth: And the police,
having so little to go on,

could only place their faith
in what witnesses had seen.

Kenzora:
When Kristen was kidnapped,
it was Easter weekend,

and almost right away,
there were massive searches

arranged for Kristen French
that started on the Friday

and lasted through
the entire weekend.

Reporter: As many as 2,000
people gathered to help search

the north end of St. Catharines

for clues to
Kristen's whereabouts.

I joined the search
for Kristen French.

I remember we did sort of
a systematic line search,

and we all walked sort of a line

and spread out to make sure
that we covered all the areas.

There was always
that glimmer of hope

that you would find something.

There was this tremendous
feeling in the community

of wishing to do
something helpful,

because it was so unlikely.

Kenzora: For someone to be
grabbed off the street

in the middle of the day,

a young person walking home from
school, it just doesn't happen.

It really doesn't happen,
especially in St. Catharines

at that time.

Garofalo:
St. Catharines is a quaint,

sleepy little town between
Toronto and Niagara Falls.

It's known for its wine country,

and it's just
a beautiful little town.

It's also the home
to this lovely couple,

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

♪♪

Look in the mirror.
Come here.

Come here.

Kenzora: Karla Homolka grew up
in St. Catharines

with her parents
and two sisters.

Garofalo: She had a sister,
Tammy and Lori.

Tammy was the youngest.

Kenzora: Karla loved animals,
worked at pet stores,

and then at a vet clinic.

Pron:
She wanted to be a veterinarian.

She had a love of animals.

One of her friends told me when
they went out camping one time,

there was a bug sort
of crawling in their tent,

and rather than stomping it
with a shoe,

she picked it up gently
and took it outside,

because she couldn't imagine

doing anything else
to this little bug.

McCrary: But she did have this
little bit of a wild streak.

She sort of craved less boredom,

a little more activity
in her life,

a little more excitement
in her life.

Kenzora: And you know,
she was pretty focused

on getting a boyfriend
and getting married,

and she had some
close girlfriends

who spent a lot of time,
you know,

dreaming about the day
they were gonna get married.

They had what they called
the Diamond Club,

which was talking about
the diamond rings

they hoped to get
for their engagement.

She had a path in life, and she
was gonna stick to that path.

Whatever she had to do,
she was gonna do.

Karla did have relationships
in high school,

but it wasn't really
until she met Paul Bernardo

that things really
changed for Karla.

Kenzora: Paul Bernardo
and Karla Homolka

met in a hotel lobby
in Scarborough.

I believe she was 17, he was 23,

and she was in Scarborough
for a pet food convention,

because she worked
at a pet store as a teenager,

and he and some friends
had shown up

at the lobby
of the hotel late at night

to hit the 24-hour restaurant,

and she came down
with one of her friends.

Rosen:
They were in their pajamas,

and they decide
they're gonna go down

to the Howard Johnson restaurant
for apple pie and coffee.

Pron: And in walks Bernardo
with a friend,

and the two of them
seem to just hit it off.

Rosen: And the next thing you
know is they've all adjourned

to the girls' room,

and from that point on, it was
pretty hot and heavy romance.

Pron: And as she said,
"He was the perfect man for me.

He was the man of my dreams.

This is the man
I want to marry."

Shlosberg: They seemed like
the ideal couple.

They got engaged
at Niagara Falls,

and I think she thought
she had her happy ever after.

Pron: And they started going out
to St. Catharines a lot

and spending more time
in St. Catharines,

and that was where
Kristen French was abducted.

Reporter: Kristen French's
parents remain in seclusion,

surrounded by family
and friends,

desperate for any news
of their daughter.

By Sunday, I believe it was,
Kristen's father went on TV

and made an appeal
for his daughter,

and it is so emotional.

Kristen, if you hear
or read this,

we want you to know
that we are thinking of you

and that everything
that can be done is being done.

They said to her, "Just know
that we will always be

looking for you,
no matter what happens."

As a mom, boy,
that really hits home.

Kenzora: And it was
absolutely heartbreaking,

but more so, knowing that
Kristen was alive

and she was watching it.

♪♪

♪♪

Reporter: It is a quiet,
peaceful city by the lake,

but look below the surface,
and there is a ripple of fear.

Hemsworth:
Kristen French was popular,
social, from a loving home,

and in broad daylight,
she was taken.

Reporter:
The 15-year-old honor student
disappeared last Thursday

on her way home from school.

Police believe she was abducted,

likely in the parking lot
of this nearby church.

There was this
collective realization

that something terrible
is in our midst.

Sacks: Violent crime had
been escalating

before Kristen French's
abduction,

really beginning in 1987
with the Scarborough rapes.

Scarborough was
basically a very safe area.

Well-kept single-family homes.

Just a lovely,
lovely neighborhood.

And all of a sudden, there was
terror, real terror going on,

because there's this rapist
on the loose,

and people lived in fear.

Reporter: From 1987 to 1990,

he struck fear into the hearts
of the women of Toronto.

He became known as
the Scarborough Rapist

because the attacks took place
in the Scarborough section

of East Toronto.

19 assaults in all.

I hate him.
He tore my whole life apart.

He's the lowest form of life
there is.

Malbon: He would grab women
as young as 14.

He'd grab them from behind,
and he did terrible things.

He'd put a knife
to their throat and said,

"If you look at me,
I'll slit your throat."

One of the victims,
he had made her beg for her life

and plead for her life.

Kenzora:
And the attacks, each one got
a little bit more violent,

you know,
as time progressed.

[Phone ringing]

Reporter:
Metropolitan Toronto police
are intensifying their hunt

for the man dubbed
the Scarborough Rapist.

Late Wednesday night,
the man attacked

what appears to have become
his sixth victim.

McCrary: The sixth victim,
he had beaten her

so profusely that he had
fractured her collarbone.

Pron:
It was just horrifying to hear.

Another woman,
he stomped on her ...

like, her forearm, and broke it,

and one of his other victims,
he wrote on the back

"Raped by S.R.,"
the Scarborough Rapist.

This clearly was escalating
and escalating rapidly.

Kenzora: Perhaps because he was
getting more confident

that he wasn't
going to get caught.

Pron:
The cops were really frustrated.

They put in long hours.

Long hours, and they just
couldn't catch him,

and they got the help
of the FBI,

trying to get
a profile of the rapist.

McCrary:
The profile could be helpful

in understanding
the motive of the crime,

and the offender
they were dealing with,

he had a need to punish

and humiliate
and degrade these victims.

So, there was clear anger
at women,

and a lot of time,
this is transferred aggression.

They're really angry at someone
else in their life,

but the victims are taking the
brunt of the anger and abuse.

We found that the offender
was degrading, humiliating,

and scripting the victims
to engage

in self-humiliating
verbal behavior,

calling themselves sluts
and bitches and so forth,

but also calling him
very complementary things.

He would say, "Tell me I'm good.
Tell me you love me.

Tell me I'm better
than your boyfriend."

He would rush them, slam them
down off the sidewalk,

into shrubbery, typically,
force them down,

and then immediately
begin to attack.

The amount of force
was excessive.

He used more than
was necessary to gain

or maintain control
over the victim.

This could easily
escalate up to homicide.

The last rape,
in fact, was so violent,

investigators believed
he would kill his next victim.

Officer:
We're doing the best we can.

Hopefully, hopefully,
somebody has an idea who he is.

McCrary: Serial rapists
typically start in an area

in which they're very
comfortable and familiar.

It's low risk for them.

They know all the alleyways
and the ins and the outs

and fences and how to get home.

And so we thought that he
really lived in Scarborough.

This was his hunting ground.

Another indication
that he lived in the area

was his demand
that they not look at him.

They might recognize him
around the neighborhood.

No one had really seen
the attacker's face,

so the police didn't really
have much to go on,

but then the attacker
made a mistake.

Pron: His first dozen victims,

he attacked them
all from behind.

And his 13th victim,
lady was walking down the street

and he was walking towards her.

Kenzora: He started
a conversation with her.

Pron:
He started walking with her,

and they got to a dark alley,
then he attacked her.

But she was able to see
his face.

And she was able to give police
a very detailed description.

Reporter:
Victims help police draw up a
composite picture of the rapist.

He was blonde and nice-looking,
they say.

Kenzora: These eyes frightened
her when she saw them.

♪♪

When they did get
a police sketch of this

"Scarborough Rapist,"

it was put on the front page
of the news.

Kenzora: And it was so well-done
that numerous people saw it

and called police and said,
"I know who that is.

That's Paul Bernardo."

Reporter: Several hundred
suspects were questioned,

including University of Toronto
graduate Paul Bernardo,

an aspiring accountant.

Paul Bernardo, at the time of
the Scarborough rapes,

was living at home with
his parents in Scarborough,

where he had grown up.

Pron: When he grew up,
he was a Boy Scout,

and he had blonde hair
and blue eyes,

and he was very friendly
and popular

and very sociable
and very outgoing,

and he delivered newspapers
when he was a little kid.

You know, all
the neighbors loved him.

He was a really
good-looking boy,

and from all accounts,
he was a great kid growing up.

He was smart
and he was polite, kind.

And he went to university,
where he studied accounting

and started to work
at a job at Price Waterhouse.

Seems like a guy
who's going places.

Hunter:
But Paul Bernardo looks like

the Scarborough Rapist
police sketch.

Pron: The police called him in
for an interview,

and he came in willingly.

He was very open.
He was very at ease.

He wasn't nervous.

He said, "Yeah, sure,
it looks like me, but, you know,

it's not me, but it sure
as heck looks like me."

Kenzora: They questioned
Paul Bernardo about the crimes,

and they asked if he would
volunteer a DNA sample,

and he agreed.

Back then, DNA was fairly new.

The lab that analyzed DNA
didn't have a lot of resources,

so they got that sample,
and unfortunately,

it was put on a shelf with
a whole bunch of other samples,

where it sat
for a number of years.

Pron: He just didn't seem like
the kind of suspect

that would do this.

Reporter:
Neighbors suggested he was
a dead ringer for the composite,

but after interviewing him,
police let him go.

No one was arrested.

And in the meantime,
Paul Bernardo moved to

St. Catharines to live with
Karla Homolka and her family.

♪♪

As soon as Paul Bernardo
moved to St. Catharines,

there were
no more rapes in Scarborough.

Unfortunately, there were
other attacks to come.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back to
"Very Scary People."

In April 1992,
police across Ontario

were searching for any clues
that could lead them

to finding 15-year-old
Kristen French,

who was abducted
in broad daylight

on her way home from school.

Family and friends
held candlelight vigils,

praying Kristen would
be found safe and sound.

But for almost two weeks,

there was no sign
of the missing teen.

Reporter:
The agony of the past few days

was clearly evident on the faces
of Kristen French's family.

They say they feel
Kristen is still alive.

McCready:
Kristen French went missing,

and it struck fear
in our hearts,

but there was always
that glimmer of hope,

there was always the possibility
that she will come home alive.

No one knew what happened.

We have to find her.

♪♪

Reporter: The body of the young
women was found in a ditch

in Burlington's north end.

The grim discovery
was made at 9:45 AM

by a man searching
for scrap metal.

Kristen's body was found
in a ditch in Burlington.

McCrary: Her body was recovered.

Her hair had been chopped off.

We get the M.E. report,
and we find

she'd definitely been
violently assaulted.

McCready: It was shocking,

the finality that you'd
never wanted to come true.

Reporter: Niagara regional
police went to the home

of Doug and Donna French
near St. Catharines

to notify them
about the young victim.

Donna: I was just so sure
that they'd find her.

I was just so sure,
and then when we found her,

I just kept thinking,
"Why did he have to kill her?"

McCready:
Everybody was just devastated.

Now, it's like, what can we do

to find the people
who did this to her?

They're still out there.
They can do it again.

And that was the fear.

Garofalo:
Police were searching for clues

for Kristen French's
abduction and murder.

It was reminiscent of
an unsolved case

that took place
nearby the year before,

the murder case
of Leslie Mahaffy.

Hunter:
It was a dark, scary time.

There is something wrong here.

Reporter: The nightmare for
the Mahaffy family began

June 14th, 1991,

when 14-year-old
Leslie disappeared.

No families should ever have
to go through

what we've gone through.

Kenzora:
Leslie Mahaffy was a 14-year-old
girl with lots of friends.

She was fun. She was cool.

She liked to hang out
with her friends.

Jen: I met Leslie when I was 14
through mutual friends.

She was dating somebody
that I knew.

She was very quiet.

That's the first thing
I noticed.

She was very quiet.

As time went on, that changed.

She had absolutely beautiful
golden hair,

and she was absolutely
gorgeous when she smiled.

Hemsworth: She had a very loving
mother and father,

a very loving brother,

and she lived in a nice
community in a nice city.

Like, Burlington was seen
as a very, very safe place.

♪♪

Kenzora: The night that Leslie
disappeared,

she had attended a memorial
for a young gentleman

who was killed
in a car accident.

There was a car crash involving
four teenagers on a road

that high school students
called Rollercoaster Road.

Sadly, all of them die.

Jen: And it was a very, very,
very tragic thing to go through,

especially considering
what was to come.

Reporter:
Hours before she vanished,

Leslie had gone
to a funeral home

to say goodbye to a friend

who had been killed in a car
crash with three other teens.

A bunch of kids from high school

had gone to the funeral home
that night,

and then Leslie went to
hang out with the friends

after they all left
the funeral home.

By around 11:00,
Leslie realized

that she should start
walking home,

because she had a curfew,

and she walked
with another friend,

and they stopped
along the way to talk

because he was gonna
be a pallbearer

at the funeral the next day,
and he was really nervous,

and by now, it was well
past Leslie's curfew,

and she realized
she better get home.

Hemsworth:
And so he walked her home,
and it was late at night.

She got home at 2:00
in the morning.

All the lights were off.

She tried all the doors.

Pron: Side door was locked.

And tried the front door.
It was locked as well.

Hemsworth: She was not
necessarily comfortable

waking her parents
at that hour.

She was concerned about curfew
and disturbing them.

Kenzora: And so, she came back
and said to the friend,

"Don't worry. I'll get in."

She said goodbye to the friend.

You know, "I'll see you tomorrow
at the funeral."

So, he left. He looked back.

The last time he saw her,

she was standing on the driveway
in front of her garage.

What we found out later
was that she left

and went to a phone booth

and called her friend to say,
"I'm locked out.

Can I come stay at your house?"

Friend said no,
so she walked back to her house.

And that was the last
anyone heard from her.

♪♪

I think the next morning,
when the friend called to see

where Leslie was

because they were gonna go
to the funeral together,

that people started to realize
that she didn't make it home.

Jen: That day, I was actually
at one of the funerals.

I remember my parents
coming to me

and telling me
that a girl was missing.

Once I found out who it was,
I couldn't believe it.

Leslie just disappeared.

Hemsworth: She was reported
missing by her parents,

and there was an investigation.

Jen: I think that's when
I started to think,

"Uh-oh. Something really bad
has happened to her."

♪♪

Reporter:
14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy
went missing on June 15th.

She'd been at a funeral home
to say goodbye to a friend.

Mahaffy disappeared
after heading home.

Leslie Mahaffy, she was
reported as a missing teen.

Some people just assumed
that she had run away.

Hemsworth:
And everyone hoped for the best,

and then everyone
discovered the worst.

♪♪

Kenzora:
A fisherman at Lake Gibson
discovered concrete blocks

in the lake
one Saturday morning,

and then each of the blocks
contained a body part,

and eventually, those body parts
were identified

as belonging to Leslie Mahaffy.

Reporter:
The dismembered remains
of 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy

were found in a nearby lake.

She had disappeared
two weeks before.

Malbon: When she was discovered,
it was the horror

that someone actually took
the time to dismember a body,

put it in concrete,
and dump it in a lake.

Jen: The fact that it can happen
to somebody that you know is ...

it's kind of numbing.

And I still was hoping
that maybe the police

had made a mistake,
but it was her.

No one deserves that.

♪♪

Kenzora: When Leslie Mahaffy's
body parts were being discovered

in Lake Gibson,

not far away, at
an elaborate fairytale wedding,

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
were getting married.

Priest: Dear friends, we have
come together

in the presence of God...

Malbon: There's all sorts
of videos of it.

They're looking happy.

Garofalo: They had their wedding
ceremony in Niagara-on-the-Lake,

which is just a spectacularly
beautiful place.

Kenzora: With a horse-drawn
carriage, speeches from Paul

that indicated he had found
the love of his life.

Pron: One of her friends said,
"You know,

you're luckiest
person in the world.

He's such a great find.
You're so lucky."

Sacks: This beautiful, lavish
wedding almost didn't happen

because of this tragedy
that the Homolka family

had suffered six months earlier.

Look at the camera.

Kenzora: Tammy was Karla's
happy, loving little sister.

They spend a lot of
holidays together

and just quality family time,
hanging out.

It was December 23rd,
the night before Christmas Eve.

Rosen: There is a family party
at the house.

Alcohol is served,
and Karla's younger sister

Tammy has a lot to drink.

Kenzora: There's video footage
of that night,

'cause Paul Bernardo
was videotaping everything.

And there's video footage
of him just saying,

"Hey, Tammy, how you feeling?"

And she's like,
"Oh, I'm seeing double."

So you can tell she really
is feeling pretty woozy.

And after the parents go to bed
and Lori, the other sister,

goes to her room
to call her boyfriend,

Paul, Karla, and Tammy
go to the basement.

To watch movies.

And while they're watching
movies, Tammy passes out.

Kenzora: She starts to throw up.

She begins choking on her vomit.
They called 911.

When the paramedics and
the police came to the house,

Paul Bernardo was hysterical.

He was apparently banging
his head against the wall and,

"Why, why,
why is this happening?"

And unfortunately, Tammy died
the next day in hospital.

Rosen:
The officers who attended didn't
see anything out of the ordinary

except a young teenager
who had had too much alcohol

and fallen asleep,

and it was treated
as an accident.

Pron: But what was suspicious
was she had,

like, burn marks all around
her mouth and all here,

and I know I'm talking
to one of the officers

who said that just bothered him.

Sacks: Yet after this tragedy,
Karla was very insistent,

and so the wedding,
they went ahead and they had it.

Kenzora: There was a lot of
tension in the Homolka house

after Tammy died, in particular
because Karla was carrying on

with wedding planning
as if nothing happened.

Pron:
Tammy had died and her parents
had to pay for the funeral,

and Bernardo wanted
a very elaborate wedding,

and Bernardo said,
"Well, take out another mortgage

on your house
to pay for our wedding,"

and that caused
a rift right there.

That's not the behavior
of a grieving family member.

Sacks: It would seem to occur
to most people

that maybe you don't
celebrate with a lavish wedding

when your younger sister
has just died.

But not to Karla.

Kenzora: She was selfish
and self-centered,

and it was about her,
and at a certain point,

I believe her parents
had said to her, like,

"Can we tone this down
a little bit?

The wedding is gonna
cost a fortune."

And Karla wrote to friends
and in her diary

that she couldn't believe
that her parents

were not willing to spend
all this money on the wedding.

You know, Tammy was dead.

It's not her fault,

and that they had to spend
all this money on the funeral,

and she was really,
really miffed about it,

so much so that her and Paul

actually moved out
before the wedding.

Shlosberg: And they moved into
a sweet, charming

pink home in Port Dalhousie.

Karla says, "I'm gonna
have this big wedding.

I'm gonna have it all."

And nothing was gonna
stand in her way.

[Bridal march playing]

♪♪

Shlosberg: These are two people
that really cared

about what other people
thought of them.

Hemsworth: They had a fancy
wedding and reception

in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

And this is the big wedding
that Karla has demanded.

And to them, that had the
kind of markings of success.

Pron: It seemed like they were
the perfect couple.

The Ken and Barbie,
you know, the dream marriage.

But in the wedding party,
one of the bridesmaids said,

"It felt like
I was going to a funeral."

Hemsworth: You can't see genuine
happiness in their faces.

Pron: Their friends
just assumed it was just,

you know, a little nerves
and all that on the wedding day.

They knew something was wrong,
but they just couldn't put

their finger on,
you know, what exactly it was.

Garofalo:
They are almost mannequin-like.

The smiles were fake,
because they knew this life

they were leading was a fraud.

♪♪

[Wedding march playing]

♪♪

Malbon:
On the day that Karla Homolka
and Paul Bernardo get married...

I, Paul, take thee,
Karla, to be my wife.

...on that very day,

they discover
Leslie Mahaffy's body.

Reporter:
14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy
went missing on June 15th.

Two weeks later, her
dismembered body parts

were found encased
in concrete in Lake Gibson.

Learning how to live
with the very complicated

and unresolved grief
when your child is murdered

is an unrelenting task.

We were already living
in a climate

of growing fear and concern.

Hunter: People were terrified.

It all began with
the Scarborough rapes.

Reporter: Since May the 4th,
1987, numerous sexual assaults

have been attributed to a man
dubbed the Scarborough Rapist.

Kenzora:
Leslie Mahaffy was killed,

and Kristen French was kidnapped
in broad daylight.

Donna:
She was a beautiful person.

She was kind, and she was
just very sensitive,

and I think, how could
anybody destroy that?

Someone awful is out there.

We have to find who did this,

or more young girls
are gonna die.

Everyone began to wonder
at that time

if there might be a connection.

What are the chances
that two girls go missing

in a certain timeframe?

It is a really
weird coincidence.

Kenzora: People were
starting to get worried

that there might be
something bigger at play here.

McCrary: They were bringing in
all the resources

available to them
to get an answer to this.

I think it's important that
everybody realize

that this danger is out there.

So, the question is, were these
cases related, yes or no?

There were similarities.

Both had been
physically assaulted.

Both had been asphyxiated.

Both had bruising to
their bodies

as though someone had been
kneeling on their back,

maybe using
a ligature strangulation

or strangling them from behind.

The other issue was geography.

Geography always plays a role
in these cases,

and we had sort
of two anchor points ...

Burlington and St. Catharines.

Hemsworth: Burlington and St.
Catharines are 45 minutes away.

Leslie, who had disappeared
in Burlington,

her remains were discovered
in St. Catharines.

Kristen, who had lived in
St. Catharines, Ontario,

her remains were discovered
in Burlington.

Actually, a few hundred yards

from the grave
of Leslie Mahaffy.

Which was a weird thing,

because you could almost see
Leslie's gravestone

from where
Kristen's body was found.

So it was clearly
some kind of message.

I think everyone knew
at that point

that there was
a serial killer on the loose.

Reporter: Police are not
discounting the possibility

a serial killer
may be at work in the area.

As the investigation continued,
I got a call from Vince Bevan,

who was in charge
of the investigation.

He had this unusual request
from a TV station

who wanted to know if they
could be helpful in some way.

Could they do a documentary?

So I said, "Let's use this
to our advantage.

We can communicate
with the offender."

Because we know in
any of these cases,

these high-profile cases,

these offenders
follow the media.

Gregg, if he is watching
this program tonight,

what do you think
he might be experiencing?

Don McLean, he asked me,

"Well, if the offender
is watching now,

what would you say?"

I said, "If he's listening,
I want to tell him

you're going to be apprehended."

It's just a question of when.

Kenzora: And he was watching.

Garofalo: He lived in a pretty,
little pink house

with his beautiful wife.

Who would have ever thought
that this man

with this beautiful, little pink
house could be such a monster?

Which is probably one of the
reasons why he got away with it.

He didn't believe
he would ever get caught.

That was the beginning of,
you know, his end.

♪♪

Paul Bernardo
is our worst nightmare.

Pron: He was able to hide
his true personality

beneath this glowing face

of a blonde-haired,
blue-eyed boy next door.

McCrary: Peeping, prowling,
looking in windows,

watching women undress.

Sacks: And as he gets away with
it and gets away with it,

it's not enough anymore.

McCrary:
This is just a stepping stone.

This is just the beginning.

Rosen: Paul is sick,
but he never killed anyone

until he met Karla.

McCrary: She was much more
heavily involved

that she had
portrayed early on.

Rosen: It's like a bullseye.

You start at the edges and you
move your way into the center.

We watched some of the videos.

Malbon: And I remember
letting out this loud gasp,

because it was
just so horrifying.

Bryant: Everyone knew, of
course, that you were listening

to the last minutes in the lives
of these young women.

Bernardo:
Are you in the Christmas cheer?
That's all I want to know.

She says here, "I'm giving her
as a gift to you."

Garofalo: Knowing that she was
gonna be killed,

she started to talk back to him,

fighting right
until the very end.

She begged Karla to let her go,
and Karla wouldn't do it.

Kenzora: It was horrible.

Like, it imprinted
on your brain forever.

Malbon: They looked like
the nice, young couple,

yet behind all of this facade
was such awful evil.

♪♪

After more than a year of
trying to solve the murders

of Kristen French
and Leslie Mahaffy,

police were finally closing in
on a suspect ...

a young, good-looking accountant
named Paul Bernardo.

But the saga was far from over.

When the public learned
the sordid details of the crimes

and who else was involved,

it sent shockwaves
throughout the country

and the world in Part 2 of
"The Ken & Barbie Killers."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Goodnight.