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McCrary:
They're two psychopaths...

very cold, manipulative,
and they feed off one another.

And then we have
this match made in hell.

And this deadly cyclone
takes off.

♪♪

Welcome to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

It was one of North America's
most haunting

and horrific crime sprees ...
a series of rapes, abductions,

and murders of young women

just north
of the U.S.-Canadian border.

After more than five years,

investigators finally identified
a prime suspect,

a handsome, educated accountant
named Paul Bernardo.

Police were convinced
they had the right man,

but did he act alone?

Here's part two
of "The Ken and Barbie Killers."

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Man: This is the story

of one of the most sensational
murder cases

in the history of Canada.

It started
with the Scarborough rapes.

Reporter: Since May 4, 1987,
numerous sexual assaults

have been attributed to a man
dubbed "The Scarborough Rapist."

Paul Hunter: His M.O.
was to go up behind his victims

and grab them from behind to
make sure they couldn't see him.

Pron: He had put a knife
to their throat and said,

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

Kenzora: And the attacks,

each one got
a little bit more violent

as time progressed.

McCrary: Our fear was
if he wasn't stopped soon

that this is gonna
escalate to murder.

Kenzora: 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: On his 13th victim, a lady
was walking down the street

and he was walking towards her.

She was able to see his face.

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

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.

He was living the perfect life
with Karla Homolka.

They were gorgeous,
this perfect couple.

Pron: The police called him in
for an interview,

and he came in willingly.

He was very at ease.
He wasn't nervous.

Kenzora: And they asked if he
would volunteer a DNA sample,

and he agreed.

And, unfortunately,
it was put on a shelf

with a whole bunch
of other samples,

where it sat
for a number of years.

Reporter: After interviewing
him, police let him go.

No one was arrested.

The rapes had stopped

when Bernardo had moved
from Scarborough.

Paul Bernardo moved
to St. Catharines

to live with
Karla Homolka and her family.

And then a body was found
in the St. Catharines area.

Leslie Mahaffy.

Kenzora: The night that Leslie
disappeared,

she had attended a memorial
for a young gentleman

who was killed
in a car accident.

Garofalo: She got home at 2:00
in the morning.

All the lights were off.

Kenzora: The door was locked.

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.

Kenzora: And that was the last
anyone heard from her.

Hemsworth: And everyone
had hoped for the best,

and then everyone
discovered the worst.

Reporter:
The dismembered remains

of 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy
were found in a nearby lake.

She had disappeared
two weeks before.

Hemsworth: Her body
had been dismembered,

encased in pieces of concrete.

And I still was hoping

that maybe the police
had made a mistake.

But it was her.

And then another young girl
goes missing.

Reporter: Ten months later,
another victim ...

15-year-old Kristen French.

She was kidnapped
in broad daylight.

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Pron: She passed by a church.

There was a parking lot
in front,

and there was a car parked
there, and there was this woman,

and she had a big road map
on the hood,

and she saw Kristen walking by.

She asked her for help.

While she was helping her,
a man dragged her into the car.

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

[Voice breaking] Kristen, we
want you to know

that we are thinking of you

and that everything that can
be done is being done.

Kenzora: Fourteen days later,

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

McCready: It was shocking.

Everybody was just devastated.

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

Reporter: Police are not
discounting the possibility

that the cases
may be connected.

McCrary:
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.

Paul Hunter:
We have to find who did this,

or more young girls
are gonna die.

This danger is out there.

♪♪

The Scarborough rapes
began in May of 1987,

but it would be six years
before the police

would get their first
big break in this case.

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

so samples sat
for a number of years.

Bryant: This is in the early
stages of DNA analysis,

and so the technical side
of that

was still very much
in a development stage.

Paul Hunter: When they finally
get around to testing,

they say,
"Hey, we got a match."

Kenzora: And it was matched
to Paul Bernardo.

Watch the car, please.

Reporter: Police have
28-year-old Paul Bernardo

in custody,

accused of being the notorious
Scarborough rapist.

They arrested him late yesterday
at this house in St. Catharines

that he rented with his wife.

Paul Hunter: I saw Paul Bernardo
for the first time

when he was being arraigned
in Scarborough

after he was arrested.

To see him finally, I thought,

"So, that's
the Scarborough rapist."

He didn't look like a monster.

He just looked like a guy,

and I think that's what
made it even scarier.

Sacks: We expect our monsters
to look like monsters,

and they don't always.

Van Allen: These types
of offenders are known to have

a dual existence.

They can appear to be
the pillar of a community,

but that's not who they are.

Sacks: Which is probably
one of the reasons

why he got away with it.

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Reporter: Paul Bernardo
is charged

with 43 sex-related offenses

in connection with
the Scarborough rapist case.

Reporter:
How's your family coping?

As well as can be expected.

Hemsworth: It seemed
like an unlikely perpetrator.

He appeared to be
an accomplished person.

He was married
to an attractive wife

and lived in a nice subdivision
in St. Catharines.

Reporter: Karla Homolka
was ravishingly blonde

and beautiful,

and her husband was
the clean-cut, handsome boy

with a glittering career
ahead of him.

Kenzora: Karla Homolka grew up
in St. Catharines

with her parents
and two sisters.

Shlosberg:
Karla was the oldest sister.

She had a younger sister, Lori,

and then she also had Tammy,
who was her baby sister.

Kenzora: Karla loved animals,
worked at pet stores,

and then at a vet clinic,
and, you know,

she was pretty focused
on getting a boyfriend

and getting married.

Shlosberg:
When Karla met Paul Bernardo,

she thought her fairy tale
was finally coming true.

Kenzora: They were all about
having, you know,

the latest fashions
and all the gadgets,

which is partly why
Paul Bernardo

never was without
a video camera in his hand,

because one of the cool things
to have in the late '80s,

early '90s was a video camera.

They were going out for fancy
dinners and drinking champagne,

and even their wedding
was a fairy-tale wedding

by all accounts.

I, Paul, take thee Karla...

This beautiful fairy-tale
wedding almost did not happen...

Look at the camera.

...because her sister Tammy

had passed away
just six months prior.

After this tragedy that
the Homolka family had suffered,

Karla was very insistent,

and Karla had
her perfect wedding day.

She really thought this was
the start of the life

she always wanted,
but it wasn't.

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After he was arrested
for the Scarborough rapes,

authorities go and talk
to Karla about her husband.

And they found out that he
and his wife are separated.

And she says, "He beat me up."

Pron: She told police
she was afraid

because he was incredibly
abusive towards her.

"He would punch me.
He would kick me.

He would slap me."

His abuse towards her
just escalated.

McCrary: We knew
from the Scarborough case,

if he had a relationship,
it could be violent.

If it lasted long enough,

then this anger
and the need to punish

and humiliate
would manifest itself.

Kenzora: Karla Homolka finally
left Paul Bernardo

after he beat her with a
heavy-duty security flashlight.

She went to the hospital,
emergency Ward,

and the doctor there said

it was the worst case
of wife abuse he'd ever seen.

Kenzora: She was starting to get
afraid that he might kill her.

For Karla, that was the straw
that broke the camel's back.

She left Paul after that.

And she went into
hiding essentially

at her aunt and uncle's place.

The police say,
"We now have to ask you

a few more intimate-type
questions, if you don't mind."

Police officers asking her about

did she know anything
about the Scarborough rapes?

Shlosberg: Karla said at the
wedding was the first time

that Paul informed Karla

that he was in fact
the Scarborough rapist.

And they say, "Does he like
to fantasize about schoolgirls

or young teenagers?"

McCrary: Was she at all familiar
with the parking lot

of the Grace Lutheran church?

Had she ever been there?

They weren't accusing her.

They were just asking her.

And she apparently
held it together

during that interview
with the cops,

but once they left ... she was
staying with her aunt and uncle,

and she sort of collapsed
into their arms and said,

"Ah, they know everything.
They know everything."

Karla knew she could
be implicated in what happened.

Sacks:
She knew he was going down,

and she didn't want
to go down with him.

Rosen:
She immediately lawyers up,

and she tells them
what's going on,

and she walks into
the crown attorney's office ...

now, we call our
prosecutors crown attorneys ...

and says, "What if I can solve
all these crimes for you?"

Karla finally decided to come
clean to save her own skin,

and that she would turn on
her husband and say he did it.

He killed those other two girls,

Leslie Mahaffy
and Kristen French.

He's not a rapist anymore.
He's a murderer.

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Reporter: 28-year-old
Paul Bernardo

is in protective custody

at the Metro East
detention center.

Brad Hunter: Paul Bernardo
is already known

as the Scarborough rapist,

and now he is busted being part
of these horrific rapes

and murders
of these young girls,

Leslie Mahaffy
and Kristen French.

Reporter: There's a lot police
aren't saying

about this investigation.

What breakthrough led
to the arrest?

Is Bernardo's wife
being questioned?

Rosen: Karla Homolka was
speaking with the police.

McCrary: When this thing
came crashing down, she rolled.

She turned on Paul.

Paul Bernardo has been charged
with two counts

of first-degree murder
of Leslie Mahaffy

and Kristen French.

McCrary: Paul Bernardo is
our worst nightmare.

He is manipulative,
controlling, domineering,

and astute enough
to get away with this

for a long-enough
period of time.

He was able to hide
his true personality

beneath this glowing face
of a blonde-haired,

blue-eyed boy next door,
but deep down inside,

what was growing was
an anger towards women.

Paul's family was
a little tumultuous.

Garofalo: He came from
a very troubled family.

His father was
a convicted molester.

Sacks:
And what Paul found out at 16

was that this father
that he thought was his father

wasn't actually
his father at all.

That he was actually
the product of an affair,

and that really made him snap.

McCrary:
He apparently went ballistic.

It made him very angry
at his mother.

You could certainly see
how that hatred

then would then be transferred
onto these other female victims.

And he, you know,
went down a very dark path.

Paul Hunter:
Bernardo was a voyeur.

He was caught outside women's
bedrooms in Scarborough,

looking in.

McCrary: Peeping, prowling,
looking in windows,

watching women undress.

Sacks: Voyeur is what we call
preparatory paraphilia.

It escalates the fantasies.

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

it's not enough anymore.

McCrary: Now, some sex offenders
plateau off there,

but for Bernardo,
this is just a stepping-stone.

This is just the beginning.

And his wife knew about it.

Reporter: To those who saw them,

Paul and Karla seemed a normal
and wholesome couple.

He had a great job
as an accountant.

She was working
in a veterinarian's office.

Sit.

Hemsworth: And together,
they made a beautiful couple

in the prime of life,
and all of this was a sham.

Paul Bernardo really wanted
to be seen as important,

as influential, that he was
materially successful...

...when, really, he had failed
as a businessperson.

Kenzora: Bernardo had
declared bankruptcy.

He left his job
at Price Waterhouse.

In the meantime, his job
was smuggling cigarettes

from across the border.

Kenzora:
They gave the appearance

that they were doing well,

but I think they were just
probably barely hanging on.

Garofalo:
He was a monstrous fraud,

but he tried to still live
the big life.

I believe that Karla Homolka
had a dangerous fantasy

based on a love, affection
relationship with Bernardo

that led her to try
and keep him happy.

Paul knew that Karla was
willing to do anything for him,

and so he could
still have both worlds.

He could have this façade
of stability,

and he could have
his violent secret life.

Bernardo:
You look great.

Hawaiian wife.
Ooh, yeah, Hawaiian wife.

Shlosberg: I don't know if she
kept it quiet

because she was fearful of him

or she was fearful
of losing him.

Reporter: Things finally started
unraveling

when Paul began beating Karla.

She couldn't take it.
She left him.

Karla is the only evidence

they have against Paul Bernardo
at this point.

She knew she was in trouble,

so she gets herself
a lawyer, George Walker,

and he says,
"Okay, we'll make a plea deal."

Reporter: Karla, sensing
her own legal jeopardy,

made a deal with police.

She'd testify
against her husband.

In return, she'd get 12 years
maximum in prison.

Once Homolka came forward,
things started lining up.

Rosen: She tells them
about the two young girls

who were being
sexually molested ...

Kristen and Leslie.

And she told them, "What's more,
we videotaped all of it."

Karla and Bernardo ...
they taped everything.

Homolka: Here is my husband.

You'd see them on vacation,
and they taped the sexual abuse

and assault
of these young women.

McCrary: One of the things
that our research has shown

is these sexually violent
offenders

memorialize their crimes.

So, we were able to get a search
warrant to look for those tapes.

Bevan: We have obtained
a search warrant.

We entered the premises
last evening and began our work.

Paul Hunter:
And they looked for 71 days

inside that pretty, little house
in St. Catharines.

They couldn't find it.

Reporter:
Police tore the house apart,

but they failed to find
any physical evidence

showing the slain teenagers
had ever been inside.

The absence of physical evidence
makes the videotapes

even more important
to the prosecution's case.

Pron: Bernardo kept tapes
of raping the two women,

and he hid the tapes
in the ceiling,

in the pot light
in the bathroom.

McCrary: They were missed
during the initial search.

Then one of Bernardo's
attorney's got the tapes.

Bernardo directed him,

gave him a handwritten note
where to find the tapes.

Reporter: The videotapes
were picked up

by Bernardo's defense lawyers,

right where Bernardo
told them they'd be,

hidden in the ceiling
of the upstairs bathroom.

Paul Hunter: All the evidence
was right there in the hands

of Paul Bernardo's lawyer,

and he did nothing with them
for 17 months,

during which time
Karla finishes off her deal.

Sacks: Had the videotapes
surfaced earlier,

the police would not have viewed
Karla

as the victim they saw her as.

She wasn't a bystander.

She was an active participant.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back
to "Very Scary People."

The police finally have
28-year-old Paul Bernardo

in custody,

charged with a series
of violent sexual assaults

and the abduction and murders
of Leslie Mahaffy

and Kristen French.

The key evidence
against Bernardo

was the testimony
of his then-wife, Karla Homolka,

but newly discovered videotapes

are about to turn
the case upside down.

Sacks: Karla's claim was always
that she was a victim of Paul's,

that she wasn't a participant
in these crimes

because she was willing.

She was forced to do it.

So, she arranged herself
a plea deal.

They needed her to testify,
and she struck a good deal ...

12 years.

Reporter: She pleaded guilty
to manslaughter for her part

in the killings of schoolgirls

Kristen French
and Leslie Mahaffy.

In exchange, she'd get
a 12-year sentence

and appear as key witness in
her ex-husband's murder trial.

Before the discovery of these
now-infamous videotapes,

she was all they had.

Bernardo's lawyer at the time
went and got the tapes.

Ken Murray didn't turn them
over to the prosecution.

For 17 months,
he hangs onto them.

Malbon: In the meantime,
Karla makes this deal,

the deal with the devil,
as it's known.

The law in Canada is that
if a lawyer

comes into possession
of evidence of the crime,

the lawyer is obliged to turn
it over to the authorities.

Paul Hunter: He ultimately
did hand them over.

The crown may have made
a deal with the devil.

I didn't think it would go
quite this far.

Rosen: I now have the videos.

We watch some of the videos.

I'm getting a sense of what this
is about,

and I get really upset.

When you saw the videotapes,

their tapes,
their homemade tapes,

you see how they were
both in this together.

She participates
in the sexual abuse

and assault
of these young women.

It was clear that Karla was
very much a willing participant.

Sacks: Had the videotapes
surfaced earlier,

she would not have gotten
the sweetheart deal.

Rosen: The agreement was that if
you don't tell the truth,

you don't tell us
everything you know,

then you'll be prosecuted for
what we find out independently,

and you may not
even have a deal.

So, she thinks about
what happened to her sister,

which everybody at that point
thinks is an accident,

and she decides,
"I better come clean."

Malbon: This is where
we find out about Tammy,

and I remember letting out
this loud gasp

because it was
just so horrifying.

McCrary: The one thing that she
forgot to mention

when she was talking
to the police,

raping and killing
her own sister.

The death of Tammy Homolka
had been considered accidental

at the time,
but they were responsible.

Shlosberg: Paul had an unhealthy
infatuation

with Karla's younger sister,
Tammy Homolka.

Tammy was a virgin, and that was
very appealing to Paul,

who often criticized Karla
for not being pure.

He is, according
to Karla Homolka,

harassing her to have sex
with her little sister.

He keeps pressuring her
and pressuring her,

and eventually she agrees.

Karla and Paul come up
with this plan

where they will drug her
and sexually assault her

while she's unconscious.

Malbon: Karla goes and she gets
drugs from where she works.

She drugs her own sister
and says,

"Here, I'm giving her
as a gift to you."

Reporter: Just hours
before this tape was recorded,

she says, Bernardo announced,
"This is the day."

Paul Hunter:
You look at this videotape,

the Christmas party
at the Homolka home,

where poor Tammy is getting
very quickly, seemingly drunk.

What nobody knew,
except for Paul and Karla,

was that she had been drugged,
and they're about to rape her.

Kenzora: After Tammy passes out,
they assault her,

and Karla has halothane,
which is a liquid anaesthetic.

And they put some
of the halothane on a cloth

and hold it either
right on her face

or very close to her face

to keep her unconscious
during the assault,

and the whole time,
it's being videotaped.

Tammy vomits.
She's a little girl.

And she chokes,
and she stops breathing.

McCrary:
It was not ruled a homicide.

It was ruled accidental death.

Kenzora:
But it wasn't until later

that Tammy's body was exhumed

and they discovered
that she had actually died

after being drugged.

Reporter:
When she was later exhumed,

Tammy's body was found
to be laced with sedatives.

Karla made the decision
to bring home drugs

for her own sister
so her boyfriend could rape her.

Karla made that decision
of her own free will.

At this point,
the plea was done,

and the crown could not
go back on that,

and I think that's what
horrified the public the most.

Karla couldn't be held
more culpable

than she already had been.

Karla Homolka wasn't charged
in the death of her sister,

nor will she be charged in any
other crime she's admitted to.

It's all part of a deal
she struck with the crown

in exchange for one thing ...

her testimony
against Paul Bernardo.

♪♪

♪♪

Reporter:
Paul Bernardo is on trial,

accused of raping and murdering
two Ontario schoolgirls.

His ex-wife, Karla Homolka,

was convicted of manslaughter
in the same deaths.

People were gripped
that summer by the horror

of what these two people
had done.

Reporter: They've been lined up
for 12 hours

outside this
Toronto courthouse.

Bryant: Because of the interest
in the trial,

tickets were being
handed out every morning

so that people could be
assured of gaining entry.

Kenzora: People would line up
often overnight

so that they could
get a spot inside.

Nikkel: A job came up
for standing in line

at the courthouse
for The Toronto Star

from 6:00 p.m.
until 10:00 a.m. the next day.

And for three months,
I was there.

It was quite the atmosphere.

There were some that wanted
to hang him.

Reinstate capital punishment.

There were some
that wanted to date him.

There were some there
just to learn

or observe what was going on.

I wanted to come down here

and basically stare
into the face of evil.

Pron:
People just wanted to know,

but then when they learned
the details,

they were horrified.

Reporter: The trial provided

some of the most dramatic
moments

in Canadian courtroom history,
but it was the heartbreaking

videos of the victim's ordeal
that set the case apart.

There had not been this kind
of videotape evidence

offered in a trial.

Justice Patrick LeSage
was required to make a decision

about how they would
be used in court.

He decided that videotapes that
directly involved the victims

would be shown
only to the jurors,

witnesses, lawyers,
and the accused himself.

The audio portion of those
videotapes

would be heard by all.

There is nothing pleasant,
there is nothing good in seeing,

let alone just listening,
to what was going on.

Malbon: We heard young girls
being raped,

hit, abused, tortured,
crying out for their parents,

and I remember reporters openly
weeping in the courtroom.

Paul Hunter: We watched
the jurors watching the tapes,

and you could see the blood
draining out of their faces.

Van Allen:
Paul Bernardo was asked

why on earth did he keep
the videotapes

that contained
such damning evidence

against he and Homolka?

And he answered, "Well, I felt
I had to keep those videos

because they contained
the last remembrance

of those girls' lives."

And that was a sickening answer.

[Crowd yelling]

Reporter: The key witness
against Bernardo

was his ex-wife, Karla Homolka.

Homolka testified she was
an abused, unwilling accomplice.

Karla Homolka, on the stand,
lasted for about 21 days.

Malbon: Karla is matter-of-fact,
stone-cold,

just telling
her version of events ...

these horrific, horrible acts.

Reporter: The nightmare
for the Mahaffy family

began June 14th, 1991,

when 14-year-old Leslie
disappeared.

According to Karla Homolka,
she was asleep

when Paul Bernardo
brought home Leslie Mahaffy.

She says Paul came up
to the bedroom, said,

"I kidnapped a girl.
Stay in bed."

She said, "Sure, okay."

Went back to sleep, which is
hard to imagine, but she did.

Karla says she finally
came downstairs.

She looked over
at the dining-room table,

and her expensive
champagne glasses

that they had received as a gift
were sitting on the table,

and they had never
used them before,

so she was really upset
that Paul was using them

with Leslie Mahaffy.

It's so bizarre that that's what
she was concerned about,

not the fact
that he had kidnapped

and was assaulting
a teenage girl.

Leslie ended up being in
the house for about 24 hours,

and after he had spent time
with Leslie on his own,

he had Karla come in, as well,
and either videotape

or take part
in the sexual assaults.

Reporter: Homolka testified
she was so afraid of Bernardo

that even as Leslie Mahaffy
screamed in agony and begged,

"Please, help me,"
Homolka continued to videotape

and did not intervene.

In the Kristen French case,
Paul was driving the vehicle,

and she was lured into the car
by Karla Homolka.

Reporter: Kristen French endured
three and a half days of horror

in the Bernardo home.

Kenzora: Kristen was held
for longer than Leslie,

and during that time,
such strange things happened,

from Bernardo having Kristen
and Karla dressing up

and pretending
they were friends,

putting perfume
and makeup on each other.

It was just so bizarre.

Pron: Karla was complicit
in helping Bernardo,

and she had opportunities to
leave and save Kristen's life.

Paul Hunter: When Kristen was
being held, at one point,

Bernardo goes out for,

I think, Swiss Chalet dinner,
chicken dinner.

Pron: And Kristen French
suggested he go to this place.

She knew it would take him
about a half an hour

to get there and back
with the food,

and in that half hour,
this woman begged for her life,

and Karla
could have saved her.

But Karla wouldn't do it.

And Kristen died,
just like Leslie.

Kenzora:
When Kristen was kidnapped,

it was Easter weekend,

and by the Sunday, they realized
no one had seen them

and that if they went to Karla's
parents for Easter dinner,

it would be
a really good alibi.

At one point,
Karla says to Bernardo,

"You have to do something."

There is no explanation
for any of it.

They are simply two dark,
sadistic, evil monsters.

The final testimony was a string
of cold confessions

from Bernardo himself,
who confessed to kidnapping,

raping, and torturing
Leslie Mahaffy

and Kristen French,
but he denied killing them.

Karla Homolka's story
was that Paul Bernardo

had strangled both girls
with an electrical cord,

but there was no evidence

showing Paul Bernardo
committing the murders.

They had everything else,

but they did not have
the murders on tape.

Bryant: The videos did not show
the actual killing.

So, the question was still
left open as to who did it.

Malbon: The defense tried to say
that Karla killed the girls,

that Karla was jealous,

and that's why
she killed these people.

Paul Hunter: John Rosen, he was
trying to convince the jurors,

"How do you know it wasn't her?"

Rosen: And you got to decide,
who do you believe?

And yes, Paul is sick,

but he never killed anyone
until he met Karla.

And that was all predicated
on his word against her word.

♪♪

♪♪

Reporter: The jury is still out
at the Paul Bernardo trial

in Toronto.

The jury was out overnight.

You wait and you wait
impatiently.

Kenzora:
At 9:00 the next morning,

they started
their deliberations again,

and before noon, they came back
with their verdict.

I thought he was guilty
as hell.

Reporter: It took less than
a minute for the jury

to read out its verdict ...

guilty on every count
against Paul Bernardo.

Kenzora: You knew he was going
to be found guilty,

but you just needed
to hear the words.

Reporter: Bernardo stood
emotionless in court

as the verdict was read.

Rosen: I was standing beside
Paul when the verdict is read,

and he leaned over to me
and he said, "Well, thank you."

He said, "At least I feel
I got a fair trial."

Well, it certainly
was disappointing

but not unexpected.

If you sat through the trial
and you watched the videos,

you'd know.

The tapes were just impossible
to get over,

even though they did not
show the homicides.

Just the participation
and the domination of these

two poor, innocent girls
was just horrendous.

Kenzora: It was an emotional
time for the families.

Doug French and Dan Mahaffy,
the fathers of the girls,

both spoke to the media.

Malbon: I remember holding
the microphone up,

and I asked about the verdict.

Did he feel that
he had gotten justice?

And he said, "No, I don't think
there will ever be closure."

[Voice breaking]
Mahaffy: Only the trial is over.

Leslie is still not
coming home.

[Voice breaking] Kristie, you
can't be hurt anymore.

We love you.

♪♪

[Camera shutters clicking]

And he cried, and we all cried.

But their daughters
were still not coming home.

Malbon: Paul Bernardo once said
he'd never get caught.

At 31 years old,
he now faces life in prison.

Bryant: He was sentenced to life
in prison

with no eligibility for parole
until 25 years had passed.

[Crowd yelling]

Ha ha ha!

He was additional sentenced
as a dangerous offender.

In our law, that means you can
be held in jail indefinitely.

He is simply too dangerous
to let out.

Paul Hunter: The
dangerous-offender hearing ...

this was the day
for the Scarborough

rape crimes to be addressed.

These people are finally
having their day.

Reporter: The victims
of the Scarborough rapist

filled two rows of seats
in the front of the court.

Some of the victims
hissed and heckled

when Bernardo stood
to address the court.

And when he's declared
a dangerous offender

and sent away for life, they
yelled at him, "You bastard."

♪♪

Kenzora: Paul Bernardo is kept
in this tiny 10-by-10 cell

by himself 23 1/2 hours a day,
thinking about what he did.

♪♪

Pron: Every two years,
Bernardo can apply for parole

and talk about how he's reformed
and changed,

and it's such bullshit.

Reporter:
Bernardo admitted the obvious.

"Looking back, I had a problem
with sexuality," he said.

"I think it's something
that down the road,

I'm going to be seeking
professional help for."

Pron: He can never change.

A monster like that
will always be a monster.

He destroyed a lot of lives.

And Karla, who assisted him,
she's out.

Bryant: Karla was given
a sentence of 12 years

for her involvement in
the killings of Leslie Mahaffy

and Kristen French

and for her involvement
in her sister's death.

Bernardo: Hi, Tam.
How you doing?

Bryant: I don't think she's ever
faced up fully

to what it is
that she actually did.

[Crowd yelling]

She served the full 12 years,
right to the last minute.

[Speaking French]

Kenzora: And she was released,

and she got married
to her lawyer's brother.

Malbon: Now she is a mother.

She has three children.

She has a life.

Paul Hunter: I think in
a perfect world, they deserved

and ought to be both in jail
for the rest of their lives.

♪♪

Reporter: The St. Catharines
home of Paul Bernardo

and Karla Homolka
was demolished.

Malbon: They dubbed it the house
of horrors,

and they decided
they would tear it down.

Paul Hunter:
They knocked down the house

as a way of kind
of closing the book.

They destroyed this place
where unspeakable crimes

happened for the fun
and pleasure

of Paul Bernardo
and Karla Homolka.

It's not the house that's evil.

It's the evil souls
that lived in that house.

♪♪

Paul Hunter: The families also
got permission

to have the evidence,

including the videotapes,
destroyed.

No one will see
those awful images again.

Bryant: It was an important part
to ensure

that the memory
of these young girls

were properly preserved,
protected.

Hemsworth: That's what these
families wanted.

If that brings even a scintilla
of relief to those families,

bring it on.

Even though the pain
won't go away...we're okay.

Paul Bernardo became eligible
for parole in 2018,

but the Mahaffy and French
families have vowed to fight

to keep him behind bars.

HLN reached out to Bernardo
for comment.

He declined to speak with us,

as did Karla Homolka,
who, despite public outcry,

remains free.

Debbie Mahaffy, Leslie's mother,

has become
a dedicated spokesperson

for victims' rights.

And the family of Kristen French

has created a child-advocacy
center in her name,

to provide a safe haven
for children.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.