The Couple in the Wedding Photo: Paul Bernardo and the Niagara Murders
A smiling wedding portrait. A Scarborough street at night. Two schoolgirls who never made it home.
For years Canada hunted a rapist in Toronto’s east end while Paul Bernardo lived in plain sight. Then Leslie Mahaffy, fourteen, and Kristen French, fifteen, were taken from the Niagara region. Behind Bernardo and Karla Homolka’s marriage was a house in St. Catharines, videotapes the public would never be shown, and a plea deal the country still calls a deal with the devil. Homolka served twelve years. Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder, declared a dangerous offender, and remains in…
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