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Colleen
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Big story in Ontario and all around Canada
« on: Jul 4^th, 2005, 10:54pm »

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Karla is now out of jail. Im sure that some of you have heard of this story of Paul and Karla, for killing two school girls and Karla's own sister. Terrible crimes in the 90's. On the news here, they said that her story is now been heard all over the world and is even on CNN. I cant belive that she is now out of jail.

MONTREAL -- A contrite Karla Homolka says she can't forgive herself for her past crimes and is pleading with the public to realize she is not a dangerous woman.
"I don't want to be hunted down," Homolka told RDI, Radio-Canada's all-news French station, after her release from prison on Monday.
"I don't want people to think I am dangerous and I'm going to do something to their children."
Homolka told RDI, Radio-Canada's all-news French-language station, after her release from prison today that she doesn't "want to be hunted down,"
She says she doesn't want people to think she's dangerous is going to do something to their children.
It's not clear where Homolka has gone.
Canada's most notorious female offender left a Montreal-area prison quietly today after serving a 12-year sentence for manslaughter.
She managed to get out without being seen by a slew of reporters, who had been waiting outside the facility for days.
Her release comes as her lawyers are in court seeking an injunction, which would prevent the media from reporting on her whereabouts.
Speaking in slightly accented French, Homolka said in the interview, to be broadcast later Monday, that "often I cry."
"I'm unable to forgive myself. I think of what I've done and then often I think I don't deserve to be happy because of this," said Homolka, 35, who appeared drawn and tired.
Homolka, the notorious ex-wife of convicted serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo, was whisked quietly away from the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines prison north of Montreal earlier Monday afternoon after serving her entire 12-year sentence for manslaughter in the sex slayings of two Ontario teenagers.
Officials at the station confirmed that the interview with Homolka took place at its Montreal studio just hours after she left federal custody. The complete interview was to air later Monday.
"She's gone," Correctional Service Canada spokeswoman Michele Pilon-Santilli said after Homolka was out of federal custody.
It's believed Homolka made her escape in one of two red minivans that made a choreographed departure from the facility shortly before officials confirmed she was gone. Corrections workers picketing in front of the jail waved their flags with gusto as one of the vans passed.
Pilon-Santilli refused to comment on whether Homolka, who served her entire 12-year manslaughter sentence for the killings of Ontario teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, was inside one of the red vans.
Her final destination remained a mystery Monday, although she is required to report to police telling them where she lives.
Tim Danson, the lawyer speaking for the French and Mahaffy families, said her release still hit them like "a brick in the head" even though they knew it was coming.
"They actually thought that they had made all the necessary emotional adjustments to be ready," said Danson.
"When I gave them the word, it impacted them like a brick in the head -- even for me who knows them so well -- it's awful."
In her hometown of St. Catharines, where all of Homolka's crimes were committed, a handful of people at a local laundromat stood in stunned silence as a television reported news of her release.
"Dear God, hell," was all Ann Pettay, 65, could say as she folded blankets with her husband.
Homolka, whose efforts to persuade a Quebec judge to order the media to keep their distance have so far been unsuccessful, fears for her life beyond prison walls, wary of angry Canadians who "wish to do the public a favour by killing me," she said in an affidavit.
After receiving death threats while at nearby Joliette Institution, Homolka, 35, was transferred and became the only female inmate at Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, which also houses her boyfriend Jean-Paul Gerbet, who was convicted of strangling his ex-girlfriend in 1998.
The Canadian public's palpable hatred for Homolka reached a boiling point in 1993, when she agreed to plead guilty to two counts of manslaughter and serve just 12 years in exchange for her testimony against Bernardo, who was ultimately convicted of two counts of first-degree murder.
The occasion passed without any comment from Bernardo, said his lawyer, Tony Bryant.
"He knew it was coming, I knew it was coming, and so did the world," Bryant said. "The fact that she served out every day of her sentence is remarkable and I'm not sure how to interpret it."
Bryant said he believes staying in prison until the bitter end was a "very deliberate move" on Homolka's part to avoid suggestions she had lenient treatment from correctional authorities and to avoid parole restrictions.

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Re: Big story in Ontario and all around Canada
« Reply #1 on: Jul 4^th, 2005, 11:00pm »

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I was just about to post the same thing. I was even reading parts of that same story from crimelibrary. I guess great minds think alike. Wink

Anyways, I have heard about this case previously and was following the story of her realease and all the appeals she was putting out. If I was her I would be scared about the death threats as well. What her and Paul Bernardo did was sick and it gives me the chills just thinking about it. I can't believe someone would do something like that.

What makes me sad though is thinking about Leslie Mahaffy. If you havent read, she was one of the victims that was raped, murdered, and then butchered and dumped in a lake. The sad part is that night she had been out past her curfew and her parents wouldn't let her back in, and when she called a friend she said she couldn't stay with her. She was walking around her house, when Paul Bernardo saw her and grabbed her and took her home with him. Her parents and her friend must have felt awful after they heard about what happened to her.

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« Reply #2 on: Jul 4^th, 2005, 11:46pm »

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Yes this is true Lucky, Leslie's parents locked her out to teach her a lesson. Her poor parents. I cant even try to think how they were then and now that Karla is now free. As for Kirsten French, If I remember correctly she was on her way home from school and Paul and Karla were in a church parking lot and asked her for directions, when she approched the car they got her in the car and that was the last time she was seen until her body was found.

This is truley one of the worst crimes in Canada, media called Karla's plea bargain "the deal with the devil"....

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« Reply #3 on: Jul 4^th, 2005, 11:48pm »

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For anyone who wants to read up about thses two sickos, you can google there names (the artiles that i found about there crimes are huge, too long), there is no shortage of articles on these two.

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« Reply #4 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 10:05am »

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I assume the ex husband got a life without parole?

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« Reply #5 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 10:15am »

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I am pretty sure he got life, with parole after 25 years, but no one thinks he will apply for parole, and even if he did, I doubt any judge in their right mind would grant it to him.

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« Reply #6 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 10:40am »

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on Jul 5^th, 2005, 10:05am, Angelofmercy wrote:

I assume the ex husband got a life without parole?

He will never get out of jail.

Paul actually recently asked for a press confrenece to speak out about Karla's release and has hinted to the fact that he has information about other crimes that she commitmened but his request was deined.

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« Reply #7 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 11:23am »

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She should cry over what she did, and I don't feel sorry for this woman.......she participated in monstrous acts against young women, including her own sister. She received death threats? My heart bleeds!

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« Reply #8 on: Jul 5^th, 2005, 11:45am »

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I know, she says "I think I don't deserve to be happy" HELLO!!! You don't!! why should you be happy? You ruined countless peoples lives by what you did. They shoulda locked you up and thrown away the key. Deserve to be happy. You lost that right when you slaughtered people

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TORONTO (CP) _ An "agitated'' Paul Bernardo continues to insist it was his intention to set Ontario schoolgirl Leslie Mahaffy free and that Karla Homolka hatched a murder plot on her own, CBC's The National reported Tuesday.
Bernardo spoke with Ontario Provincial Police on Friday before discussing his claim with his lawyer, Tony Bryant, that a panicked Homolka attempted to murder Mahaffy when the young girl's blindfold fell off, Bryant said in an interview with the CBC.
Bryant said his client wants people to know that it was his intention to set the rape victim free and that it was Homolka who panicked.
Bernardo, who insisted at his trial that Homolka choked Mahaffy and Kristen French to death, is barred from speaking publicly about the case.
Homolka was freed on Monday after serving a 12-year sentence for the Mahaffy and French killings. Bernardo is serving a life sentence.

``He wanted to get the message across that she actually tried to kill Leslie Mahaffy by means of an embolism, by injecting an air bubble into her bloodstream,'' Bryant said.
``Because she was afraid that because the blindfold had fallen off, that she (Mahaffy) would be able to recognize Paul (Bernardo) and presumably herself.''
The claim by Bernardo has not been proven in court.
Homolka agreed to the 12-year sentence for her role in the rape, torture and death of French and Mahaffy, as well as that of her own 15-year-old sister Tammy.
In exchange, she testified against ex-husband Bernardo, who was convicted in 1995 on two counts of first-degree murder and later declared a dangerous offender _ a designation that keeps him behind bars indefinitely.
Bryant said Bernardo couldn't keep his silence anymore, as Homolka garners international media attention _ granting a one-on-one interview to tell her side of the story to CBC's French-language network on her first day of her freedom _ and attempts to slip into a quiet life of freedom.
``He became agitated maybe as a result of seeing all the media attention over the last several months,'' Bryant told CBC.
Neither police nor the Ontario's Crown Attorney's office would comment, CBC reported.

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« Reply #10 on: Jul 9^th, 2005, 8:29pm »

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OMGSH Yes I heard about her being released..do you know where she's staying! It's horrible, just horrible what she did! I can't believe they are releasing her yuck! She should have been killed for killing others IMO

She says she doesn't want the people of Montreal to be scared of her! OMGSH is she psyco who wouldn't be! Angry

Wait why is it a big story in Ontario, Montreal is in Quebec.

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« Reply #11 on: Jul 11^th, 2005, 8:37am »

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What is this all about? Huh

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Kendra, all the crimes happened in St. Catharines, Ontario. That's why its a big story in Ontario. She just decided to move to Montreal after she was released from prison.

cHa_cHa_LoVeR, read the articles that I posted. It states what we are talking about. Karla was just relased from jail after only a 12 yr sentence in her part for some terrible crimes.

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