Infamous killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo has been denied parole and will stay behind bars after the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy pleaded with the parole board to keep him locked up. The two schoolgirls were tortured and murdered by Bernardo in the 1990s.
A parole hearing was held La Macaza Institution in Quebec, north of Montreal on Nov. 26.
Bernardo, now 60, was denied day parole, full parole and temporary absences from prison.
Bernardo was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping, torturing and murdering teenagers 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy between 1990 to 1992 near St. Catharines, Ont.
Bernardo, and his wife Karla Homolka, were known as the “Ken and Barbie Killers.”
Homolka has since been released from prison and lives in Quebec. She married the brother of her defence lawyer. She changed her name to Karla Leanne Teale and Leanne Bordelais. She only received 12 years in prison after a plea bargain that saw her testifying against Bernardo. The plea bargain was called a deal with the devil and outraged Canadians.
After the plea bargain, videotapes surfaced showing Homolka sexually assaulting four female victims, having sex with a female prostitute in Atlantic City and drugging an unconscious victim. In February 1994, Homolka divorced Bernardo.
The six videotapes depicting the torture and rape of Bernardo’s and Homolka’s victims were destroyed. The disposition of the tapes of Homolka watching and commenting on the tapes remains sealed.
