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Dear Karla:
It’s been a while. You’re back in the news this week in a fairly big way.
What a drag. You’ve been discovered living in sleepy Chateauguay, Quebec with your three kids and hubby.
Bet you didn’t know both Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy would be celebrating their 40th birthdays this year. Wild, eh? Surrounded by adoring husbands, friends and family they’d hopefully be raising a glass to their sweet lives.
BTW: Your little sister Tammy would have turned 40 in 2015.
This trio of girls — forever teenagers — were robbed of graduations, proms, motherhood, weddings, travel, education and fulfilling careers. And we are the lesser for it.
Instead, nothing. The abyss.
And you? You Karla, got away with it.
Neighbours claim you are “nice”.
Mind, you did seem pretty pissed when reporters started pounding at your door and snapping photos of your cookie-cutter suburban home. So pissed, in fact, you called the cops.
And your hubby? He was indignant. Defiant even.
Hell no, we won’t go.
But here’s the thing: you’ve got kids now and as you might know, kids can be cruel and it’s kind of tough to run from your past.
Why didn’t you just stay in the sunny Caribbean?
The weather’s better and you wouldn’t have the media camped out in your front yard.
Yet, you came back. You always come back.
And you’ve always played your cards like a Vegas veteran.
The average Canadian had you pegged as a monster from day one. Not so the crown prosecutors, Corrections Canada, social workers and your own damn family.
And as for you, the mantra’s always been self-servingly the same: it was Paul, it was Paul.
A criminal psychologist pal of mine once pointed out a very salient fact: Paul Bernardo didn’t kill until he met you.
Even while you were out on bail you were going to Brampton bars and picking up men for sex. The horrors you took part in didn’t seem to cramp your style.
Then there was the soft time you did during your 12-year jolt in jail. In the joint, you preyed on weaker women than you for favours and sex.
But that time wasn’t all fun and sexual games.
You earned a degree and learned to speak French.
Bravo.
The problem for most of us following the “Deal with the Devil” plea bargain that let the Crown throw away the keys for Bernado is that we felt you deserved the same fate.
And now you’re back.
At the end of Paul Bernardo’s trial, Kirk Makin from The Globe and Mail wrote that perhaps your real punishment would be when you walked out of prison.
Makin seemed to believe you would be hounded by the media and your fellow lunatics until the day you were toe-tagged in the morgue. It appears he was right.
I’m certain at this moment you’re distressed at how this attention is affecting your family, and it’s a shame your children have to bear it.
But when you put your blonde tresses on the pillow tonight, give a thought to three other children – Tammy, Kristen and Leslie.
Tough to feel sorry for you.
Sincerely,
Crime Hunter
https://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/23/an-open-letter-to-karla-homolka
It’s been a while. You’re back in the news this week in a fairly big way.
What a drag. You’ve been discovered living in sleepy Chateauguay, Quebec with your three kids and hubby.
Bet you didn’t know both Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy would be celebrating their 40th birthdays this year. Wild, eh? Surrounded by adoring husbands, friends and family they’d hopefully be raising a glass to their sweet lives.
BTW: Your little sister Tammy would have turned 40 in 2015.
This trio of girls — forever teenagers — were robbed of graduations, proms, motherhood, weddings, travel, education and fulfilling careers. And we are the lesser for it.
Instead, nothing. The abyss.
And you? You Karla, got away with it.
Neighbours claim you are “nice”.
Mind, you did seem pretty pissed when reporters started pounding at your door and snapping photos of your cookie-cutter suburban home. So pissed, in fact, you called the cops.
And your hubby? He was indignant. Defiant even.
Hell no, we won’t go.
But here’s the thing: you’ve got kids now and as you might know, kids can be cruel and it’s kind of tough to run from your past.
Why didn’t you just stay in the sunny Caribbean?
The weather’s better and you wouldn’t have the media camped out in your front yard.
Yet, you came back. You always come back.
And you’ve always played your cards like a Vegas veteran.
The average Canadian had you pegged as a monster from day one. Not so the crown prosecutors, Corrections Canada, social workers and your own damn family.
And as for you, the mantra’s always been self-servingly the same: it was Paul, it was Paul.
A criminal psychologist pal of mine once pointed out a very salient fact: Paul Bernardo didn’t kill until he met you.
Even while you were out on bail you were going to Brampton bars and picking up men for sex. The horrors you took part in didn’t seem to cramp your style.
Then there was the soft time you did during your 12-year jolt in jail. In the joint, you preyed on weaker women than you for favours and sex.
But that time wasn’t all fun and sexual games.
You earned a degree and learned to speak French.
Bravo.
The problem for most of us following the “Deal with the Devil” plea bargain that let the Crown throw away the keys for Bernado is that we felt you deserved the same fate.
And now you’re back.
At the end of Paul Bernardo’s trial, Kirk Makin from The Globe and Mail wrote that perhaps your real punishment would be when you walked out of prison.
Makin seemed to believe you would be hounded by the media and your fellow lunatics until the day you were toe-tagged in the morgue. It appears he was right.
I’m certain at this moment you’re distressed at how this attention is affecting your family, and it’s a shame your children have to bear it.
But when you put your blonde tresses on the pillow tonight, give a thought to three other children – Tammy, Kristen and Leslie.
Tough to feel sorry for you.
Sincerely,
Crime Hunter
https://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/23/an-open-letter-to-karla-homolka
