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Karla Homolka, one of Canada’s best known serial killers, has been released from prison after serving twelve years for participating in the rapes and murders of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy in the early 90s. Add to her two other convictions the roll she played in the raping, and murder of her own sister, Tammy, who was offered as a "virgin" Christmas present to her fiancé Paul Bernado. Poor Karla: no one understands this troubled young woman. Karla was raised in a nice middle-class family, had a wonderful childhood, with no abuse, nor anything adverse occurring during her...

Karla Homolka, or Karla Teale as she prefers, is a cold blooded killer, kidnapper and sexual torturer. She is undoubtedly a psychopath and/or a sociopath. If that isn’t enough, in committing her barbaric acts she didn’t distinguish between total strangers and her own younger sister. And let’s face it; even Jeffery Dahmer didn’t eat members of his family. None of this, however, means that Karla Homolka is stupid. It’s one thing to be manipulative; it’s quite another to manipulate the very people who are saying that she is manipulative. In her ability to get her own way, she hasn’t changed...

BTORONTO (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...

MONTREAL -- One of Canada's most notorious female criminals says she's going to live in Quebec now that she's been released from prison. Karla Homolka, 35, was secretly spirited from prison Monday after serving 12 years for the rapes, torture and murders of three teenage girls, including her younger sister. Homolka received the relatively light sentence in return for her testimony against her ex-husband Paul Bernardo. Homolka told the court and psychiatrists she was a battered wife who took part in the rapes and murders to protect herself and her family. Months after prosecutors made the deal, however, Bernardo's attorneys...

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - Rage, sorrow and grudging acceptance were expressed by residents in the lakeside hometown of Canada's most notorious female killer as Karla Homolka was freed from a Quebec prison Monday and slipped back into public life. In St. Catharines, Ont., where all of Homolka's shocking crimes were committed, a handful of people at a laundromat stood in stunned silence as a television reported news of her release. "Dear God, hell," Ann Pettay, 65, said as she folded blankets with her husband, Karl. "I think it's a disgrace. I think she should have never got out and...

TORONTO (CP) - In the end, nothing could have prepared them for word that their daughters' killer was free. Despite having known for 12 years that the day would come, despite every effort to steel themselves, the release of Karla Homolka still hit the parents of schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy like "a brick in the head," their lawyer said Monday. "When I communicated the news to them that Karla Homolka had been released, there was this dead silence and you could just feel the pain and the anguish and the heartbreak over the telephone," Tim Danson told The...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian sex killer was freed after 12 years behind bars on Monday for her involvement in the rape, torture and murder of two schoolgirls, in a case that horrified Canada in the 1990s. Karla Homolka, 35, was released from prison in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, near Montreal, the Correctional Service of Canada said in a release. Homolka and her then-husband, Paul Bernardo, kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured and killed two teenaged girls in the early 1990s in southern Ontario. Homolka, who videotaped the assaults, also drugged her 15-year-old sister so Bernardo could rape her in the basement of her...

MONTREAL (AP) -- The most reviled woman in Canada is set to walk out of prison Monday, facing death threats and rage from a public still bitter that she only served 12 years for the rapes and murders of teenage girls, including her younger sister. Karla Homolka is so frightened someone might harm her that her lawyers are demanding an unprecedented media blackout on her release and subsequent whereabouts, a move that will be challenged by media attorneys in a Montreal courtroom on Monday. Many in this French-speaking city believe Homolka has done her time and should be given her...

MONTREAL (CP) - Karla Homolka, who says she fears for her life once released from prison, will have to face the public and the media without any special protection, a judge ruled Wednesday. Media were given the go-ahead to report on Homolka's post-prison life after the judge dismissed a request by the convicted killer for a sweeping injunction that would have imposed severe limits on news outlets. Quebec Superior Court Justice Paul-Marcel Bellavance said preventing the media from doing such things as taking her picture or reporting on her home address would be a danger to freedom of the press....

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) -- The most reviled woman in Canada is set to walk out of prison Monday, facing death threats and rage from a public still bitter that she only served 12 years for the rapes and murders of teenage girls, including her younger sister. Karla Homolka is so frightened someone might harm her that her lawyers are demanding an unprecedented media blackout on her release and subsequent whereabouts, a move that will be challenged by media attorneys in a Montreal courtroom on Monday. Many in this French-speaking city believe Homolka has done her time and should be given...

Having won a trivial 12-year-sentence for participating in the sex-killings of two teens, Karla Homolka is obviously under the illusion that she deserves on-going special treatment. Fortunately, a Quebec judge set her straight last week, rejecting her request for a broad ban on media coverage of her post-prison life. It is disconcerting, but not altogether surprising, that Homolka tried to get the courts to shield her from the media glare. Although she is one of Canada's most notorious killers, she has always considered herself a victim. Her ill-fated attempt to encase herself in a media-free bubble is just another example...

TORONTO SUN May 30, 2005 Karla victim claims 'coverup' By BRODIE FENLON AND AL CAIRNS, Toronto Sun Jane Doe wants Karla Homolka charged for drugging, raping and almost killing her when she was only 15 years old. The diminutive woman, who is now 29, told The Toronto Sun in an exclusive interview that it is "impossible" Homolka "forgot" her chilling drug rape during three days of police interviews that followed Homolka's infamous May 1993 plea deal. "It's lies. It was a coverup," Doe alleged of Homolka's unexplained silence in her drug-laced rapes -- allegations that could call into question the...

CNEWS.canoe.ca May 11, 2005 Karla's DNA tied to politics By KATHLEEN HARRIS, OTTAWA BUREAU, SUN MEDIA Karla Homolka will be compelled to provide federal authorities with a DNA sample -- as long as the Liberal government doesn't fall before a new bill is passed into law. MPs from all political parties agreed yesterday to fast-track Bill C-13 so Homolka and other violent offenders don't slip out of prison without their DNA being put in the national database. Currently DNA collection -- even for the most serious crimes such as murder -- isn't mandatory. Steve Sullivan, of the Canadian Resource Centre...