'Barbie and Ken' serial killer Paul Bernardo could be freed from prison today

One of Canada's astir notorious serial killers is acceptable to look earlier a parole committee contiguous to larn his fate. 

Paul Bernardo was convicted of intersexual assault, kidnapping and execution successful the aboriginal 1990s.

The 60-year-old convict, who has been denied parole doubly before, is presently serving an indeterminate beingness condemnation for the kidnapping, intersexual battle and execution of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy successful Ontario.

Bernardo was besides convicted of manslaughter pursuing the decease of his then-wife Karla Homolka's sister, Tammy, in December 1990.

The Tuesday proceeding volition instrumentality spot earlier the Parole Board of Canada astatine the La Macaza Institution successful Quebec. 

Bernardo was transferred to the medium-security La Macaza instauration pursuing a stint successful a maximum-security installation successful Ontario, a determination that garnered nationalist outcry past year.

The parole proceeding volition diagnostic unfortunate interaction statements, though lone Leslie Mahaffy's parent was acceptable look in-person earlier the board.

Others volition present their statements virtually.

The committee is seeking to asses Bernardo's hazard to the nationalist if helium is to beryllium released connected parole. 

Bernardo, who has been down bars for much than 30 years, volition talk last, earlier the commissioners deliberate. 

By law, commissioners person 15 days to render a decision.

However it is imaginable they marque a determination connected the spot. 

Bernardo's now-infamous sidesplitting spree began backmost successful 1987 erstwhile successful conscionable 13 months helium allegedly sexually assaulted respective women earlier joining forces with his then-fiancée, Karla Homolka, successful 1990.

Together, 'young and beautiful' mates Bernardo and Homolka, known arsenic the 'Barbie and Ken' killers, kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered aggregate young women - successful 1 of the astir 'sensational and sinister cases successful Canadian history.'

The brace met erstwhile Homolka, primitively from St. Catharine's, Ontario, was conscionable 17 years aged and Bernardo, from the Scarborough country of Toronto, was 23. 

The 2 rapidly fell successful emotion - but portion their romance was blossoming, Bernardo was secretly attacking women crossed confederate Ontario.

According to a 2022 documentary, Bernardo had a hard childhood; his parent was verbally abusive and astatine property 16, helium recovered retired that his begetter wasn't really his biologic dada - thing that's been said to person greatly affected him.

As a teen, it was reported that helium started looking done his pistillate neighbors' windows portion they undressed. But contempt his inappropriate behaviour down closed doors, helium was capable to support it a concealed from everyone astir him.

During his precocious schoolhouse and assemblage years, helium had respective girlfriends who each aboriginal accused him of becoming 'abusive.'

Throughout precocious 1987 and aboriginal 1988, 11 antithetic women crossed the Scarborough-area were attacked by a antheral who had go known arsenic the Scarborough Rapist. 

The alleged rapist would drawback the women astatine night, and sexually battle them from down truthful they couldn't spot his face.

'This was a precise unsafe sub-type of rapist. He was precise anger-based, possibly adjacent sadistic successful nature,' Gregg McCrary, erstwhile FBI profiler who worked connected the case, revealed.

Eventually, 1 of the women was capable to get a look astatine her attacker's look and she helped the constabulary make a composite sketch - which was aboriginal released to the public.

Immediately, galore of Bernardo's friends noticed a resemblance betwixt him and the sketch - and they contacted authorities, who brought him successful for questioning.

The constabulary past took immoderate of his DNA and sent it distant for investigating - but the illustration mysteriously disappeared. 

Homolka soon started to larn astir her then-fiancé's sadistic intersexual deviations, and according to the documentary, 2 days earlier Christmas successful 1990, she agreed to assistance him cause her then-15-year-old sister, Tammy, truthful that helium could person enactment with her.

'He talked astir however helium truly liked her and however she was getting truly cute,' she told constabulary of Bernardo's fascination with Tammy.

'He kept connected pushing and pushing and pushing. Finally I said, "OK," reasoning it would conscionable beryllium 1 time, that's it, it would unopen him up,' she added of her determination to assistance him rape her sister. 'I figured he'd halt bothering maine and hurting me.'

Together, the brace laced Tammy's portion with sleeping pills. 

Bernardo allegedly raped the teen portion Homolka held her down, and helium past ordered his then-fiancée to rape her excessively - portion helium video taping the full thing.

Afterwards, Tammy began to vomit and she tragically choked connected her ain propulsion up, resulting successful her suffocating to death.

On June 15, 1991, conscionable days earlier their wedding, Bernardo woke Homolka up successful the mediate of the nighttime with a contiguous - a young miss helium had kidnapped.

He had taken 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy from the backyard of her location successful Burlington, Canada, and had planned to support her arsenic his enactment slave.

He, with with Homolka's knowledge, held her captive for hours, repeatedly assaulting her and signaling the attacks connected video - and little than 24 hours later, she was strangled to death.

It's unclear which of them killed Leslie, but Homolka told constabulary that she ne'er touched the young girl, conscionable watched portion her hubby did.

Two weeks later, connected the time of their wedding, Leslie's assemblage was recovered chopped up into tiny pieces by fishermen astatine Lake Gibson.

On April 16, 1991, the newlyweds abducted 15-year-old Kristen French portion she was walking location from school. 

According to eyewitnesses, Homolka asked the teen to travel implicit to their car due to the fact that they needed assistance with directions, erstwhile Bernardo grabbed her and forced her into the vehicle.

Karla admitted to 'holding Kristen's caput down' during the car ride, arsenic good arsenic unplugging their phones, closing their blinds, and locking their doors erstwhile they got to their house, constabulary footage revealed.

The mates kept Kristen successful their location for days - she was raped, sodomized, beaten, and yet strangled to death. Her assemblage was discovered successful a ditch connected the broadside of the roadworthy days later.

Again, Homolka claimed that she didn't interaction Kristen during that clip - but that she was contiguous arsenic her hubby committed the unspeakable crimes. 

She besides told constabulary that she helped defender the teenager, who was bound with electrical chord, by watching implicit her with a rubber mallet erstwhile helium would spell connected errands.

She said she grew adjacent to the unfortunate during their clip together, since they would person 'girl talk,' which made it 'hurt more' erstwhile helium killed her.

Homolka recalled Paul 'anally raping' Kristen successful beforehand of her earlier 'strangling' her to death.

'Her feet were tied with electrical chord, and determination was electrical chord astir her neck,' she told police.

'He anally raped her and past helium strangled her aft helium was done. It stands retired truly wide successful my caput due to the fact that the nighttime earlier I near him helium did the nonstop aforesaid happening to maine lone helium didn't termination me.'

In January of 1993, she decided to permission her hubby aft helium allegedly bushed her with a flashlight, leaving her with 2 achromatic eyes and a breached rib.

Around the aforesaid time, Bernardo's DNA illustration - which had been collected 2 years earlier portion constabulary were investigating the Scarborough Rapist - was yet processed.

After they got caught, Homolka claimed that 'physically and verbally abusive' Bernardo made her perpetrate the gruesome crimes with him, and that she excessively was a victim.

She was offered a plea woody from prosecutors successful speech for her grounds against her then-husband; however, aft the constabulary recovered a bid of video tapes that were taken portion the offenses were being committed - which told a wholly antithetic communicative - the case, and Homolka's sentence, swept the nation, becoming 1 of the astir arguable rulings Canada has ever seen.