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| Canada on edge as female sex killer to leave prison |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 06/27/2005 |
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She was a pretty, bright young woman who helped drug, rape, torture and kill schoolgirls and even presented her own teenage sister to her boyfriend as a gift. Karla Homolka, now 35, has fascinated and horrified Canadians since committing her crimes more than a decade ago. Canada's most notorious female convict, she is due to be released from prison within weeks, and the country's anxiety and anger is again on the rise. Homolka, who videotaped the murders with her psychopathic husband, will leave a prison in Joliette, Quebec, in early July after serving a 12-year sentence for manslaughter for her part in the deaths of three girls and rape of another. Homolka and her then-husband Paul Bernardo kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured and killed two teenage girls in the early 1990s in southern Ontario. She also drugged her 15-year-old sister so Bernardo could rape her in the basement of her family home after a Christmas dinner. The girl choked on her own vomit and died. Homolka agreed to the plea-bargain sentence for manslaughter in return for testifying against Bernardo. He is serving a life sentence for murder and will likely never be released. Public anger over her deal with prosecutors, which came amid allegations of police bungling and just before the now infamous videotapes of their crimes were recovered by police, means Homolka will know little peace when she gets out. There have been death threats and bets on how long she'll live. One now-defunct Web site invited visitors to predict when she would die, proclaiming that "when the game is over, we all win." The Ontario government is going to extraordinary lengths to keep track of her movements after she gets out of prison, and there is even a Hollywood movie, "Deadly," due to be released this year, despite the efforts of the victims' families to have it banned in Ontario. |
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