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Chargement... Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka (original 1995; édition 1996)par Nick Pron (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka par Nick Pron (1995)
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WARNING: This book contains graphic descriptions of violence. Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo might look like the ideal couple, but they were a nation's most despicable killers. Karla began their depraved sex and murder spree by stealing drugs to knock out her little sister. While Paul raped and sodomized the unconscious girl, Karla dutifully caught it all on videotape. Unbelievably, the worst was yet to come. In a brazen daylight kidnapping, Karla lured schoolgirl Kristen French to their car and helped Paul force the struggling, screaming teenager inside. Then, just as she had with fourteen-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, Karla videotaped Paul's repeated beatings and rape of his sex slave, violated the terrified girl herself, then simply watched as Paul choked the life out of his victim. The entire nation was horrified by these crimes in what became the costliest and, by far, most controversial manhunt and most sensational trial in Canada's history. Now the full shocking story--considered too grisly for newspaper and television coverage at the time--can finally be told. . . . Includes eight pages of photos Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Written by a newspaper reporter about the Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka case, this book allegedly contains inaccuracies, additionally, complaints were received by the St. Catharines library board from the mother of a victim that led to the book being removed from all public library branches in the city. As recently as 1999 this book was still unavailable to public library patrons in St. Catherines.
Legally, I get it. American law is not the same as Canada. Unfortunately for Canadians that live on the border, this was a lost cause by the 1990s. Everything contained in this book was fair game for the American press.
Emotionally, I understand why this was removed from the shelves. It's reasonable that the victim's parents didn't want their children's suffering out for all the world to read about.
I read the beginning of the criminal passages to get the general idea, but when it came to the extended, explicit descriptions, I skimmed. It's extreme horror. Their crimes were pornographic, horrific, and cruel. Bernardo's crimes were depraved and vicious enough to be described as unspeakable.
The purpose of Lethal Marriage was to make the public aware of how depraved Paul Bernardo is, and what souless creature Karla Holmolka became during the few short years of their marriage. Pron was aware of the videotapes made by the couple and wrote the book knowing that the evidence would be destroyed. (He was right. The tapes were destroyed.) To keep Holmoka and Bernardo in prison, the evidence needed to be protected.
Bernardo can now apply for parole, but has been turned down. Holmolka is already out of prison and living a normal life. She's unlikely to re-offend.
I have mixed feelings about this book. I think that evidence of the crimes must be preserved until Bernardo and Holmolka are dead. The author did a faithful job of recreating the events from Bernardo's and Holmolka's childhoods to their crime spree. The honest litany of the crimes were laid out plainly, although, until the end, it was fairly clear he thought that Holmolka was a victim of Bernardo. The last chapters clear that up.
Tough book. ( )