When was paul bernardo caught

A law passes through the Senate requiring violent criminals, including Karla Homolka, to give a DNA sample to a national databank. The bill, C, speeds through the minority government in part because of Homolka's impending release. Two officers with Niagara Regional Police meet with Homolka to discuss her plans after her release from prison. The details of that conversation are not released.

Michael Bryant says Homolka will not be charged with killing her sister when she is released from prison in July. Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant says all provinces should place restrictions on Karla Homolka's activities once she's released in July. Bryant says he will ask a Quebec court judge to impose conditions on Homolka under section of the Criminal Code, which allows for curfews and other restrictions.

Stephen Williams, author of two books on Bernardo and Homolka, pleads guilty to breaking a publication ban by posting the names of the couple's sexual assault victims on his website. He receives a three-year suspended sentence and is ordered to do 70 hours of community service. The National Parole Board rules that Homolka must stay in prison for her full term, ending July 5, Williams is arrested and charged with violating a court order barring publication of courtroom exhibits used in the Bernardo and Homolka trials.

Williams had used his website to show a collection of photographs, videotapes and police interviews from the cases. A book on Homolka written by Stephen Williams is published in French, containing excerpts from letters between the author and Homolka. Questions arise over whether the book violates a condition of Homolka's plea bargain, which states that she would not "talk directly … or indirectly to the media for a book … or live endeavour. The six videotapes depicting the rape and torture of Bernardo and Homolka's victims are destroyed.

Homolka is transferred to a Montreal psychiatric hospital to undergo treatment. Crown prosecutors drop charges against author Stephen Williams. The charges alleged that Williams broke a court order by watching the Bernardo tapes. The Crown said it didn't want to air the tapes again in court, so the judge dismissed the charges. Homolka is transferred to a maximum-security prison in Saskatoon for a psychiatric examination.

Homolka's lawyers attempt to block the move, saying her life would be in danger if she were removed from the prison in Joliette. The Supreme Court of Canada denies Bernardo's leave to appeal his murder convictions. Murray is acquitted of charges arising from his failure to turn over the Bernardo tapes. The Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses Bernardo's request for a new trial. Ken Murray is charged with obstruction of justice and possession of child pornography for failing to turn over the Bernardo tapes.

A six-month-long inquiry into the police investigation of Bernardo concludes that the investigation was hampered by dozens of mistakes by individual officers and by rivalries between different police departments. The inquiry concludes that some of Bernardo's crimes could have been prevented if Bernardo's DNA samples had been processed more quickly. An Ontario Court judge rules that videotapes showing the rape and torture of Bernardo's victims must be destroyed when they are no longer needed for legal purposes.

Bernardo is declared a dangerous offender, meaning he will likely spend the rest of his life in jail. Bernardo is found guilty of all nine charges against him, including two counts of first-degree murder for killing French and Mahaffy. Ken Murray quits as Bernardo's lawyer and hands Bernardo's videotapes over to his successor, John Rosen.

Rosen turns the videos over to police later in the month. Homolka called for help but called back a few minutes later to say that "everything is all right. This time Homolka pressured her to have sex with Bernardo; she became upset and left. Schoolgirl Killer murders. By , Bernardo was spending large amounts of time with the Homolka family, who liked him.

He was engaged to the eldest daughter and flirted constantly with the youngest one. He had not told them that he had lost his job as an accountant, and instead was smuggling cigarettes across the nearby U.

He had become obsessed with Tammy Homolka, peeping into her window and entering her room to masturbate while she slept. Karla Homolka helped him by breaking the blinds in her sister's window to allow Bernardo access.

In July, Bernardo took Tammy across the border to get beer for a party. While there, Bernardo later told his fiancee, "they got drunk and began making out. According to Bernardo's testimony at his trial on July 24, , Karla Homolka laced spaghetti sauce with crushed Valium she had stolen from her employer, Martindale Animal Clinic. She served dinner to her sister, who soon lost consciousness. Bernardo began to rape Tammy while Karla watched. Over the summer, he supplied Tammy and her friends with gifts, food, and sodas that had "a film and a few white flecks on the top.

Six months before their wedding, Karla Homolka stole the anaesthetic agent Halothane from the clinic. On December 23, , Homolka and Bernardo administered sleeping pills to the year-old in a rum-and-eggnog cocktail.

After Tammy was unconscious, Homolka and Bernardo undressed her and Karla applied a Halothane-soaked cloth to her sister's nose and mouth. Karla Homolka wanted to "give Tammy's virginity to Bernardo for Christmas" as, according to Homolka, Bernardo was disappointed by not having been Karla's first sex partner.

With Tammy's parents sleeping upstairs, the pair filmed themselves as they raped her in the basement. Tammy began to vomit. The pair tried to revive her, then called , but not before they hid evidence, dressed Tammy, and moved her into her basement bedroom.

A few hours later Tammy Homolka was pronounced dead at St. Catharines General Hospital without having regained consciousness. Despite the pair's behavior — vacuuming and washing laundry in the middle of the night, and despite the presence of a chemical burn on Tammy's face, Niagara Regional Coroner and the Homolka family accepted the pair's version of events. The official cause of Tammy Homolka's death was accidental — choking on her vomit after consumption of alcohol.

The pair subsequently filmed themselves with Karla wearing Tammy's clothing and pretending to be her. They also moved out of the Homolka house to a rented Port Dalhousie bungalow, to let her parents cope with their grief. Early in the morning on June 15, , Bernardo took a detour through Burlington, halfway between Toronto and St. Catharines, to steal licence plates where he found Leslie Mahaffy. The year-old had missed her curfew after attending a funeral, was locked out of her house and had been unable to find anyone with whom she could stay overnight.

Bernardo approached her and told her he was looking to break into a neighbor's house. Unfazed, she asked if he had any cigarettes. As Bernardo led her to his car he blindfolded her, forced her into the vehicle and drove her to Port Dalhousie, where he informed Homolka that they had a playmate. Bernardo and Homolka subsequently videotaped themselves torturing and sexually abusing Mahaffy, all while listening to Bob Marley and David Bowie.

At one point, Bernardo said "You're doing a good job, Leslie, a damned good job. Right now, you're scoring perfect. Mahaffy cried out in pain and begged Bernardo to stop. In the Crown description of the scene, he was sodomizing her while her hands were bound with twine.

Later Mahaffy told Bernardo that her blindfold seemed to be slipping, an ominous development as it signaled the possibility that she might be able to identify both her tormentors if permitted to live. The following day, Bernardo claimed, Homolka fed her a lethal dose of Halcion.

Homolka claimed that, instead, Bernardo strangled her. The pair put her body into their basement. After the Homolkas and their remaining daughter, Lori, had left, Bernardo and Homolka decided the best way to dispose of the evidence would be to dismember Leslie Mahaffy and encase each piece in cement.

Bernardo bought a dozen bags of cement at a hardware store the following day. He kept the receipts which would prove damning at his trial. Bernardo used his grandfather's circular saw to cut the body. Bernardo and Homolka then made numerous trips to dump the cement blocks in Lake Gibson, 18 kilometres south of Port Dalhousie.

At least one of the blocks weighed pounds and proved beyond the pair's patience or abilities to sink. It rested near the shore, where a father and son on a fishing expedition discovered it on June 29, Leslie Mahaffy's orthodontic appliance proved definitive in identifying her. On the afternoon of April 16, , Bernardo and Homolka were driving through St.

Catharines to look for potential victims. It was after school hours on the day before Good Friday. Students were still going home but by and large the streets were empty. As they passed Holy Cross Secondary School, a main Catholic high school in the city's north end, they spotted Kristen French, a year-old student, walking briskly to her nearby home.

The couple pulled into the parking lot of nearby Grace Lutheran Church and Homolka got out of the car, map in hand, pretending to need assistance. As French looked at the map, Bernardo attacked from behind, brandishing a knife and forcing her into the front seat of their car. From her back seat, Homolka controlled the girl by pulling down her hair. French took the same route home every day, taking about 15 minutes to get home in order to attend to her dog's needs.

Soon after she should have arrived, her parents became convinced that she had met with foul play and notified police. Within 24 hours, Niagara Regional Police "NRP" had assembled a team and searched the area along her route and found several witnesses who had seen the abduction from different aspects, thus giving police a fairly clear picture.

In addition, one of Kristen's shoes, recovered from the parking lot, underscored the seriousness of the abduction. Over the three days of Easter weekend, Bernardo and Homolka videotaped themselves as they tortured, raped and sodomized Kristen French, forcing her to drink large amounts of alcohol and to behave submissively to Bernardo.

At Bernardo's trial, Crown prosecutor Ray Houlahan said that Bernardo always intended to kill her because she was never blindfolded and was capable of identifying her captors. While Bernardo was out buying pizza on April 18 he was spotted by Kerry Patrich see below , whom he had stalked the previous month. Her report to NRP was mishandled by police, as noted by Judge Archie Campbell in his inquiry into the police investigation of Bernardo's crimes, thus negating any chance of Kristen French's being discovered at the Bernardo house.

The following day, the couple murdered French before going to the Homolkas' for Easter dinner. Homolka testified at her trial that Bernardo had strangled French for exactly seven minutes while she watched. Bernardo said Homolka beat her with a rubber mallet because she had tried to escape and that French ended up being strangled on a noose tied around her neck secured to a hope chest.

Immediately thereafter, Homolka went to fix her hair. French's nude body was found in a ditch on April 30, in Burlington, approximately 45 minutes from St.

Catharines, and a short distance from the cemetery where Leslie Mahaffy is buried. It had been washed and the hair had been cut off. It was originally thought that the hair was removed as a trophy, but Homolka testified that the hair had been cut to impede identification.

Other potential or possible victims. Shortly after Tammy Homolka's funeral her parents went out of town and Lori visited her grandparents in Mississauga, leaving the house empty.

On the weekend of January 12, , according to author Stephen Williams, Bernardo abducted a girl, took her to the house and raped her while Homolka watched; afterward he dropped her off on a deserted road near Lake Gibson. Bernardo and Homolka referred to her simply as "January girl. The girl was distracted by a blonde woman who waved at her from her car, enabling Bernardo to drag her into the shrubbery near the rowing club.

There he sexually assaulted her, forced her to remove all her clothes and wait five minutes, during which he disappeared. On July 28, , Bernardo stalked Sydney Kershen, 21, after he saw her while driving home from work. On August 9, , he resumed stalking her. This time she took evasive action, stopping at her boyfriend's house just prior to his arrival. After spotting Bernardo the boyfriend gave chase, came across Bernardo's gold Nissan and took note of the licence plate.

The couple reported the incident to Niagara Regional Police who established that the car belonged to Paul Kenneth Bernardo.

A NRP officer visited the Bernardos' house where the car was parked in the driveway, but did not pursue the matter, nor did he submit an official police report.

On November 30, , year-old Terri Anderson vanished about three blocks from the parking lot where Kristen French would be abducted, and never returned. Terri Anderson and Kristen French disappeared within two kilometres of each other. In April , NRP said they had no evidence to suggest a link.

The medical examiner saw no evidence of foul play, despite the difficulties of determining such factors in a body that had been in the water for six months. The coroner's ruling, that her death was by drowning, probably as a result of drinking beer and taking LSD, was controversial in light of Leslie Mahaffy's and Kristen French's murders.

A newspaper clipping found during the police search of the Bernardo house described a rape that occurred in Hawaii during the couple's honeymoon there. The presence of the article, the rape's similarity to Bernardo's modus operandi and its occurrence during the Bernardos' presence led police to speculate on Bernardo's involvement. Law enforcement officials on both sides of the border have stated their belief that Bernardo was responsible for this rape, but due to extradition issues, this case was never prosecuted.

In , Derek Finkle's book No Claim to Mercy was published, which presented evidence tying Bernardo to the murder of Elizabeth Bain, who disappeared on June 19, , only three weeks after the last known attack of the Scarborough Rapist. Bain told her mother she was going to "check the tennis schedule" on the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto. Three days later, her car was found with a large bloodstain in the back seat. Robert Baltovich, who has consistently maintained his innocence, was convicted on March 31, , of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend.

At trial, his lawyers suggested that the then unidentified "Scarborough rapist" was responsible for the crime. He served eight years of a life term before being released pending his appeal. In September his appeal was processed. His lawyers alleged that he had been wrongfully convicted and that Bernardo was guilty of the murder.

On December 2, , the Ontario Court of Appeal set aside the conviction. On July 15, , Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney-General announced that Robert Baltovich would face a new trial and on April 22, , after a series of pretrial motions including the presentation of evidence implicating Bernardo in the murder of Elizabeth Bain, Crown Attorney Philip Kotanen advised the court that he would be calling "no evidence" and asked the jury to find Baltovich not guilty of second-degree murder.

On March 29, , Bernardo stalked and videotaped Shanna and Kerry Patrich from his car and followed them to their parents' house. The Patrich sisters incorrectly recorded his licence plate number; Shanna Patrich reported the incident to NRP on March 31, , and was given an incident number, should further information develop.

With Kristen French under Homolka's guard on April 18, Bernardo went out to buy dinner and rent a movie. He was spotted by Kerry Patrich, who attempted to track him to his house. Despite losing him, she got a better description of his licence plate and car, which she reported to NRP.

This information, however, was mishandled by police and slipped into the "black hole" to which Judge Archie Campbell would refer in the Campbell Report of , an inquiry into police mishandling of evidence in the case. In , Bernardo confessed to a assault against a year-old girl. Another man, Anthony Hanemaayer, had been convicted of that assault and served the sentence for it. On June 25, , the Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned that conviction and exonerated Hanemaayer.

Trial and Incarceration. Bernardo's trial for the murders of French and Mahaffy took place in , and included detailed testimony from Homolka and videotapes of the rapes.

The trial was subject to a publication ban which applied to Canadian newspapers and media, and the venue was moved to Toronto from St. Catharines, where the murders occurred. However, the ban did not affect American newspapers and television stations from nearby Buffalo, New York from reporting trial proceedings, which were easily seen in Southern Ontario.

During the trial, Bernardo claimed the deaths were accidental, and later claimed that his wife was the actual killer. On September 1, , Bernardo was convicted of a number of offences, including the two first-degree murders and two aggravated sexual assaults, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Later, Bernardo was also declared a "Dangerous Offender", making it unlikely he will ever be released. In return for a plea bargain 12 years in prison for manslaughter , Homolka testified against Bernardo in his murder trial. This plea bargain received much public criticism from Canadians as Homolka's first defense lawyer Ken Murray had withheld for 17 months videotapes that Bernardo made.

This was considered crucial evidence, and prosecutors said that they would have never agreed to the plea bargain if they had seen the tapes. Murray was later charged with obstruction of justice, which he was acquitted, and he also faced a disciplinary hearing from the law society.

During her interrogation in , Homolka told police Bernardo once bragged to her that he had raped as many as 30 women, double the 15 assaults police suspected he had committed. She described him as "the happy rapist. Bernardo has been kept in the segregation unit at the penitentiary for his own safety, nonetheless he has been attacked and harassed.

Once he was punched in the face by another inmate while returning from a shower in In June , five convicts tried to storm the segregation range where Bernardo lived and a riot squad had to use gas to disperse them. The Toronto Star reported on February 21, , that Bernardo had admitted having sexually assaulted at least 10 other women in attacks not previously blamed on him.

The majority of those assaults took place in , a year before what police termed the reign of terror by the Scarborough Rapist. Authorities suspected Bernardo was the culprit in other crimes, such as a string of rapes in Amherst, N. Catharines, he had never acknowledged his involvement. It was reported that Bernardo's lawyer, Anthony G. Bryant, had forwarded this information to legal authorities the previous November. In , Paul Bernardo gave an interview in prison suggesting he had reformed and would make a good parole candidate.

He is not eligible for release in under the "faint hope" clause, since he was convicted of multiple murders. Bernardo is currently serving his term in the maximum security prison at Kingston Penitentiary, in the segregation unit. He spends 23 hours a day in an 8' x 4' jail cell. Homolka was released from prison on July 4, Several days before, Bernardo was interviewed by police and his lawyer, Tony Bryant.

According to Bryant, Bernardo claimed that he had always intended to free the girls he and Homolka kidnapped. However, once Mahaffy's blindfold fell off, allowing Mahaffy to see Bernardo's face, Homolka was concerned that Mahaffy would identify Bernardo, and subsequently report them to the police.

Further, Bernardo claimed that Homolka planned to murder Mahaffy by injecting an air bubble into her bloodstream, eventually causing an embolism. Books, film and other references. A number of books have been written about the Bernardos, and in October a motion picture of their story was released under the title Karla, starring Misha Collins as Bernardo and Laura Prepon as Homolka.

Kristen French, one of Bernado's victims, is mentioned in the song "Nobody's Hero", by Canadian progressive rock band Rush.

All For Love. It was all too good to be true. In , Karla was engaged to a handsome, sophisticated professional accountant with money. It was going to be an incredible wedding. One that her family and friends would never forget. She loved Paul very much. He was so unique and so very wild in bed.

She would do absolutely anything to keep his love -- anything at all. What made this situation a little different than most engagements is that for several years Paul made utrageous demands on Karla -- and Karla, just as outrageously, agreed to them.

Paul was very annoyed that Karla was not a virgin when he met her. It was, therefore, from his point of view, her responsibility to make it possible for Paul to take the virginity of Karla's pretty younger sister Tammy without her knowledge or consent. Some people call it rape. Once Karla accepted that logic, the rest was easy, even the idea of videotaping the whole thing seemed to make sense to her.

After all, videotaping was a way to remember important events. Karla worked in a veterinary clinic so she had a rudimentary knowledge of sedatives used for animals. The trick was figuring out what and how much to use to knock out Tammy so that Paul could rape her. Eventually, she decided on using halothane, an anesthetic which animals inhale before surgery.

Stephen Williams in his book Invisible Darkness describes Karla's idea: "She had really thought this thing with Tammy through. After all, she did not want to kill her own sister; she just wanted to knock her out and give her to Paul for Christmas.

They sedated animals before they put them to sleep for surgery, so it should be all right to do it to her sister. There was some risk without the proper equipment -- she would have to put the halothane on a cloth and hold it over Tammy's face -- but she would make sure Tammy had plenty of air and check her breathing regularly. Maybe even the most thought out and organized rape ever. December 23, , was the big day -- Tammy's deflowering.

Paul used his new video camcorder to take videos of Mr. Homolka, their daughters, Karla, Tammy and Lori and the Christmas decorations in the house. Paul plied Tammy with drinks, laced with the sedative Halcion. The effects of the drugs and alcohol were swift and Tammy was out cold on the couch in no time.

When the other members of the household went up to bed, Karla and Paul started to work on Tammy. Paul held the camera on Tammy while he raped her, leaving Karla to keep the halothane-laden rag over her sister's face. Then he ordered Karla to make sexual advances to her sleeping sister. Suddenly Tammy threw up. Karla wished her sister hadn't eaten before this event, but Karla knew what to do. She did what they did in the veterinary clinic. She held her sister upside down to try to clear her throat.

Only problem was that Tammy choked to death. Their amateur attempts to revive her failed so they dressed her, hid their drugs and camera and called an ambulance.

The first that Tammy and Karla's parents knew of this tragedy was when they heard the ambulance pull up to the house. Everybody was led to believe that Tammy had died from accidentally choking on her vomit.

With Tammy no good to him anymore, Paul needed a replacement. Scarborough Rapist. Paul Bernardo was born into an unusual family. His mother, Marilyn, had been adopted early in life by the well-to-do Toronto lawyer Gerald Eastman and his wife Elizabeth.

Marilyn was raised in a happy, genteel household. Her husband, Kenneth Bernardo was the son of an Italian immigrant and a woman of English heritage. Kenneth's father made a very successful life for himself in the marble and tile business, but was abusive to his wife and children.

Kenneth did not go into the family business but became an accountant instead. He and Marilyn married in after her father disapproved of her other suitor who did not have the education that Eastman demanded in a son-in-law.

Eventually, Kenneth and Marilyn settled in a nice middle-class neighborhood in Scarborough area of Toronto. The marriage did not go well and Kenneth, like his father, was physically abusive to his wife. After giving birth to a son and daughter, Marilyn found refuge in the arms of her previous suitor -- the man without the education her father had required for his daughter.

Thus, was Paul Bernardo conceived illegitimately. Kenneth was very open minded about this indiscretion and, in August of , the baby's birth certificate gave him the name of Paul Bernardo. Kenneth had his difficulties as well.

He fondled a young girl and went to court for it. He started hanging around the neighborhood at night, peeping into the windows of young women. But worst of all, he started to sexually abuse his young daughter. Marilyn put on more and more weight. She became grotesquely obese. Signs of severe depression were very noticeable. Further up the lake, beneath a bridge, another fisherman spotted an enormous cement block, weighing more than 90kg, in which police would find a head and torso.

As forensic police recovered the body parts of the girl they had murdered, Homolka arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to marry Bernardo. In wedding photographs, Bernardo looks the perfect groom, dressed in white tie and tails next to a petite Homolka in a white puffball dress and veil, holding roses.

The images would later lead to the pair being dubbed in some reports the "Ken and Barbie killers". While they were away, forensic police identified the dismembered body as missing teen Leslie Mahaffy and determined she had been strangled before being cut up. When Homolka and Bernardo returned from Hawaii, he blamed Homolka for not knowing about the receding water tables at Lake Gibson. He began beating his new wife, but as the weeks rolled by and they weren't arrested, Bernardo asked Homolka to help him lure another young girl into their clutches.

Homolka and Bernardo were parked in their car, and when Karla got out with a map and asked for the girl's assistance, Kristen was totally fooled. As she looked at the map, Bernardo grabbed her from behind and at knifepoint forced her into the vehicle. Kristen was known as reliable and took the same minute route home each afternoon to care for her dog.

Niagara police searched the parking lot where they found evidence of an abduction, Kristen's shoe, and found witnesses. For three days and into the forthcoming Easter weekend, Homolka and Bernardo filmed themselves torturing, raping and degrading Kristen and forcing alcohol down her throat.

Before going to Homolka's parents' house for Easter Sunday dinner, Bernardo took seven minutes to strangle French with a noose tied to Homolka's betrothal hope chest. Homolka, who had beaten French with a rubber mallet when the girl tried to escape, watched on, then went to fix her hair.

On April 30, a man found Kristen French's nude body dumped 50km from the couple's house in a ditch in Burlington. On May 15, , police formed the Green Ribbon Task Force, although they had already interviewed Bernardo and dismissed him as an unlikely suspect. One man came forward to suggest his friend Bernardo was the Scarborough rapist and could have carried out the murders.

Outwardly, Bernardo kept his cool, but he and Homolka were seeking to change their identities and their names to "Teale". Chosen by Bernardo, the name was a homonym for Martin Thiel, the serial killer character played by Kevin Bacon in the film Criminal Law. On December 27, he beat Homolka in the head and face with a flashlight, leaving her severely bruised. She told workmates it was a car accident, but they called her parents who convinced her to press charges.

Homolka returned to the Port Dalhousie house to get the videos of all three murders she and Bernardo had committed, but couldn't find them. Bernardo was arrested and, through her lawyer, Homolka did a deal in exchange for a lighter sentence for her role in killing Tammy Homolka, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.

She pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her sister and the other girls' murders but received just 12 years — "five for Kristen, five for Leslie and two for Tammy". The tapes of the vile crimes were still missing, but after six years on the loose it was finally up for sadistic psychopath Bernardo. When he told his lawyer where the tapes were stashed — in a light fixture in the Port Dalhousie house — Homolka's true role was revealed in sickening detail. Audio of the tapes of French and Mahaffy's terrible ordeals was played in court, causing a media firestorm.

Massive public criticism was heaped upon police and Homolka's "deal with the devil", with one observer calling her "just as much a psychopath as Paul". In , a jury convicted Bernardo of two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement, aggravated sexual assault and one count of committing an indignity to a human body. He confessed to raping and fatally drugging his year-old sister-in-law and to another 32 rape-related crimes, including sexual assault and robbery, against 14 young women in Scarborough.

In July , Homolka walked from prison after serving 12 years and ended up marrying her lawyer's brother and having three children. According to the Facebook site Watching Karla Homolka, three years ago she was living in Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada, where she volunteered at the local school.

Bernardo, aka Paul Jason Teale, is incarcerated in Ontario's Millhaven maximum security prison where in he was allegedly found with a jail-made knife. A Canadian TV report of his court appearance on a charge - later dropped - of possess dangerous weapon to commit offence said Bernardo was "smiling and laughing" in the dock.

When Justice Patrick LeSage sentenced Bernardo in , he told the sex killer: "You have no right ever to be released. At a Parole Board of Canada hearing, Canada's National Post reported Bernardo "claimed to have discovered and confronted the psychological reasons for his sadistic sexual atrocities".