Name: Lethal Marriage (Updated Edition).
ISBN: 9780770429362

Nick Pron

The Uncensored Truth Behind the Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

Lethal Marriage (Updated Edition).

What the press couldn't reveal—the full story of the monstrous sex slayings that shocked a nation . . . 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. . . .

The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

Lethal Marriage

Rowan Myers

Saying I enjoyed this book is far from the truth; it was difficult to read, and one of the few books where I felt no guilt in skipping sections. And certainly there was a great deal of bias in its writing. Pron, staff writer for the Toronto Star, is a human being and couldn't have possibly avoided being biased. We all are. It's up to us how we read this book and take the information contained within.

This book is right in having a warning in the beginning. Most of the reporting on it should have had a warning. (That's one thing I'm glad a lot of news stories have now, especially if they're of this nature.) But I elected to read it, and as such, I can't fault it for its content. I knew what I was getting into, just not to what extent.

It was written well, and difficult to put down, if only because I was horrified the entire time (as should anyone who reads about this case, full stop).

Lethal Marriage (Updated Edition). The Uncensored Truth Behind the Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

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