INDEPTH: BERNARDO
Media coverage
CBC News Online | July 5, 2005
Homolka's release: what others are saying.
"In my view, she always was breathtakingly manipulative, a control freak in the modern parlance, who found power even as she feigned powerlessness, who said one thing in that little-girl voice and did precisely the opposite."
- Christie Blatchford, The Globe and Mail
"Homolka was duplicitous, 12 years ago, when she struck her deal with the devil, bargaining her way to an absurdly lenient sentence in exchange for testifying against Bernardo. Never told the whole truth then, in a sworn affidavit over her signature. Not telling the unvarnished truth now, having crossed the threshold to freedom."
- Rosie DiManno, Toronto Star
"It is difficult for us to imagine that the capture and imprisonment of Paul Bernardo might actually have been an exemplary outcome – but society is largely helpless, without some stroke of luck, against his type. Like it or not, Karla provided that stroke of luck."
- Colby Cosh, National Post.
"Criminologists note that if offenders are hounded upon their release from prison, they're often driven underground, where they're more likely to commit further offences. In contrast, the best way to prevent criminals from reoffending is to allow them to keep a relatively low profile, while providing them with community supports and ensuring that they remain under the watchful eye of the appropriate authorities such as police and parole officers … Karla Homolka has served her sentence and is now a free woman. Continuing the media circus grants her celebrity status, which is distasteful enough, but … it could also jeopardize the welfare of innocent people. And that, surely, is not in the public interest."
- Vancouver Sun
"Cecil B. DeMille himself couldn't have done a better job of orchestrating her release for maximum drama and coverage. The only things missing at the prison in Ste. Anne des Plaines these last few days have been rotating searchlights and a red carpet."
- Montreal Gazette
"Not many people accepted the 23-year-old Homolka as a victim on July 6, 1993. As she left prison Monday, even fewer buy into the myth."
- Doug Herod, St. Catharines Standard
"All that could be done to make sure she is not a threat to anyone has been put into effect. There is nothing more anyone can do, however much people may wish this situation would simply go away. The people of Niagara got on with their lives following the horrors revealed in the Paul Bernardo trial and the details of the ‘deal with the devil.’ But they will always remember Karla Homolka's crimes and her victims. They will never forget."
- St. Catharines Standard
"She intrigues me, this Karla woman. First of all, is she rehabilitated? Does she still have the urge to kill after having had sex? Who can answer these questions? Her. Only her."
- Michel Beaudry, Journal de Montréal
"What does Karla Homolka dream of now that she is free after 12 years in prison? The answer came spontaneously, with a dazzling smile: an iced cappuccino from Tim Hortons.
Actually, she should talk to her shrink about this: Karla Homolka doesn't only dream of drinking an iced cappuccino. She dreams of being an iced cappuccino.
Cappuccino is a coffee which got its name from the name for a monk's cowl or hood, the monks who have their heads hidden in those big maroon hoods. They are isolated from the outside world.
Unique while at the same time anonymous, with no identity.
But despite isolation from the human world, the memory of what is irreparable haunts the monk.
It's not enough to be a cappuccino. It's got to be an iced one. It's got to be a frozen one.
How could one live with [the murders] without being frozen?"
- Yves Boisvert, La Presse
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