Background and Tammy

Background

Paul Bernardos childhood was not one like you would expect. He was not abused or ever mistreated by his family and everyone always had said he was a bright, loving and cute little boy who always had a smile on his face. His father, however, was a child molester – he molested his own daughter as well as another young girl, he was subsequently charged. After these actions Bernardos mother became depressed causing her to withdraw from her family and move into their basement. When Bernardo was 16 his parents had a massive argument which revealed that he was not actually his father’s son and that she had cheated on his father during their marriage. This was the moment that caused him to hate and despise women which would eventually lead to him becoming a serial rapist. Paul was always charismatic and his natural good looks helped him in getting the affection of women as well, he worked for Amway which is among other things is a door-to-door sales company which taught him a variety of techniques on how to be convincing and seem trustful. When he was 23 Bernardo  met Karla Homolka who would support and unleash all the twisted and dark sexual fantasies Paul had developed in the last 8 years.

Tammy Homolka

Tammy Homolka was Karla’s 15 year old sister. Paul had always had a fascination with her. He would sneak into her room at night and masturbate, Karla helped him do this by taking the binds off her windows so Paul could enter. In 1990 Paul revealed that Karla had drugged her sister with Valium so that Paul could then and did rape her. On December 23^rd 1990, Karla drugged Tammy with 15 sleeping pills and once she was unconscious gave her Halothane which she had stolen from her work place at the the Martinedale Animal Clinic. Karla had wanted to give Paul Tammy’s virginity as a Christmas present because Paul was upset he had not been Karla’s first sexual partner. The pair began to tape Tammy as Paul raped her, they however had not anticipated that due to the heavy sedation Tammy was under that she could begin to vomit so badly that she would vomit and suffocate on it. They then dressed Tammy and moved her into the basement before calling the police. Tammy was later pronounced dead at the hospital without having regained consciousness.