Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka Mass market paperbound - 1997
by Stephen Williams
The case was so bizarre and the media so ever-present that the Canadian government silenced its national press and barred foreign journalists from the trial of Paul and Karla Bernardo. The Bernardos' seemingly storybook marriage cloaked pure evil--the kidnapping, imprisonment, and murder of high school girls, all to satisfy the couple's sexual cravings. Featuring in-depth interviews with players on both sides, this account unravels the facade behind this unsettling case.
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At 7:30 A.M., Monday morning, March 8, 1993, Sister Josephine, a sixty-two-year-old Carmelite nun from Lindsay, Ontario, woke with a start from a tortured dream which inevitably was about her increasingly tenuous relationship with her beloved companion for life-Jesus Christ.
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"Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.
To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with his straight, prestigious accounting job, Paul soon went freelance as an international smuggler. He also revealed his boredom with conventional sex--enough so that, one Christmas Eve, he persuaded his wife to drug her own sister and engage in a menage a trois, during which the sister died (a bungling coroner ruled her death accidental).The couple then upped the ante, kidnapping and imprisoning several high school girls for sexual marathons, which they videotaped before savagely murdering their captives. When the girls' bodies were found, the police were stymied (although Paul had been accused of rape and given a DNA test that vanished for two years and only recently was linked to some fifty sexual-assault cases) until Karla tried to have her husband arrested for wife beating. During questioning, she confessed to the crimes and is now serving two concurrent twelve-year sentences for manslaughter in exchange for testifying against her husband who was jailed for life.
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- Title Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
- Author Stephen Williams
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam, NY
- Date December 1, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780553568547 / 055356854X
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 6.91 x 4.18 x 1.02 in (17.55 x 10.62 x 2.59 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Library of Congress subjects Bernardo, Paul, Homolka, Karla
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98124006
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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