The Dark Truth of Paul and Karla

They seemed like a perfect couple… until a family tragedy revealed the dark truth they were

hiding. In the early 1990s, Canada believed Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were

a normal young couple — clean-cut, polite, and invisible in the crowd.

But beneath the surface, they were hiding one of the darkest secrets the country

had ever seen. Before meeting Karla, Bernardo was already linked to a series of violent assaults

in Scarborough — crimes that terrified Toronto, yet police still didn’t know the

attacker’s identity. When Bernardo met Karla, their relationship became intense and

controlling. Friends noticed changes in her behavior, but no one imagined what was happening