Ontario Hansard - 18-June 1991
Last week was a week of mourning in Burlington. Last Tuesday, Christopher Evans, John Newby, Jodi Robins and Scott Grenier were all killed when their car went out of control on 1 Side road between Guelph Line and Walker's Line. Two days later, Carly MacNeil was killed and four others injured in a similar accident near Milton.
The road was a popular spot for “joy riding,” said residents and friends of the teens.
Regional police Staff Sg Peter Whittaker said police have never tagged the strip as a problem area for drag racing or speeding.
"Everybody's afraid they're going to lose their best friend next," says Paul Bernier, 17, who knew all five of the deceased. "It keeps going through your mind: 'Who's next?'
Leslie Mahaffy told Karla Homolka her name, and she said she wanted to leave so she could attend her friend Chris Evans’ funeral. They discussed his death, and Karla seemed interested. She asked for more details about the accident, having read some of it in the papers.
(Source: A Marriage Made For Murder by author Brian O’ Neill)
(Bernardo may have been hanging around the 'memorial service' that Mahaffy was attending, knowing that there would be young girls in attendance. He might have even been stalking the funeral home where the dead teens were.)
As the news from St. Catherines filtered down to the general public, tipsters called police with reports of suspicious vehicles. Apparently a brown van had slowly followed a girl on Cecil Drive; its driver had been looking at the girl the entire time. Police were most interested in reports of a blue van with white wing mirrors that had been spotted three times that afternoon, once at Holy Cross High School, once at Orchard Park School, and another time between the two schools. Other rumors had been linked the unsolved Terri Anderson's disappearance with a blue van as well.
Some schools in north St. Catherines recently sent home a note to parents warning them that a blue van or car might be cruising the area. The note stated that occupants of this vehicle may be trying to entice children inside, said Terry Robins, who received one of the notes.
Leslie Mahaffy was from Burlington and was last seen in that city, her concrete-encased body parts were found in Lake Gibson on the outskirts of St. Catharines, just a few miles from where Kristen was apparently abducted.
Kristen French's nude body was found on April 30 (Walpurgisnacht/Beltane), 1992, in a ditch several kilometres away on Side Road 1 in Burlington, about 45 minutes from St. Catharines and a short distance from the cemetery where Mahaffy is buried.
Other strange incidents on #1 Side Road:
Another man driving his pick-up truck down the street exactly one year to the date (June 11th) at night, when his truck burst into flames, he swerved off the road into the ditch and was killed as he hit a tree and was thrown through the windshield. The father of the one teenager who died in the burning car committed suicide in the same spot his son died 5 years to the date.
Another odd thing about the road is that all the trees along the road seem to be dead, all the trees in the nearby forests are alive and healthy.
One old blog, which I can’t find anymore, found out the street was originally a driveway for a farmer who owned all the property in the 1800's. The farmer was accused of killing his wife and daughter, they found the body of his wife but still to this day never found the body of the daughter. The farmer was convicted and was hung in the nearby town of Milton. Many people later claimed that the body of the daughter was buried under the road.
Could this be the work of an ancient cult in the area?
Be aware that Terri Anderson's missing case was also long-rumored to be linked to the Bernardo/Homolka killings as was Nina Devillier.
https://murderpedia.org/male.Y/y/yeo-jonathan.htm
Denizens of doughnut shops and bars couldn't resist the temptation to link the Kristen French case with a dozen other cases of missing girls or unsolved murders. One unsolved murder stood out in particular: University of Western Ontario student Lynda Shaw, twenty-one, was bludgeoned to death and her body set on fire after she was abducted late at night on Highway 401 while returning from her home in Brampton to her student residence. Her abandoned car was found on the highway shoulder with an emergency tire. One theory was that someone had tampered with the tires's air valve when Lynda stopped at a service center just west of the town of Woodstock.
The date was startling: Lynda Shaw was killed on April 16, 1990.
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The similarities between Paul and the protagonist of his novel, Mason:
From the very moment I began reading A MAD World Order, I had a suspicion one of the characters would be modeled after Paul. After the second chapter I knew I was right. The main character, Mason Steale, is very obviously a representation of how Paul Bernardo sees himself. Even the name of the protagonist, Mason Steale, (the spelling of Steale is inconsistent throughout the book but Steale is used predominantly so I’m going to assume that’s correct) is clearly similar to his middle and last names, Jason Teale. I cannot find anything within myself to even possibly consider that as a coincidence. This character is also a little bit of a Gary Sue; He’s often considered intelligent and superior to those around him, he almost never gets injured, and everybody admires him, even his enemies. Just like most self-inserts tend to be, this guy’s perfect. Moreover, considering what I know of Paul’s physical attributes, Mason’s description of blue eyes, a masculine face, short, brown hair, a height of 6'1, and weight of 195 pounds sound just like an account of Paul himself. If that’s not enough, Mason also had a bad childhood, the events even being described as “traumatic”. At age 14 his parents were kidnapped, decapitated, and murdered. While they never recovered his mother’s skull, the man who kidnapped them kept his father’s. At 17, he went out to seek his father’s skull, and to exact revenge upon the man who took their lives. 14 and 17 are both very close to 16, the age Paul was when he found out about his biological dad. Although anything between Paul’s childhood and Mason’s may be a stretch, I think it’s still worth considering.
- Excerpt from “A MAD World Order”, by Paul Bernardo
(A drawing included in the book)
Hmmm. Crappy cover. Story kinda sucks. Not much of a hook. Slow… not sure how this is gonna keep anyone in it for the advertised 631 pages. But the editing pretty good—especially for a self-pub. It’s fairly clean for punctuation. Grammar’s okay. Don’t see any obvious spelling mistakes. And the formatting is professional. Can’t see how anyone sitting alone in a jail cell did this, so there’s no doubt Bernardo had some experienced help putting this thing on the market.
I did not expect him to write a book regarding Russian hegemony, electronic warfare, and Mexican cartels from within a 6 x 9 cell. Particularly given the fact that since his incarceration in the 1990s, Bernardo has not even had his laundry washed with the rest of the inmates because they won’t touch his clothes and his section of the prison is regarded as hell.
References in A MAD World Order
Here’s a list of the things Paul decided to mention or reference to hopefully give some insight to the types of things or people he’s interested in. Also, it gives a lot of insight on how up to date he is with certain technology.
(I may be missing some but I tried my best to get all of them)
Red Bull
“When Mason saw the first pop-up window come onto the eighty-two inch LED screen, he was returning from the fridge with a Red Bull energy drink in his hand.”
“He responded out loud with an angry “Son of a bitch.” Dropping his Red Bull, he retrieved his 9mm Beretta from a secret panel under the fireplace mantel.
The Holy Bible, Tanakh, and Quran
“The Holy Bible, Tanakh, and Qur’an were taken out and placed side by side on the center of the altar, and next came, the golden goblet and crystal decanter of holy water.”
Facebook (this is mentioned a couple other times), Mark Zuckerberg, and Eduardo Saverin
“‘I heard the entire family was kidnapped and being tortured, as payback for Kyle cutting an original partner out of Social Mall, like Eduardo Savarin was from Facebook,’ a teenage male whose name popped up as Ernest Teasdasle voiced, sharing the conspiracy theory.”
“‘Do you think you will pass Facebook in size? If so how soon? Your social network and its 3-D environment give a dramatically different experience to the user. Do you see Facebook as an outdated social network model? If you had one thing to say to Mark Zuckerberg, what would it be?’”
Google, Yahoo, and Twitter
“She had turned down several offers from top internet companies including Facebook to come to Social Mall. Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Facebook she determined had peaked.”
Google Earth and Google Street View
“The launch site was chosen in advance by the FSB and programmed using Google earth and Google street view.”
Apple
“‘It costs $ 99.99 from Apple. That’s who Steale sold it too.’”
Verizon
“He also left out they hacked the Verizon cellular phone company, to trace the cell phone voice mail to these docks.”
Top Gun and Tom Cruise
“When he was fourteen-years-old, he was living on the El Centro Air force Base in Southern California. This was the same military base that the movie Top Gun starring Tom Cruise was filmed.”
Burger King
“The passenger door opened on the dark blue Chevy Impala parked in the Burger King restaurant.”
“‘There was a little bit of a line up, agent Holmes said. ‘Here is your Whopper, large fries, and Pepsi.’ Holmes handed agent Elliot a white paper bag with a Burger King logo on it.”
The Streets of San Francisco
“‘Yeehaa!’ he belted out.’ Just like the Streets of San Francisco.’ The reference was to the early 1970s TV police drama.”
The Tomb Raider and Call of Duty series
“‘No not a real one, but I have played a lot of first-person shooter video games. The Laura Croft Tomb Raider and Call of Duty series are some of my favorites.’”
Zodiac Watches
“Mason had adjusted the time on his Zodiac watch to China Standard Time.”
The Godfather and Sofia Coppola
“‘It was loosely portrayed in The Godfather Part III. You see it?’ ‘Yeah good film. There were a lot of critics of that movie, but I actually liked it. I got a crush on Sophia Coppola because of it.’”
(I’m pretty sure it’s documented somewhere that Paul went to the movie theatres to see The Godfather Part III when it came out.)
Victoria’s Secret
“As her hips swayed back and forth, she slowly dropped her black pants, and modeled like a Victoria’s Secret commercial.”
Mcdonalds
“The driver drove him to McDonalds where he purchased lunch with three large coffees all to go.”
“He tossed the McDonalds bag into a dumpster.”
Gucci, Fendi, Cartier, Neiman Marcus, and Starbucks
“The international store brands of Gucci, Fendi, Cartier, Neiman Marcus and Starbucks made this city indistinguishable from the rest of the developed world.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“’Mikhail Gorbachev wrote a tell-all book about it. The last Soviet Premier was responsible for dissolving the Soviet Union, and then lived in a multimillion dollar apartment in Manhattan. He was never welcomed back to Russia again.’”
James Bond and Jason Bourne
“The James Bond, Jason Bourne type of novel won international acclaim.”
Omega and Rolex watches, and Armani Exchange
“‘Omega, Rolex watches—fifty dollars American. Armani Exchange tees—twenty dollars.’”
Porsche and Lamborghini
“Beside it were a Porsche 918 Spyder and a black Lamborghini Reventon.”
Bentley, Packard, Shelby Mustang, and Oldsmobile
“Filling the number one parking space was his brand new burgundy Bentley Continental GT V12. Beside that was his oldest car, a black 1929 Packard Eight. This year’s model Lamborghini in bright yellow was next to a just out the showroom 662hp, midnight blue Shelby Mustang. The fifth and farthest away will be his car of choice for today. A 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W30 coupe, 2-door hardtop, red in color, it had two wide black stripes on the front hood over the two hood scopes. A thin black stripe continued down the lower sides of the vehicle. Twenty-four-inch aluminum rims all around, sported low profile forties on the rear and fifties on the front.”
So. How does a man with no real access to the outside world, with less than an hour of television viewing privileges a day, end up writing a book like this? And why is no one but me finding the situation unusual?
(Source: https://pauljasonteale.tumblr.com)