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.
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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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Rumors Surrounding The Case:
"I'll say right now that this is hearsay but fairly reliable since I am sixth removed. Karla worked in animal clinic and Kristen French allegedly did some high school co-op at the same place, thereby becoming familiar with Karla, and that allowed the young girl to be lured to a car in a parking lot. Without Karla's previous relationship with Kristen, old Paul the pervert would have had a much more difficult time getting a young girl into his car, with the concern that existed at that time in St. Catharines."
"What I'm about to write may be true, and it certainly is sick. This goes to the time when Paul had Kristen bound and kept in his St. Catharines abode. Evidently Paul wanted Kristen to perform oral sex on him. Kristen refused the first request, so with Karla running the video camera, Paul began to pull out Kristen's teeth one by one until she agreed and was willing to perform the act. This came out at Karla's trial since she was the videographer at that time and seems pretty sick that anyone would sit and watch/record such disgusting torture."
Two undercover cops show up at the Waterloo, Ontario home of a pretty blonde young lady and ask her if she has recently lost her wallet. She says no. They ask her again, are you sure? She says no, she didn't lose it recently. They ask her, `Have you lost your wallet in the last year or so?" She says, `Yes, I lost it at the Old English Parlour (a Waterloo pub) about 9 months ago. I remember that because it was a real pain to replace all my ID.'
The cops pull out a wallet and ask her if this is it? She identifies it as hers with all her identification, etc. They then say, 'We don't mean to alarm you, but we found this is Paul Teale's house.' They fully believed she was to be his next victim. (Neal "The Trial Ban Breaker" Parsons)
Nine sets of I.D.'s were recovered. These included photograph bus pass, and school I.D.'s. (Michael Wass)
"This info comes from a friend who `talked to a cop in the investigation'. Hearsay, I guess, so take it for what it's worth. During the search of the house they took everything. Toilets, pipes etc. Evidently they were looking for evidence that was flushed or poured down the drain. The movies were with Karla and others including animals. This may sound gross but, it was said that there was animal sperm on the victims."
The daughter of a Durham staff-sergeant (another friend) told me that Bernardo/Teale was under surveillance for many months prior to the actual arrest, and that they knew as early as 1991 he was a suspect, but had no hard evidence.
Paul had logged hundreds of hours of footage with his video camera. He stalked his victims well with the camera. There were more wallets turned in that the original case reported earlier back. Personally I have heard of three people whom the police informed that Teale had their property or had them on videotape in public places. Apparently a favorite of Paul's was the Scarborough Town Centre, a large east-end Toronto mall." (Abdul the ELECTRONIC Gordon Domm)
Paul was brought in for questioning on the "Scarborough Rapist" in November of 1990. He left a saliva sample for DNA testing and was released, but he was only one of hundreds of possible suspects that left DNA samples for testing. At that time, the CPIC computers were programmed to activate a warning if a query regarding Paul Bernardo was requested, but he was not under surveillance at that time. (Michael Wass)
Karla liked to take some animal drugs home from the vet's place where she worked, but the vet looked the other way.
''A videotape exists that shows French watching another videotape of Mahaffy being cut to bits (from a colleague of counsel for the defense for Homolka's trial)."
''A videotape exists of Paul performing cunnilingus on French's dead, rigamortized and black-blue body. Karla follows him. Afterward, they both had intercourse with the corpse.''
"Teale cut the tendons of the victims, while they were still alive, to prevent them from escaping may be how the cops were able to link French's death with that of Mahaffy, despite one of the bodies being cut up."
''Homolka masturbated with the severed hand of one victim. Some say it was the head.''
The Teales made French eat all of her hair - autopsy reports found her innards caked with the stuff. They cut off one of French's fingers and toes each day she was held in captivity. (Also, there are reports that a convicted cult murder in Quebec did similar amputations to his victims.) (Abdul the ELECTRONIC Gordon Domm)
Apparently Karla and Paul were involved in the murders together, but Karla feared for her life next so she turned Paul in with the videos they had made. After about a minute in Paul's house they had enough to nail Paul but they didn't want to make any mistakes. There was also a sound proof room inside the house.
Apparently part of the delay in the trial had to do with a small contingent of RCMP who travelled to Japan in order to procure Paul Teale's `home' snuff videos, which were evidently circulating in the Japanese sex underground. Supposedly Teale made some good money from this venture, which is supposed to account for how he could afford a nice home while as an unemployed accountant. Evidently in these so- called snuff video(s?), the rooms where the crimes were committed is shown, which is why the police wanted to get a hold of these, so they could get a closer look, and thus search for evidence (DNA, etc.) in the areas that were shown.
On December 18, 1993, the London Free Press reported a $10-million lawsuit launched against Paul Teale and his estranged wife, by a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a knife-wielding Teale, "aided and abetted" by Karla. The woman, who was 19 when she said she was assaulted on December 22, 1989, had also filed claim against the owner of the suburban Scarborough apartment building where she said she was attacked. (Lt. Starbuck)
A newspaper clipping was found during the police search of the Bernardo house with the story of a violent rape that occurred in Hawaii while the couple were honeymooning there. Extradition issues mean that there has never been a trial for this rape, but the timing and modus operandi suggest that Bernardo & Homolka would be strong suspects.
While in prison, Karla has regularly performed fellatio on prison officials in exchange for certain privileges and concessions.
Other possible victims:
Lois Hanna
On July 3, 1988, 25-year old Lois Hanna disappeared after attending a dance in Lucknow, Ontario, about 30 kilometers from Kincardine. Despite several leads, many of them false, Lois Hanna is still missing today. Sources say that a woman also at the dance sat at the same table with Hanna. At that same dance, she lost her purse.
Hanna is a former Miss Midwestern Ontario beauty queen and had studied fashion at Fanshawe College.
In 1993, the woman received a phone call from the police, who informed her that there was some good news and some bad news. The good news was that the police had found her purse. The bad news is that they couldn't give it back to her. They had retrieved it during their 71 days search of Paul Bernardo's house, and it was considered police evidence. Several questions remain unanswered. How did Bernardo come into possession of the woman's purse, and why are the police still holding it?
More importantly, what role, if any, did Paul Bernardo have in Lois Hanna's disappearance?
(Information regarding Lois Hanna's disappearance can be found in the July 4, 1991 edition of the London Free Press, B1.)
A Vineland, Ontario woman reports that her stolen purse was returned to her, after being found in the Bernardo house, containing a videotape of her and a friend on a day trip to Niagara Falls.
...The theory is she was either followed home from the dance or someone was watching her home.
...over 200 people have volunteered to search for Hanna so far, "It's much more than I ever anticipated."
... the search is taking place because his organization received information a scream was heard that night in 1988. He says a concession north of where the scream was heard, someone reported seeing a female in a nightgown.
Locals wondered if the disappearance of Lois and 22-year-old Lisa Leona Maas that summer were related to serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo, who had been on vacation in the nearby Owen Sound area.
Melinda Sheppit
Melinda's friends talked on the condition they remain anonymous, some because they're terrified the killer will come after them, some because they're embarrassed to be linked with the seamier side of the Byward Market.
What they did know was that Melinda was likely lured by the many pimps who hang around local high schools, looking for young girls to take up the trade.
The 17-year-old said Melinda "was headed south on Dalhousie in a black car." She says she recognized "the john" beside her. It was 12:30 a.m.
One source says that Bernardo matched a description of the suspect 'perfectly'.
Cindy Halliday
Disappeared in April 1992, four days after Kristen French was abducted. She was from Barrie, a city north of Toronto and was last seen hitching a ride at the end of the bus line on Highway 27. Her dismembered remains were later found in a secluded area. She had been stabbed repeatedly. Paul Bernardo often traveled that highway because he had friends who lived in the area and also sold cigarettes to bikers that frequented the area. The Monday she vanished was the day after Paul and Karla murdered Kristen French. Karla Homolka remembers this day because she told police Paul left the house and didn’t return for about 24 hours. He never did he tell Homolka where he went.
These individuals are only a few of a hundred unsolved sex slayings of young women between the ages of eleven and twenty-eight in southern Ontario since the early 1980s.
(Source: The Paul Bernardo Teale/Karla Homolka Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ) Version 4.0 - January 12, 1995)