Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka Episode 1: Snuffles

What happens when two people with very different childhoods come together and create something unimaginably horrific?

In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan begin the disturbing story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, one of the most infamous criminal couples in Canadian history.

We follow Karla's childhood in St. Catharines and Paul Bernardo's troubled upbringing in Scarborough before their paths finally cross in 1987. What begins as an intense relationship quickly develops into something far darker as Bernardo's obsession with violence, control, and sexual assault begins escalating.

We'll follow the emergence of the Scarborough Rapist, the attacks that terrorized women across Toronto, Bernardo's relationship with Karla, and the increasingly disturbing warning signs that were missed along the way. We'll also look at the police investigation and the mistakes that allowed the attacks to continue while Bernardo maintained the image of a charming, successful young professional.

And because this is Torture: A Dark History, Kevin and Dan bring their particularly dark and uncomfortable sense of humor to a story where the real horror comes from knowing just how much worse things are about to get.

If you love Canadian true crime, serial killers, criminal psychology, sexual predators, police investigations, dark history, and some of the most disturbing crimes in Canadian history, this is only the beginning.

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