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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

274 - The Ken and Barbie Killers

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

The true crime tale of serial killing Canadian couple, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the "Ken and Barbie Killers."

Transcript

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0:00.0

In the summer of 1987, two teenage girls walked down from their room and into a Toronto hotel

0:05.2

restaurant late one night and started talking to a pair of young men.

0:08.5

Based on the kind of stories we've told here before, I guess you might be thinking right now that

0:12.6

these girls are about to become these men's victims, or that they would narrowly escape a horrific

0:17.2

brush with death. Nope, not today. Not even close. One of these teen girls would soon prove to be

0:22.8

just as monstrous as the monster she was meeting. When future monster, Carla Hamolka,

0:28.3

17 met current monster, Paul Bernardo, 23, sparks would fly, the worst kind of sparks.

0:34.9

Paul and Carla shared an immediate attraction, one which only intensified twisted past perversions

0:40.4

into grotesque sexual assaults when Paul discovered that, unlike the other girls he had dated,

0:45.5

Carla shared the same sick fantasies he did. Or at the very least, she would end up enthusiastically

0:50.6

aiding an indulgent in Paul's fantasies and make them her own. This pair would have all from having

0:55.6

rough BDSM-like sex to assaulting women together to murdering and disposing of two young girls

1:01.4

Leslie Mahafi and Kristen French, and neither of them were the first girl who died at their hands.

1:07.1

And this all happened in the space of about five years. From the outside, this young couple seemed

1:11.2

like a parent's dream come true. Carla was a beautiful blonde who worked at a veterinarian's office

1:15.9

after graduating high school, where she'd scored solid grades with no discipline problems.

1:20.4

Paul was a tall and handsome accountant, fresh out of college, who often took friends out to

1:24.4

lavish dinners and dressed the nines almost every day in expensive custom suits. But those

1:29.2

descriptions don't tell the story of who these two really were. Just to brave pair, we're secretly

1:34.7

in a sadomasochistic abusive and highly sexually charged relationship, in which Paul was the master

1:40.7

and Carla was his seemingly all too willing slave. Before and during their relationship,

1:44.8

Paul Bernardo was also brutally raping girls and Scarborough, a burrow of Toronto, and when Carla

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