Encore: The Ken and Barbie Killers

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong digs into the murders committed by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka - dubbed the ‘Ken and Barbie Killers’ by the press for their youth and good looks. But their name does not reveal the sadistic nature of the series of rapes and murders that the couple committed. Candice explores the psychology that brought these two killers together, and why only one of them is truly paying for the crimes.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to Killer Sikie add-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today!
0:10.0	A listener note. This episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be advised.
0:18.0	On their wedding day, Carla Hamolka and Paul Bernardo arrived in a white horse-drawn carriage.
0:34.0	It was June 29, 1991, in a small town called Niagara on the Lake in Canada.
0:41.0	From the Cinderella carriage to the puffy sleeves on Carla's wedding dress and the huge white bouquet,
0:48.0	it was as if Carla was trying to recreate the wedding of Lady Diana to Prince Charles.
0:55.0	It was over the top, but the couple celebrated just like any other set of newlyweds ready to start their lives.
1:02.0	To everyone that was there that day, the young couple looked like the perfect couple.
1:08.0	The bride and groom seemed to be having a wonderful perfect day.
1:13.0	But on that very same day, the unhappy family was having the worst day of their lives, a heartbreaking tragic day.
1:22.0	Their 14-year-old daughter Leslie had been missing for two weeks and they were desperate to find her.
1:29.0	And they did find her that day, but not in the way that they had hoped.
1:34.0	A fisherman and his son made the gruesome discovery, a block of cement with human remains was laying on the beach.
1:42.0	When the police arrived, they extended the search and soon discovered more blocks.
1:48.0	In one of those blocks, they found an orthodontic appliance.
1:52.0	Pieces of the braces Leslie was still wearing on her teeth and they were able to use that to identify the girl's remains.
2:01.0	So how are these two events related?
2:04.0	Well, the picture perfect newlyweds had just weeks before brutally raped,
2:09.0	satanized and killed Leslie Mahapi after kidnapping her outside her family's home.
2:16.0	And we know this because they taped the whole thing.
2:23.0	This was not their first murder and it wouldn't be their last.
2:27.0	When they were finally caught, the press seized on their good looks and crowned them the Ken and Barbie killers.
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