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Fam and welcome back to Serial Killing a Podcast.

My name is Alyssa Carroll and this is Serial Saturday where every Saturday we go through the life stories of serial

killers to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they displayed their famous, vile, and disturbing behaviors.

This week's podcast will be on Paul Bernardo and Carla Homoca, who were also known as the Ken and Barbie killers.

This one has been requested many, many times. So here we go.

Paul Bernardo was born on August 27th, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario. So let's get into some history for that time. In 1964 we see that the

Vietnam War was in full swing. U.S. involvement had dramatically increased just the year before

under President John F. Kennedy, going from just under a thousand military

advisors to over 16,000.

Also around this time, North Vietnam sent 40,000 soldiers to fight South Vietnam.

Not long after, John F. Kennedy was assassinated and President Lindenby Johnson took over.

And speaking of John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission report on his assassination

concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone, because sure.

Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize this year as well for his efforts

in leading the nonviolent resistance against racial

prejudice and segregation in the US. He was at that time the youngest to have

ever received it.

He was awarded $54,000, which he promptly donated to his cause, furthering the civil rights

movement, which was also a very big deal during this time.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by President Johnson,

made it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their race, religion, sex, national origin, or color of their skin.

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