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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

The Most Disturbing Case I've Ever Covered: Ken & Barbie Killers Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If there’s any case that deserves the word disturbing, it’s this one. The Ken & Barbie Killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, looked like the perfect couple straight out of the 90s… but the reality behind that polished image is almost impossible to wrap your head around. 

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0:30.1

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious.

0:35.0

I am often asked how I ended up in the world of true crime. And the truth is,

0:41.0

it hit me like a brick right at the very beginning of my career. I remember in 1988,

0:47.3

I had just graduated from Queens University in Canada, and I was just getting started in my TV

0:53.1

news career. When the case of a couple of

0:56.4

missing schoolgirls near Toronto began heating up. Queens was not far from Toronto, and so the

1:02.5

case stuck out for me, right? And I continued to follow every word of it in the papers. And yeah,

1:08.8

it was the papers back then, like hard coffees and broadsheets and door-to-door delivery.

1:13.6

Leslie Mahaffee and Kristen French were just 14 and 15 respectively, and they disappeared without a trace.

1:21.6

Look, we may hear a lot of stories just like this today, but I'm going to tell you back then, it seemed bewildering. It was mystifying

1:31.4

even. Girls just didn't seem to vanish into thin air, less so from affluent neighborhoods. But within the

1:39.6

next few years, the pieces of the puzzle began coming together and their disappearances were connected

1:46.5

with a vexing serial rapist case, a rapist who'd been out there on the prowl for years.

1:54.1

And the rolling thunder of revelations in this case shook Canada to its core.

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