Rewind with Karen & Georgia - 91: Live at the Sony Centre in Toronto
108 min
•Apr 8, 202611 days agoSummary
This rewind episode recaps a 2017 live show from Toronto featuring two major true crime cases: the Ken and Barbie murders (Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka) and the wrongful conviction of Stephen Truscott. The hosts discuss forensic failures, witness credibility issues, and systemic injustices in both cases, with updates on current parole proceedings and legal outcomes.
Insights
- Forensic science methods considered reliable in the 1950s-1990s (gastric digestion timing, shoe print matching without casts) are now recognized as pseudoscience and have led to wrongful convictions
- Child witnesses are highly suggestible and can be influenced by police questioning and social pressure to align their testimony with prosecution narratives
- Plea bargains and immunity deals can obscure the full truth when one perpetrator (Carla Homolka) receives disproportionately lenient sentences despite equal culpability
- Media publicity bans intended to ensure fair trials can paradoxically increase public suspicion and undermine confidence in the justice system
- Wrongful conviction cases often involve tunnel vision by investigators who fail to pursue alternative suspects despite credible leads
Trends
Podcast-driven criminal justice reinvestigation becoming mainstream tool for exonerating wrongly convicted individualsGrowing recognition of forensic science limitations leading to post-conviction DNA and evidence reviewsIncreased scrutiny of child witness testimony protocols and interrogation techniques in criminal casesPublic demand for transparency in high-profile cases conflicting with legal requirements for fair trial protectionsSerial offender profiling techniques from 1980s-90s (FBI behavioral analysis) proving effective but requiring corroboration with physical evidenceSystemic failures in evidence handling and chain of custody in pre-digital era casesVictim advocacy groups influencing parole hearing outcomes and sentencing reviewsDocumentary and true crime media creating secondary investigations that uncover prosecutorial misconduct
Topics
Serial rape and murder case investigationWrongful conviction and exonerationForensic pathology and gastric digestion timingChild witness credibility and interrogationPlea bargaining and immunity dealsDNA evidence and post-conviction reviewFBI criminal profilingMedia publicity bans and fair trial rightsParole eligibility and dangerous offender designationsEvidence destruction and chain of custodyAlternative suspect investigationBattered spouse syndrome and coercionPsychopathy assessment in criminal casesCanadian criminal justice system proceduresTrue crime podcast investigations
Companies
Exactly Right Network
Podcast network that hosts My Favorite Murder and partners with iHeart Podcasts for distribution
iHeart Podcasts
Distribution partner for Exactly Right Network shows including Disgrace Land and Hollywood Land
The Fifth Estate
Canadian investigative journalism show that reopened Stephen Truscott case and highlighted forensic failures
Apple Podcasts
Podcast platform where Disgrace Land and Hollywood Land are available
iHeart Radio
Audio platform distributing Exactly Right Network content
People
Karen Kilgariff
Co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast recapping live Toronto episode with true crime case analysis
Georgia Hardstark
Co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast providing commentary and case details during live show
Jake Brennan
Host of Disgrace Land podcast announcing show's move to Exactly Right Network partnership
Stephen
Editor of My Favorite Murder who appears on stage during live Toronto show
Paul Bernardo
Serial rapist and murderer discussed in Ken and Barbie murders case; eligible for parole hearings
Carla Homolka
Co-perpetrator in Ken and Barbie murders; released after 12-year sentence; now living under assumed name
Greg McCreary
FBI behavioral profiler who led investigation into Scarborough rapist and interviewed Carla Homolka
Stephen Truscott
14-year-old convicted of 1959 murder of Lynn Harper; exonerated in 2007 after 48 years; awarded $6.5M compensation
John Peniston
Pathologist whose gastric digestion testimony in Truscott case was later discredited as unreliable science
Stacy Mae Fowles
Wrote article 'Boy Next Door' in The Walrus about Scarborough rapist case from survivor perspective
Marlene Truscott
Stephen Truscott's wife who worked tirelessly to clear his name; featured in 2020 film Marlene
Alice Munro
Canadian Nobel laureate whose husband was revealed to have sexually abused her daughter; connected to Truscott case
Sean
Audience member from Bracebridge, Ontario who shared hometown murder story about bodybuilder and exotic dancer
Quotes
"We like you guys more than our own country right now. Get us a green card or whatever it takes to live here."
Karen Kilgariff•Live Toronto show opening
"This is how it fucking happens. Usually it's a baby or a small child, but still it's happening. You lost her, Georgia."
Karen Kilgariff•Story about losing Georgia at gas station
"I just really had to pee. I panicked and moved in with a pack of coyotes."
Georgia Hardstark•Bathroom incident story
"FBI profiler Greg McCreary believes Carla Homoka may have been more psychopathic than Paul Bernardo."
Karen Kilgariff•Ken and Barbie murders case analysis
"It is a wound that will probably never heal. The Bernardo case has been played out as a titillating drama, and we failed to understand what it's done to us."
Mary Lou McFadrin / Stacy Mae Fowles article•Case conclusion
Full Transcript
This is Exactly Right. Hey, it's Jake Brennan. And on my podcast, Disgrace Land, I tell stories from the dark side of the music business. And I'm thrilled to announce that now Disgrace Land and its celebrity spin-off, Hollywood Land, have found a new home here at the Exactly Right Network in partnership with iHeart Podcasts. You can binge over 250 episodes of Disgrace Land's back catalog and listen to new episodes every Tuesday, bonus episodes on Thursday, and rewinds on Sunday, now on Exactly Right. Listen to Disgrace Land and Hollywood Land on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello. And welcome. To Rewind with Karen and Georgia. That's right. It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for us to recap our old episodes with all new commentary updates and insights. Today, we're using it, this episode, to recap Episode 91, which we named Live at the Sony Theatre in Toronto from our live show in Toronto, Canada. This episode came out on October 19, 2017. Okay, let's listen to the intro of Episode 91. What's up Toronto? There, there, there, there, there. What's up Toronto? There it is. There, there, there. The magic. My mic is here. My mic is here. For an hour and a half, that's all we're doing. That's the show. Yay. Comedy. Oh my God, this is the biggest show we've ever done, you guys. Yeah. Good job. Fucking Canada, representing Big Tones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking Canada, representing Big Tones. Yeah. Pretty nice. We like you guys more than our own country right now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get us a green card or whatever it takes to live here. Please. Please don't make us come back. No, we're gonna get chained if we say that. Um, we're excited to be here. I don't know. Um, guys, can I just explain my outfit really quick? Everyone was wondering and waiting. I just, I got a job here at the theater, um, two weeks ago, and I love pulling that curtain. It's just who I am. Um, here's what happened. When we were recently in Australia, I brought, um, these high heels with me that took up all this room in my suitcase. And every day I, I scorned them and I, I hated them and I glared at them. And at the end of the 10 day trip, I left them on my hotel room bed like, fuck you. You're on your own in a foreign country piece of shit, high heels shoes. They're on their way back to her right now. That's right. That's a sad journey. Yeah, they're like, they're like those, those cats that can walk all the way home and like their owners move 500 miles away. 14 years later. Like here I am, you son of a bitch. Um, but I conveniently forgot that when I went to put all my things together for this trip. So I had my fancy, fancy dress last night. And then I realized when I got to the theater, I did not have shoes for very, very fancy dress. And so George is like, that's okay. You can wear that. And I'm like, thank God this is actually what I want to wear. A thing is, yeah. Let's hear it for theater blacks. They're so slimming. At least you can tell yourself that I just made that up and I never took an improv class. No, I didn't either. Did you just know but me? Um, and the thing is, it works for you because you're like, you're, you were golf anyways, where when I had, when we decided, when we decided to wear black to the shows, I had to like, all I have is like fucking paisley shit that like Mrs. Roper would wear and like crazy moomoo and like vintage things with moth holes in them. So I was like, I have to get a black dress. I like literally on one. So now my closet's full of that. And so you were like, let's wear what we're wearing now. And I just had a shirt on a gray shirt that said the husband did it. I'm like, I can't wear that. More would you want a show like this. You also had a really good Arthur Fonzarelli leather jacket. I was like, this is a great look for us. Let's switch out of the fancy dress area. Yeah, I support it. I did. I do. I mean, thanks. I appreciate it. Um, yeah, that's a, but wait, but there is a surprise because Georgia's dress has, you guys are like, Celine Dion? No. It's even better. Georgia's dress has pockets. Check it out. Yes. And I'm wearing and I'm like, I'm blaming it on you, but I'm so fucking happy to be doing it. The truth is to not wear my shitty shoes, uncomfortable dress shoes out here. Yeah. And to wear my fucking stanky, slip on. Look at him. Oh, she bought the first pair of Tom's. That's them right there on her feet. It's not no children are helped with these shoes. You can tell I'm a bad person from across the room, but the fact that I bought these shoes. Because you were like, I could buy Tom's and support children. Oh, look at these are on sale. Right. I'm like, the way Tom's go all the way up and the thing and they just don't look good on me. So I'm getting these shitty ones and I'm a bad person. Guys, um, here's the best thing that's happened. I feel like since we've gone on tour today, we pulled off the freeway driving up from Detroit, Rock City. Thank you so much. And, um, and we stopped off in Dunham. And they don't know it because Georgia had to pee and there was no gas station right off the freeway. So we kind of had to drive into the city a little bit. The town. Yeah, we'll call it a town. And we pulled over at like a, what looked like a little grocery corner grocery store and Georgia jumped. So she's like, I'll be right back and runs inside. I had a peak. So bad. Um, it was emergency levels. Yeah. So then Vince and I are sitting in the minivan. Yeah, that's right. And he's like, I have to pee too. And I'm like, yeah, why aren't we getting out? I have to pee too. We get out and we go into the store and this store is, is half the size of the stage. Okay. We start walking around. There's no bathroom in the store and Georgia is not in the store. And it was 20 seconds max between the time that we went into the store and the time she went into the store. And at first I was like, don't be crazy. You know, like as I'm walking and she's not there and there's no sign that says restroom, there's nothing. And then as I came back this way, I crossed an aisle and I saw Vince walking this way, which means we were both covering all of the store at the same time. And she was not in the store. And then I was just like, this is how it fucking happens. Usually it's a baby or a small child, but still it's happening. You lost her, Georgia. We lost her. In Dunham, it's him. Turns out there was a door. Maybe that's what you couldn't see. And I did the thing where I was like, not asking for permission because I've got to pee so bad. And I know it's like one of those places where you're like, there's no way they're going to let me even if I go, it's an emergency. You know, try to be cute. Get really small. I'm seven. I just, I just saw, I came in, saw the door and fucking booked it through like, it was obviously like the storage area. Oh yeah. And I was like, these people who work here got to pee somewhere. So I'm going to be there too. Yeah. And it was one of those things where it's like, clearly this is not for customers because it hasn't been cleaned in 40 years. It's a mop and the corner while you're paying and stuff. I didn't give a fucking shit. Weirdly though, the toilet had a toilet seat warmer, like attachment on it. Oh, those people know how to live. I know. Yeah. This is why they don't want anyone to use the bathroom. They don't want to know they're not spending the money on the floors. Yeah, they're like, they don't want other people in there because they're like, I need to go in there and have my time. Yeah. Just sit around on the toilet for a while. I was warm. Just a moment of real life. I don't know what to be. I'm just going to sit on the toilet and just really think about stuff. Warm my butt. And so then I came out of the bathroom and Vince was like in the door and he was like, where were you? Like, I was like, oh my God, I was like on for four hours. Like one of those things where it was like, where did you go? And I was like, what? And I came out and you were like, what happened? It was, I was scared. I was going through that thing where I'm like, I mean, it might be too early to panic, but it would be fun to panic. So maybe I should just get my speech ready that I've always had where I go up to the counter and I'm like, listen to me. My friend was in here 20 seconds ago and like really deliver that I am like the person who's lost a person's speech that I've always wanted to give my whole life. I need your help. Please call your local police authorities. Something like that. I was a little disappointed when you showed up. Sorry. She's back. It's over in another dimension. And in a plane, I didn't show up. That's right. You had Vince came to the show and then I got taken down to the police. Can munch house and by proxy being a few like also just throw someone out in the middle of the wilderness. I can't find her. There's there's got to be stories like that. There's I mean, I guess a lot of them are like that's this podcast. Yeah, that's what this podcast is. That's what we do every week. Oh, by the way, this is the my favorite murder. Thanks. This is thank you. This is Georgia hard star and that's Karen Kildare. You guys are lucky because last night at the Detroit show, someone like brought the mitten murdering. I was there called because this is a mitten, I guess, and this is where Detroit is and shit, which I just think events points at random places on his hand when he's telling me about where we are. They brought us little flags. And so the entire show last night was just flag themed because we couldn't put the fucking flags down. It was so much fun. The last time you've waved a tiny triangular flag. Not not a rectangular one, not anything about countries or nations or citizenship, just a little triangle one that's just about like something you like. I'm telling you, do it as soon as possible. I was out of my mind filled with joy. Yeah, I was just like, yeah. But it was only like this big was like that big. I'm telling you during the whole show, we were both fucking. That was the show. They didn't get a murder. They just danced dancing with flags in the middle of the show. As I was reading my very serious and horrifying murder, Georgia goes, oh my God, red flag and holds it up because it was the red flag. She had just been like and he took out a life insurance policy. I was going to go red flag. Red flag. It was a really exciting for me and no one else. I love those moments when you realize other people are way smarter than you and you're just like, yes, I'm seven beats behind. I love this. I get what you did. I love it. Love it. Anyway. Guys, apropos of nothing. There was a very small Canadian Kit Kat in the dressing room and I just have to commend you. Do you appreciate it though? Do you care as much as I do because if you've ever had an American Kit Kat, they're like having a small flat brown candle. They suck shit compared to what you people are doing up here with the Kit Kat and I thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, they stopped having to worry about health care here. So they're like, you know what, let's just make our chocolate really good. Kit Kat. Once we get there, you guys, we're going to fucking give you a run for your money in the chocolate department. No, we're not. I never get there. Don't worry. We eat so much chocolate that we have to be hospitalized and it's free. That would be amazing. Yeah. Oh my God. If we're going to do it, we might as well do it here. Yeah. Tonight on stage right now. Right? Right. Right. Oh. Stephen's here. Look at him. Look at him. Baby. Look at him. Let the people look at you. Yeah. Come to the people. Yeah. Look at him. Drink it in, Stephen. Drink it in. What if I went, oh, we love Stephen. We love Stephen at the liquor store though. In the bathroom. We just left him on the side. Oh, Stephen. Hi. Hi. Thanks. Stephen. Stephen, everyone. Stephen, have you ever, in your life, ever had 3,000 people cheer for you at one time? I'm going to pee myself. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's Stephen in a nutshell, everybody. He doesn't say that much. I've never seen him look that nervous before. I know. It's weird. He acts all shy. I know. I forget how he did this. He should have run out here fast. He was like, he was doing the, like, ready to go. Yeah. What's it called, ready to go? He was down and then he was up. Yeah. And then it was off. You know what's funny? I just realized that Stephen was standing here because we always give him lots of shit when he comes out here. And also when he's not here, it's super fun. He's our whipping boy in every way. He's the person who edits our show. So he knows all the stuff that we demand, get, obviously, the gets cut out of the show. And there is very, a very good chance that he's keeping all of the stuff that we want out. Don't say no, Stephen, because I know what you're like. I've seen that fucking mustache in action. I know what you're like. What if he has like a home computer just for the fucking bullshit? We've been like, oh my God, cut that out because there's so much of it. I'm like, I hate Bulgarians. And he's like, here we fucking go. I'm going to end you. Gonna need this one day. We know. Oh man. Oh, I hope so. Yeah. I mean, if we're going to get ruined by anyone and they're like, you know, it might as well be Stephen. It's got to be that guy. Why not? And then the per cast is here next year. Yeah. This whole stage is filled with cats. People like shit like that. Speaking of cats, my hair tonight is brought to you by Linda Bobsburgers. The Bobsburgers. Bobsburgers, the new season's coming on tomorrow night, everybody. I don't work for them. Just a fan. I don't even know them. I guess we, is it time? I think it's time. It's time for us to sit down. Thank you. I think it's hilarious that that actually is like a applause cue for you guys. It's precious. Yeah. Any bit of extra clapping that we can milk out of you, we absolutely will. Definitely. Oh. Thank you. Our lifeblood is renewed. But we also realize there are people that get brought to these shows of ours who do not listen to the podcast. They're like, who the fuck was that millennial? Like what's going on? Yeah. Someone's like, my best friend, like, you know, broke up with me today. Will you please come with me to this show? I don't want to go alone. Yeah. And they come and they're like, okay, you'll like it. You love comedy. They're like, I've seen two girls talking before. I don't need that. I don't. Yeah. I don't want to see that shit. So just so you guys know, this is a podcast about murder. Called my favorite murder. It's our favorite ones. And but it's also a comedy podcast. Can be a bit dicey. So hold on to your butts, everyone. Yeah. Especially if your butt gets triggered really easily. Yeah. I just be careful. You got it. Trigger butt. It's you trigger, but it happens a lot. All over, all over this great country. Leading cause of hilarity. Okay, we're back. Every time we record one of these rewind episodes, I expect it to be closer to what year it is right now, 2026. And it's always so far in the past. 2017. It's so far pre COVID even. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. It's like we didn't even know how good we had it. No. Like it was a glimmer in our eyes. I just wonder when the day will be when we're like, oh, that was just last year. It's just will we ever catch up? I know. It's so nuts. Also, I know for a fact I do this, but I have so many great memories of doing shows in Toronto, but I've combined them all into one. Like the one one visual one kind of thing where I'm like, no, that was the first one. No, that was the second one, but always a great audience. Yeah. This is the one where you guys thought you'd lost me. Yes. Oh my God. That was the dumbest. It was what was it disappeared? It was like this episode of disappeared. It was like, yeah, exactly. It was that Kurt Russell movie. Yes. Where all of a sudden his wife's gone and no one can help him. It was that feeling where the whole time I kept going, I know she's here. This is a stupid thing to like be worried about. But then it's like every minute that takes by you're like, is it? Well, that's where is she? I would watch a movie or a TV show where the best friend and husband are trying to find her. And they, you know, I don't want to happen in real life. My episode or by season three is, you know, will they won't they? It's just kind of a. And then they find her. As soon as, oh, that'd be good. That's right. When the like she staggers in with a big branch in her hair, it's like, wait, what? Where have you been? She's living with a pack of coyotes. And she's like, what have you done? A packet coyotes, but it's only like 20 feet behind the gas station they were at. I just really had to pee. I panicked. I panicked and moved in. I had to pee so bad that I was getting angry at Vince in like a, it was somehow his fault that there wasn't a bathroom. Like, because we were on the freeway, he was driving and I just remembered like, I know this is like not pointed in the right direction. Rarely is. But I'm so fucking pissed at him right now. Well, and also here's the thing. We were doing three different cities a weekend and driving from one to the other. Yeah. It was above and beyond touring. It was. Yeah. Touring to the max. And we also were doing it. It never stopped. It started and never stopped. It was the traffic tour. It was not so. Yeah. There was so much Starbucks involved. Yes, there was. I ate so many of those egg bites that I can't eat them anymore. It was suvete. For real. I'm like, oh, they're good because they're protein, but no, I've eaten so many. No, I never again. Never again. No, I think this was just a classic beautiful Toronto show and we should get right into it. Don't you think? Yeah, because you fucking surprised the audience with one of the biggest Canadian fucking true crime stories of all time. Yeah. Which I think they, I mean, they like the obscure ones too, but they love it when you, the audience loves it when you're like, here is your put you on the map story. Plus it was a make good for the bad way I told it the first time. Right. Right. Yeah. You really came in hot with this one. Let's get into Karen's story about the Ken and Barbie murders perpetrated by Paul Bernardo and Carla Hamulca. Hey, it's Jake Brennan. And on my podcast, Disgrace Land, I tell stories from the dark side of the music business and I'm thrilled to announce that now Disgrace Land and its celebrity spin off Hollywood land have found a new home here at the exactly right network in partnership with I heart podcast. You can binge over 250 episodes of Disgrace Land's back catalog and listen to new episodes every Tuesday, bonus episodes on Thursday and rewinds on Sunday. Now on exactly right. Listen to Disgrace Land in Hollywood land on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you know where I go first? Okay, I think I go first. We did two shows last night in Detroit and I went first. Right. Yeah. It's me. Right, Steven. We got a thumbs up from Steven. Yeah. If Steven says we go first. Yeah. That's his name. Yeah. Steven, one of the 3000 people yelled your name. So calm down. She wins this rug. She gets to take this rug home with her tonight. Oh, guys, we brought this rug from home just so you know. I get a little homesick when we travel. So I'd like to have something with me. Vince has won possibility, but I also like to have my rug. You know, it's really high maintenance, but I would love if like the, this specific kind of assholes we're going to turn into if we do a lot of shows like this, we're just like, is the rug there? Well, then I'm not there. How's that? Love that kind of stuff. Yeah. Where's the rug? The rug rehearsal was at 530 and no one was there. Rug rehearsal. I love that. Wait, I just have to say that these are the most comfortable and reasonably heighted chairs we've ever sat in. Speaking of getting into specifics, you just, we never know what the chair is. It's always. It's always. I was positive my chair was going to break last night. I didn't want to say it at the theater because I didn't want to insult them in their chairs, but there was this wobbly thing that I was like, this is going to, and it was like such that I knew that I felt backwards. Oh, they were high. Yes. They were very high last night. We should start wearing helmets. Okay, but they have to be black. They have to be formal helmets. So onto the murder. Oh, right. Oh shit, girl. Yeah. Did you see it? I did. I'm going to. Okay. So this is a heavy. You're a sneaky. I can't help it. I have perfect vision. And you're a really good upside down reader. This is a heavy hitter. I'm sorry. No, no, go ahead. Heavy hitters episode, I think. Heavy hitter, but it's also, it's also apology makeup work for the city of Toronto and the country of Canada as a whole. We owe you guys guys long, long ago in 1968 when we started this podcast. And I thought it was kind of like, I thought it was what we were talking about it to be when we first conceived of it, which was, Hey, you and me all sit in your living room and we'll just like talk about serial killers and murder and true crime and stuff that we're kind of fascinated by casually conversation. And very quickly relearned that that is absolutely not the way you can talk about true crime because you have to know years and cities and facts and dates. And the truth is really important. It's a big part of it. And I think it was around like the third episode. I thanks. They knew they were ready to tell you because they're pissed. Oh, I did this one and I talked through it as if it happened to my neighbor. I was so young back then. The whole reason I wanted to do it is because I had one actually like one person away from one degree away story that I love to tell all the time. And that's what I was building the whole concept around. But like, I didn't do any research at all. And I remember some girl emailing or tweeting, but she was just like, that was horrible. And then I was like, yeah, that was horrible. You're right. And then this whole time I've been saving it to come to Toronto to redo it. Because I felt bad. It was quite it was quite an awakening to realize that I just signed up for a podcast where I had to do a fucking book report every week. I guess not my jam as you can well as you well know. But anyway, tonight I'm going to do the case of the schoolgirl killers, the Ken and Barbie killers, Paul Bernardo and Carla Hamilka. For visitors, boyfriends, girlfriends, people who have never come before. We're not cheering for the murderers. We're not. It feels like we are. I understand why that would bother a person and maybe scare them to death. That's not what's happening. At least with me. I shouldn't speak for everybody. I got most of the research from this retelling of the factual story from the A&E series biography that they did on these murders, which is actually incredibly thorough. And they had a Scottish narrator, which I think is bold. Definitely. The Canadian guy was sick that day. The Canadian guy that they had for it. Well, it was YouTube, so it's international, I guess. Unless they do only Canadian YouTube here, like they, that's the thing they don't tell you about Canada. They fucking take over your YouTube. And the internet, like this site can't be seen, Canadian. Sorry about that. Okay. The other chunk of information or bunch of information that I got was, I stumbled upon this amazing article on a website called The Walrus. Yeah. It's so good. That's a good one. So a girl, a woman named Stacy Mae Fowles, wrote this. She is from Scarborough. She was 11 years old at the time that the Scarborough rapist was at the height of like his reign of terror. And she wrote a beautiful article that I highly recommend you go read called Boy Next Door. It's amazing. It like, I cried at the end. It was really fucking great. And it made me really happy. And I stole, stole, stole. Okay. Okay, so Paul Bernardo was born in 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario. He was the youngest child to Kenneth and Marilyn Bernardo, an unhappy couple. Isn't that how these always start? I mean, what couple that we know? In these stories is happy or sober. Yeah. His father would later face charges of being a peeping Tom and a pedophile. Oh my God. And he also molested Paul's sister. So that things were happening from jump for Paul. He also physically verbally abused his whole family and he often called his wife bitch and big fat cow. His mother was a depressive. I wonder why. And she'd also, she'd often leave the family for the weekend and just go stay with her family. And after a while in this family, things got so bad that she just went down and lived in the basement. Whoa. Yeah. That's how some people cope. You just go as low as you can. Just get weighed down there by the Christmas decorations. So. So dark. It's just like, mom, is there any milk? That's okay. I'll do it. I'll do it. So although Paul Bernardo was described as a happy child as a youth, he, when he joined the Boy Scouts, all the people, the leaders noticed that he really loved starting out. He was starting fires. That was his Boy Scout jam. Well, aren't they supposed to start fires in Boy Scouts? I got scared for a minute, but then I was like, wait a minute. But it's like, you get your badge and then you don't need to start a whole bunch of other fires. Okay. Got it. Got it. Is the thing. Smart. So 1981, when he was 16, he found out that Kenneth wasn't his biological father and he lost his shit, obviously. Although in retrospect, I would feel pretty good about it. Yeah. That's a positive. The peeping Tom is not your dad. Yeah. Quit crying. Everything's fine. But of course he was 16. This had been his life. It's like he founded his whole life as a lie. So he was furious at his mother. He blamed his mother for the whole thing. Started calling her slut and whore, you know, and she started calling him bastard all the time. Just fucking good times. Good times Sunday to Sunday at the Bernardo's house. Come over for dinner. You're going to love it. Okay. So after he graduates from high school, he gets a job with Amway. Are you guys familiar with Amway? It's like a pyramid scheme. It's weird. They just sent, they sell a bunch of different shit, but it's like really the point is that you get more people that you know to come in and sell this weird like laundry detergent and shit. It's just a pyramid scheme. It's like, Karen, have you noticed how clean my shirt is? I actually did notice that here at lunch. Like be with that one of us. Yes. I want my shirt to be that clean. They're really not that clean. But what he really picked up from working there was this, the, the, what they call the polemic sales culture didn't look it up. Not sure what it means. But what I assume it means is pushy, pushy, pushy, like they don't take no for an answer and they kind of like get you from every direction. They're super manipulative. Or it could mean casual. Who knows? That's the joy of this podcast. It's all question marky. We have to stay true to some of our roots. Yes. Or else it won't be the podcast you listen to. That's right. I had to leave one thing on research just so you knew I was still mean. Yeah. I gotta be me. Okay. He starts using these sales techniques to pick up women. By the time he begins, yeah, because women love detergent. By the time he starts going to school at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, he is displaying, sure, go raccoons. He's displaying all the signs of being a psychopath. Charming, outgoing, life of the party, but also an incredibly sinister dark side that only a couple people know about. Like his girlfriends who keep on breaking up with him. All of his relationship like time lengths just keep getting shorter and shorter because women go out with him and they're just like, sorry, you're not allowed to call me a slut. I have only known you for three days. Okay. We'll see you later. So he actually threatened to kill a couple of his girlfriends if they ever told how abusive he was to them in their private life. Oh my God. He was fixated on conquering women. He was just obsessed with picking them up, having sex with them and then making them do whatever he wanted. All right. So that's Paul Bernardo in a nutshell. There's I'm sure there's tons of other things to say about it, but now Carla, this is because that obsession that he had making women do whatever he wanted. That's where Carla homo comes into the scene. She was born in 1970 in poor credit Ontario. Her father was a traveling salesman and an alcoholic, of course. She had two younger sisters, Lori and Tammy. Carla was also a bright student. She was she. Oh, she their father was drunk, was a drunk that would insult the whole family and then he would go down into the basement. What the fuck? It's not fucking weird. Yeah. What are the chances? It's a thing here. They're like, yeah, no, everyone's parents said that it's not it. That's Canada. That's where all the Kit Kats are. They just don't tell America. Don't tell the US about us. It's that what if it's very healing to go into the basement? It's actually very good for you. They're just like, that's our secret. It's good for your skin. Okay, so. Also, when Carla's mother found out that her father was having an affair, she told him it was fine and to invite the mistress in for a menage a tois. So there's a lot of bad relationship patterning for both of these people. If I had a tiny red flag, I would check it right here. Oh, here you go. It would be fun. Okay, so she was described as a child as being stubborn, domineering. She was a rebel in high school. She cut herself. She would always claim that she was going to commit suicide to get attention. She graduated 1988 and she became a full-time veterinary technician. Up until that last part, that was so me. So man. Okay, in May of 1987, in Scarborough, a 21-year-old woman gets off the bus. She's followed by a man who was on the bus as well. And he comes up from behind assaults her and she ends up being the first victim of the Scarborough rapist. And over the next 13 months, these assaults continue and they escalate very quickly. The Scarborough rapist begins raping women orally, vaginally and aenally, cutting them or penetrating them with a knife. He chokes them. He punches them in the face. He stole one victim's ID, noted her home address, and then threatened to kill her family. He broke another victim's arm. All the victims were attacked from behind, so none of them saw his face, but they all described him as a tall, young man with light hair. While he was attacking them, he made them call themselves degrading names like Slut and Hor. So the police call in the FBI immediately to profile this rapist, which is a great move, and they bring in FBI agent Greg McCreary. You have seen this guy on every crime show there is. He is the guy. He's the FBI agent with the gray hair who looks really tired of crime. He's so fucking sick of people being bad to each other. So when he's explaining stuff, he's kind of quiet like this, but he's kind of like, man's in humanity to man. That's what he's saying, no matter what he's actually saying. That's just always what he's saying. I love Greg McCreary. Okay. So he does a profile on the rapist. He says this is a sadistic rapist with a high probability of escalation. Young in his early twenties, local, intelligent, high functioning in a dependent living situation, so probably living with his family. So crazy that he was able to determine all that shit. They know all that shit. It's crazy. Fascinating. And then a psychopath, obviously. So in April of 1988, a 19 year old woman is attacked after getting off the bus. She was actually pulled between two houses and raped and yelled for help. And the people in the house has heard her and didn't respond. No, guys. That's not how we do it. So the next month, the total number of known Scarborough rapist victims had risen to seven. So this is a little bit crazy. Constable Vic Clark told the press, quote, don't expect people to watch out for you if you happen to come back at 1am in the morning off the bus. Like the police? Right. Like the police. He said, it'd be nice to think that you can go anywhere you like nowadays, but don't put yourself in a vulnerable position. Hold your hate because the same month Alderman John Mackey proposed a curfew for women. Oh. For women. Finally. Get him out of the street. And waiting. We told what time we're safe. Just the logic there is your curfewing the gender that is not. Okay. No, no, no. Come on. Come on. In a refreshing turn, the Toronto Transit Commission instituted its request stop program. Right. So which meant that women who rode the bus at night could tell the bus driver, you can drop me right here in front of my fucking house and you didn't have to wait till the next bus stop so that women could get delivered exactly to where they needed to be. Wow. That's, that's what you do. That's problem solving right there. Moving here immediately. Okay. October 17th, 1987, Carla Molka is now age 17, and she meets Paul Bernardo age 23 in a hotel restaurant in Scarborough. Two hours later, they're having sex in her hotel room, which no judgment. Hey, look, yeah, if there were anybody else, we'd be into it. Friends who were with both of them that day said that the chemistry was palpable. Like it was in the air and like it always is when two psychopaths meet and fall in love. So do you, Steven, we put up that first picture of the happy couple. Barbie and Ken. Look at those warm, welcoming eyes on both of them. They're just wouldn't you love to sit in a hotel restaurant and stare across at her satanic, satanic eyes. And then his whatever they're doing eyes. And his tiny, tiny teeth with a fake smile surrounding them. He's like, this is what humans do when cameras come out. This is it. Happiness. Well, Carla's family thinks that Paul Bernardo is great. They don't mind the age difference. Her parents don't mind the age difference. He's smart, good looking. He's trained to be an accountant. Her sisters think of him as the brother they never had. Soon he's coming to her. She still lives with their parents. And soon she's dry. He's driving to her house like a couple of times a week. And it was an 80 mile drive from Scarborough to St. Catherine's, which is where she lived. She brags her friends about how mature her 23 year old boyfriend is. Within a year, she's confiding to them that he has become verbally abusive to her. But she always forgives him. December 24th, 1989. They take a trip to Niagara Falls and they get engaged. Did someone applaud? No. I think someone took their compact out of their purse. Because they have something in their eye. They're like, I love love and I don't care. She's like one smile. She's just like, shit. Okay, so they planned to marry in spring of 1991. The family's thrilled. In May of 1990, just six months later, the Scarborough police release a composite sketch of the Scarborough rapists based on all of the victims telling the police sketch artist. So can we see that composite sketch? I'm so excited. Oh, creepy. Stephen, I wish you would have cropped that up a little higher. Fucking. Why do we pay you? Oh my God, he left. He ripped off his mustache and left. He looks like he's in the style council. He looks, can I add another one? Yeah. He looks like when you walk by like a cheap hair salon and they have photos and the one does a look. This is the, the call to scrabble. What a rapist. I hate to say it out loud, but I love this girl. What a rapist look. Is it wrong? I think of the sweep over would look great on my giant forehead. Okay. Well, here's what's crazy is Paul Bernardo's friends and his coworkers see this and they're like ring, ring, ring 911 or whatever it is in Canada. Hello. Get me the fucking police right now. Shut up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh shit. I don't see it. Fuck man. Okay. So the police bring him in for an interview. He's polite. He's charming and he's calm. Like any good psychopath would be. He volunteers his DNA. What? It can't be you. They collect hair, blood and saliva samples that are sent to the lab. They collect hair, blood, and saliva samples that are sent to the lab where they will sit for two years. I don't like that. It's 1990. Okay, so then he moves in with Carla and her parents in St. Catharines and suddenly the Scarborough rape stopped. That's crazy. He tells Carla that, so this is where it gets, I mean, we knew this was going to happen, but this is so fucked. So he tells Carla that she can't give him the one thing he really wants, which is her virginity, because she already gave that away. So she can still give it to him just through the person closest to her, her 15-year-old sister, Tammy. And Carla agrees. So on December 23rd, after the whole rest of the family goes to bed, Paula and Carla invite Tammy to stay up with them after the... And Carla has crushed sleeping pills and animal tranquilizers that she stole from her job. Oh my God, is that? Yeah, it's so dark. And then she goes into her drink. She loses consciousness. Carla puts a rag soaked with the drug, Halithene over her face. Paul rapes her. When Paul is done, he tells Carla he wants her to rape her. She does. All of it is on videotape. So in the middle of that, Tammy begins to vomit and then choke on her own vomit. And Paul and Carla Rush put her clothes back on her and then call an ambulance. In the early hours of December 24th, 1990, Tammy Homulka is pronounced dead. And aside from them serious burn marks on her face, which Carla and Paul say must have been rug burns, her death is ruled an accident. A month later, Paul and Carla move out of her parents' house in St. Catherine's. They move into a two-story house in Port DeLuce. And they did it right. Good job. Thank you. Because I spelled it, it looks like DeLuisie kind of. You just went for it? That could have, I really did. I'm proud of you. Thank you so much. It was really fucking scary. No, it's terrifying. There's so many people here. Like you guys made us, not you guys, but this podcast has made us scared of saying places in this world. We never say it right ever. I mean, I guess it's not your fault. It's our fault. Still, it's your fault. Okay. When they're in their own house, he starts physically abusing Carla. And then when she threatens to leave him, he reminds her he has a video tape of her killing her own sister. And so she has to say. June 15th, 1991, Paul wakes Carla up in the middle of the night to tell her he has a surprise. He has kidnapped 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffey out of her own backyard. So this is super fucked. Leslie had gone out for the day. I think I read something where it said that she was at a friend's funeral and then she stayed out past her curfew. So she probably like, if her friend died, she got drunk with her friends or something. And when she got home, it was past her curfew. Her parents locked her out of the house. So she went into the backyard and that's when Paul Bernadette saw her and he lured her into his car with a cigarette offering her a cigarette. She was like, sure. And then he ends up kidnapping her and taking her to the house. Paul and Carla videotape themselves, raping and torturing Leslie for 24 hours. Then strangle her, cut up her body and case it in cement and dump it in Lake Gibson. Two weeks later on June 29th, 1991, two fishermen spot some strange blocks in the lake as they're fishing. When they look closer, they see the human flesh is sticking out of the cement. It's the body of Leslie Mahaffey's. On the same day that her body is found, Paul Bernardo and Carla Homoka get married in a Catholic church in Niagara on the lake in front of 100 friends and family members. What in the fuck? When in the special that I was watching, when it switched from that to the video of their fucking fucked up early 90s wedding, it like the version of chills I got were like, this is insanity. These are people who are completely cut off from any reality of what they're doing. It was, it's horrifying and the hair and the dress so ugly is, I'm sure that was part of it. But, okay. Now Paul starts telling Carla that he wants her to invite Tammy's friends over to the house so that he can do the same thing to Tammy's friends and she does. So they start drugging these girls that were friends with her sister and a lot of these girls had no memory of anything happening. They only found out after the videotapes were found and then they were informed that that had happened to them. Oh my God. Yeah, couldn't be darker. Okay, on April 16, 1992, Paul and Carla are driving around looking for a new victim. They're just full on fucking predators. They see a 15 year old girl named Christian French who's walking home from school. They pull into a church parking lot. Carla gets out holding a map and then when Christian walks by she waves are like, sorry, I need to know directions and they pull her into the car and kidnap her. But this time there's witnesses. So people saw, people actually saw Christian get taken but when they report it to the police, multiple people say that it was a beige Camaro. So immediately the police realize a girl's been kidnapped, a girl's body has just been found, we've got something serious happening. They start, they put together what they called the Green Ribbon Task Force, dedicated to figuring out what the fuck is going on. And the Green Ribbon Task Force puts up this billboard immediately. Have you seen this car, wanted in the abduction of Christian French and there's the Green Ribbon hotline. The only problem was that Paul Bernardo drove a gold Nissan. He did not drive a beige Camaro. So it was a huge mislead. In April 30th, 1992, Christian's body is found in a ditch in Burlington. She's clearly been tortured, her hair has been cut off. Then the violence within the marriage begins to escalate. On January 5th, 1993, Carla goes to the emergency room. He has, Paul's beaten her with a flashlight. She has two black eyes that go from like here to here and they're dark purple. She has broken ribs, extreme bruising. Before she leaves the house to go to the emergency room, she tries to go find the videotapes and she can't find them anywhere. 20 days later, January 25th, 1993, the DNA samples come back that Bernardo had given to the Scarborough police and they match the DNA of the Scarborough rapist. The Toronto police bring Carla in to talk to her because they know you talked to the wife. They have to break the news to her and then try to get information. It's our boy, FBI agent, Greg McCrary, who leads the interview. The degree ribbon task force was there too and they knew everything that was going on. They didn't accuse her of anything. They were more talking to her like they were being understanding and just basically trying to get information out of her. So basically once she talks to the police, she kind of knows that they're closing in on them. So she goes to an uncle and she confesses everything. She tells the uncle everything that they've done and the uncle says, you have to get a lawyer right now. So she tells the lawyer, you have to get me full immunity for my, I'll testify against my husband, but you have to give me immunity. So then she ends up making a full confession saying that Paul is the Scarborough rapist, that he's responsible for the murders of Kristen French, Leslie Mahoffee and her sister Tammy, and that she was forced to participate in all of it against her will. And then she says all the proof that they need is in their house on those video tapes if they just find them. So on February 19, 1993, a search warrant is executed in Bernardo home. It's a 71 day search. What the fuck? Yeah, they just kept looking because they couldn't fucking find these video tapes anywhere. And they ended up not being able to find them in the house. So without evidence, without that kind of evidence, they only have Carla's testimony. So they have to plea bargain with her because they need her testimony. So she agrees to testify against him in exchange for a reduced sentence. The whole deal was kept secret from the public to ensure a fair trial for Paul Bernardo. So reporters were allowed in the courtroom the day of her sentencing, but they were only allowed. It was a publicity ban they were called. They called it and they were only allowed to report on what the charges were and what the sentence was. They weren't allowed to report on anything else that happened. Wow, why? So, of course, this made all the press go crazy of like, how bad is this? This must be the worst thing ever because they never do stuff like this. So in July of 1993, Carla Malka pleads guilty to two counts of manslaughter and she receives two 12 year sentences to be served concurrently. No, that was her deal. She sent to Kingston prison and then soon after she files for divorce. September, right? Yeah, like at this point, don't worry about it. Cut bait, baby. Get out. The lawyer's like, I'm not also doing that. Yeah. You can't pay me enough. She's like, hey, every psychopath for themselves. I don't have a conscience, so I don't care about you, my husband. Okay, so in September 1994, Paul Bernardo's lawyer quits. He's not going to represent him anymore. It's how bad it was. Well, it turns out that the reason that the cops couldn't find those video tapes inside their house is because Paul Bernardo's lawyer had gone into the house and taken them out. No. Yeah, they were hidden up in just for future use. If you ever looking for anything or need to hide anything, they were upstairs in a bathroom ceiling light fixture like hidden up above. What a dick. Yeah, the lawyer. Dick lawyer, but then when he quit, he gave the tapes to the next lawyer who was representing Paul Bernardo. And that guy's like, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and give these to the cops. The law. I mean, right? Yeah. Let me just say this though, not right away. Really? Like two weeks later. Oh, like thought about it. I mean, I don't know. It's left on it. I mean, for two weeks. He thought about it and then he was like, oh, I don't want to be the devil like the rest of these people. Um, okay. So May 18th, 1995, Paul Bernardo's trial begins. Oh, sorry. So once the police have the tapes, they have to look at them. They see what's on them and they realize that her story of Paul being fully responsible for everything is a total fucking lie and that she was happily participating in all of it. And as coldly and horribly as he was, and that, yes, she was clearly an abused wife, but still on the videotape didn't seem to be having a problem with any of it. And they then realize that they called it the deal with the devil where they just basically, they, they, they'd given her the easiest way out and she was just as guilty as he was. Wow. According to the videotape, which, you know, is pretty objective. Okay. So May 18th, 1995, Paul Bernardo's trial begins. The defense claims that Carla was the one who turned Paul into a murderer. He was just a plain rapist before. Oh, she's this. But she, she fucking Yoc alone of that shit. She got in there and she fucked it up and she should have a curfew. But then Carla gives her testimony. And then on September 1st, 1995, the jury deliberates for eight hours and then finds Paul Bernardo guilty of all nine charges against him, including two counts of first degree murder. Yeah. He's sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. No, that's not long enough. 1995. No. Do a little math. I can't. Okay. That's soon. Okay. Um, he was also a couple months later declared a dangerous offender, which meant that he would likely spend the rest of his life in jail. Don't clap so fast. In 2001 in Ontario court ordered that all evidence from the Paul Bernardo call Carla homoca cases be destroyed. Leslie mojave and Kristen French's parents and a bunch of the officers and the detectives that worked on the case went down and witnessed all of the pictures and all of the videotape and all of the evidence from the entire case. Watched it all get destroyed. Yeah. Which makes me very happy. Yeah. In 2005, 35 year old Carla homoca was released from prison after serving a 12 year sentence. What the fuck. Don't it feels like you're booing us. Um, she moved to Montreal. She changed her name to Leanne Teal. Oh, we know who she is. Leanne Teal. That's what I would have changed my name to if I had to move away. Sure. His teals are great color and Leanne is a name no one uses anymore. She got married and in 2007 she had a baby. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was recently discovered that she was volunteering at her child's school. And in June, that school just released a statement not naming any names, but saying that they do not allow anyone with a criminal record on their property. So she no longer volunteers for her child's school. Oh, do we have that? Steven, do you have that picture of this is modern day? Oh shit. I wonder if the school did everyone like recognize her and know who she is. I think there's people out there that are like, excuse me, I know who she is. Yeah. Like I don't, there's, she couldn't move back to her hometown, which is what she was going to do when she first got out of jail. So she had to move to Montreal. What a monster. I mean, I'm sure it's great. I love French people, but yeah, she had to move to Montreal. She had to. Uh, FBI profiler Greg McCreary believes Carla Homoka may have been more psychopathic than Paul Bernardo. Um, being that she was able to live with the murder of her own sister, just the, I mean, you can't compare psychopathy. I don't think, but, um, I like the idea that he was like, you know, something to think about. And the whole time I was, it's that thing where you're like, well, when battered women aren't they, you know, you have battered spouse syndrome. You're in that situation. What would you do? Yeah. Or what would you be forced to do? Or what, whatever. And then I read this, this piece of information that I thought was pretty bone chilling when Carla Homoka was questioned and fingerprinted by the police. Um, they noticed that she was wearing a Mickey mouse watch that looked a lot like the one Kristen French was wearing when she disappeared. Just in case you had any video worries about Carla that she was being persecuted. Uh, I don't, I don't think if you were in that situation that you'd just be like, Oh, a trophy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. My hands hurt because I'm gripping this microphone so tightly because I'm like, Oh my God. Sorry, it's almost over. No, no, no, no. I'm in a good way. That's not a bad thing. Um, in 2017, Paul Bernardo, uh, that's this year. So he has served 22 years of his sentence already, which means that they're now starting to discuss parole issues. Um, despite being declared a dangerous offender, he is in 2018 or no, this year he's, he's eligible for day parole, which means you get to leave jail and then come back in the evening. No, that's not how prison works. Well, everyone. He, the hearing was supposed to be in August and they pushed it to October. So, and it's happening on the stage. Ladies and gentlemen, let's all get up on stage and murder him. We just, we cause a fucking Canadian riot. Like you wouldn't believe that would be the most badass move of all time. Yeah. Yeah. Paul Bernardo's hearing, uh, will likely take place at the Millhaven Institute in Bath, which is near Kingston, which is where he has been serving his life sentence. He is eligible for full parole in 2018. So we'll see how it goes. You guys don't do it. Don't please don't do it. Who here is deciding? Um, okay. So I just want to read you the final paragraph of Stacy May Fowle's article, um, because I loved it so much. It's, it's this quote. I came across a story that ran in the star published soon after the trial concluded, which argued that Bernardo was not the monster we wanted to believe him to be, but rather one of us, a product of our culture, a man groomed with a pervasive violent hatred of women. Mary Lou McFadrin, a women's rights advocate, spoke in the of the insidious impact Bernardo had on our community that he had created an ambient trauma, even for those who had not been directly victimized by him. It is a wound that will probably never heal. The Bernardo case has been played out as a titillating drama, she said, and we failed to understand what it's done to us. Wow. That's it. So fucked up. Really terrible. You made up for episode three, I think. I can't say sorry anymore than what I just did. That's all I can do. Let's um. Let's go back to episode three. Steven, take this note. Take out Karen's story and put this in just out of the blue. Wait, can I retell the whole reason I told that story in the first place that story of my friends? Oh, yeah, I don't remember. Sorry, is this like this one last thing? No, I'm so cold and dry. Um, yeah, no, I forgot because I don't. Okay. My friend. So Paul Greenberg, who was on a sketch show called the vacant lot, you should know him and love him. He is from here. Hilarious man. Now he lives in Los Angeles. You might hate him because of that. Anyhow, he's the one that told me the story. His mother was an artist and she lived in a high-rise apartment building that a pool at the on the roof and she lived in Scarborough at the time that all of these things were going on in the beginning of it, not the, not the couples. She was a schoolgirl killer time in the Scarborough rapist time. She goes up on to swim one day. It's daytime. There's nobody up there and she's doing laps. She is, um, I believe at the time she was in her late sixties or early seventies. She's doing laps in the pool and a young man comes out onto the roof as well. She doesn't really pay attention. She's just doing her laps and then she finally looks up and realizes he's just standing at the end of the pool staring at her. And as she's doing her laps, it's like he's just standing over her watching her swim and she is super freaked out by it and really scared. And it's getting to the point. He starts walking along the side of the pool as she swims. Uh-huh. And so she's shitting and it's not the way she would tell the story. I'm sure until the fucking roof door bursts open and like three families with kids run out and she's like, who am I to hear? Okay. So she goes right back down to her apartment and sketches his face. She's like, uh-uh. Well, when that, when that Scarborough rapist picture came out, she went and pulled the sketch out and showed Paul and she's like, that's the man that was on the roof. And it was the exact same guy. Oh my God. Yeah. Chills. I know. I love a first-hander. I'm sorry. No, absolutely. I love a first-hander. Absolutely. It's the best. Great job. Thank you. That's okay. Too much. There's too much clapping. It's too much clapping. It went from us needing it and loving it and making it, making up for a lot of love. We lost the children to just being a little too much. The clapping. To ruining our own clapping. Okay. We are back. Karen, do you have any updates? There are some updates. Paul Bernardo has applied for parole three times, October, 2018, June, 2021, and November, 2024. He's been denied all three times. During his last hearing, members from both Leslie and Kristen's families spoke, liberation only took 30 minutes. He's 60 years old. In November of 2023, he was moved from Milhaven to Macaza, which was a medium security prison. Of course, there was backlash. I mean, this man is one of the worst serial rapists of all time. What's the need to move him to a medium security prison? No. No. He's 60 years old. Right. 60, yeah, exactly. So then there was a probe into this transfer in March of 2024 after members of parliament learned that the correctional facility had a hockey rink, a tennis court, and wait rooms for its inmates. The commissioner of correctional service of Canada, Ann Kelly, said the transfer was sound, but it still left people with questions about, quote, sadistic murderers being left to enjoy freedoms and luxuries of lower security prisons. Yeah, bro. I'm sorry. No fucking hockey if you're a serial killer. And this man who is so particularly craven and like he was a serial rapist and then he became a serial killer. He is an example of how bad it can be if you don't tend to these people in some way. Totally. And you're going to be like, yep, let's transfer him to medium security. And if I lived in that town where the medium security prison was, I would be terrified. He is still a threat. Yeah. You know, like it's just, I can't imagine. It's so crazy. But I still boggles my mind that she's just disappeared into society, you know, like that boggles my mind too. But what are you going to do? Yeah. Okay, you know what we're going to do? We're going to get into your story about the trial of Stephen Trescott. Hey, it's Jake Brennan. And on my podcast, Disgrace Land, I tell stories from the dark side of the music business. And I'm thrilled to announce that now Disgrace Land and its celebrity spin off Hollywood Land have found a new home here at the Exactly Right Network in partnership with I Heart Podcasts. You can binge over 250 episodes of Disgrace Land's back catalog and listen to new episodes every Tuesday, bonus episodes on Thursday and rewinds on Sunday. Now on exactly right. Listen to Disgrace Land in Hollywood Land on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the story of the murder of Lynn Harper by and this case of Stephen Trescott. Trescott. Trescott. Trescott. Thank you. Sorry. I'm a nerd. Okay. What is it? Trescott. The podcast I listened to. Thank you guys. All right. So on the evening, June 9th, 1959, small town of Clinton. Represent Clinton always. Yeah. We love Clinton. We love it. Located near Lake Huron, about 200 kilometers. Uh-huh. How far is that? I fucking know. No idea. It's 200 kilometers. Um, west of Toronto, the parents of 12 year old Cheryl Lynn, so we're going to call her Lynn Harper, began to worry when their daughter didn't come home after her girl guides meeting. Um, around 1120 that night, her father, who's an officer on the Clinton base reported her missing. It's like a base town. Um, earlier that evening around 7pm, Stephen, um, Trescott. Trescott. Fuck. Lynn's, uh, so Stephen is Lynn's 14 year old classmate. He'd given Lynn a ride home on the handlebars of his bicycle. Not home, sorry. He'd given Lynn a ride on the handlebars of his bicycle. Uh, and he's questioned by police because he was the last person to see her alive. And he said he took her to the intersection of the country, of country road and highway eight. He left her there. She started to bike. He started a bike away. Stopped on a bridge, turned around and saw her get into a gray 1959 Chevrolet with an out of province license plate. I know. Sorry. Sorry. I know. Kilometers. Um, and that there was a lot of chrome on the car. So he sees her leaving, uh, in this car and getting into it. He bikes on. Um, and two days later on the afternoon of June 11th, searchers discover, uh, Lynn's body, a few tree branches partially covering her remains. And it's in a nearby farm wood lot just off a tractor trail. It's a lightly wooded area known as Lawson's bush on the outskirts of Clinton. It's just a little, you know, tree forest area. Lynn had been raped and strangled with her own plows. So Stephen becomes the immediate and only suspect. The 14 year old? Yeah. Well, cause he was the last person to see her. Um, he said he had dropped her off and they, the parents said that she's not someone who would normally hitchhike. So they didn't believe him. And within two days of an investigation on June 12th, 1959, Stevens taken into custody. Um, and after about 10 hours of investigation at 2 30 in the morning, Stevens charged with the first degree murder of Lynn Harper. Wow. 14 year old Steven. Um, it's then decided God, excuse me, that Stevens should stand trial as an adult, which means he could potentially be sentenced to either life in prison or execution. The prosecution case is based on the fact that so, cause Lynn wouldn't hitchhike. They alleged that Steven never even made it to drop her off. And in fact, it just had turned off into Lawson's Bush. It's actually assaulted her before killing her. So a fucking, there's a ton of witnesses saying the whereabouts, what they saw, when they saw them that are children. It's like 11 year old schoolmates, 14 year old kids. And so both sides of prosecution and the defense call these witnesses to say what they saw. Um, so of course on the prosecution side, they're saying that these, you know, the kid who was walking home down the exact road, never saw them ride their bike past that kids who were hanging out at the bridge never saw them and or saw Steven alone. Um, and so one girl, little girl claimed that she was supposed to meet herself, meet him in the bush at the time that Lynn was allegedly killed. So he was supposed to be there anyways and probably was there is what she said. Now, did they do any kind of, um, questioning of these children where they said, are any of you liars, are any of, are any of your pants currently on fire? Because that sounds like that grammar school bullshit where you're like, when you play telephone, it always ends up Dolly Parton. We're just like, that's not what I said. It's just so crazy because there's this really great, um, documentary about it that I'll get to, but they talked to some of the kids and it's just like, remember this shit? These little kids are like, you know, before she was found, they're like, I saw Lynn and this was what happened or I saw Steven and you get really excited and you want to be part of it. Yeah. Because you're 12 and it's, you know, or 47 either way, it's fun to be part of things. Or say like, you know, um, just get excited and spread rumors. Then the police come and talk to you and say, we heard you said this and they can't be like, no, I lied and made that up. You just go with it. You go with it. Little kids then also believe themselves. You know, they, they convince themselves that this is what they saw. And they know they'll get in trouble if they are lying and then it just, you're like, well, the solution to that is lie more. That's always the thing. My spangs have rolled down to about, let's see, like they've done it in a way that's now making me look worse. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's like, it's just pushing my gut up here and over this top of the Spanx in a way that did you know that's the new look? That's a hot look in Milan right now. Yes. Can I ask you, this might be the product might be my, it might be user error because I'm always like, well, if I'm Spanx, I should buy them in a size too small because then they'll do what they're supposed to do. That's not what you're supposed to do. Okay. Well, then it's user error apologies to Spanx. You guys are doing a great job. The best way to do it is you get the Spanx that come, their Turtle Neck Spanx, they just come right up here. God damn, they work so good. This is what I get for buying Spanx in a Spanx airport store. Literally, it's like, you know, you used to roll your socks down as a kid. Yeah. That's what's happening to my Spanx. Well, up until this point though, you were really holding your face together well. I feel like you were like, really, your core was engaged and you were just like trying to make it work. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. I was there. But still, I also like to know the personal stuff. Yeah. I'm not going to lie about my gut situation. I mean, you can't. I can't. I want to lie about my gut situation every day and I just... To yourself. It's just how it is, you know. Also, I mean, if we're going to be honest, part of my little half sock that I'm wearing in these is just rolled down and it's now almost all the way to my toes. Do your socks match? All the way to... Yeah. Oh, shit. Look. That's the most uncomfortable. Both of us need a minute to fix our situations. Jesus. Also, I'm covered in red. I know. Listen, someone, I brought this rug from home, as I said. Can you close the curtain? It's not working out. It's humiliating. There's so many people. And that's where the humor comes in of this podcast. Or does it? Or does it? How you doing? Listen. I leave. Oh, fuck. I walk out through the house. Goddamn it. With your microphone? Yes. I'm swearing into the microphone the whole time. Okay. So part of their big theory, the prosecutions, and really what seems to have turned the case and made it the strongest was... Okay. So the theory was that Steven never dropped Lin off, as he claimed, and actually between 7 and 745 is when he killed her. So this timeframe was super important because pathologist John Peniston... Sure. ...smell... ...spelled... ...smell... ...spelled penis tan. Okay. Why don't you just pronounce it that way then? It's fun. I mean, listen. Look. I can't. I haven't grown up. Also is... What? Say it. Do it. Go. All right. I don't want to go down the long slide of penis tan jokes. I just feel like... How many are there? I've got about 47 in the chamber right now. I'm not familiar. No, no. So he pathologist John Peniston... Conducted the autopsy of Lin. He testifies that... So he does the thing where he figures out what she's eaten by knowing when... How much food has been digested when she died. So he said between 715 and 745 because of the food that she had eaten, that's when she died. That's his exact time, which even by today's standards is fucking insane. You can't do that. You can't figure that out. You can't figure that out exactly? Absolutely not. Okay. So it's kind of one of those bunk science things now, like blood spatter and all this. It feels like everything's bunk now. I know. I know. They're taking it all away from us. What happened to my fibers? Yeah. God, I love when they find a fiber and then they're like this cat hair fiber matches this cat hair fiber. Cat hair fibers. You can walk them up. They fiber the red fibers. The fucking green carpet in his apartment. Okay. They also had shoe prints near the body and they say they seemed to match Stevens, but they hadn't taken any measurements or plaster casts of it. Hey, why bother? Just execute the 14 year old and get on with it. Jesus Christ. Fuck. That's going to be our tagline. Just execute it. The shirts just get worse and worse with these two. I can't wear that to Thanksgiving. Then the tattoos start happening. Fuck. This is our job. I know. It's crazy. So good. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. So good. I used to eat cupcakes for a living on TV. Now this. Pretty fucking awesome. Okay. The thing is we don't even do it right. Who said I ate cupcakes right? Were you one of those ones that like you bit and spit immediately? No. I ate the whole thing with the wrapper on it. Is that right? Like a goat. Like a goat. You just keep chewing. It's spit. Sorry. Okay. Professionals. As for the defense, they have their own child witnesses of course. Did you know sorry, I just heard about this recently. Did you know at the end of world war two Hitler had a child army that was fighting people? No. Did I dream that? No, I think... Because so many men of age were dead, and they had lost so many lives, they were sending out, you know, like the Hitler Youth, where they were really into exercising in the 30s. And they were just like, put on a coat and grab a gun, now you're going out there. Fuck. Pretty sure. Watch the History Channel. It's not my... It's not my area. Okay, sorry, go ahead. I just love the phrase, child witness. Like, I'm already like, no, I don't need that. I don't need that witness. And then, I was at the bridge, and... Get out of here. So these child witnesses said that they had been on or near. The bridge, and actually had seen Stephen on the bridge, and at first, the prosecution was like, no way you could have seen him from that far away. And then they went and were like, oh, I see how you could have seen him from that far away. That would all make perfect sense. It all makes perfect sense, yet still we might execute you. Yeah. Don't worry about it. Yeah. And so that all checked out. Witnesses also noted that Stephen, who met his friends at by eight o'clock, seemed totally normal when they saw him. And no one had seen Stephen entering or leaving the wooded area, where Lyndon was killed. Okay, so despite all of this, on September 30th, 1959, after a trial that lasted 15 days, the jury found Stephen guilty. What? At that time... And you know how they announced it? How? It was like, my mother, yes. What if there was a child judge? Yeah. It's like fucking Bugsy Malone from the 80s. It's just children. Oh, my God. Sorry. No, never be. I mean... I start now. I mean, not us, not you. Karen. Okay, so the criminal code required that a death sentence be imposed for murder. So the trial judge, imagining 14, the judge says to you, you're gonna die by hanging. What? Death by hanging. Um... That he appealed his conviction, unanimously dismissed the appeal. So then they commuted to just life in prison. Uh, so Stephen spent a decade in prison, and then he's paroled in October 21st, 1969, at age 24. So he gets out... And immediately gets drafted into Vino. Sorry. That would be a bummer. Sorry. I'm just running bad scenarios in my head at all times. I'm sorry. I mean, that's so fucked. It's his whole life. You go to jail when you're 14, and you get out when you're 24. I know. But then Lynn died at 12. It's so hard. True. And what if he... Okay. And I don't know. I know, none of us know. And I think that all of Canada is like... It's like half and half who believes what happened, but he did it or he didn't do it. Right, guys? You're gonna take a poll after. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Next to the gun. All we wanna know is yesterday. Don't mistake the two. Yes, please. Whatever you do. I know you guys aren't familiar with guns. They're not pens. So Stephen goes, limbs under an assumed name, shines all publicity for three decades, he marries has three children. Then in a 2000 episode of The Fifth Estate, which is a really fucking good show, I somehow knew that you guys would love it, because every article I read about this was like, The Fifth Estate, The Fifth Estate. And it was fucking good. It's a Canadian show. Yeah. And so he finally breaks his silence and he's on the whole show, like Mary telling everyone what happened, telling the stuff and all these, like, the kid witnesses are interviewed as adult witnesses. They're still kids. It's all Benjamin Button situation. Or one of the adults are like, I'm a nice old man Stephen. They're like a 49-year-old man. Jerry, focus, please. You have to look into the camera. We've told you seven times. Stop eating peas. Do you have candy? Okay. So, The Fifth Estate's investigation highlights serious problems with forensic evidence and showed that police were too hasty in laying charges in two days. In two days? So, in 2006, around this time, the scientists are like, wait a minute, we don't know, even now we don't know when food breaks down in the stomach because it's based on so many things, age, gender, diet, stress level, all these things. So, one of the forensic dudes was like, really all we can tell is what they ate. That's all we use this for at this point. So, they don't even use it. And then it can be... Other... So, Mr. Penistan. What? What? All of that and you landed at Penistan. Well, that's where everyone wants to land, really. So, years later, in like the 60s, Penistan tells, says, yeah, I was probably wrong about that. It could have been as much as two hours later when she actually died. Dude? I know, get it together. And then other... So, then these days, they examine the original evidence and conclude that Lin may have died as late as 24 hours after being with Steven. So, it's a big window. We don't use that science anymore. So, and originally... I don't want to keep saying Penistan because I know it's an old joke at this point. You're forced. So, Dr. Penistan originally offered two different times. Originally, he was like, could have been this time, could have been that time, and then it wasn't until they figured out when Steven would have killed her that he settled on that time frame, too. And it seems like he was like, had a change of heart at some point about not being a horrible person and came back on that. It sounds like he's just as suggestible as those child witnesses. He was a child forensic pathologist. Oh, shit! They should not let eight-year-olds be forensic pathologists anymore. Never again. Doogie Hauser? You ruined it. No. Okay. After... So, Trusskatz always maintained his innocence. He vol... Okay, in prison, he voluntarily submits to doing prison psychiatric probes, including Truthsterm and LSD. Wow. Which I'm like, I'll do that, too. I mean, if you're in prison, hell yes. But he was so adamant. I mean, think of it. This is not a time when people were stoked about doing drugs. As far as he knew, the 60s. Right. Not mystery drugs. But he was like, they were like, if we give this to you and you actually did stuff, I don't know if you guys have been in acid before, but you're gonna fucking talk about it. And you're gonna laugh about it. And you're a monster. It won't end for like 12 hours. It's so irritating. And you're in prison? And you're in prison on acid. What a bummer. The last time, look, don't do acid, it's so lame, it's so lame. It's long ago. I was laying in bed and I couldn't sleep. All my friends were asleep. All the fun had ended hours before. And I was laying in bed looking at spinning goofy faces. How fucking hacky is that? Like goofy, mickey mouse. The dog. A little bummer. Yes. Like, can I at least see something cool? Just spinning. And I was like, my arms crossed, like, I'm so lame. I love that you're even in, you're a critic of your own fucking. Yes. Bishit. Lame. Stupid. This is too commercial. Where's the local art? I can spin. Oh my God. Basically he's like, I don't fucking do it. Give me any drug you want. Give me all the acid and I won't fucking. Does sodium penifal really work? That's the truth serum, right? It does on me. I'm like, I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Let's find out right now. I'm gonna take it and it's an. It's awesome. Oops, it's acid. Oh, I skipped them all. Okay. Blah, blah, blah. Okay. Dada, dada, dada. Sorry. Sorry. I already said, dada, dada. So association in defense of the wrongly convicted, they work to get federal justice ministers minister to reopen the case. And on August 28th, 2007, 48 years after the original trial, the Ontario court of appeal unanimously overturns Steven's conviction, declaring the case of this character justice. Thanks God. Half the crowd is applauding. Half the crowd is not applauding. Yeah. Loudly. I have a really great ear for how many people are applauding at once and I can tell it's 1500. Was it 15? Not 1503? Nope. Oh, it was actually 14, like 98 because that couple got in a fight and didn't come. Yeah. They never made it. They couldn't make it. Like murder isn't funny. They just like, you don't get it. They also talk about cats. Okay. Miscarriage of justice and okay. This is a really big point of contention for the people who the other 1498 people, another couple got in a fight too. On your side. He, Steven's awarded 6.5 million in compensation. Holy shit. Yeah. And so clearly people are pissed about that who believe he did it. Oh, yeah. As well as the fact that, you know, it's given. Okay. Okay. Okay. So there, the possibility of other subjects, suspects weren't looked into and that's one of the reasons you got all that money. So two of the other suspects. So Sergeant Barry rule wrote a book called a viable suspects and he zeroed on this dude who was a traveling salesman and he was considered a person of interest in other violent cases and he had a ton of connections, including similarities in the car that, fuck sake, that's got the shit out of me. That was very jarring. Yeah. Steven, stop it. Stop rubbing your mustache on the microphone. I'm sorry, Steven. That was particularly harsh. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. It really wasn't. Oh, I wasn't. Do you hear anything I'm saying? I screamed at our audience last night. I told the millennials, I said the word stupefied. I said the word stupefied and like easily 100 children yelled back Harry Potter. I still don't think that's what they were saying. It was. I don't think that's what they were saying. Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, because then when I said, are you yelling Harry Potter, they all cheered and then I was like, that's why people hate millennials. That's the dumbest thing I've ever. It was fucking dumb. Do they know stupefied was a word before Harry Potter? Whoa. I knew that was going to happen. Oh, no, Harry Potter's here. Are you so mad? Expect us. It's okay. Yes, what the rug is ruined. Just my rug. You're all fired. You just won water of my face. This thing is falling apart. It's okay. I've actually spilled it on myself multiple times tonight. I knew that was going to happen. I just thought it would be me historically speaking. That's kind of me. Shit. So my thing. That was I'm stealing your bed. You're not. I'm stealing your bed. I'm stealing your bed. I'm stealing your bed. I'm stealing your bed. That was I'm stealing your bed. You're not. Okay. The car. Focus. Get it together. The car that this dude, and he gave a fake name for the dude because he's dead and he didn't want to. The traveling salesman. Yeah. Okay. The car was similar. He owned a 1959 Chevy Bel Air. And the same. He was in this area. The evening Lynn went missing. He also said he would have known the Clinton area because he was a traveling salesman and he similar shoe size. So he had he died before the investigation. And then. Sorry. Okay. There was a farmer who owned the property where Lynn's body was found and he said he saw a woman in the car park near his fence the night of the girl going of Lynn going missing. And the offer so on duty who was near the Royal Canadian Air Force base wasn't interested. And he also testified that the girl who said that that Stephen was supposed to meet her at the bush came to her later before the trial and said, can you tell them the time you keep telling them you saw the car? Can you change that front to an hour before she's 12? She's like, can you do me a favor? Like why? She wanted to fit with her. Yeah. And the grown man was like, no one I'm going to go tell on you. She's like, well, then you're not invited to my birthday party. It's fucking bananas. Another suspect. So there was a Air Force Sergeant named Alexander Kalichuk. He was a heavy drinker history of sexual offenses lived within 20 minute drive at the base. And Stephen and Lynn both lived at the base about three weeks before Lynn's murder. He had tried to lure a 10 year old girl into his car. I think a couple towns over in the mid sixties, a files uncovered that detailed that he had been psychologically evaluated as a sexual predator and potential killer. Wow. And he had two counts of indecent exposure on record before ever even arriving in Clinton. Wow. Yeah. Okay. And he was like, I'm going to go around. Yeah. Swiss cheese. Swiss cheese pervert. I'm surprised so many people remember that incredible story. The best story of all time. Yeah. For those of you who don't know, there's a man somewhere in the East Coast that likes to get into his car, not wear pants, hold up a piece of Swiss cheese and trick women into looking at it. And then he's jerking off behind it. And we're not tricking you guys, right? The people who don't know this story, we're not tricking you. This is real. There's pictures of him doing it. Pictures and there's people who wear Halloween costumes of this man. Look it all up. This is our gift to you for later. And then call us insensitive. I was just fucking, you were a nurse for Halloween. Wow. I got really angry at the crowd. I know you were mad. Listen. Look. Look at that. All right. And then there was also another man, electrician with a conviction for rape who worked regularly at the base and knew the Harper's lens family. Okay. So tons of choices, sons of choices. Take a couple extra days before I mean, just mull it over for one second. Yeah. So, okay. Oh, no. Okay. But here's the thing. Who last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last That's him? Yeah. He kind of looks like an adult. Yeah, he's a big kid for a 14 year old and then let's look at Lynn. Little baby. So that's that. Wow. That's a... I hope to God. I mean like these days, it's very likely that someone can start a podcast where they're like, I'd like to know what happened and then they could actually figure it out. Like people are doing that all the time now. Yeah, that'd be amazing. For sure. Someone did that. It's like authors being like, yeah, that was us until 10 years ago. You fucking asshole, podcasters. They're like, would you just read off that paper? That's right. We're like, start a podcast. I mean, you can then tell. It's not that hard. I just want to know the answer. I know. I hate those kinds of things. I know. That's why I do them is because I hate them and I love them. You know, I fucking... It's like a puzzle. Because I'm... Yeah. Oh, it's... All right. It's clear. I almost said... Okay, we're back. Are there updates for the story? There are a couple in the 2020 film Marlene tells the story of Stephen's case and how his wife, Marlene, works tirelessly to clear his name. And then in 2024, Canadian author and Nobel laureate, Alice Monroe, wondered that her husband could have possibly been involved in Lynn's murder. This came about amid the revelation that her husband had sexually abused her daughter, his stepdaughter, and that Alice had known about it. And then most importantly, Buried Bones covered this case, which you know is just going to be incredible. It's an episode called Bugged that came out on August 30th, 2023. So definitely go check that out for a deeper dive, a smarter dive. I actually downloaded that episode because I so want to hear the detail. This is one of the craziest cases of all time and I can't wait to hear those guys pick it apart. Same. Okay, we're going to go back now to hear a hometown from the audience. Hey, do we have time for a hometown model? Don't we? Will you look up... Make sure Vance isn't like waving at us because I can't see. Are you okay? Can I just flash you on my underwear? Okay, wait, let me have to pick someone out. I get a pick. We just want to hear a hometown murder now. Listen, here's some rules. We've learned this over the years. You have to listen. You can't read off a piece of paper. You have to tell it like it actually happened to you. You can't be super drunk. You can be lightly drunk. But you can't be slurry or posy drunk where it's uncomfortable Thanksgiving drunk. We can't have that. It's fun if you have a fun personality, but you don't have to have a huge personality. We prefer you don't. You know what? We've run out of time. Okay, bye, you guys. All right, and now I'm picking and I'm scared. You guys listen. Karen's letting me... I hear you. Karen's letting me pick now. And so don't fuck this up for me. It's all I'm asking. Don't wave your arm if you just got half a game. We never have a dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you. Sorry, we're having a dude fix your socks. Oh shit, he's pointing. Uh-oh. He's got a big... Wake up, Steven! Go, go, go! Thank you, Steven. Oh no. Hi, what's your name? I'm Sean. Don't ruin this for me, Sean. Hi. Okay, take center stage. Center stage. All right, so I've got... Say hello to everyone. Sean, hold on. We're gonna... All right. Where are you from? Deep right. I am from Battle of Muscoca, or like Battle of Ontario, Muscoca. Awesome. Where is it on the... Oh, up over there? Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. All right, so it's about, yeah, 200 kilometers. Kilometers. Toronto. Okay. All right, all right. So I don't actually remember the names of these people. Oh, Jesus. Well, then you're in the right place. Perfect. All right, so it involves a man from Bracebridge, Ontario. Perfect. So he moves to Toronto, and he's a bodybuilder, and he wants to be like a fitness instructor and everything. And then he meets this high school dropout exotic dancer, drug dealer. Yes. Very well. We're off to a great start. Good combination. Here we go. And so they hit it off. They get together, and then they start partying like there's no tomorrow cocaine everywhere. Just great times all around. Well, times. Okay. They end up actually fighting so much after a little while that they get kicked out of multiple apartments, and then he eventually gets arrested or up on charges for something. So he does the best thing he can do. And he skips town to go and live with mom and dad, and he brings the woman with her. The mom and dad don't like him or don't like her. They don't like the exotic dancer drug dealer. Okay. Yeah, I know. Go figure. So from there, after a little while, they get their own place, and then they get kicked out. And they have a bunch of other places. It was actually so bad. They're fighting that a landlord gave them $900 to move out. That's never happened in the history of apartments. No, I'm going to try that next time. I want to break a leaf. Good luck with that. They actually ended up having a kid at this point. And so like I said, they were fighting. She actually got a charge for the assault on him because he threatened to call child services because she was apparently a bad mother. His father had had nothing to do with it. No, nothing. So she starts getting bored of him, starts sleeping around, and then actually develops a plan to move. But they were behind on rent so much that he actually had to go to court and do a bunch of legal stuff. So she got her she got her shit together and planned to move out. On the day that she was planning to leave, he had to go to court. But he came home early, caught her, and they got fighting, obviously. As they do. As they do. And what ended up happening was he ended up hitting her in the head about three or four times. After the first time, she actually tried to block the blows and ended up breaking some of her hand bones. So from there, she's obviously dead after the fourth or fifth blow. Oh, okay. Right. I'm sorry. It's for alert. She dies. Okay. Shit. So he does what any rational person would do is he goes to Home Depot and buys four, five gallon drum buckets and lit matching lids. And now he's working for a construction company at this point. So he's he goes out, puts the body in the trunk with the four, the four bins and drives out to a former customer's place. It's a cottage. No one's around. It's March, I believe at this time. And so yeah, no one's around. Cuts up the body and puts it in the pails, calls a friend says, Hey man, I got to get out of my place. Can I store some stuff in your store? Can I store some buckets? Don't worry, the lids match. Don't worry, it gets worse. Always. Always. So while he's working on another job at a different cottage with the guy, he ends up sneaking, sneakily building a crate in which to store these four buckets from there. So over the course of time, he builds this crate, puts the buckets in, seals it up, leaves three years later, the crate was noticed by the homeowner. Oh my God. Where was it in the backyard? No, no, like so it was like, it was kind of like over, so there's a porch kind of thing and there was like a crawl space. Yeah. Next to the house. No, it was under the house, under the porch. Oh, so he was working on the house and he was like, Oh yeah, I fixed that thing. And then he puts a dead body into the house essentially. Oh my God. So you're like, yeah, I'm telling you. Sorry. That's what I'm saying. So yeah, like I said, three years later, the homeowner knows this crate and he asks this his handyman around from the that works around the place. Hey, what's what's this crate doing? He's like, I don't know. Cracks it open and smell it. Uh huh. Yeah. Oh my God. So who was? Please right now say I'm that handyman. Yeah. Even if you have to lie, it's the best ending of all time. I'm that. No, no. So he got really stupid with because he said the guy that killed the his girlfriend, he actually used his her cell phone for calls, sold her clothes because he did initially say that she just ran away. Right. But so they eventually tracked it back to back back to him. And he was convicted in May 2013 with for he got charged with life or second degree murder. So that's automatic death or not death. Sorry. It should be automatic life in prison with a chance of parole after 17 years. So he's eligible for parole in 2013 or 2030. Wow. Well good. Wow. So that's that was great. That's why I'm down murder. That was amazing. Now you don't have to read that one because I emailed it to you. Oh, thank you so much. Great job. Yes. That's how you tell a hometown murder. You thought you were going to just take your time and tell it. I'm just kidding. I'm giving you a shit. Yeah. Okay, we're back. This episode originally was titled Live at the Sony Center in Toronto for reasons that are obvious. But if we were naming it today based on something from the show, I love this one. Maybe we would call it fun to panic too early to panic, but it would be fun to panic. We'd have a good time with it. Or my description of American Kit Kats, a flat brown candle. It's so gross. So gross. And of course, expecto stupefy when you cast your Harry Potter spell. Hilarious. So good. All right. Well, that was another episode of Rewind from all the way back in 2017. Thank you guys for listening. Let's say goodbye from the Sony Center back in 2017. This has been really incredible. I mean, it really is so fun. It's so cool that we get to do this exact thing and you want to come and see us do it live. It's ridiculous. It really is. We're lucky. We fucking love Canada. You guys are all so supportive of us from the very beginning. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming out. Thanks for getting the tickets. Thanks for making that effort. Thanks for listening for as long as... Thanks for listening so long that you know I fucked up Paul Bernardo. Thank you. And this was Cheese Guy. Thank you guys. So stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Elvis, do you want a cookie?