I love a good monster. My favourite murderers are Albert Fish and Karla Homolka.
Albert Fish was a New York housepainter who enjoyed torturing children to death, cooking them, and eating them. He would hacksaw them to death because he said he enjoyed the sound of their screams. The only reason he was ever caught is because he wrote a letter to the parents of one little girl he murdered, telling them she was delicious and that they should be grateful to him for not raping her before he killed her. When Fish was sentenced to death, he thanked the judge and told him the electric chair was the only thrill he had yet to experience. And they ended up having to execute him twice. He had inserted so many pins and pieces of metal into his flesh over the years that he shorted out the chair; they had to surgically remove it all before they could fry him for a second time.
Karla Homolka is even more interesting. She’s a bisexual, drop-dead blonde bombshell who was married to Paul Bernardo, the Scarborough Rapist. Bernardo was a sexual sadist and his trademark before he started killing was stuffing his victims’ vaginas with twigs and writing SLUT across their backs in purple marker. Karla knew about his activities, and had known all along. It was later discovered that she had “given” her own little sister to Bernardo as a birthday present, drugging her with horse tranquillizer. Her sister choked on her own vomit and died during the ordeal and everyone at the time thought it was just a tragic accident.
But that’s not the end of it. At some point Karla decided to help her husband kidnap two young schoolgirls. She’d lure the girls to the van where Paul would grab them. She helped Paul torture, rape, and murder the two girls, then chopped them up and embedded them in cement, which they dumped in the Don River.
The cops had been watching the couple for months (there was a huge controversy when it was discovered they’d suspected them since long before the two girls were killed but hadn’t arrested them because multiple police departments refused to cooperate with each other), and when they arrested Karla and Paul, Karla told them she was terrified of Paul and had only helped him because she was in fear for her life. They agreed to a plea bargain which would have her serve seven years in exchange for testifying against her husband. It was only after they’d agreed to the deal that she revealed she’d filmed everything. The cops hadn’t found the tapes and her lawyer had retrieved the tapes from her house. The only people who have ever seen the tapes are the police and those in the court when they were played, but people who were in the court say Karla was a willing and active participant, and that at one point she masturbated on camera with the severed hand of one of the girls.
The cops were furious they had been duped, but they’d already made the deal and were forced to abide by it. Karla served her time and is now free and living somewhere in Quebec with her girlfriend, a woman she met while in prison. (In revenge, the cops charged her lawyer with possession of child pornography because he’d retrieved the tapes for Karla.)
This is a picture of the photogenic Karla Homolka serving time in Joliet Prison.
