Only in Canada you say. This is as whacky as the Romanian priest post. Karla Homolka and her ex husband Paul Bernardo murdered three women for S/M style thrills, one of them was Karla’s own sister. He got life and she got off with only 12 yrs for turning evidence on her husband. However, based upon later evidence many now think however that Karla was actually the mastermind behind the murders. She’s being released in a few weeks and has a new boyfriend.
Homolka’s killer pal called `predator’
Killed his ex, then cleaned up house
Scene similar to Mahaffy murder
LUANN LASALLE
CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL — Karla Homolka’s jailhouse boyfriend took the time to tidy up the house after strangling his ex-girlfriend.
Jean-Paul Gerbet then put Cathy Carretta’s body in the trunk of a car, all his movements so seamless that her father didn’t immediately notice anything out of place at the home he shared with his daughter.
Gerbet killed Christian Carretta’s 23-year-old daughter on Feb. 10, 1998, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Manipulative and narcissistic, he was careful to behave normally in public, Carretta said in an interview.
“He’s got a split personality,” he said of Gerbet. “He hid his game very well. He always tries to act well around people, men. He is a very good manipulator.”
Gerbet, 39, met Homolka in the library of a minimum-security institution in Montreal in 2001. Carretta claims the pair has talked about settling down and marrying in France in the letters they’ve exchanged.
Carretta said he fears Homolka will try to pursue the relationship with Gerbet despite a Quebec judge’s orders that she must not consort with convicted criminals when she’s freed from jail sometime between June 30 and July 4.
Carretta said Gerbet had his wits about him after he killed his daughter.
He describes a scene eerily similar to that in the Bernardo-Homolka home after they killed 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy in June 1991. The girl’s body lay in their root cellar as they entertained Homolka’s family for a Father’s Day dinner.
“He (Gerbet) cleaned up the house,” Carretta said. “I came home two or three hours after the murder and I saw absolutely nothing. I ate my lunch. He had put her body in the trunk of a car.”
“It wasn’t a crime of passion, it wasn’t someone who lost his head. He’s a predator.”
Homolka, now 35, was convicted of manslaughter in 1993 in the sex slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French, who had her hair cut off after her death, and Mahaffy and for her role in the death of her sister Tammy.
Her ex-husband, Paul Bernardo, was convicted of first-degree murder in the French and Mahaffy deaths and has been declared a dangerous offender.
A member of the Carretta family who asked not to be identified noted other similarities between Gerbet and Bernardo.
Gerbet had also cut off Cathy Carretta’s hair either before or after her death, said the family member.
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Carretta said he fears a relationship between Homolka and Gerbet.
“Listen, she’s got three murders on her conscience. He has one. That’s not a normal relationship.”