Paul Bernardo

About

Paul Kenneth Bernardo (born August 27, 1964), also known as Paul Jason Teale, is a Canadian serial rapist and serial killer dubbed the Scarborough Rapist and Schoolgirl Killer. He initially committed a series of rapes in Scarborough, Ontario, a district of Toronto, between 1986 and 1990, before meeting Karla Homolka, with whom he committed rape leading to the death of her sister Tammy, followed by two murders in 1991 and 1992.
After his capture and conviction, Bernardo was sentenced to life imprisonment and was declared a dangerous offender, making it unlikely that he will ever be released from prison. Following his conviction, Bernardo confessed to ten more rapes committed a year before the spree officially ascribed to the Scarborough Rapist. Homolka was given a lighter sentence in exchange for testifying against Bernardo as part of a controversial plea bargain; she was released from prison in 2005. Bernardo has been denied parole three times.

Paul Bernardo was born in Scarborough, Ontario, then a municipality adjacent to Toronto, on August 27, 1964. He was the third and youngest child of Kenneth Walter Bernardo and Marilyn Elizabeth Bernardo, née Eastman. Bernardo…