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Bryant: this is in the early stages of dna analysis, and so the technical side of that was still very much in a development stage. paul hunter: when they finally get around to testing, they say, hey, we got a match. kenzora: and it was matched to paul bernardo. watch the car, please. reporter: police have 28-year-old paul bernardo in custody, accused of being the notorious scarborough rapist. they arrested him late yesterday at this house in st. catharines that he rented with his wife. paul hunter: i saw paul bernardo for the first time when he was being arraigned in scarborough after he was arrested. to see him finally, i thought, so, that s the scarborough rapist. he didn t look like a monster. he just looked like a guy, and i think that s what made it even scarier. sacks: we expect our monsters to look like monsters, and they don t always. van allen: these types of offenders are known to have ....
Once homolka came forward, things started lining up. rosen: she tells them about the two young girls who were being sexually molested kristen and leslie. and she told them, what s more, we videotaped all of it. karla and bernardo they taped everything. homolka: here is my husband. you d see them on vacation, and they taped the sexual abuse and assault of these young women. mccrary: one of the things that our research has shown is these sexually violent offenders memorialize their crimes. so, we were able to get a search warrant to look for those tapes. bevan: we have obtained a search warrant. we entered the premises last evening and began our work. paul hunter: and they looked for 71 days inside that pretty, little house in st. catharines. they couldn t find it. reporter: police tore the house apart, ....
No one was arrested. the rapes had stopped when bernardo had moved from scarborough. paul bernardo moved to st. catharines to live with karla homolka and her family. and then a body was found in the st. catharines area. leslie mahaffy. kenzora: the night that leslie disappeared, she had attended a memorial for a young gentleman who was killed in a car accident. garofalo: she got home at 2:00 in the morning. all the lights were off. kenzora: the door was locked. she left and went to a phone booth and called her friend to say, i m locked out. can i come stay at your house? friend said no, so she walked back to her house. kenzora: and that was the last anyone heard from her. hemsworth: and everyone had hoped for the best, and then everyone discovered the worst. reporter: the dismembered remains of 14-year-old leslie mahaffy were found in a nearby lake. she had disappeared two weeks before. ....
Mccready: it was shocking, the finality that you d never wanted to come true. reporter: niagara regional police went to the home of doug and donna french near st. catharines to notify them about the young victim. donna: i was just so sure that they d find her. i was just so sure, and then when we found her, i just kept thinking, why did he have to kill her? mccready: everybody was just devastated. now, it s like, what can we do to find the people who did this to her? they re still out there. they can do it again. and that was the fear. garofalo: police were searching for clues for kristen french s abduction and murder. it was reminiscent of an unsolved case that took place nearby the year before, the murder case of leslie mahaffy. hunter: it was a dark, scary time. there is something wrong here. reporter: the nightmare for the mahaffy family began june 14th, 1991, when 14-year-old leslie disappeared. ....
Reporter: how s your family coping? as well as can be expected. hemsworth: it seemed like an unlikely perpetrator. he appeared to be an accomplished person. he was married to an attractive wife and lived in a nice subdivision in st. catharines. reporter: karla homolka was ravishingly blonde and beautiful, and her husband was the clean-cut, handsome boy with a glittering career ahead of him. kenzora: karla homolka grew up in st. catharines with her parents and two sisters. shlosberg: karla was the oldest sister. she had a younger sister, lori, and then she also had tammy, who was her baby sister. kenzora: karla loved animals, worked at pet stores, and then at a vet clinic, and, you know, she was pretty focused on getting a boyfriend and getting married. shlosberg: when karla met paul bernardo, she thought her fairy tale was finally coming true. ....