Karla and Paul made Kristen their sex slave. They tortured her unmercifully in ways too horrific to mention. These indignities continued for several days. The couple killed Kristen on Easter Sunday, before Karla's parents came for dinner. On April 30, Kristen's body was found in a ditch not far from the grave of Leslie Mahaffy. Her beautiful long, dark hair had been cropped. Because she had not been dismembered, police didn't link the two crimes.
Paul Bernardo's name continued to surface time after time in connection with the Scarborough Rapist. In February 1993, a blood analysis done at the forensic laboratory in Toronto pinpointed Paul as the perpetrator. Had the forensic team tested his blood when it was first taken several years before, Paul would have been in jail when the girls were murdered.
After the blood analysis, the police put Paul under surveillance. They learned that Karla had filed assault charges against him. Paul continued to physically abuse his wife. Karla left him in January 1993.
In February, the Ontario Green Ribbon Task Force, which had been formed to solve the "Ken and Barbie," murders as they were dubbed, decided to interview Karla. They took her fingerprints and questioned her about a Mickey Mouse watch in her possession that was very similar to the one worn by Kristen French when she disappeared. She was detained for five hours. At this time she realized that investigators had linked her husband to the Scarborough rapes.
Karla knew the jig was up. She told her uncle that Paul had committed the rapes and murdered Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. She failed to admit that she was an active and willing accomplice.
In mid-February, Paul was arrested on both the rape and murder charges. On February 19, armed with a search warrant, the police searched the couple's Port Dalhousie home. They found a video of Karla engaged in sex with two women. A week later, Karla's lawyer and a plea-bargain specialist for the attorney general cut a deal with her. She would be sentenced to twelve years in prison for the deaths of each of the girls. The sentences would be served concurrently. It would prove to be the worse plea-bargain in Canadian history.
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