Journalist Paula Todd finds Karla Homolka
Journalist Paula Todd has spent years hunting down the schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka. She tracked her down to the small tropical island of Guadeloupe where she lives with three of her children and her husband Thierry Bordelais.
Homolka now 42, was convicted of manslaughter in 1993 after striking a deal with the prosecutors to give them information leading to the conviction of her then husband Paul Bernardo.. She served 12 years in prison and was released in 2005. For his part, Bernardo received a life sentence.
The pair were arrested for the rape and murder of two young girls and the drug-induced death of her sister Tammy.
Paula Todd has written a book about tracking down Homolka.
Paula Todd Finds Karla Homolka On Remote Island
In the short e-book titled Finding Karla: How I Tracked Down an Elusive Serial Child Killer and Discovered a Mother of Three
Using tips she found on the internet and through social media, Todd tracked down one of Canada’s most infamous criminals to the small island.
Todd writes that she stumbled on Homolka’s home while walking along a gravel side road. She found herself staring at a residence with mailbox that read, “Leanne Bordelais,” the name that Homolka now goes by.
In the window on the second floor, she spotted Homolka in the window
“I look through it into a tiny, tidy kitchen,” Todd writes. “There, bent over the sink, is a petite woman with light hair. She turns her face sideways to see who’s arriving. Then she freezes…
“I have found Karla Homolka, and I’m not sure which of us is more shocked,” Todd writes.
Thierry Bordelais joined her and together, they formed a human wall, which Todd said hid three children from her view — two boys and a girl.
“One son I was prepared for, but does the woman who killed three children now have three of her own?” Todd writes.
Homolka invited Todd in. Shortly after they sat down the children came in.
Todd watched Homolka interact with them, nursing the baby, and said Homolka appears “to be an excellent mother.”
“That’s funny that you think you can judge that after seeing me this short time,” Homolka responded.
Todd says they talked for nearly an hour before Bordelais spoke to their laywer on the phone and whispered something in Homolka’s ear.
“And then, everything changed,” Todd wrote.
Homolka now 42, was convicted of manslaughter in 1993 after striking a deal with the prosecutors to give them information leading to the conviction of her then husband Paul Bernardo. She served 12 years in prison and was released in 2005. For his part, Bernardo received a life sentence.
The couple went to another room and had a heated converstation. When Karla returned to the room with Todd, she ended the interview.
“A long time ago, I said that I would never speak to anybody and I’m going to maintain that,” Homolka told Todd, adding she doesn’t trust journalists and no one cares about where she is or what she’s doing.
“Nobody cares, and everything I’ve said is off the record,” Homolka says.
In the interest of the children, Todd did not reveal their names.
The 42 page book is available on Kindle
Todd is now writing a longer book called “Inside Out” that will describe her experience tracking and meeting the schoolgirl killer.
My question is why does Paula Todd have an obsession with finding and writing about this women. Kind of like a nosy neighbor. Can I write news about where Mrs Todd lives, works and shops?
Karla Homolka is someone we want to forget, her horrible and monstrous participation to a crime is good enough for our collective consciousness to buried her deep down, so why bring her up and let some people suffer all over again? I don’t see the point of finding her and I think Paula Tods did some disservice by reminding Karla’s victims families that Karla still exist. Good journalism Paula! Now go and find another killer and please report back!
You’re not serious, are you???????????? You have no idea of the difference between these two women?? Are you seriously saying Karla has the right to privacy? To live happily ever after??? Wouldn’t you like to know if she was your bloody neighbour?? RJ, give your head a shake.
Rj its sad that you would be compelled to defend such a calculating sneaky monster like Karla Homolka. She should be behind bars for the rest of her life. Just because she cut a deal before Paul Bernado could she got away with a mild sentence where she also got her university degree in Psychology no-less on your tax paying dollars. She does not deserve freedom, peace, happiness and most of all her children. She should be locked up in a cell with all the other murderous monsters like her. The Canadian justice system definitely needs a major overhaul.
To comment on the apparent obsession for Karla Homolka by Paula Todd is a ridiculous statement to say the least. She is a journalist and investigating what a murderous rapist killing three young girls is what she is doing, that is her business to show the world where, when, why and who. I am glad to be able to read this about her as I live in the same city and it had us all wondering. thank you Paula for letting the people who do care where rapist and murders go after they walk scot free 12 years later. If this was anywhere in the United States I am sure she would not have been out starting a new life 12 years later that’s for certain. Good for you paula……thank you from the people of St. Catharines.
Why does anyone REALLY care where Homolka is living or what she is doing. Is Paula Todd tracking down any other people who broke the law and served their court imposed sentences and if so is that not against the law??
I was searching last week to see if she was in the news lately. I can’t believe a monster like that is free, never mind having 3 kids. Just wonder how long before she rapes and kills them as well. It would actually be karma if someone did the same to her kids as she did with the others.
Are you really wishing that for three innocent children? Pretty scary.
Incredible, vengeful people posting here. Should we revoke her sentence? Storm the Supreme Court and demand that she be locked up again?
No one likes what she did, but the public has no right to invade the lives of these children and husband. These kids will go to school, be shunned, teased, or looked at as creeps. THEY DID NOTHING WRONG!
How quickly the mob jumps on this without thinking. Pure selfishness. Self-serving egos looking for petty comfort through dime store revenge. I’m ashamed of my fellow Canadians.
Paula Todd is an embarrassment to writers everywhere!
I’m ashamed that you stand up in defence of Karla. Being Canadian and all……
Lest we forget.
You’re an embarrassment to Canadians. Thinking this schoolgirl killer paid her dues. Read up on the case, find out how she duped the prosecution into giving her the sweetheart deal she got. And walking away 12 years later. She OBVIOUSLY lacks judgement!! And she’s putting all her fantastic life skills into her children???? Another one that really needs to give their head a shake, and don’t stop.
No, you’re an embarrassment Mike…just another simple-minded, “wannabe vigilante”. You want to reopen the case? You want to travel to her location and serve justice? Knock yourself out pal. You won’t leave the couch, for fear of tipping over your doughnuts!
No one wants to be reminded of this case. Those children will now have their lives ruined because of small minded Canadians like you, who no doubt wholeheartedly support cheap, trashy tabloid writing.
why is karla allowed to live in another country?
Should have been executed along with her husband and other murdering scum in Canada
Who does this Todd woman think she is?? Why doesn’t she mind her own business?? Probably looking for her 15 minutes of fame. Who cares where Karla Homolka lives?? She served her 12 years in prison and now deserves to be left alone. Does she not think about what damage SHE could be doing to Karla’s husband and children. People like her make me sick. Just let us forget that Karla ever existed!!!!!!!!
EXACTLY my point steve!! It looks like you and I are THE ONLY people who think that Todd wrote her book for the money she can make. How many other criminals shw served their senences is Todd chasing around the world. We ALL know that what Homelka did was unforgivable but other people have done things that were just as bad or worse than what she did. I read all these letters from people saying that Homelka should be executed or sterilized and locked up and live in exile for the rest of her life. Have any of these people written to their MP’s about this or started petitions to bring back the death sentence for murder in canada? If they have not then why not?
Well CHUCK for your information I can see that possibly you might be related to Karla in some way to comment that BS. I am Canadian Father and I believe she did dupe the prosecution into a lighter sentence. I feel as being a father of a 23 year old daughter I would have been very afraid for my girl during that time. My second oldest daughter has received the Kristen French award for excellence. I can tell you from a personal talk with Kristen French’s father after my daughter receiving this award that I could see in his eyes that he was not pleased with the sentence being as light as it was. This is no BS either CHUCK it’s an award that MR. French felt the community of St. Catharines should have for every high school. Further more CHUCK people have their opinions just like me….. Karla should have been strung up with her husband in the town hall.
Well, Mr. Genius, I’m not even remotely related (you could dig back two centuries and I’d bet our lineage wouldn’t cross). My point is – what about the kids involved? Seems to me, no one gives a damn. Remember they didn’t do anything wrong, now their lives will be ruined.
I suspect most people posting are of the mind “Sins of the father” in this case mother. Why not just come out and say it then? People here want the kids to suffer. It’s just downright sick!
My posts are consistent in that it’s not Karla I’m defending, it’s the small children who do NOT know, or deserve the hell that is coming their way.
Think of the victims families. They must once again relive this, because an irresponsible writer wants some type of glory, (either money or fame.) Totally unnecessary and a waste of everyone’s time!
To all you bleeding hearts feeling sorry for the monster that is Karla Homolka…maybe you should revisit the crimes and remember that she helped rape and kill at least 3 girls including her own sister.
She does not deserve freedom of any kind.
If the Canadian justice system had done their job she would be in prison for the rest of her unfortunate life and not able to have children.
It is sad that her children will undoubtedly learn the atrocities their mother perpetrated upon her victims and that they too may be victim to abuse because of her actions. But this in no way excuses the fact that she is a murderer and should have all her rights taken away.
Very well said: Julie Savoy · Fundy High School
“she should have had her rights of being a parent taken away. They take away your lincese if you drink and drive but if you murder children you can run off and have 3 of them. she should have been sterlized as part of her punishment.”