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What happens when a serial rapist meets a narcissist with psychopathic histrionic personality disorder? This. This happens.

I have mixed feelings about the book. It does seem well-researched, but it is not overly well written and is riddled with grammar/spelling errors and typos, to the point of being distracting. (But this could just be my own pet peeve). Some of the chapters are clunky and hard to get through while others get bogged down in the details so that you have to page back several times to figure out what was actually going on before all the bogginess. The book is also extremely biased in Homolka's defense, almost seeming to go out of its way to excuse her role in the couple's crimes. While sure, I can believe that a battered woman might go to great lengths to please her batterer, I find it a bit harder to swallow some of what went down with this couple. Homolka was not a pleasant child, and she grew up into an even more unpleasant adult. She abused and killed small animals long before she ever met Bernardo. This was a horrible duo who probably deserved one another. Unfortunately, the rest of the world did nothing to deserve them, and the unfortunate young women who happened to fall into their paths are the ones paying the highest price for these monsters.

Read it if you want to learn more about the crimes/people involved, but don't set your expectations too high.


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Deadly Innocence Scott Burnside Alan Cairns 9780446601542 Books Reviews

I have been a true crime fan for some time. My favorite author is Ann Rule, whose superior writing style and instinct for storytelling have proven unmatched for many. This book, however, is a disappointment. Filled with typos and grammatical errors, it contains long stretches of unclear technical details that leave unanswered questions for the reader (for example, why do the accused's lawyers give the prosecutors copies of damning tapes that the police failed to find? This is never clearly stated.) What I object to most, however, is the excessively detailed, gratuitous descriptions of violence - an insult to the victims and their families, and completely unnecessary to understanding the case.
I'll start off by saying if you believed Karla was a victim or at least a partial victim you will probably give this book 4 to 5 stars. The authors went WAY to easy on Karla. Her behavior in jail, out of jail, and her general lack or remorse prove a lot of what Karla's detractors have said.

For years I read everything I could on the internet and magazines about this case. Thought I knew most of everything but this book proved me wrong. Plus it was nice having a near start to finish volume on the case. However, their defense or passive defense of Karla was really a mark against the book. The last, oh my god how boring, 20 pages or so were all about justifying Karla's battered wife syndrome.

I've read in a few older reviews about typos. I think they cleaned a lot of it up. However there are still enough where it's irritating.

And am a monster for wishing there had been more exploration of what was on the tapes?
Without too much of a giveaway, "Deadly Innocence" (DI) are words that Paul Bernardo -- aka "Paul Jason Teale" -- used to use, or perhaps still uses even, which supposedly describe someone who is truly bad-a--, but who everyone thinks is safe, as his public and private personae are completely orthogonal. With huge kudos to the authors on a great read, they describe how Mr. Bernardo even incorporated this phrase into some lyrics of a rap song of his, in anticipation of being famous world-wide. Little did Mr. Bernardo know, he would become famous for things other than being a singer, which you will learn while reading.

I've read many books now about the so-called "Ken and Barbie Killers" -- Mr. Bernardo and Karla Homolka, who now has changed her name to Leanne Bordelais, and is hanging out in the Caribbean nowadays with her new husband and (ironically) three children -- and in many ways, it could be argued that this is the best. While I really like the work from Stephen Williams, and have read at least two of his books, DI doesn't get lazy through titillation. Instead, the authors of DI do a great job of determining what dirty details are important and which ones are not, and for the most part, they do not take advantage of this sordid story for headlines. Instead, they choose to tell us the real background story of the Bernardo couple, which gives us more than just a glimpse into the string of events which eventually tied them together as True Monsters.

Without trying to go all "Biblical" on you, there is an old saying that goes something like the following "The road to hell is wide, while the path to heaven is narrow." It seems that tiny steps, tiny rationalizations that the pair made over time, guided them as they escalated to the destination of torture and murder. I've watched a lot of true crime TV, and read books from FBI profilers, and many of them say that no crime is small; it almost always leads to escalation. And this pair is living proof of the theory.

I really began to feel as if I got to "know" this pair, although it could be argued that no one really knew them, not even themselves. But their day-to-day lives are really explained in the most outstanding of ways, which helps fill in the blanks for you. Furthermore, the authors don't try to baffle you with b--- s--- here. As an example, when the trial phase begins, they describe in layman's terms the dynamics of the case, and I really understood what was happening and why. Often, since I'm not a lawyer, I get lost in the details. Not so here.

If I had a complaint, it might be that some items are repeated in this book. However, this complaint is minor, and it might have been unavoidable due to structure. The authors tell stories at different points from different perspectives, which is actually refreshing at times, and this is where the collisions sometimes occur. For example, to avoid a spoiler -- there is a nice surprise at the end is all that I will write -- one person's court testimony rebuts all others, and you might wonder who is telling the truth, or if anyone is. (My guess they're all lying to a degree, or they're all telling a twisted version of the truth. Take your pick.)

If you know this story, this is an absolute must-read for you. Well, if you don't know the story, it's perhaps even a "muster" read. After all, you might want to know how the All-Canadian Boy named Paul Bernardo -- or whatever he wants to call himself nowadays -- and The All-Canadian Girl named Karla Homolka -- or whatever she wants to call herself nowadays -- went down a very dark path, choosing the very-bad mantra of "Deadly Innocence" as their life guides.
What happens when a serial rapist meets a narcissist with psychopathic histrionic personality disorder? This. This happens.

I have mixed feelings about the book. It does seem well-researched, but it is not overly well written and is riddled with grammar/spelling errors and typos, to the point of being distracting. (But this could just be my own pet peeve). Some of the chapters are clunky and hard to get through while others get bogged down in the details so that you have to page back several times to figure out what was actually going on before all the bogginess. The book is also extremely biased in Homolka's defense, almost seeming to go out of its way to excuse her role in the couple's crimes. While sure, I can believe that a battered woman might go to great lengths to please her batterer, I find it a bit harder to swallow some of what went down with this couple. Homolka was not a pleasant child, and she grew up into an even more unpleasant adult. She abused and killed small animals long before she ever met Bernardo. This was a horrible duo who probably deserved one another. Unfortunately, the rest of the world did nothing to deserve them, and the unfortunate young women who happened to fall into their paths are the ones paying the highest price for these monsters.

Read it if you want to learn more about the crimes/people involved, but don't set your expectations too high.