FAQ cont. + other questionable cases
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29) [LT]- On December 18, 1993, the London Free Press reported a
$10-million lawsuit launched against Paul Teale and his estranged wife, by
a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a knife-wielding Teale,
"aided and abetted" by Karla. The woman, who was 19 when she said she was
assaulted on December 22, 1989, had also filed claim against the owner of
the suburban Scarborough apartment building where she said she was
attacked.
She said she would not have been assaulted if the apartment owners had not
been negligent on security measures. The court document listed 28 security
deficiencies, including failure to protect residents and guests "given
knowledge that the Scarborough Rapist [Teale] was in the process of
assaulting women." The woman said she was attacked from behind and dragged
into a stairwell adjacent to the underground parking garage of the
apartment building, and said she sustained severe injuries. Karla Teale
"aided and abetted" her husband or knew or ought to have known that he
"intended to commit acts of assault and rape and failed to take steps to
prevent him from doing so." The woman cannot be named by court order. This
case was later put under a publication ban itself due to the Homolka ban.
30) [LT]- In December 1993, the Toronto Star reported that the Canadian
media for months refused to print the name of the newsgroup "alt.fan.karla-
homolka", for fear their US counterparts would print scoops from it before
they did - as the Washington Post apparently did.
31) [LT]- Even while in prison, Karla Homolka is furthering her own
education. She is currently taking correspondence courses at Queen's
University.
32) [AB]- Derek Finkle (in the Globe article mentioned earlier) tells us
that no less than three books on the case are being written, by Stephen
Williams for Little, Brown & Co., Nick Pron (Toronto Star) for Seal Books,
and Christie Blatchford (Toronto Sun, CFRB) for Key Porter Books.
"(Blatchford) is the journalist Paul hates most."
33) [AB]- Again from the Finkle article, it seems that Van Smirnis and
Teale were involved in a $150,000-a-year cigarette smuggling operation. He
might be cutting a deal with the Crown in exchange for dropping any
smuggling charges that may arise. (He hasn't been charged with anything as
of yet.)
[MW]- There was a cigarette smuggling operation. However, at that time,
and in that part of Ontario, smuggling was quite common. Though the amount
of money involved sounds impressive, they were not in the 'big league.'
34) [?]- Paul Bernardo is bisexual.
35) [?]- Paul was an extra in the movie "The Terry Fox Story". (Terry Fox
was a BC cancer patient and amputee who attempted a cross-Canada run in
1980 to raise money for cancer research. He reached Thunder Bay, Ontario
(about halfway) before his illness forced him to quit. He died a year
later.)
36) [?]- Bernardo may have been hanging around the 'memorial service' that
Mahaffy was attending, knowing that there would be young girls in
attendance. He might have even been stalking the funeral home where the
dead teens were.
37) [?]- While in prison, Karla has regularly performed fellatio on prison
officials in exchange for certain privileges and concessions.
38) [?]- A Vineland. Ontario woman reports that her stolen purse was
returned to her, after being found in the Bernardo house, containing a
videotape of her and a friend on a day trip to Niagara Falls.
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Below are other cases believed to be connected with Homolka/Bernardo
5) What are the other cases believed connected with the
Homolka/Bernardo/Teale case?
(According to Michael Wass, there are no open cases on North America
believed to be connected to Paul Bernardo and/or Karla Homolka. However,
some of us do have our doubts.)
a) Elizabeth Bain
There is talk that Teale may have been responsible for the Scarborough-area
abduction of Elizabeth Bain, and that Robert Baltovich, Bain's boyfriend,
may have been wrongfully convicted of her abduction/murder. Bain's body was
never found. The Toronto Globe and Mail reported, on July 8, 1993, that
investigator Brian King, who is gathering evidence that he believes will
exonerate Baltovitch, was among those banned from the courtroom during the
Homolka trial.
Baltovitch, 29, is in the third year of a life sentence for killing his
girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain. However, many people think that Bain was
actually killed by Bernardo (possibly with the help of Homolka).
On the day that Bain went missing, several people say that Bain was seen
with an attractive blonde haired man on the U of T Scarborough Campus, and
also at a U of T softball game. However, the most damning possibility came
from a Bell Canada installer who happened to be driving along Kingston
Road, a major thoroughfare in Scarborough, the day that Bain disappeared.
He claimed to have seen a man and a woman engaged in a struggle as a car,
which, as it turns out, closely matched Bernardo's. He told police that a
blonde haired man, and a woman matching Bain's description, were fighting
and that the woman was trying to exit the vehicle. He recorded the license
number and reported it, but police have yet to question him further.
Another person claims that Bain's body, which has never been found, is
likely located beneath Kingston Road, as there was a great deal of
construction (with many open pits) around the time that Bain vanished.
b) Lois Hanna
On July 3, 1988, 25-year old Lois Hanna disappeared after attending a dance
in Lucknow, Ontario, about 30 kilometers from Kincardine. Despite several
leads, many of them false, Lois Hanna is still missing today. Sources say
that a woman also at the dance sat at the same table with Hanna. At that
same dance, she also lost her purse.
In 1993, the woman received a phone call from the police, who informed her
that there was some good news and some bad news. The good news was that the
police had found her purse. The bad news is that they couldn't give it back
to her. They had retrieved it during their month-long search of Paul
Teale's house, and it was considered police evidence. Several questions
remain unanswered. How did Paul Teale come into possession of the woman's
purse, and why are the police still holding it? More importantly, what
role, if any, did Paul Teale have in Lois Hanna's disappearance?
(Information regarding Lois Hanna's disappearance can be found in the July
4, 1991 edition of the London Free Press, B1.)
c) Terry Anderson
This Niagara area teen allegedly died by drowning, but at the time of her
death (and before Bernardo's arrest) there were rumors that this case may
have been connected to the Mahaffy and French murders. Her body was found
in a spot in Lake Ontario equidistant to the spots where Mahaffy and French
were found.
d) Melissa Sheppit
Not much is known about this case, but 15 year old Ottawa teen Melissa
Sheppit was stabbed to death around the time that French's body was
discovered. One source says that Bernardo matched a description of the
suspect 'perfectly'.
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"Judges are not to abrogate the First Amendment rights of journalists...the
decision of what, where and how to publish is for editors, not judges."
--Justice Brennan, US Supreme Court, in Nebraska Press
Association v. Stuart, 1976.
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