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( female narrator ) in december of 1990,

the people of toronto were preparing to celebrate

the christmas holidays.

but as they went about shopping for their loved ones,

they could not forget about the 12 young women

who had been brutally raped in the past three years.

they were also well aware

that the man who had committed these terrible crimes

was still out there.

at their home in scarborough,

a suburb of toronto,

the homolka family was throwing a party

for their daughter karla.

she had become engaged to paul bernardo.

good looking and bright,

karla's parents found him to be the perfect son-in-law.

her sister, 15-year-old tammy homolka

was allowed to stay up late that night.

paul, in love with his new video camera

was taking pictures all night long.

( paul ) oh, here we go.

okay, okay, whoa.

that's so cute, extreme close-up.

whoa ! whoa !

( narrator ) later that evening,

when karla's mother and father had gone to bed...

karla and paul continued to celebrate.

her sister tammy stayed up with them.

and she also continued to drink.

( phone ringing )

around two a.m. that morning,

a friend of karla's received a startling phone call.

we got a phone call, it was karla,

she was calling, she sounded distraught,

she did say that her sister had died

and she started crying.

it was very unclear how she died.

( narrator ) karla told police...

later that night, tammy's body was taken

to hamilton general hospital to be autopsied.

the local pathologist said that in his opinion

the young woman had died from asphyxia.

she had choked on her own vomit.

it was speculated that the huge burn on her face

had probably been caused by stomach acid.

the next day a funeral was held

for 15-year-old tammy homolka.

her friends and family were visibly shocked

at the young girl's tragic accident.

paul would not leave her side,

he kept calling her,

"this is my angel, she's my angel,

oh, she's gonna be our angel",

and he would play with her hair.

he wouldn't leave her alone.

it was very dramatic.

it was quite a powerful evening.

( narrator ) about two months after the funeral,

a bereaved karla and paul rented a house

in the town of port dalhousie.

they seemed happy,

but suddenly their friends began to notice

a change in paul's behavior.

paul was getting more and more bizarre

as time went on.

the last time he came over,

he was very, very drunk and he looked at me,

and i said, "paul, what do you do ?"

and he looked at me with the craziest look,

he said to me,

"you wouldn't believe what i did if i told you,

you wouldn't believe what i can do."

i felt it down into my heart, something just so evil.

it was frightening.

( narrator ) in april, another young woman

was attacked leaving her school.

but unlike the others,

she was able to give a partial description

of the man who raped her.

she described him as a tall, blond man,

in his 20s.

paul bernardo, like hundreds of other young men

seemed to fit the description.

so, he was brought down to r.c.m.p. headquarters.

there he was interviewed and left a sample of his blood.

police felt that he was cooperative and forthcoming,

and did not consider him a suspect.

in june of 1991,

when everything had settled down.

paul and karla finally got married.

they were just so crazy about each other.

she was totally infatuated with him.

we really kind of understood that they were

this donald and ivana trump kind of couple,

that he was to be the provider,

and she was gonna be taken care of,

and they both seemed to like that role.

( narrator ) but on the very day of their wedding,

in another part of town,

the body of a teenage girl was found.

she had been dismembered.

and her hands, legs, and even her head

had been removed from her torso,

and placed in blocks of cement.

she was later identified as a 15-year-old girl

named leslie mahaffy.

the sexual attack showed the same pattern of behavior

as all the others, except for one detail.

the rapist who had been prowling the streets

for over four years,

had now turned to cold-blooded murder.

after their wedding,

paul and karla went to hawaii for their honeymoon.

it was a romantic trip.

their videos show a couple infatuated with one another.

shortly after they returned to their home in port dalhousie,

another brutal murder took place.

the body of 15-year-old kristen french

was found in the woods.

she had been choked to death with an electrical cord.

but she would be the last victim.

on february 1st, 1993,

after two years,

an overwhelmed and understaffed forensic lab,

finally sent police the results of their blood tests.

the dna evidence matched one person,

the 28-year-old, paul bernardo.

but the authorities still had unfinished business.

they were sure that paul bernardo

had killed leslie mahaffy and kristen french,

but did not have the evidence to prove it.

until his wife, karla,

walked into the metropolitan police station.

there she told detectives

that she was frightened for her life.

hospital pictures showed that paul bernardo

had beaten her unmercifully.

she told detectives

that he made her commit unspeakable acts,

and that if she didn't,

he threatened to kill her.

it was just a matter of days,

before it was apparent to the police,

at least at metro, that she could give them

a lot more then evidence of her being battered as a wife.

( narrator ) the police made a deal with karla,

they said, "tell us all you know,

"and help us convict paul bernardo for murder,

and we will give you a break in your sentence."

karla agreed and spent the next five days

giving a videotaped confession.

in this tape, karla talks about the murder of leslie mahaffy.

the deal is dependent on her revealing everything

of her wrongdoings

in connection with paul bernardo.

and that would include the death of her sister.

hi.

can you see me ?

( narrator ) the police learned for the first time

what really happened to tammy homolka.

karla tells them that as a christmas gift to her husband,

she permitted paul bernardo

to rape her own sister.

after karla's confession,

the chief coroner of ontario

ordered the exhumation of tammy's body

from the st. charles cemetery.

in the toxicology report following the second autopsy,

the conclusion was that in fact,

the halcion had been used to make tammy sleepy.

from that point then karla and paul had used

a drug called halothane which is a general anesthetic,

and put tammy to sleep.

with an unprotected airway one would vomit into the lungs,

and that in and by itself can cause cardiac arrest.

( narrator ) unfortunately, the two drugs,

halcion and halothane,

were not part of the drug test in the first autopsy.

discovery of either one of these drugs

would've been the red flag indicating foul play.

on may 19th, 1995,

in a trial that would shock all of canada,

paul bernardo was tried for the murder of leslie mahaffy

and kristen french.

it was in court that a horrified jury

learned for the first time,

that paul and karla had videotaped

the raped and torture of their victims.

but more importantly the jury realized that karla

was not just an abused wife,

but seemed to be a willing participant.

one of the first tapes

that we ultimately had to deal with,

was paul and karla, in karla's area in the basement

in front of the fireplace having sex.

and here is karla dressed in tammy homolka's school clothes,

and she performs oral sex on him.

so she's playing at being tammy,

two or three weeks after her sister's dead.

you could see that she was part and parcel,

in my opinion, of what went on.

i think that by herself,

karla homolka would never have committed these

or any crimes approaching them.

these two, in combination, formed a personality

that was capable of committing this series of acts,

and i think that's really what happened here.

( narrator ) paul bernardo was sentenced to life in prison

without possibility of parole.

but karla who had made her deal with the police

before anyone ever saw the incriminating videotapes,

received only 12 years in prison,

and is due to be released in the year 2005.

i guess i've come to the conclusion in my own mind,

that it was probably a 50/50 thing.

just a match made in heaven, i guess.

( narrator ) george and denise eckersley lived in this brick house

on colenso road in leeds, england.

they had been married for four years,

living quiet and uneventful lives.

but in 1999 they purchased a small car

that they planned to use on their trip to europe.

but they never went on that trip.

just before they were about to leave,

the police received a phone call from george eckersley,

who told them that his wife,

and his car were missing.

( narrator ) her family placed her picture in store windows,

and local newspapers in the area,

hoping that someone might recognize her.

several people responded to the missing person posters.

in fact, an amateur photographer

said that he had shot video of a strange-looking woman

wandering around the resort town of nearby cleethorpes.

in addition, a security camera at a local bank

recorded the same woman using denise eckersley's credit card

to take out some money.

this led george eckersley to go on radio,

to plead for his wife to come home.

a few days later, mrs. ekersley sent a letter

to her family in which she admitted...

denise ekersley sounded like a woman

who wanted to die.

then one morning,

a man found her sweater floating in the ocean.

police later found her pocketbook,

along with an empty bottle of vodka on the beach.

authorities were sure that she had taken her own life

by drowning.

but her daughter insisted that the suicide note was a fake,

that it wasn't her mother's handwriting.

so, the criminalists examined the envelope

for traces of dna,

that might have been left by the saliva.

they cut off a small section of the flap,

heated it,

then placed that piece in a centrifuge,

in order to isolate the dna.

finally, they placed the sample in a machine

called "a dna sequencer",

which identifies an individual's dna.

after two hours they discovered,

much to their surprise,

that the dna found on the envelope

was a match not for denise, but for her husband george.

it was he, not she,

who had written and mailed the suicide note to her family.

police eventually found george eckersley

at the local airport,

where he was about to board a plane for amsterdam

to start a new life.

confronted with the evidence, george admitted his guilt.

he said he hit his wife

over the head with a candlestick,

cut her up,

took her body to the factory where he worked,

and then dropped her in a smelter,

where he incinerated her.

( narrator ) the strange woman

seen wandering around the town of cleethorpes,

was none other than george eckersley,

dressed in his wife's clothing.

it was an elaborate scheme

to make people think she was still alive,

while he was writing her suicide note.

he presents himself as a very mild-mannered family man,

but clearly he was capable

of one of the most evilest of crimes.

the deception that he practiced,

particularly on the family was very, very cruel.

george eckersley had taken every precaution,

except for one.

he never realized that by licking that envelope,

he put himself in prison

for the rest of his life.

in 1997, a man named anthony turner

was arrested for the rape of three women.

one of his victims

said she was standing at a bus stop,

when a man came from behind her,

and put a knife to her throat.

she said he dragged her into an alley,

and then raped her repeatedly.

not only did she identify turner,

but his dna matched the dna samples,

found on the other two victims.

but he insisted that the police had made a mistake.

he said, "i didn't do it !

"there must be somebody out there,

who looks like me and has my dna."

the police realized that was virtually impossible,

and threw him in jail.

( narrator ) several months later,

while turner was sitting in his jail cell,

another woman in the neighborhood

came to the police and said

that she also had been attacked and raped.

when police checked the semen samples,

that they had taken from the young woman,

they were surprised to find

that the dna was a perfect match for turner,

but that was impossible,

he had been sitting in a jail cell

when all of this had happened.

( narrator ) but after being interviewed for several hours,

the young woman became frightened,

and confessed to the police,

that she had really never been raped.

she had made it all up.

she said that turner

had mailed her a sample of his own semen,

in a small plastic ketchup packet,

and that she had been paid $50 by turner's family

to place the semen somewhere on her body

and to make up a story that she'd been raped.

she said it was all a lie.

( narrator ) turner had made a futile attempt

at fooling the police,

but he was caught and ultimately convicted

for the three rapes and received a sentence

of 120 years in prison.

he didn't realize that the odds

of two people having the same dna

is almost three trillion to one.

( dog barking )

( narrator ) on the morning of december 22nd, 1999,

at a diner in dearborn, michigan,

customers began complaining about a horrible odor

coming from the grease dumpster behind the restaurant,

they said that it smelled like rotting meat.

when detectives arrived and looked in the bin,

they found plastic bags containing human arms and legs

that were beginning to decay.

when i arrived at the restaurant,

i looked into the bag.

i saw the limbs.

and it's hard to describe your feeling

when you see something like that.

i have been a police officer for 35 years.

i have never seen a person

cut apart like that before.

( narrator ) the torso,

as well as the head, were missing.

and the fingertips had been sliced off.

there was no way to identify the body.

so, police, after taking blood samples,

stored the body parts in the freezer of a local morgue.

several days later,

on a farm located over 60 miles away,

a farmer found another plastic bag

containing a dismembered body.

when pathologists brought the torso back to the lab,

they found that it and the arms and legs

found in the dumpster had come from the same person.

but the police still had no head,

and more importantly, no leads.

the story of the murder quickly disappeared

from the local newspapers.

and the police lost hope of ever finding the person

who had committed this horrible crime.

but several weeks later,

they received a phone call from a woman in england,

named anita ross,

who said that she had been frantically

trying to reach her sister, tracy.

she said tracy had gone to america

to visit her husband and their children for christmas.

but mrs. ross said that she never heard

from her sister again.

her husband, dr. azizul islam,

was a well-respected biochemist.

he and tracy had been happily married for 17 years.

here they're celebrating their daughters 19th birthday.

but just one year later,

tracy and her husband separated.

he assumed responsibility for the kids

and she went back to england to stay with her sister.

when detectives went to the home of dr. islam,

he told them that he and his wife had had an argument,

and that she left for england the next day.

commander carroll and i asked dr. islam,

if he would like us to check his house,

to see if, in fact, somebody had broken into the house,

and he requested that we did do that.

( narrator ) detectives searched his house,

but found nothing out of the ordinary.

then they went down to the basement.

the basement floor had been freshly painted,

but only in certain areas,

where the washer and dryer sat,

the floor had been painted around those items.

there was a roller and a paint tray

with fresh paint still on it,

and we asked the doctor about when the floor was painted.

he stated that he had begun painting the floor

after his return from new york.

and the reason he was painting it,

was because he wanted to sell the house,

and he wanted to move to new york.

( narrator ) detectives did not believe his story.

they felt that the fresh paint on the floor

indicated that he was covering something up.

forensic pathologists recommended that they call on eagle,

a cadaver dog that was world renowned

for his talent in detecting blood

and human remains.

eagle had recently been in panama,

where he helped the government locate victims

that were murdered and buried by the noreiga government.

so, eagle and his trainer, sandy anderson,

were called into the case.

from the minute we walked into that house

that dog was headed for a stairway.

that stairway belonged to the basement.

from the time we hit that basement,

he would down and bark and touch.

and the matter of fact, one of the first things

he hit on was a paint roller,

in a paint tray, in paint.

and there were other paint trays around it,

but he didn't focus on those, he only focused on this one

particular paint tray with some wet paint.

and then a paint can and then the floor,

he was hitting all over the floor.

and he started hitting on a mop,

and a shopvac.

he was obsessed with the shopvac.

we had to pull him off of it.

and i turned to the detective

with the first indication and said,

"my dog says there is human remains in here,

"my assumption is, based on my experience

and his indication, that it's human blood."

( narrator ) detectives returned with a search warrant,

and sprayed the basement with luminol,

a chemical that is used to detect the presence of blood.

when they were done,

the luminol proved that eagle was right,

it revealed the presence of tiny droplets of blood

on the paint roller and on the floor.

the amazing thing was the dog located

not really large quantities of blood under the paint,

but small quantities of blood.

somebody had made an effort to do a very good clean-up job.

same thing with the mop, same thing with the wall,

same thing with the shopvac.

we weren't talking about blood spills,

we were talking about blood splatter evidence,

and all of this had been concealed

either with cleaning fluids or paint.

but there was plenty there to obtain,

and plenty there to prove, that it was indeed

dr. islam's missing wife.

( narrator ) pathologists found that the dna in the blood

matched the dna found

in his wife's dismembered body.

eagle had uncovered the evidence

that would send dr. islam to jail

for the rest of his life.

sandra anderson and eagle,

were the main players in solving the homicide

of tracy islam.

without eagle, we would've never obtained the search warrant,

and without the search warrant,

dr. islam would not have been brought to trial.

( narrator ) 52-year-old kay sybers

lay dead on an embalming table.

she was being prepared for her funeral.

her blood was slowly being replaced with formalin,

so that her body would not immediately decay.

the procedure was routine,

but apparently her death was not.

dr. william sybers,

chief medical examiner of north west florida,

and his wife, kay,

had been married for over 30 years.

but on the morning of may 30th, 1991,

kay sybers suddenly died.

dr. sybers told police

that at 5:00 that morning,

his wife suddenly awoke from her sleep.

dr. sybers said his wife had woke him up,

and was complaining of chest pains,

and pains radiating down her left arm.

he said that he tried to draw blood from her,

to prove to her that she had diabetes

and that she needed to go

to a physician to check that.

( narrator ) dr. sybers went on to say

that after a few hours,

his wife was feeling better, so, he left to go to work.

he called one of his investigators

who works for him as a medical examiner investigator,

to go check on his wife.

( narrator ) by the time they arrived at the sybers home,

some three hours later,

kay sybers was dead.

as soon as he was told by the people

he had sent out to check on mrs. sybers

that mrs. sybers was dead,

his first words were "no autopsy".

( narrator ) dr. sybers explained

that his wife had said on many occasions,

that she never wanted to be autopsied.

so, later that day, on her husband's orders,

mrs. sybers' body was sent to the southerland funeral home

to be embalmed.

i knew kay sybers very well,

over 10 years of association with her husband.

frequently ate dinner with her,

and still knew her to be in good health.

and i was shocked that she died

of a massive heart attack.

( narrator ) authorities were disturbed

that william sybers did not follow protocol

and have his wife autopsied.

so, on the recommendations of state medical examiners

and despite her husband's protest,

mrs. sybers' body was sent to the morgue

at sacred heart hospital to be examined by a pathologist.

at the autopsy, it was found that mrs. sybers

did indeed have needle marks in her arm,

supporting sybers' story.

but when the pathologist removed the heart,

they found that it was perfectly normal,

normal in size, normal in shape,

the coronary arteries were widely open,

there was no evidence of a heart attack.

the blood in the body had already been replaced

by embalming fluid,

so it was very difficult to gather

any evidence for toxicology.

but because her death was still a mystery,

the pathologist removed her heart

and portions of her liver,

and put them in jars filled with formalin,

in order to preserve them for further investigation.

when the autopsy was finished,

the pathologist, out of frustration,

put down on the death certificate,

"sudden unexpected death due to undetermined causes".

in other words,

he couldn't figure out what the cause of death was.

( narrator ) but the police grew more suspicious

when they learned that for the past six months

dr. sybers had been having an affair

with a woman named judy ray.

but without a cause of death,

authorities still had no case.

there was still no evidence

that a crime had even been committed.

a year later, sybers married ms. ray,

and they moved to british columbia

to begin a new life.

but timothy sybers, the youngest son,

never got over his mother's death.

and on february 21st, 1993, at his home in wisconsin,

he took his own life.

dr. sybers' son,

while on the phone with his girlfriend

mentioned something about

that he could not live with the fact

that his father had killed his mother.

i believed that he had placed the shot gun in his mouth.

( narrator ) but kay sybers' death would not be forgotten.

through the years forensic experts

would continue to examine the tissues

that were preserved from the autopsy,

looking for a cause of death.

finally, in the year 2000,

at the national medical services laboratory in pennsylvania,

scientists armed with new

and more sensitive testing procedures

made an incredible discovery.

what we found in these tissues

was the unequivocal presence of succinylmonocholine.

the levels that we saw in the kidney and the brain

would be enough to paralyze someone,

which in turn, if someone is paralyzed,

has their diaphragm paralyzed,

and they're not on a respirator,

they suffocate to death.

but it's not particularly difficult to obtain,

particularly in a hospital setting.

( narrator ) nine years after her death,

the riddle of why kay sybers died

had finally been solved.

her husband, dr. william sybers

had injected her with an overdose of succinylcholine,

putting her to sleep forever.

on march 23rd, 2001,

dr. william sybers finally stood before a judge,

with his new wife, judy ray, looking on.

( female ) we, the jury, find the defendant guilty

of first degree murder, as charged in the indictment.

( sobbing )

what is ironic about this case,

is that dr. sybers, a forensic pathologist,

believed that embalming would destroy the succinylcholine

that he had used to kill his wife,

but instead, the embalming had preserved the drug,

so that it could be discovered 10 years later.

( narrator ) it took 10 years and forensic science

to bring dr. william sybers to justice,

but only four hours for the jury to convict him,

and hand down the verdict of life in prison.

in 1931, in los angeles,

a 72-year-old woman named esther carlson

went on trial

for poisoning a man named august lindstrom.

but no one knew much about this woman,

nor just how evil she really was.

our story begins in the year 1900,

with a 41-year-old woman named belle sorenson.

she and her husband mads,

had been married for only six years when he died.

to make matters worse,

she had already lost two of her children

to what doctors described

as a mysterious intestinal disease.

in november of 1901, she took her insurance money,

and her two remaining children, lucy and myrtle,

and moved to a farm in la porte, indiana.

to support herself

belle began to raise and slaughter hogs.

at over six feet, and weighing over 200 pounds,

she was a powerful woman.

two years later, she remarried,

this time to a man named peter gunness.

but once again tragedy seemed to be

a close companion to belle.

in 1902 peter was found dead,

lying under a large meat grinder.

it had apparently fallen on his head,

crushing his skull.

belle was once again alone.

very soon after peter's death,

the widow began looking for a man.

a man with money...

one gentleman who answered her ad was ralph littleton,

who after a short visit was never heard from again.

another was andrew hegelein,

who like the others that followed

just seemed to disappear into thin air.

in 1907 her pig farm had grown in size,

so she hired a man named ray lamphere

to help with the chores.

but the next year,

misfortune once again caught up with her.

a fire broke out on the farm,

and consumed all of the buildings

in an enormous blaze.

several days later the sheriff and his men

came to look for her body in the rubble.

but what they found shocked them.

they began to dig up bodies,

lots of them.

they found her boyfriend andrew hegelein.

they identified jennie olson, one of her daughters.

when they were done,

they had collected 10 bodies in all.

the men did find the body of a headless woman,

and a set of false teeth.

but no one could be sure if belle had died,

because the height and weight of that body

didn't match belle.

even though the dentist said that the false teeth

belonged to her.

when the stomachs of the victims were examined,

the toxicologist found that they all contained

large amounts of strychnine and arsenic.

which meant that belle had murdered all of suitors,

and all of her children,

so that she could collect the insurance money

on all of them.

( narrator ) eyewitnesses said that they had seen ray lamphere

with a gallon of kerosene running away from the fire.

and in 1908, he was convicted of arson,

and sent to prison for starting the blaze,

but was not implicated in the murders.

right before he was sent to prison, he said,

"belle must have loved me,

"because i am the only man she never killed.

"she said she would've married me

"if i had had any life insurance.

one thing i do know," he added,

"i know she is still alive !"

the police spent the next 23 years looking for belle,

but never found her.

which brings us back to 1931 and esther carlson.

right before esther was to be tried for murder,

she died.

a neighbor from her hometown of la porte,

recognized her picture in the paper,

and identified her as belle gunness.

when police searched her room,

they found an old steamer trunk,

and inside was a picture of belle's little girls,

myrtle and lucy.

it was estimated that belle gunness

had butchered more than 20 people in her lifetime.

some say that a great many of these victims

became food for her beloved pigs.

she was so evil

that she became a legend in her own time.

in fact, in 1938 they wrote a song about her,

it goes something like this...

♪ in old indiana, not far from la porte ♪

♪ there once lived a woman, a home-loving sort ♪

♪ belle wanted a husband, she wanted one bad ♪

♪ she placed in the papers a lonely hearts ad ♪

♪ men came to belle gunness ♪

♪ to share food and bed ♪

♪ not knowin' that soon they'd be knocked in the head ♪

♪ but while they were sleepin', she'd lift the door latch ♪

♪ she'd kill them and plant them ♪

♪ in her 'tater patch ♪

( narrator ) whether death occurred yesterday

or hundreds of years ago,

the dead's long silent voices

return to answer the questions

put to them by the forensic pathologist.

he is their interpreter,

and understands their language.

for him death is not the end of the story,

but just the beginning.

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