Karla Homolka: A Victim or a Murderer?

Take a look at the below video. More lies coming out of Karla’s mouth. And much worse, she’s still blaming the crimes on everyone but herself. While she says that she’s “remorseful”, she’s still playing the “victim card”.

The following video was provided by CBS News World.

You’ll need to view the video in full screen to see the English subtitles.

Radio-Canada’s Joyce Napier interviews convicted killer Karla Homolka. (Runs 12:42)

I love the way she complains about the “over sensationalized media” taunting her and her little criminal cohorts in prison that she still has relationships with. Is she pulling out another victim card here? Has the media caused her trouble? What about the trouble her victims were in when Karla and her “partner in crime” killed them slowly? What about the victims that are still alive: the families?

Here are the transcripts from the interview.

Look how she continues to lie:

HOMOLKA:
I was an exemplary detainee. There is no doubt about that. I did all my programs. I even did those that weren’t part of my rehabilitation program. I did volunteer work. I went to school. I helped other women. I never received an internal report. I did all kinds of things. I went to school. I got my BA. I improved my French.

The Crime Library depicts a different picture of her:

The National Parole Board ruled Jan. 17, 2003 that Karla Homolka must stay in prison until her sentence is completed in July of 2005. The board’s decision represented the third time that Homolka’s request to be transferred to a half-way house was refused.

Two reasons for the refusal were given. One reason was her sexual relationship with another convict at the Ste.-Anne-des-Plaines detention center. The other reason stated by the board was her refusal to participate in rehabilitation programs. The Toronto Star reported on Jan. 19, 2003, that “Commissioners noted she had not yet started therapy for her role as a sexual aggressor and showed little interest in other rehabilitation programs.” Adding to the scandal, the Toronto Sun published photos it bought from Homolka’s former lesbian lover when the two women were housed in a prison in Quebec.

The lesbian lover apparently was guilty of the exact same things Karla was: helping her husband “molest and kill” other women.Karla’s Feeling Remorse?

I have my doubts about that for a few reasons.

NAPIER:
You said a few minutes ago that you will always have to live with what you did. Do you feel any remorse?

HOMOLKA:
Yes.

NAPIER:
How does it manifest itself, that remorse?

HOMOLKA:
I cry often. I can’t forgive myself. I think about what I did and often I think I don’t deserve to be happy because of what I did.

NAPIER:
How do you judge now what you did? When you think about it, how do you judge yourself?

HOMOLKA:
What I did was terrible and I was in a situation where I was unable to see clearly, where I was unable to ask for help. Where I was completely overwhelmed in my life and I regret it enormously because now I know I had the power to stop all of that. But when I was living through it, I thought I had no power.

NAPIER:
To stop even what you did? You didn’t have the power to stop yourself?

HOMOLKA:

Well I didn’t initiate the crimes. I followed. Yes, I did what I did but ….

Then what do you call this?

Paul was a nocturnal creature, driving around, looking for girls, and staying out all night. He raped a young athlete, an older woman, and a young career woman. He spied on a waitress and videotaped her undressing and grooming herself. He raped a young student on campus. One day Paul was out driving around when Karla called him on his cell phone. She whispered for him to hurry home, she had a wedding gift for him. When he arrived, he saw that Karla had used the same drugs that killed her sister on a young girl that had been Tammy’s friend. They videotaped each other having sex with the girl, and got about 15 minutes of tape, that Paul was thrilled with. He had everything, and everything he did had to have style and attitude. He was almost comic, as a serial killer, like Patrick Bateman in
Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. In a twist of fate, the police seized the book from the couple’s home. Many people had the opinion that Paul He had a music room in the den, with thousands of dollars of music equipment. He wrote rap lyrics, in a blue notebook, and nicknamed himself Young Hype. He thought that Vanilla Ice was a great rapper and when someone called him that one day on vacation, he was convinced he could become famous and get Madonna to sponsor his tour. In reality, his voice was whiny, and his songs were about how to score with chicks and how he should be feared. He made his little voice overs and showed them to the girls they managed to get into their home. He would sing to them and won the trust of several, which wound up being drugged and raped and videotaped.

And then we’ve got this:

June 7,
1991 - Karla invites Jane Doe, age 15, for a “girls night out” but her and Paul are actually planning to drug and rape her that night When Karla and Jane return home from an evening of shopping and dinner Karla begins plying her with drinks Eventually she adds Halcion sleeping pills to her drinks. Paul in the meantime is out, impatiently waiting for the message on his answering service that Jane Doe is unconscious When he gets the call he returns home and then he and Karla begin raping Jane while they both take turns holding the videocamera The next morning Jane is sick and vomiting but has no idea she had been raped She just feels embarrassed because she thought she couldn’t hold her liquor – it was her first time she tried drinking alcohol…..

And this:

Aug 10,
1991 - Karla again invites Jane Doe over to spend the night so she and Paul can drug and rape her This time, in the middle of the act, Paul notices that Jane isn’t breathing In a panic, Karla phones 911 and tells the emergency operator that someone in her house has stopped breathing A few minutes later, however, Paul notices that she is in fact breathing and says everything is fine Karla phones back to the 911 operator and gets the request for an emergency crew canceled, after she assures the operator that everything is alright…..

To top that off, you’ve got the videos of her enjoying every minute of her sexual and demeaning empowerment over her victims.

Read more from Frances Farmers Revenge.

Secondly, I don’t see this as being remorseful. If you have a good look at her video, she doesn’t appear too remorseful there either.

While technically she too is a victim, she needs to take responsibility of her crimes and apologize like she means it.

But now she’s out of her cage, and already causing others to “question her”, if you will:

Karla’s boss raises concerns — Homolka’s Rehabilitation Questioned

Karla Homolka Blames the Cops and the Media?! ?!

….And she’s also violating her probationary conditions….

Many Quebecan murderer apologists out there are crying for everyone to just leave her alone and to give her a second chance. Karla and her lawyer are receiving a lot of emotional and written support. To all you hippies out there: Last time I checked, when you murder someone, there are consequences. And these are just one of the many. As far as I’m concerned, she hasn’t been punished yet.

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