SOC209H5 Chapter : 209 Course Reader Ch1 Introduction to crime
Document Summary
Karla homolka and paul bernardo case received a lot of media attention. When karla homolka was released from joliette quebec correctional facility after serving 12 years for anslaughter. Story dominated headlines because it involved rape, and murder of young white women from idle class suburban neighbourhood in southern ontario. Two white blond-haired middle class newly-weds case was much more largely represented than the cases of missing and murdered women in downtown vancouver. The pickton case is the largest most poorly handled serial killer investigation in canadian history. 26 missing and murdered women and girls had not attracted the same level of media attention as the three murders committed by paul bernardo and wife. Dozens of women go missing involved in the sex trade, murdered with little media coverage. Many believe that these cases were ignored because the women involved in the pickton case were addicted to drugs.
