When Leslie Mahaffy missing persons could claim that it was not as important because a.) he had been in trouble for theft, and b) that was out of town. When Terri Anderson also disappeared, which was found floating naked in the water near Port Dalhousie, all began to be afraid. In the time French Kirsten disappeared as a people who were collectively horrified.
I remember having a fight with my teenage boyfirend on the street and having a woman turn to brake hard with us. Enter, she told me, you will be safe. The day that Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka exchanged their wedding vows in a fantasy wedding in Falls Lake was the same day that Leslie Mahaffy’s body was pulled from the water encased in cement.
I came to know that the cement very well, my first job was as a secretary at the company asked to perform geotechnical testing and cement was sitting in a cardboard box about three feet from my desk. Kirsten French was held for two weeks in the basement of his house, all by surprise my dog walked past every day.
All of us in the city were too close to these events, players, everything. I remember all the whispers on the bus because Kirsten’s cousin went to the front of mourn, everyone knew someone.
When we learned that another victim, Tammy Homolka and having Paul as a Christmas present to compensate for the absence of his sister’s virginity, the cry became indescribable. These events should not be a movie, should not have been the basis for an episode of Law & Order. This was a catastrophe that affected a small town.