MONTREAL - 2003 -- The lesbian woman jilted by Karla Homolka when Homolka began sexual frolicking with a male convict at Ste-Anne-des-Plaines maximum-security prison says Homolka is still a "sick" and "dangerous" woman.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Lynda Veronneau, 41, said while Homolka has at times voiced remorse for her role in the sex slayings of two schoolgirls and her sister, she is nonetheless "manipulative" and greedy -- and still has a healthy appetite for kinky sex.
As she reflects now on Homolka's crimes and recalls vignettes from their 3 1/2-year relationship, Veronneau says Homolka is "a bizarre woman."
"She is the biggest manipulator that I ever met," Veronneau laments, while admitting she is "mad" at Homolka.
Veronneau feels "betrayed" that Homolka feigned love for her and accepted $3,000 in sexy lingerie and a $2,500 computer while she was having secret contact with a male inmate and making plans to marry him in prison.
'GOING WITH BAD BOYS'
Inmates believe the man is also a convicted killer.
"I don't care if she loves a man, like a journalist or a plumber, but not a murderer ... if you are in prison for 10 years and then you meet a bad guy before you get out, that is really sick," Veronneau said.
"If she is going to get out of jail she will kill somebody else. She is going with bad boys ... she is not doing well."
Veronneau's lesbian relationship with Homolka -- first documented by Sun reporters Alan Cairns and Laura Bobak in March 2000 -- started in June 1998 after Homolka was transferred to Joliette medium-security prison camp in the Montreal suburb of Laval.
Veronneau said she developed a deep love for Homolka, now 32, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1993 after a controversial guilty plea to two counts of manslaughter in her then-husband Paul Bernardo's sex slayings of Kristen French, 15, and Leslie Mahaffy, 14. Homolka was given immunity from prosecution in the Dec. 25, 1990, drug rape death of her youngest sister, Tammy, 15.
Refusing to judge Homolka for her crimes while in Joliette, Veronneau, herself a street-wise petty criminal for two decades, inundated Homolka with love, helped her assimilate into the mainly Francophone Joliette population, assisted her bid for early parole and gave Homolka $150 each time her parents visited so she could have take-out food delivered.
WANTED TO BE TIED UP
"She betrayed me. She used my love and used my money," Veronneau said.
Veronneau also revealed that 10 months into the relationship, Homolka asked Veronneau to tie her up and play-hurt her.
"She became a very close person and then ... she said, 'tie me up on the bed.' "
But after the first tie-me-up session, Veronneau said, Homolka asked to be tied up "again and again and again."
"Every week she will be tied up and she will do that ... yes, yes, yes. She asked every day to do it ... she is a masochist. Very soft, but a masochist."
Bondage was a main theme at Bernardo's first-degree murder trial in 1995.