Murder of Leslie Mahaffy

Leslie Erin Mahaffy (July 5, 1976 – June 16, 1991) was a 14-year-old Canadian girl and the second murder victim of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. At the time of her death, she was a resident of Burlington, Ontario, and a Grade 9 student at M.M. Robinson High School.

Bernardo was convicted of two first-degree murders and two aggravated sexual assaults, and sentenced to life in prison without parole, while Homolka was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Mahaffy's kidnapping was one in a series of disappearances of Ontario schoolgirls in the early 1990s, including Kristen French, also a victim of Bernardo and Homolka. Prior to killing Mahaffy in 1991 and French in 1992, the pair had raped and killed Tammy Homolka, Karla's teenage sister, in 1990. The disappearances, arrests, and convictions were widely covered in the media, becoming one of the most notorious crimes in Canadian history.