It was the long Easter weekend and kids were piling out into the street in front of Holy Cross secondary school. The girls, dressed in little plaid kilt skirts had Paul’s full attention. He’d been watching the school for some time, waiting for the best opportunity to abduct a fresh and virginal girl. Karla was exhausted from Paul’s daily demands, and just wanted to get it over with. Paul liked her to stay up late, drinking with him and watching the sex tapes. The long nights were taking their toll and Karla sighed. The plan was to have Karla call a girl over, ask for directions and have Paul push her in the car.

“Look at her Karla!” He said. “That’s her, she’s perfect!” Karla looked over and saw his choice. Fifteen year old Kristen Dawn French walked across the street on her way home. Beautiful and athletic, Kristen was excited about the long weekend and the family celebrations, which would include her boyfriend. “Excuse me?” Kristen turned her head at Karla’s voice. “I need some directions to get to the Pen Centre Mall, can you help me?” Karla got a map out and asked to be shown where the mall was. As Kristen stepped up to the car, Paul pulled out his knife and held it to her back. “Get in the car, you’re coming with us,” he said. Kristen turned to see him. She got right up in his face and screamed, ”You bastard!!” Paul didn’t care for that. Usually his victims were so petrified that a brief show of weapons made them instantly submissive. Karla jumped in the back seat and pulled Kristen’s long hair as Paul shoved her in the car. One of her Bass loafers got lost in the scuffle, and Paul drove off to their home in Port Dalhousie.

Karla ran all over the house when they arrived, disconnecting the phones, and moving the answering machine to another place. She shut all the blinds, and got ready to bring Kristen inside. Paul slapped her across the face several times. ”You’re so stupid! You didn’t have the right map!” He took Kristen upstairs with a threatening look at Karla, warning her to stay put and shut up. She knew that there would be certain things he wanted from her but first, from Kristen.

He was giving Kristen vodka and orange juice and videotaping everything. She vomited, not used to the alcohol. Karla took her clothes downstairs to wash them and bandaged a small cut Paul’s knife made. She had seen their house, the dog, both Paul and Karla’s faces. Paul had Karla serve the chicken, but Kristen wasn’t eating it. Soon his torture resumed, and Karla was allowed to participate. Kristen’s rape and torture was much more extensive than Leslie’s. Karla videotaped Paul and Kristen as he demanded to be told that he was loved, the best, the master and king of all kings. Karla used objects to penetrate her, and as she cried, they changed positions yet again. The camera in the corner captured everything.

Kristen’s ordeal lasted almost 3 days. She endured of the same kind of humiliation and sexual torture that other victims had, but with Kristen, Paul had decided not to blindfold her. She’d had a good look at both of them in the car struggle and he knew he must kill her to avoid her going to the police. Once again, there is speculation of how Kristen was killed. Paul claims Karla watched Kristen struggle against her restraints while he was out getting Swiss Chalet Chicken Dinners. Karla claims she watched as Paul choked Kristen to death with an electrical cord. The truth may lie somewhere in between. But since Kristen’s body was intact, an autopsy showed that she had two small bruises on her lower back, consistent with the shape of two knees, kneeling on a victim to smother her face down. There is no speculation of this: Kristen French was tortured for three days, then killed and thrown in a ditch, nude.

Karla, who claimed to be as much a victim of Paul's demented mind as the victims themselves, was very far from what she claimed to be. A point made during court proceedings was that Kristen's murder had to happened at a specific time so that Paul and Karla could spend Easter dinner with Karla's parents. Immediately after Karla was strangled, Karla went to blow dry her hair.