Karla Homolka- The iced cappuccino
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Ice-coffee craving gets cool reception
Homolka backing doesn't thrill chain

By JILL MAHONEY
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Page A7

It was far from the kind of endorsement that companies crave. Convicted sex killer Karla Homolka giggled on national television and said the first thing she wanted to do with her newfound freedom was quaff an iced cappuccino.
From Tim Hortons.
"This will sound stupid. I'd like to have an iced cappuccino. An iced cappuccino from Tim Hortons, that's what I'd like to do," she said, speaking in French.
Faced with the stamp of approval of a reviled criminal, the popular coffee-and-doughnut chain took pains yesterday to distance itself from Ms. Homolka.


Homolka contrite in TV interview


Monday, July 4, 2005 Updated at 11:32 PM EDT
Canadian Press

Montreal, Quebec — A contrite Karla Homolka says she can't forgive herself for her past crimes and is pleading with the public to realize she is not a dangerous woman.
“I don't want to be hunted down,” Homolka told RDI, Radio-Canada's all-news French station, after her release from prison on Monday.
The interview will air tonight at 9 P.M. Eastern time on CBC Newsworld and at 10 P.M. Eastern on The National.
“I don't t want people to think I am dangerous and I'm going to do something to their children.”
Speaking in slightly accented French, Ms. Homolka said in the interview, to be broadcast later Monday, that “often I cry.”
“I'm unable to forgive myself. I think of what I've done and then often I think I don't deserve to be happy because of this,” said Ms. Homolka, 35, who appeared drawn and tired.
Ms. Homolka, the notorious ex-wife of convicted serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo, was whisked quietly away from the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines prison north of Montreal earlier Monday afternoon after serving her entire 12-year sentence for manslaughter in the sex slayings of two Ontario teenagers.
Justice Officials at the station confirmed that the interview with Ms. Homolka took place at its Montreal studio just hours after she left federal custody.
“She's gone,” Correctional Service Canada spokeswoman Michele Pilon-Santilli said after Ms. Homolka was out of federal custody.
It's believed Ms. Homolka made her escape in one of two red minivans that made a choreographed departure from the facility shortly before officials confirmed she was gone. Corrections workers picketing in front of the jail waved their flags with gusto as one of the vans passed.