ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines how Karla Homolka was constructed in the corpus of textual data. The textual data was composed of the trial transcripts from Karla Homolka's 1993 plea and sentencing hearing, Paul Bernardo's 1995 criminal trial, the Galligan Report, Karla Homolka's 2005 prison release interview with Radio-Canada, and all of the newsprint media coverage referencing Karla Homolka in some capacity available on the Canadian Newsstand database. The book explains Karla Homolka's relevance as a case study amidst the broader feminist project of critically analysing women who commit acts of violence. The value of conceptualizing Karla Homolka as an enigmatic subject who perpetrated acts of enigmatic violence and what this theoretical construct might contribute to the small but growing literature on the concept of enigmatic experience for the analysis of violent experiences.
