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She had those icy blue eyes that chilled to the bone.

There was the blond hair and that blue school marm dress.

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But worst of all was that smirk that cruelly winked: ‘I got away with it’.

And for the past 25 years, she has haunted us. A profound failure of the justice system that punctures our hearts at the mere mention of her name.

Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of the Crown’s “deal with the devil” and the beginning of a trial that stunned Canadians.

That blond Beelzebub was named Karla Homolka.

In 1993, Homolka began serving her 12-year jolt in jail after pleading guilty in the sick sex slayings of schoolgirls Kristen French, 15, and Leslie Mahaffy, 14.

The trial lasted just a day and a controversial publication ban left the public in the dark.

“I didn’t want to go to work knowing that girl [French] was in the house and could escape … I was afraid,” she told detectives.

“I didn’t suggest to him that we kill her – but I knew that she had to be gone.”