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Editor’s note — This article contains testimony and details some may find disturbing. 

Paul Bernardo, one of Canada’s most notorious killers, sought parole at the medium security La Macaza Institution in Quebec. He was transferred there from an Ontario maximum-security prison last year, to significant public outcry.

Bernardo has been denied parole twice in the past. Read more background on the case from The Canadian Press.

Replay the events of Tuesday’s parole hearing.

4:28 p.m. EST: Bernardo denied parole

Notorious killer Paul Bernardo has been denied parole for a third time following a hearing before the Parole Board of Canada.

1:45 p.m. EST: Bernardo describes upbringing

Bernardo is asked what pushed him to commit criminal acts – or in other words, to explain the root of his offences.

He says at the age of 16, his mother told him the man he believed was his biological father was in fact not.

He says his biological father saw him and did not want custody, and that his adoptive father hated …

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