Lena Dunham, filmmaker and creator of HBO hit Girls, got into some trouble when she tweeted a joke about going for Halloween with two friends as murderer Paul Bernardo, Karla Homolka and her slain sister.
The tweet was directed at fellow comedians Mindy Kaling and B. J. Novak who had initially joked that maybe they should as the West Memphis Three, a trio of teenagers who many believe were wrongly convicted of murdering three boys in the mid 1990s.
"You guys go as killer Canadian couple Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka. I'll be her sister they murdered. Scariest! Luv U," she tweeted.
Dunham's initial 'joke' wasn't taken well by many Canadians who felt that she had crossed a line.
"I think the families would be extremely hurt and disturbed by this action," Canadian lawyer Tim Danson told the Toronto Star. Danson represented the families of Bernardo's victims in court.
Blogger Kat Armstrong also writes about how she was offended by Dunham's tweet.
"My husband grew up in Niagara region during the time that Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy were killed and the tone in which Niagara families speak of these crimes is still one of hurt and confusion, 20 years later," she writes on her Celebretease blog.