Officer Fights Tears Describing Slain Boy's Room
Chocolic
Family Murdered
Sherri Zickefoose, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, November 20,
2008
CALGARY - A plastic light sabre covered in blood was among the heavily
stained toys in a purple bedroom where an eight-year-old boy took his last
breath.
It was an emotional day for jurors and a police officer who choked up on the
stand as he recalled collecting evidence from the slain boy's room.
Jeremy Allan Steinke, who faces three counts of first-degree murder in the
April, 2006, slaying of his then 12-year-old girlfriend's family in Medicine
Hat, did not look up from his prisoner's box as jury members looked at
gruesome crime scene photos of the killing in court yesterday.
The family were stabbed to death, their arms and legs smeared with blood.
The boy's body was found lying prone on his side, dressed in his underwear.
His throat was sliced wide open.
Medicine Hat Sergeant Gerald Sadlemyer snapped 2,000 crime scene photographs
from the April 23, 2006, killings of a mother, father and their son.
Room by room, photos depicted the horror that befell the family the night
Mr. Steinke is alleged to have snuck in to kill them at the alleged request
of his girlfriend. Bloody handprints smeared on walls led to bodies in the
basement.
Jurors also saw black-handled kitchen knives believed to be the murder
weapons.
A fileting knife found next to the father's upturned body was bent wildly
out of shape -- it was buckled in the middle and curved at its tip like a
hook.
A screwdriver was lying on the floor nearby. On Tuesday, court heard a taped
conversation of Mr. Steinke telling an undercover officer that his
girlfriend's father fought back armed with a screwdriver.
The other knife, a six-inch knife missing from a kitchen sharpening block,
was lying on an upstairs bathroom vanity. It appeared to have been rinsed. A
pink puddle sat beneath it.
A pair of pajama pants with traces of blood on them was found in the girl's
bedroom down the hall.
Police crime scene investigators who collected evidence from inside the
house took fingerprints and shoeprints.
None of Mr. Steinke's fingerprints were found inside the house, former
Medicine Hat police officer Michael Storozuk testified. He fought tears as
he recalled dusting the slain boy's upstairs bedroom for fingerprints.
Footprints found in the dirt outside the home's back window were cast and
found to be similar to Mr. Steinke's shoes. Prints on the bathroom floor and
on top of a toy chest sitting under a basement window were inconclusive.
Police also seized evidence from the truck the suspects were arrested in in
Leader, Sask., the day after the killings.
Crime scene investigators found traces of blood on Mr. Steinke's own bedroom
door handle.
In all, Sgt. Sadlemyer sent 55 crime scene blood swabs, hair samples and
blood samples of the accused and victims. The RCMP accepted 31.
A bag of bloody clothing, including jeans, a hoody, and a neoprene face
mask, all black, was seized. Fishnet arm stockings and a bandana were among
the clothes.
A copy of a Medicine Hat newspaper with a front page story of the killings
was also found in the truck.
The girl, identified as J. R. in court, was convicted last year of three
counts of first-degree murder, making her the youngest person in Canada
convicted of multiple murder. She is serving a sentence in an Edmonton
psychiatric facility.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=974736
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Chocolic
Chocolic
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Nothing beats love,' accused Alta. triple-killer tells girlfriend
Sherri Zickefoose and Robert Remington, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008
CALGARY - Accused killer Jeremy Allan Steinke told his 12-year-old
girlfriend that he bought her a corset as an engagement gift, his trial
learned Thursday.
In a jailhouse love letter entered into evidence for the first time, Steinke
writes about his love and longing for their future together.
"The world may be against us, but remember that nothing beats love," Steinke
wrote to his girlfriend, who had accepted his earlier written marriage
proposal just days after her family was slain at home.
Steinke wrote that their engagement made him "incredibly happy" and that he
wished he could call her
"I bought you a corset I wish that I could see you wear it. xSighsx. In time
I hope to give it to you . . . I wish for nothing more than to just be with
you. Do you think of the future? What do you see? I see you!"
Court also heard that Steinke's blood was found mingled with that of his
alleged victims on clothing found in his getaway vehicle.
Robert Schimpf, an RCMP DNA analysis expert, testified that blood and
"biological matter" from Steinke and that of his ex-girlfriend's father were
positively identified on a black Neoprene mask, the type typically worn over
the nose and mouth in cold weather.
Blood of a type similar to Steinke's and the girl's parents and
eight-year-old brother were also found on a black hoodie found with the mask
and other clothing in a plastic bag in the getaway vehicle used by Steinke
and his girlfriend.
Steinke, 25, faces three counts of first-degree murder for the April 2006
stabbing deaths of the girl's family in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Steinke, 23
at the time of the killings, and the girl were arrested in Leader, Sask. the
day after the bodies were discovered in the family home on April 23, 2006.
Court was earlier told that the girl wanted her parents dead because they
were opposed to her relationship with Steinke.
In a taped conversation with an undercover officer, Steinke boasted of
killing the girl's parents but insisted she killed her brother. He said the
two planned to get married in a gothic wedding and live in a castle in
Germany.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6c48a19c-b135-4b2d-a5f7-b2fdd3535365
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He bought her a corset as an engagement gift fgs. Strange how two people
under certain circumstances can meet and an explosion occurs. I still can't
believe the girlfriend only got 10 years (the age isn't important this case
IMO) when she is the one that called him over to do the deed, she is the one
that cold-bloodedly slit her 8-yr-old brother's throat and she is the one
that laughed about it the next day. Holy crap.
I'd be curious to see if the 8-year-old boy that killed his dad and friend
with a shotgun will get more time.
Chocolic
Poe
I just started following this one from your postings here. I wonder how
the two got together to begin with (I may find out when I read
back-postings). Seems odd at first glance that they'd have the time
spent together to develop a friendship so strong considering the age
difference.
So She wanted her parents dead because they opposed their relationship
(as they should, but kinda late), then why kill her brother? And *she*
killed him... he must have been her playmate, 4 years apart, how could
she do that? Something is very wrong with her and I'm sure she'll be
back in the news someday. Some of these demon seeds are frikkin' scary.
I'd love to know more of the background on everyone involved.
Charlie Wilkes
>
> So She wanted her parents dead because they opposed their relationship
> (as they should, but kinda late), then why kill her brother? And *she*
> killed him... he must have been her playmate, 4 years apart, how could
> she do that? Something is very wrong with her and I'm sure she'll be
> back in the news someday. Some of these demon seeds are frikkin' scary.
> I'd love to know more of the background on everyone involved.
Here is the wikipedia article with a bunch of links at the bottom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_family_murders
The girl's name is Jasmine. She belongs to the same club as Erin Caffey,
Tess Damm, and Elizabeth Haysom -- girls who persuaded their boyfriends
to kill their families.
Charlie
Chocolic
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I just posted another article on this case about the on-line postings of the
murder before it happened. Man this is a strange case. This girl is
freakin 12 years old. What makes a child turn into such a cold blooded
murderer. What was she like as a child. What made Steinke turn into a
murderer. Could he have murdered others?
"Natural Born Killers" totally came to my mind, even before they mentioned
that movie in the articles.
Chocolic
JonesieCat
"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie...@users.easynews.com> wrote in message
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Wow. Here's what it says about the girl's July 2007 10 yr sentence: "This
will include four years in a psychiatric institution and four and a half
years under conditional supervision in the community." She'll be back "in
the community" in no time (if this Wiki article is reliable).
jc
Poe
They met at a punk rock show in 2006... 12 seems terribly young to be
allowed at such an event. Perhaps she wasn't allowed, per-se - her
screen name runawaydevil suggests she might be a runaway. Maybe most
like Tess Damm you mentioned in that regard (I'd forgotten about those
cases btw, thanks for reminding me!).
There is a picture of her here:
http://www.lazysupper.com/images/posts/welcomeToMyTragicEnd_crop.jpg -
the link says it is a screenshot of his page, but it looks like hers.
She had black goth makeup on and looks moody for lack of a better word.
Down that page there is the phrase "comfort in open wounds" along with a
lot of other dark gothy sounding stuff. Sounds like she was well on her
way to trouble, acting out, etc.
I haven't read all the links yet, hope to find in on of them how things
go so far along with this older man. She sounds like she should have
been in counseling and under close supervision well before the murders,
but maybe she was impossible to control. Still, it seems like at 12 her
parents would be able to limit her behavior more so than if she was a
teen, so I continue to wonder about the family dynamics.
I wonder who she'll end up with after she gets out after the 4 years at
a psychiatric institute. Who would want her around? I cannot imagine
living the rest of your life knowing you killed your family. Man, so
messed up, so hard to imagine in so many ways.
Poe
My impression of her thus far is that she's a depressed misfit who will
always be antisocial, and will eventually kill herself by way of an
outlaw lifestyle of drugs, crime, and loser associates. Let's just hope
she doesn't cut a wide swath of damage on the way to her ultimate demise.
Poe
Here's what looks like the same or very similar wiki page as Charlie
posted with another picture of her where she looks quite nice:
http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Uncensored:Richardson_family_murders
She also looks older than 12 IMO. She cannot be too much younger than 12
in this pic, which makes me wonder what happened, if maybe hormones
kicked in that drastically changed her behavior over s relatively short
period of time, or something like that.
Chocolic
This has a picture of both of them. She is/was a very pretty girl and I
agree, she does look much older than 12.
http://dangergirlsnorthexposed.blogspot.com/2007/03/jasmine-richardson12yrs-and-jeremy.html
Chocolic
JonesieCat
Why do you think she's depressed? Because of her dark poetry?
Charlie Wilkes
It's hard to imagine what runs through her head. I seem to remember
reading somewhere that her family was quite religious. That was also the
case with the Caffey family in Texas. I wonder if some of the kids who
do this have had their ears stuffed with a lot of preaching and
moralizing, with the result that they see their parents as talking
zombies rather than people. I'm speculating because it's hard to
understand this behavior in any context except one of outright abuse,
which doesn't seem to be a factor in the Richardson case.
The sentencing judge in this case made what I think is a really bizarre
statement:
"You can never undo what you did to your mom, dad and brother," Brooker
said. "However, what you can do is honor their memory by dedicating your
life to becoming the woman your parents and brother would be proud of."
Charlie
Charlie Wilkes
I meant to post the URL with that:
http://investigation.discovery.com/investigation/internet-cases/
richardson/jasmine-richardson-02.html
As well as the comment that this judge has a much more upbeat take on
this girl's future than I could muster... the best I could do would be to
say "I hope you will not be a threat to society when you are released."
Charlie
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http://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Devil-Preteen-Youngest-Multiple/dp/0771073607
Poe
> There is a book being written about this case, called Runaway Devil:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Devil-Preteen-Youngest-Multiple/dp/0771073607
Cool, thanks! For some reason this case really caught my attention when
it started being posted here - I hadn't heard of this when it first
happened. I think one of the most interesting categories of crime, and
one of the most difficult for me to understand is parricide (I think
that's the closest term for what she did). It's hard to comprehend
actually doing it, and then living with it thereafter.
Chocolic
"Bart Bailey" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> In Message-ID:<6qg2p6F...@mid.individual.net> posted on Fri, 12 Dec
> 2008 16:18:29 -0500, Poe wrote: Begin
>
>>I think one of the most interesting categories of crime, and
>>one of the most difficult for me to understand is parricide (I think
>>that's the closest term for what she did).
>
> Throw in the enticement of a payoff to boot, and you've got the
> 'Menendez Sanction' whereby an unwieldy parent child relationship
> gets rectified.
>
>>It's hard to comprehend
>>actually doing it, and then living with it thereafter.
>
In this case, she only received 10 years.
Chocolic
Poe
> In Message-ID:<6qg2p6F...@mid.individual.net> posted on Fri, 12 Dec
> 2008 16:18:29 -0500, Poe wrote: Begin
>
>> one of the most difficult for me to understand is parricide (I think
>> that's the closest term for what she did).
>
> Throw in the enticement of a payoff to boot, and you've got the
> 'Menendez Sanction' whereby an unwieldy parent child relationship
> gets rectified.
They were old enough and should have just moved out of the house. Their
goal was the payoff. Hey, didja know both brothers have been married in
prison? Check out this wiki site near the bottom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_and_Erik_Menendez
Sounds like Lyle's considered a real catch by some! Too bad in Erik's
case there is a little girl involved.
>> It's hard to comprehend
>> actually doing it, and then living with it thereafter.
>
> Especially if the "living with it" involves LWOP
This girl will be out when she's 18 I believe. Other similar cases
resulted in the release of the young killers, too - Marlene Olive always
comes to mind, but there are more recent examples. IMO it would be
easier to live *with* punishment than not - walking away free and clear
of taking out those who brought you into this world is just so wrong on
multiple levels. I cannot imagine living with the knowledge I'd done
such a deed.