The Richardson family in Canada
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The Richardson family living in Canada has been killed and police are surprised to discover that the killer is the only daughter of the family, just 12 year old Jasmine....
The case itself isn't complicated, but what's most special is that one of the killers was the only daughter of the Richardson family, Jasmine, who was 12 at the time. She is also Canada's youngest murderer by far.
The story takes place in the small town of Medicin Hart, Alberta, Canada. In 2006, 42-year-old male owner Mark is a chemical technology analyst, and wife Debra, 48, is a full-time mom caring for 12-year-old daughter Jasmine and 8-year-old son Jacob. Mark and Debra both participated in a drug rehabilitation community when they were young for taking contraband. The two met at a mutual aid conference and came together after successful detoxification.
In the eyes of her classmates, Jasmine is a passionate and cheerful girl, good popularity, good grades, loves art, and is also a member of the swimming team. Brother Jacob loves Star Wars and has a talent for sports. The Richardson family is an ordinary Canadian family, good to others and good to neighbors.
But that all changed completely after Jasmine reached puberty. From the age of 11, she gradually lost interest in her previous hobby and met a group of gothic senior students at school and quickly integrated into it. She started dyeing her hair, drawing long black eyeliner and wearing black pants. Character also becomes gloomy, communication with family less, most of the time hiding in their own room, indulging in the dark and decadent little world. Her favorite bands are American punk rock bands Misfits and Slipknot.
In 2012, at a small punk festival, 12-year-old Jasmine met 23-year-old Jeremy Allan Steinke. Jeremy's path in life is full of bitterness and despair. His parents had a habit of drinking alcohol and taking contraband, and he couldn't feel the warmth and love of his family since childhood. He went with his mother after his parents divorced, but the mother's new boyfriends are also a bunch of tasty people. Long-term dysfunctional family environment seriously affected his character, and at school he was introverted, sensitive, irritable, and often bullied. As a teenager, he claimed to be a werewolf who had lived for 300 years and went to school wearing a necklace with a vial of blood. He started taking cannabis at age 13 and had the first thought of having a child.
As an adult Jeremy found a sense of belonging in goth culture and punk rock. After meeting Jasmine, he started dating this 12-year-old girl. Jasmine's parents were so shocked to learn that they immediately banned the two from dating. But they kept chatting secretly through a website called Vampire Freaks. Repression by the elders makes the couple's resentment towards Jasmine's parents grows.
On April 3, 2006, Jeremy wrote an online poem "The Price": "My lover was treated unfairly. They say they love her but they don't understand anything. Their blood is the price they pay. Twenty days later, he kept his promise.
Sunday, April 23, 2006 Jacob's best friend Garrett knocked on the door to play with Star Wars toys, but no one at home opened the door. He walked around the basement window and saw a woman covered in blood on the basement floor. Police arrived and found the Richardsons in the basement with several knives, Jacob in a pool of blood in the second floor bedroom with his favorite Star Wars lightsaber in his hand. My daughter Jasmine has no idea where to go.
By searching Jasmine's computer inside, police found chat records of the two, and were surprised to find Jasmine was the one behind the case - she first proposed killing her parents. A few months before the murder, she wrote online: "The story begins with me killing them, the story ends with us together. Jeremy replied: "I like your plan, but we need to be specific to more details." " The "
Less than 24 hours after the incident, police arrested the two in Lesbridge, 81 miles away. They admitted the crime directly and generously.
The night before the crime, the two watched the movie "The Shining Killer", telling the story of a couple who teamed up to kill their parents. Jeremy came outside Richardson's house early the next morning, and Jasmine had opened the basement windows early. Jeremy makes a noise in the basement, Debra comes to check it out and gets stabbed. Mark heard the fight and ran downstairs, grabbed the screwdriver and fought Jeremy, and ended up unbeatable.
Meanwhile, Jasmine runs upstairs to her younger brother Jacob's room. Jacob cried and begged his sister to let him live while Jasmine stabbed his 8-year-old brother with a faceless face. She later said she felt it was too cruel to leave her younger brother alone to face the loss of his parents, so she helped him "free". Jeremy settled the couple downstairs and then went to Jacob's room and saw the boy still having a breath and cut his neck with a knife.
While in detention, the two kept writing letters of love without remorse, Jeremy even proposed to 12-year-old Jasmine, who happily agreed. Jeremy was sentenced to life in prison in 2008 without parole for 25 years. In November 2007, Jasmine was sentenced to the maximum penalty under Canadian law for a minor - 10 years in prison, minus 1 year in pre-trial detention, and actually only 4 years in prison before being released conditionally.
Jasmine, conditionally released, enrolled in Mount Royal University in September 2011. May 2016, when her sentence ended, she became a free man. In 2021, her criminal record was erased and she became legally completely innocent. Jeremy is still in jail today.
This case has triggered a lot of reflection. Jasmine and Jeremy had completely different starting points in life, but together they walked into the dark. We may be able to gain some insight from it, and take less of the road of uncertain life.
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