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Cheryl - April 17, 2008 06:29 PM (GMT)
Medicine Hat murder trail jury selection dates set
Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, April 17, 2008

MEDICINE HAT - Jury selection for the first-degree murder trial of a Medicine Hat man is set to begin on Halloween.

In a soft, low voice, Jeremy Allan Steinke responded that he understood the dates of his upcoming Calgary trial.

"Yes, your honour," Steinke, 25, said to Justice Langston while standing in the prisoner's box in Medicine Hat's Court of Queen's Bench this morning.

Steinke's triple murder trial is set to begin Nov. 3 to Dec. 30.

When asked if he understood the dates his lawyer had gone through with him, he quietly responded, "not overly."

Steinke's family and a teenage girl sat in his line of sight for support. Steinke, who wore a black dress shirt and slacks, met eyes with his mother briefly.

Steinke faces three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of his underage girlfriend's family April 23, 2006.

The girl, who was 12 at the time, was convicted on all three counts of first-degree murder during a jury trial here last summer.

The notorious case made her the youngest person in Canada ever convicted of multiple homicide.

She is serving her youth sentence in an Edmonton psychiatric hospital.

Steinke's trial has been moved to Calgary and out of his hometown of 57,000. Intense publicity surrounding his co-accused's trial threatened his chances of receiving a fair trial, a judge agreed last month.

Another suspect in the case also appeared in court.

Kacy Danielle Lancaster, 21, faces charges of accessory to murder after the fact, and is back in court June 19. She is accused of providing a false alibi and destroying evidence. Lancaster has been under house arrest for two years.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/s...d178e3a&k=94738

Cheryl - April 17, 2008 06:34 PM (GMT)
http://winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/04/17/5313806.html
By THE CANADIAN PRESS



MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — A trial date has been set for a man accused in the slayings of a southern Alberta couple and their young son two years ago.

Jeremy Steinke appeared in a Medicine Hat courtroom Thursday where it was decided his trial will begin Nov. 3 in Calgary.

Steinke’s lawyer successfully had the trial moved over concerns his client could not receive a fair hearing in Medicine Hat, where the case has received lots of publicity.

Steinke’s co-accused, the couple’s daughter, was convicted of murder last summer after a trial in which evidence related to Steinke, 25, was also heard.

The girl, who was 12 when her brother and parents were repeatedly stabbed, was ordered to serve the maximum sentence of seven years for someone her age.




In a related case, a young woman charged with being an accessory to the murders also appeared in court Thursday, but the matter was put over to June 19.



Cheryl - April 17, 2008 06:37 PM (GMT)
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/sto...ae-900e6aa34f72

Accused killer claimed to be werewolf, licked blood
Robert Remington, Sherri Zickefoose and Tony Seskus, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, April 28, 2006
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - Jeremy Steinke's dying mother sobs and shakes as she describes how she has become a prisoner in her own home, a woman scorned by town gossips and hounded by reporters on her doorstep.

"He's not the man everybody thinks he is," Jacqueline May says of her 23-year-old son, who is charged in a triple murder along with a 12-year-old girl.

"This is my son," she said, holding her favourite picture showing a clean-cut, smiling Steinke in his 16th year.


He has a heart of gold," May, 43, said Wednesday, sitting in her old trailer in a mobile home community on the edge of Medicine Hat near the airport.

"We may not be rich, but we have a lot of love," she added.

But a darker side of Steinke emerged across town, where two of his friends described how he professed to be a 300-year-old werewolf and that he liked the taste of blood.

At the last full moon, Steinke warned an acquaintance not to come for a walk with him and a friend along the river.

"He said, 'I wouldn't suggest it...we'll tear you limb from limb,' " said Daniel Clark, a 22-year-old who knew Steinke for about five weeks.

"I said, 'Excuse me?' And he said, 'Yeah. I'll eat you.' And I said, 'You come near me, and I swear to God, I have a baseball bat in my shop. I'll beat you up.'"

Clark never took the claim seriously, even though he once saw Steinke wearing what he thought was a small vial of blood around his neck and referred to himself as a "lycan" -- short for lycanthrope, or werewolf.

"I said, 'Yeah, whatever floats your boat.'"

Jordan Attfield, 17, a former roommate of the accused killer, said Steinke once deliberately cut his hand with a knife and licked it.

"He never drank blood out of a glass or anything. I never saw that, but he did when he saw it on himself. He'd lick it up," said Attfield, who said he, too, believes in lycanthropy.

Despite Steinke's odd behaviour, Clark said he felt the accused killer seemed to be a decent person.

"He was very respectful in me and my girlfriend's home. He never swore at us," said Clark, a newcomer to Medicine Hat.

An oilfield worker from Brooks, Clark is into country music and was wearing a cowboy hat when he met Steinke.

Wasn't sure about goths

"I took it off because I wasn't sure about these goths," Clark said, adding that Steinke was "cool" with him playing his own music by country singers such as Toby Keith.

Steinke and his young co-accused killer were into goth culture. Clark and Attfield said Steinke often dressed in ripped black jeans with body pins, wore his short hair spiked, had a bandana around his neck that he could pull over his face, liked eyeliner and sometimes wore a spiked dog chain around his neck.

Steinke and the 12-year-old, who cannot be named, were arrested Sunday in Leader, Sask.

They are accused of murdering Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son Jacob sometime Sunday morning in their home on a quiet suburban street in Medicine Hat.

Arrested along with them were three friends who were not charged.

One of them, a blond-haired girl who visited May on Tuesday, said she thought they were going to Saskatchewan to go camping.

When arrested, Steinke told her: "Tell my mom she can have my TV and that I love her."

Steinke and the 12-year-old probably spent Sunday night in an abandoned farmhouse near Prelate, Sask., that was used as a party house by teenagers, according to Attfield, who played with Steinke in a fledgling rock band called Project Status Quo.

After hearing of the slayings on Sunday, Attfield and Clark went to police, where they drew a map to the farmhouse.

Attfield, who is originally from Leader, said he had previously mentioned the abandoned party house to Steinke and was positive that was where the couple had gone.

May, who lives in her father's older single-wide trailer with an attached porch, said she does not believe the werewolf story.

"Never. No, never," she said.

In a lengthy interview in her trailer, which has been thoroughly combed by police in a search for evidence, May described her son as respectful and loving.

"If we ever disagreed, he would always apologize after. We were like that."

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/sto...ndsorstar/news/

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PRAYING: Jacqueline May, mother of accused killer Jeremy Steinke, prays to a memorial of her son in her living room.
CanWest News photo: Leah Hennel

Cheryl - April 17, 2008 06:53 PM (GMT)
http://pysih.com/2007/06/21/jeremy-allan-s...ine-richardson/

Hmmm..where to begin, where to begin?

Let’s see, to give you an idea of what kind of idiot 23-year-old Jeremy Allan Steinke was, he regularly told his friends that he was a 300-year-old werewolf.

Yup.

He also dated Jasmine Richardson, a 12-year-old girl.

Yup.

Oh yeah, there was also the small matter of the killing of his 12-year-old girlfriend’s family - Marc Richardson, his wife Debra, and their 8-year-old son Jacob.

Hey, if you’re dating a 12-year-old and her parents ground her from seeing her 23-year-old - uh, I mean 300-year-old - werewolf boyfriend, they just have to die, don’t they?

Friends of the family later explained that Jasmine’s family was furious about her relationship with Jeremy Steinke, and neighbors reported that they had heard loud fighting during the last few weeks coming from the home.

Jasmine had been grounded for about a month when she decided that her family had to go.

On April 22nd of 2006, Jasmine and Jeremy went through the house and stabbed everyone to death.

Jasmine Richardson’s father was stabbed 24 times and her mother was stabbed 12 times.

Jacob Richardson, who was four-feet, four-inches and weighed 68 pounds, died from a severed jugular vein and had four stab wounds to his face and chest, according to forensic testimony.

The autopsy suggested Jacob was also strangled.

Two hours after her father, mother and eight-year-old brother were killed, Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke were kissing and laughing at a nearby restaurant.

Young love.

Evidently the pair had met earlier in 2006 at a punk rock concert. Jasmine, being the typically stupid and easily-manipulated 12-year-old that she was, looked up to Steinke and quickly became enamored with the “goth” lifestyle.

Here’s an excerpt from one of Steinke’s profiles that gives you an idea of how cool he really is.

(Dead link removed)

An excerpt:

I believe in Blood, Destruction, Guts, Gore & Greed! I’m the Vocals for my band called “Project Status Quo” I also play guitar,my buddy Jordi is the pro on the Bass guitar, my cousin Grantis is on Lead Guitar, My bro Gary is the infamous Drummer, we’re still in the midst of looking for another guitarist to add to the band!

Ironically, he hates backstabbers but stabbed a family to death.

There were several indicators that this guy wasn’t right in the head.

“Whatever floats your boat,” was a typical response by his friends to Steinke’s claims of lycanthropy.

His friends thought he was just “talking tough” when he suggested that they not come with another friend for a walk along the river.

A 22-year-old acquaintance of Steinke, Daniel Clark, said, “He said, ‘I wouldn’t suggest it. We’ll tear you limb from limb.’ I said, ‘Excuse me?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I’ll eat you.”

At this point, Mr. Clark said the right thing; “You come near me and I swear to God, I have a baseball bat in my shop. I’ll beat you up.”

If only he had.

Now, during the trial, Jeremy Steinke’s best friend, James Whalley, testified that after the slaying, Mr. Steinke bragged about how the little boy had “gargled” as he bled out from the stabbing. Jeremy Steinke also told Mr. Whalley that Steinke and Richardson had “gutted the whole family like fish.”

While Steinke was revealing all this information to his best friend, Whalley was amazed that the murderer was just sitting there, telling him all this.

“They were calm mannered … completely like mellow, every-day conversation,” he said.

Jasmine Richardson has been testifying in the past few days. From her testimony:

“He yells at me, ‘Stab him, just stab him! Slit his throat!”‘

“I said, ‘I can’t, I can’t,’ and he said, ‘You have to. I did this for you.”‘

Her brother pleaded with her for his life, saying, “I’m scared. I’m too young to die.”

So she stabbed her little brother in the chest. Jeremy Steinke finished the job by slitting the boy’s throat.

What was Richardson’s reason for doing all this?

“I loved him so much. I thought it would bring us closer together,” she said.

Remember, kids, because Jasmine Richardson is underage, the Youth Criminal Justice Act prohibits publishing the fact that the accused’s name is Jasmine Richardson. Please refrain from using the name Jasmine Richardson when referring to Jasmine Richardson, who shall remain nameless.

We suggest the following pseudonyms for Jasmine Richardson:
-Rasmine Jichardson
-Richard Jasminson
-Ramses III
-Jazzy Rizzle (rap tributes only)
-Jizzy Borden
-Hillary Clinton
-Jasama Bin Richardladen (Fox News only - to be accompanied by 3-syllable 4am apology for ‘accidental misspelling’)

Thankyou (jasminerichardson) for your cooperation in preserving the (jasminerichardson) anonymity of this girl, whose name is most assuredly not Jasmine Richardson.

On July 9, 2007, Jasmine Richardson was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the killings.

During the trial, the girl testified she was in a “zombie” state at the time of the killings and was unable to stop her boyfriend, or go for help.

She admitted in court that she and her boyfriend used to talk about killing her parents prior to the slayings, but she insisted she was only joking at the time.

Testimony revealed that on March 20th, three days before the killings, Jasmine had told a friend that she was going to kill her parents, but her friend laughed it off.

Jasmine’s response? “Fine. Don’t believe me.”

She will be sentenced on August 23, 2007 and faces a maximum of 6 years imprisonment and 4 years of probation, which is the maximum penalty for a person under 14 years of age. She is currently the youngest person in Canadian history to be convicted of a multiple murder.


Cheryl - April 17, 2008 06:54 PM (GMT)
Jeremy pic

Cheryl - April 17, 2008 06:55 PM (GMT)
Jasmine pic




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