Murderous Children: 12 Year Old Jasmine Richardson & Her Boyfriend Murdered Her Parents & 8 Year Old Brother91

When children murder, it's shocking. Even more shocking and unimaginable is when children murder their own parents. The youngest person ever charged with multiple counts of murder in Canada, then 12 year old Jasmine Richardson, and her then 23 year old boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke murdered not only her parents, Marc and Debra, but also her 8 year old brother Jacob in cold blood.
On April 23rd, 2006, the bodies of Marc and Debra Richardson, and their 8 year old son Jacob, were discovered in their home, by a 6 year old boy who saw their bodies lying on the floor through a window. Marc and Debra's lifeless bodies were discovered lying on the ground on the first floor, while little Jacob was found upstairs, lying on a bed. The police discovered that the couple's 12 year old daughter, Jasmine Richardson, was missing from the home, and they feared that she had possibly been abducted. However, evidence started piling up quickly that ruled kidnapping out, and pointed to her involvement in the murders.


23 year old Jeremy Steinke, who was part of the goth crowd, and also proclaimed he was a 300 year old werewolf, purportedly met 12 year old Jasmine Richardson at a punk rock concert in 2006. Jasmine immediately became enamored with him, and with the goth lifestyle. They were in love; behind bars awaiting trial, Jeremy even proposed to Jasmine through jailhouse letters they exchanged. She accepted.
While searching for evidence, and looking for a motive for the gruesome murders, the police came across multiple online accounts that belonged to both Jasmine and Jeremy. It would be easy to assume that Jeremy, being the older one in the relationship, was the one who came up with the plan, but their online accounts told a different tale.  Amongst the most telling were two messages; the first message, sent from Jasmine to Jeremy read "I have this plan.  It begins with me killing them and ends with me living with you."  The other message was posted on a Windows Live Spaces account belonging to Jeremy, where he had written;
"Payment! My Lover's rents are totally unfair; they say that they really care; they don't know what is going on the [sic] just assume. As their greed continues to consume, she is slowly going insane. She continues to thank that I came, into her life to help her out, and to stop what they keep trying to shout. It's all total bullshit. Their throats I want to slit. They will regret the shit they have done. Especially when I see to it that they are gone. They shall pay for their insulince [sic]. Finally there shall be silence. Their blood shall be payment!"
Less than a month later, Jasmine's parents paid with their blood, just as Jeremy had written.  On that fateful night, Steinke first attacked Jasmine's mother & father downstairs, stabbing them both to death. He then went upstairs, where Jasmine proceeded to stab her 8 year old brother Jacob in the chest, while he pled for his life. Jeremy then finished him off by slitting his throat. Jasmine testified in court that he was gurgling. She stated that the reason for their decision to kill her brother was that she thought it was cruel to leave him to live without his parents. Two hours after the death of her parents and brother, Jasmine and Jeremy were laughing and kissing at a nearby restaurant.

At trial, when she was asked why they murdered her parents and little brother, Jasmine said "I loved him so much. I thought it would bring us closer together".

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