Your email address will not be published. When Jasmines parents discovered the relationship they forbade her from seeing him or going out. His lawyers argued that Steinke was in an alcohol and drug-fuelled haze when he snapped and stabbed Jasmines parents. Whatever happened to Jasmine Richardson? Richardson talked to her friends about her plan, but no one believed her. Believed to be the youngest person ever convicted of a multiple murder in Canada, Jasmine was committed to a psychiatric hospital for four years. We end this first part with the tragic murders of Jasmine's family. The noise woke Debra who went to investigate. found in the basement of their home, and the body of their son Jacob, He ran home and told his mother, who then called the police.
It was alleged that she was responsible for destroying evidence (that is, helping to clean the blood from Jeremy Steinke's truck) and for driving both Jasmine and Jeremy to Saskatchewan. Two hours after the deaths Jasmine and Steinke were seen laughing and kissing at a restaurant. Soon after the pairs arrest, Steinke asked Jasmine to marry him via letters from his prison cell, and she agreed. [5] Richardson and Steinke were each convicted on three counts of first-degree murder.
He told his friends that he was generally 300 years old and that he was a werewolf. One witness recounted Steinke saying that the victims had been gutted like fish.. (CanWest News photo: Leah Hennel), Photo from Jasmine's myspace page. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. A nice family by all accounts. As he was 25 at the time of the conviction, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 25 years. He was bullied by his classmates at school. Announcing her absolute freedom in May, Queens Bench Justice Scott Brooker told her I think your parents and brother would be proud of you. [6] Her 10-year sentence was completed on May 6, 2016. plans and enthusiasm Two hours after the deaths Jasmine and Steinke were seen laughing and kissing at a restaurant. Neighbours cannot forget April 23, 2006, a bright but freezing Spring day when a young boy spied bodies through the window of the Richardson family home, sparking a discovery that was to make Canadian criminal history.