The girl who murdered her family because they didn’t approve of her boyfriend
On April 22, 2006, when Jasmine Richards was just 12, she and her boyfriend murdered her parents and younger brother in their home in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Richards’ parents didn’t approve of her relationship with 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke. Steinke broke into Richards’ home and killed her mother and father. He then ordered her to stab her little brother.
She stabbed the boy once before Steinke took over and slit his throat. On July 9, 2007, Richards was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to the maximum penalty of ten years. Her sentence included credit for eighteen months already spent in custody, to be followed by four years in a psychiatric institution and four-and-a-half years under conditional supervision in the community. Steinke was sentenced to three life sentences on each of the three counts of first-degree murder. He will be eligible for parole after serving twenty-five years.
