Richardson Family Murder Case

For this project I wanted to do a Canadian case that for a lot of people speaks windup to home including me because it go alonged in Alberta. I choose the Richardson family bump off case because this murder occurred in Medicine chapeau Alberta and they used the Youth Criminal arbiter Act for sentencing 12 year honest-to-goodness J.R.In 2006 Medicine Hat Alberta, the parents of J.R and 8 year old brother are found stabbed to death in their house.When Investigators begin to look about the house forclues they notice that their is a 12 year old girl in a family characterisation and her body is at a timehere to be found. They believed that the girl was kidnapped by the killer and began the await to look for the five-year-old teen. Investigators of the case began to search places that would be relevant to the young girl like her school and searched her locker and found a split drawing of the girls house on fire with her family in it and her running to her boyfriends truck. She and so became the main suspect in this case and investigators began to look for her and her boyfriend.Why did this happen and what happened to make these awful events occur you may ask? Teachers described J.R as a good Catholic school girl before she started to be interested into the more darker things and became a goth. While her other goth friends would take the Catholic schools dress codes J.R would constantly be breaking the dress codes and rebelling against her school. During this time she fell for a unemployed high school dropout named Jeremy Steinke who was 23.According to his friends he said he believed he was a 300 year old werewolf and carried a vile of blood around his neck. One of the approximately disturbing things about their birth was that it was a sexually active relationship which is was illegal because the eon of consent in alberta at the time for her age was that she could be sexually active provided only if her partner was cardinal years older.Many people were afraid of J.R including her other goth friends, this do her feel powerful and she liked the idea of scaring people. Her world revolved around her boyfriend and their relationship was kept secret for a while but eventually her family found out and her parents were furious. Once their relationship was revealed to her parents she was banned to claver him and this was their mistake and would ultimately lead to there deaths.This is when J.R and her boyfriend started to plan themurders of her family. Jeremy snuck into the root cellar of the Richardson family home and waited to attack. In the middle of the night J.Rs mother hears something in the basement and goes downstair to see what it is and this is when Jeremy attacks herstabbing her multiple times. After hearing wow from the basement J.Rs father runs downstairs to the basement and this is when he also is attacked by Jeremy.Meanwhile upstair J.R holds her scared little brother when her boyfriend comes upstair from murdering h er parents and murders her little brother so he wont have to live without parents. license for these two killers after the shame was very short and they were caught no less(prenominal) the 24 hours after the horrific murders. Since Jeremy Steinke is a large he was tried and true as an adult and was denounced to life in prison interim since J.R was a chela she was put under the Y.C.J.A and was given the longest juvenile sentence which was 10 year.Many people were angry about her sentencing and felt that she merit to serve a longer sentence but since she was a minor thats the longest she could stay in prison and she is currently out of prison under a different name and in therapy for her past actions. The now 24 year old is out of prison living a normal life and is currently attending Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta.I feel the legal decision in this case was through very well and I agree with the outcome of this case. I do believe that Jeremy Steinkes sentencing was fair because he was the adult in this case meanwhile since J.R was 12 at the time and was affected by her boyfriend I believe it was good that she got a second chance.In conclusion this crime was horrific and I feel very sorry for the family and friends of the victims involved. This case is a good example of mensa rea because they had the intention to kill and commit this wrongful act. I think this case is a good example of bothadult sentencing and young offender sentencing just because we get to see both existence used in one case.Resourceshttps//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN0qXAEkBoQ&t=599shttps//www.news.com.au/modus vivendi/real-life/news-life/jasmine-richardson-walks-free-a-decade-after-as-a-12yearold-she-and-werewolf-boyfriend-massacred-her-family/news-stor /f826a2b4efb359bd02b53c4066234bae