Jasmine also started dating a 23 year old named Jeremy Steinke. But Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke were in love. Soon after the pairs arrest, Steinke asked Jasmine Richardson to marry him via letters from his prison cell, and she agreed. Then, on April 23, 2006, at her parents home on a quiet residential street in Medicine Hat, Jasmine Richardson and her boyfriend followed through with their massacre. Post continues after video. Steinke has changed his name in prison to Jackson May and made a failed appeal against his sentence. In June 2007, aged 14, Jasmine Richardson went on trial for three counts of first degree murder. Richardson discussed her plan with her friends, but no one believed her that she could reach this limit in her love. The pair exchanged intense, worrying messages, with Jeremy sending one reading: "You are a sight for soar [sic] eyes and I miss you more than killing people! At her 2007 trial, Jasmine Richardson, who was only identified as J.R. at the time because of her age, pleaded not guilty. Her screams woke her husband, who despite his best efforts to gouge out Steinke's eyes and stab him with a screwdriver, also found himself being violently stabbed. IF they are the same person, then she still isn't exactly an upstanding member of the community. Jeremy proposed to Jasmine, which she accepted. At the murder, her boyfriend was a 23-year-old, and Jasmine was 12 years old. In 2016, at just a year younger than her partner-in-crime was when they committed the homicides, Richardson was freed from the criminal justice system. Irene Cara Ethnicity & Ancestral Background, Jasmine Richardson And Her Boyfriend Killed The Richardson Family. As their parents were creating hindrance in her marriage to Jeremy, so she made up her mind to kill her parents along with her boyfriend. ANYONE who uses age as a reason for NOT institutionalizing/ or ending the young for heinous murders is themselves more likely capable of doing the exact same thing. And Why was she the only family member to survive? Jasmine Richardson was released from prison and given a new identity, Your email address will not be published. Jasmine reportedly wanted to take on her brother, eight-year-old Jacob, and climbed upstairs where he lay in his bedroom and stabbed him five times, including a wide, deep slash across his neck. A detective named Brent Secondiak arrived, and looked through the window and discovered the body. When police arrived they at first feared 12-year-old Jasmines absence meant she had been kidnapped by the crazed murderer. In 2008, Steinke was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to three concurrent life sentences in prison, with an earliest parole date of 25 years. [1] The murders were planned and committed by the family's 12-year-old daughter Jasmine Richardson[2][3][4] and her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke, now going by the name Jackson May. 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.