Jeremy Steinke

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Jeremy Allan Steinke (born in 1983) is a Canadian man who assisted his girlfriend Jasmine Richardson to murder her parents in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 2006.

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According to friends of Jasmine, Richardson's parents had punished her for dating Steinke due to the age disparity. Jeremy did not know her age at the time. He was well known to be naive and easily influenced. Her friends had witnessed Jeremy repeatedly try to talk JR out of her plan to kill her parents and brother. "Shed cry and beg and threaten to kill herself". "She tried to recruit 2 other men before she found the perfect victim to use for her plans".

He had a user account at the VampireFreaks.com website. The girl had a page at the same site, leading to speculation they met there. However, an acquaintance of Steinke later said the couple actually met at a punk rock show in early 2006. The couple were also found to be communicating at Nexopia, a popular website for young Canadians. Various messages they sent to each other were available to the public, before the accounts were removed by Nexopia staff.

Richardson's user page, under the name "runawaydevil", falsely said she was 15 and ended with the text "Welcome to my tragic end". Just hours prior to committing the murders, Steinke and some friends reportedly watched the 1994 film Natural Born Killers, about a young couple who go on a violent killing spree.

Steinke admitted to the murder of the parents in conversation with an undercover police officer while in custody. He was tried in November 2008 and found guilty by a jury on three counts of first-degree murder for the killings of the three Richardson victims. On December 15, 2008, Steinke was sentenced to three life sentences, one for each first-degree murder count. The sentences are to be served concurrently, and Steinke will be eligible for parole after serving twenty-five years. He has since been an exemplary remorseful inmate living a pro-social life. Scoring very low on the "risk to re-offend" assessment. Deeming his crime as an isolated incident that was highly out of character.