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Killer penned notes to murder victims — one hateful, one loving
(SIC) Yes very (SIC)

Robert Remington, CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - Two very different portraits of the state of mind of Canada's youngest multiple killer can be found in notes she wrote before and after the murders.

In one pre-murder note, the girl wrote: "may the furry (sic) and flame of all hell come and greet you at death's doorstep."

Then, two days after the killings, she wrote to the victims: "You must know I love you all dearly and are in my prayers. I wish peace upon your souls in the summerland."

The notes were deemed inadmissible and never shown to the jury in the recently concluded trial of the 13-year-old girl, found guilty Monday of three counts of first degree murder in the April, 2006 killings of Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son, Jacob.

Both notes are undated. The first note was found inside the Grade 7 girl's school locker on April 23, 2006, the day the bloody bodies of the Richardsons were discovered in their home on a suburban Medicine Hat street.

The note, described in court proceedings as a "prayer" or a "poem," accompanied a 10-panel cartoon the girl drew depicting a family of three stick figures being burned alive while two others watched, laughing. In the cartoon, one stick figure is seeing happily running towards "Jeremy's truck."

The convicted killer's boyfriend, Jeremy Allan Steinke, 24, also stands accused of first-degree murder in the case. He has not entered a plea.

The girl, who was 12 at the time of the murders, did not use names when she wrote the "prayer." Due to its non-specific nature, the judge ruled it irrelevant to the case.

"May the hatred and anger built of blazing infernos fill you and overcome you," the note says.

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Living so close to where this heinous crime was committed last year,I have been paying extra close attention to the evidence and outcome of this trial.Words can't even come close to what I think about the whole scenario.It is like reading a horror story but sadly it is all but true.The youngest person to ever be convicted in Canada of first degree murder times 3.

I have looked at this with different views,sadness for such a young life somehow gone wrong.Disgust and anger at our judicial system for letting this young girl to walk away when she is 18.Most likely with a new identity and life.We will remember but I am sure because it will be deemed a "Juvenile" crime the records will always be sealed and lost in the shuffle after a time.

I cannot convince myself either way what is the right way the courts should handle this.Life in prison or walking away when she is 18.Will she walk away a newly redeemed person,truly sorry for what happened ,never to commit a crime again.Or will she spend a life after her release filled with further crimes and such a disregard for human life as proven in court,that we will just have to wait for the next headlines to appear.

There is really nothing the system can do to force this girl to redeem herself while incarcerated.She can sit there for the next few years,I am imagining minus time served.Doing her psychiatric sessions,saying the right things,or not.It really doesn't matter by the time she is 18 she will be out.She reminds me alot of another woman whom was in the news for many years,and to this day even after doing her time,living quietly so to speak she still haunts the headlines.Karla Homolka,just a little food for thought.