A blood-soaked scene, three bodies, and one missing girl, the police can hardly be faulted for assuming they were looking at an abduction following a triple murder. But the person who had plotted the murders of Debra and Marc Richardson and their eight-year-old son, Tyler Jacob, wasn’t a stranger. It was 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson who had enlisted the help of her “boyfriend,” 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke, to kill her family. We’re back with another daughter who killed her family in this week’s episode on the youngest Canadian to have ever been convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder who is now walking free.

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/jasmine-richardson

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2012/pipeda-2012-001/

https://www.mamamia.com.au/jasmine-richardson/

https://restore-mentalhealth.com/richardson-family-murders-mind/

https://www.worldremit.com/en/blog/education/education-system-in-canada

Numerous articles by the CBC such as: ⁠https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/crown-rips-into-accused-alberta-killer-in-cross-examination-1.733208⁠ (For all the links, please email us.)

https://people.com/richardson-family-murders-how-a-12-year-old-helped-murder-her-family-with-23-year-old-boyfriend-8682958

https://globalnews.ca/news/1835793/timeline-tracking-canadas-youngest-multiple-murderer/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jasmine-richardson-walks-free-a-decade-after-she-and-boyfriend-massacred-her-family/TDLBX4NMVXCY5UGVSRISBITUTE/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fetal-alcohol-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20352901#:~:text=Overview,and%20thinking%2C%20and%20physical%20development.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9905-oppositional-defiant-disorder

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23924-conduct-disorder

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-7-things-to-know

São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, experienced plenty of crime in 2002. With many citizens living in poverty and struggling to survive, police were used to being called to crime scenes in the poorer neighborhoods. However, getting called to the wealthy area of Campo Belo was not the norm. Entering the residence, police found that the rooms on the lower level largely appeared undisturbed, except for the office, where it looked like items had been strewn about. After going upstairs, though, they found the owners of the home, Manfred and Marisa von Richthofen, both in theirbeds, obviously dead. While their son, Andreas, was visibly upset, their daughter, Suzane, seemed more concerned about her inheritance than her murdered parents.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/affair-is-focus-of-brazil-murders/

https://vocal.media/criminal/i-used-to-love-you-ftcggb0dp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5207124.stm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyjSBDZuCk

https://www.news24.com/you/archive/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-griekwastad-murder-case-20170728

https://www.news24.com/you/celebs/school-boy-cast-as-convicted-killer-don-steenkamp-in-movie-about-griekwastad-murders-20190410

With the bodies of her mother, Elizabeth, and sister, Katie, upstairs, Kim Edwards watched the Twilight movies with her boyfriend Lucas Markham, reveling in their unobstructed relationship before police came to arrest them. Having long been jealous of her mother and sister’s close relationship, Kim wanted revenge for how her mother had treated her, and getting Lucas to kill Elizabeth for her was hardly difficult. After all, Elizabeth had never kept her disapproval of their relationship a secret. We're continuing with our theme of daughters who kill as we dig into Kim and Lucas’s relationship and the resulting murders.

Sources:

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/dinner-lady#:~:text=%2F%CB%88d%C9%AAn%C9%99r%20le%C9%AAdi%2F,meals%20to%20children%20in%20schools

https://www.verywellhealth.com/jugular-vein-anatomy-4769029

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/markham-edwards-v-r-judgment.pdf

https://www.stpaulschambers.com/st-pauls-chambers-reduce-sentence-for-britains-youngest-double-murderers/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-37648194

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/09/kim-edwards-lucas-markham-murders-mother-sister-spalding

https://news.sky.com/story/teenage-couple-get-life-for-killing-spalding-mother-and-daughter-10651939

https://patient.info/doctor/dissocial-personality-disorder

https://www.advocatemagazine.com/images/issues/2022/01-january/reprints/Berkley-Jan22-article.pdf

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/adjustment-disorders