[div class="storyheader"][h2]Medicine Hat prepares for shocking trial[/h2][/div]Sherri Zickefoose, CanWest News Service
Published: Monday, March 26, 2007
[/p]CALGARY - A Medicine Hat court will begin hearing grisly details today about the slaying of a local family that was linked to rumours of vampirism.[/p]The preliminary hearing for accused triple-killer Jeremy Allen Steinke is scheduled to run until Thursday in provincial court. Steinke, 24, faces three counts of first-degree murder after Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son Jacob were found slain inside their home April 23, 2006.[/p]A co-accused, a girl who was 12 at the time, faces the same charges. She has pleaded not guilty for her Court of Queen's Bench trial in June. The disturbing age disparity of the two accused, who friends say were dating, and odd claims that Steinke believed he was a 300-year-old werewolf made headlines around the world.The revelation of the couple's personal Internet profiles on Nexopia and vampirefreaks -- which featured Steinke's gruesome poetry and a photo of the girl posing with a pistol -- added more twists to the story.[/p]Full Story: [a href="http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a5e28394-c56f-44ae-9308-d7ef865ba71f&k=6809"]Canadian Vampires![/a]
