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Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April 23, 2006, their bodies were discovered in their basement, covered in savage stab wounds. Upstairs, Jacob lay dead on his bed, his toys spattered with blood.
Investigators worried for JR’s safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online. Runaway Devil professed a fondness for a darker world of death metal music, the goth subculture, and a love for Jeremy Steinke, a twenty-three-year-old high-school dropout who lived in a rundown trailer park. Soon, shocking evidence in JR’s school locker — printed here for the first time — led police to believe the girl was a suspect in her family’s murders.
The case horrified parents everywhere. Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose have been covering it from the beginning, and in Runaway Devil, they reveal what really happened: the unlikely young love, the teenage rebellion, a troubling world of adolescent drifters, and a small community torn apart by an unthinkable crime.
A modern cautionary tale, Runaway Devil is also a chilling portrait of an approval-seeking man smitten with a manipulative young girl — who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #1402218 in Books
- Brand: Remington, Robert/ Zickefoose, Sherri
- Published on: 2010-09-07
- Released on: 2010-09-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.95" h x .57" w x 5.99" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In 2006, 12-year-old "J.R." and her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke murdered her mother, father and younger brother. Collecting information on the couple's troubling relationship, immersion in the local goth scene and obsession with violent music and films, Calgary journalists Remington and Zickefoose piece together the puzzle of a young girl's turn to familicide, a "culture did it" approach balanced by the considerable possibilities that Steinke corrupted the smart young girl, or vice-versa-that a charismatic young J.R. lured Steinke into murder. Ultimately, the authors manage at best to humanize the senseless tragedy of two deeply disturbed people, but don't look too hard for answers; the result is less like a genuine attempt to understand the tragedy than an exploitative narrative sounding the alarm against exploitation. As is unfortunately characteristic of true crime involving youth culture, this case has a schizophrenic approach to the goth subculture, which they describe as both misunderstood (demonized) and having played a prominent part in the couple's crimes. Still, those who want a solid, sensationalist crime account that gets into the heads of its subjects should find this a page-turning thrill.
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Review
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A page-turning thrill.”
— Publishers Weekly
“The authors have done a masterful job of crafting the true story like a crime novel … chilling and compelling.”
— Fast Forward Weekly
“An authoritative account of the murders that rocked this city.”
— Medicine Hat News
“Runaway Devil tells a story you don’t forget…. gripping … I also commend Zickefoose and Remington on humanizing the victims.”
— Peterborough Examiner
“A great read … powerful, scary, maddening, but you can’t put it down.”
— Gord Gillies, Global TV Calgary
“In spite of severe legal restrictions, Runaway Devil effectively details … a shocking Canadian triple murder… it brings to life the characters — the victims, the criminals and the supporting cast. This book does a better job than many in the genre.”
— Winnipeg Free Press
“Well written, excellent, highly recommended.”
— Reg Hampton, CTV News Calgary
“The book is a cautionary tale on several fronts: the perils of the Internet, Goth culture, heavy-metal music, violence in film.”
— National Post
“Dogged reporting had led the pair to countless scoops and insights into the bizarre case even before the girl was taken to trial and found guilty of murder….[it’s] as full a picture as we are likely to get into how the unimaginable happened.”
— Calgary Herald
“Expert journalistic handling … Runaway Devil will have you checking the contents of your daughters’ iPod and watching how much time she spends on social networking.”
— January magazine
“Elegantly crafted and written, Runaway Devil is a fine attempt to explain the inexplicable.”
— Elliott Leyton, author of Sole Survivor: Children Who Murder Their Families
“A finely constructed narrative of a horrific crime that shocked a nation … never again will I see youths hanging around a mall with nothing to do and not think about JR and Jeremy.”
— Nick Pron, author of Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Award-winning journalist Robert Remington is a former columnist and editorial writer with the Calgary Herald and national correspondent for The National Post. He has also written for the Globe and Mail, was arts editor and sports editor at The Edmonton Journal, and a syndicated television columnist for United Features, New York. His journalism career has taken him to Pakistan, East Africa, India, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Central America. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
SHERRI ZICKEFOOSE is a crime reporter for the Calgary Herald. Her tenacious reporting on the case resulted in exclusive interviews with Jeremy Steinke's mother and other key figures in one of the most notorious crime stories in recent history. She writes daily about villains and victims, justice issues, and unlikely heroes.
Please visit their website: www.runawaydevil.com.
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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Run Away From This Book!
By Shanna McQueen
A 12 year old girl from a middle-class family suddenly develops an interest in the darker side of life. She goes "goth" and begins to associate with a group of drug-addicted, indigent teenagers and young adults who do not attend school, do not work, and lack appropriate parental supervision. Once an honor student, JR becomes defiant and hostile toward her family.
When her mother and father learned she was talking to much older boys on the telephone, they forbid her to take calls from boys. JR has a girlfriend call her home instead, who then passes the phone to one or more boys.
When her parents learn she is communicating with these boys through various internet sites, they confiscate her computer. JR uses the computers at the public library.
When ordinary restrictions do not have the desired behavioral effect, JR is grounded. She uses a basement window to leave the house under the cover of darkness.
As if all this were not enough, JR forms a romantic relationship with 23 year old Jeremy Steinke. Like the other young people in the Goth Crowd, Jeremy is a drug addicted, unemployed, high school dropout living with his alcoholic mother in a cheap trailer across town.
In many ways, Jeremy Steinke garners a good deal more sympathy than JR ever will. She was a 12 year old child whose parents applied the consequences any loving parent would to keep her safe and hold her accountable. Her childhood does not include neglect, abuse, addiction, or any other extraordinary dysfunction. Rather than the obvioulsy troubled young man Jeremy was, JR presents as a bratty, unappreciative, and seriously mentally disturbed little girl.
In an act of ill-planned desperation and impulsivity, JR finally summons Jeremy to her home one dark night to murder her parents. There is some disagreement about who stabbed JR's 8 year old brother in the chest. This information is irrelevant to the prosecution of the case, however, and does not matter.
All of the information provided would surely signify a slam-dunk in the genre of True Crime. However, as with all True Crime stories, it is the use of the written word that either makes it or breaks it. Unforunately, RUNAWAY DEVIL suffers badly from a lack of creative prose or any stylistic use of language. The facts are reported adequately, but there is no attempt to create strong visual images for the reader. Similarly, there is little attempt to induce true horror in the reader, horror this crime surely must have caused for thousands of middle-class families everywhere.
In short, RUNAWAY DEVIL is dull. It was not so boring that I opted not to finish the book, but neither could I wait for it to end. My general impression was one of tepid disappointment.
There are two interesting chapters in the book. The first covers the trial of JR. The second is the Epilogue. Both of these chapters provide psychological exploration of the motives and feelings that would drive a 12 year old girl to plan the murder of her entire family. Although the strict prohibitions governing Canadian law did not allow for the release of all medical and psychological information available, the information that is allowed is enough. JR was later diagnosed with Oppositional-Defiant Disorder and a Conduct Disorder. "Conduct Disorder" is a legal and psychiatric term used for those children who engage in sociopathic behavior but cannot yet be labeled a "sociopath" because of their age.
As part of a bizarre and rather stupid attempt to gain a more complete confession from JR, one police investigator asked her to write an "apology letter" to her already deceased parents and younger brother. The manner is which JR begins this letter says it all: "Dear my loverdly parental units."
Perhaps most disturbing is this: Counting the time served prior to her trial, JR was sentenced to the maximum of 6 years. Once released from custody at the age of 18 in 2012, JR will be under "community supervision," or probationary restrictions for another 4 years. When JR is 22, she will be free of all supervision or restriction of any kind. If she does not commit another crime for an additional 5 years, her youth record will be expunged. At the age of 27, JR will then be free to work as a teacher, a health care provider, a social worker, or anything else she so desires. She will be free to have children of her own. She will be under no obligation to disclose her criminal past, nor will any record of it exist. A child responsible for the slaughter of her entire family - a triple homicide - will be free to disappear and remain forever anonymous.
No one in Canada (or anywhere else) is happy about this.
I really wanted to like this book more. It held such promise. The facts of the case are riveting. The writing is not. I read True Crime almost exclusively. Perhaps my standards are rather specific, but they are not exceptional or unrealistic. RUNAWAY DEVIL is not a 5 star story. It is not even a 3 star story. It is a book that reads with all the emotion of a morning newspaper account. I cannot recommend it.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Biased and poorly written...
By endlesswonderofreading
I'm surprised that the Richardson family murders weren't a big headline in the U.S. despite the fact that it happened in Canada. You would think that some people would bring it up and say "See the US Justice System isn't THAT bad. Sure we let Casey Anthony out, but we would NEVER give an underage murderer a slap on the wrist!" But, nevertheless, this is my first time hearing of this case. I was intrigued by the cover, so I decided to check Runaway Devil out of the library, and was appalled by the case and the subsequent sentence that Jasmine Richardson (one of the murderers) received.
So, Jasmine Richardson masterminded this evil plan of murdering her parents and her 8 year old little brother because her parents wouldn't let her see her 23 year old pedophile boyfriend. Oh, right, I forgot to mention that Jasmine Richardson was only 12 at this time. Yep, a 12 year-old girl masterminded a plan to snuff out her parents who were only looking out for her well-being. She was manipulative, cold, and all-around sociopathic, but can't really be categorized as such because her young brain is still developing. Therefore, she is only plagued by a conduct disorder despite the fact that all accounts on this case have stated that she has shown no remorse for the cold-blooded murders of her family.
Her pedophile EX-boyfriend (these two sick "love" birds broke up while they were/are in prison), was actually the one who murdered Jasmine Richardson's mother and father. Jasmine, herself, has admitted to stabbing her brother, even while he begged for his life stating that he was "too young to die." Jeremy has received 25-to-life, but Jasmine Richardson only received a maximum sentence of ten years, two which were taken out for time served. She'll be out by 2012 (and some people say that she's actually allowed outside to prowl amongst society during unsupervised visits). And if that isn't bad enough, if she's out and doesn't commit any crimes in five years, her record will be expunged. That's right. She'll be allowed to work as a teacher with kids despite the fact that she murdered one, if she so chooses to. Jasmine Richardson's name also isn't allowed to published by the media thanks to some idiotic law that protects vicious, underage, murderers. But I'm not Canadian nor am I a journalist, so I can say "Jasmine Richardson murdered her parents with the help of her pedophile boyfriend" all I want.
Now that I got those thoughts on the case of my chest, I can finally start off about why I DIDN'T really like Runaway Devil. The authors are clearly biased. Their views on the Goth subculture, Wicca, cutting, and Jeremy Steinke come off so strongly that you can tell exactly what they feel about each one of those things. The writing was also majorly inconsistent. For example, they write that Jasmine Richardson cried while confessing to some of her crimes (this wasn't in quotations, by the way, so it wasn't taken verbatim from the recording) and then they go on to say (in quotes from the recording) that the cop questioning Jasmine was wondering why she wasn't crying. So did she cry or didn't she cry? It doesn't change my opinion either way, but that inconsistency bothered me.
Another thing that bothered me was that the author was trying to add some poeticism to his prose...and ultimately failed at it. It's clear that this was to make Runaway Devil more dramatic. But the crimes committed are already dramatic, so why would you try to add more drama to it by putting in these hokey lines like "the shards of glass reflected JR and Steinke. 7 years of bad luck" (not verbatim, but you, unfortunately, get the picture)? This book also had moments where it dragged and was dry. It also didn't stick to the facts and was plagued with things that weren't even remotely tied to the case or the town. So it seems as if they were there to fluff the book up so that it could pass the 200 page mark.
So, I don't really recommend Runaway Devil. I gave it two stars because some of the details seem to be accurate and there really isn't another book about Jasmine Richardson's and Jeremy Steinke's crimes. But all in all, I found it to be really biased and poorly written.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great
By akua420
I thought this was a fabulous book. I read it all in a day and couldn't put it down.
I can't get over how somebody so young could do such a horrific crime, and not feel any remorse. Its sad that she will get out after such a short period, and have her record expunged. Wonder if she'll head to the Caribbean a la Karla.....
This was a well written book and I liked the balance of 'telling a story' and interviews. And the book never chose a side, it showed both sides of the story. I recommend this book to all true crime fans.
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