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By The Canadian Press
Published: November 21, 2008 9:26 PM
CALGARY — A 12-year-old girl told her 23-year-old boyfriend in several text messages on an online social networking site that she hated her parents and planned to kill them so they could live together, jurors in the man’s trial heard Friday.
The conversation were on Nexopia in the weeks before the girl’s parents and eight-year-old brother were found dead in their Medicine Hat, Alta., home on April 23, 2006.
The girl, who allegedly went by the name Runaway Devil, wrote on March 20, 2006: “I hate them. I have this plan it starts with me killing them and ends with me living with you.”
Her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, who allegedly went by the name Souleater, replied: “I love your plan but we need to get more creative with like the details and stuff.”
Sgt. Tim Schottner of the Medicine Hat police read the seized conversations in court. In one, Steinke tells an unidentified person called Super.Jesus that he’s having problems with his girlfriend.
“I was worried cuz she was getting in so much crap that we were going to have relationship problems, but she said she’d never break up with me and to stop worrying about it.”
“Tell her parents to shove it,” Super.Jesus responded.
“Yeah right that will work ... um we were thinking more among the lines of killing them,” said Steinke, followed by the Internet abbreviation “rofl” for roll on the floor laughing.
“Nice,” said Super.Jesus.
“Yepperz and the best part is it was her idea,” Steinke concluded in the April 4, 2006, text exchange.
Steinke is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
Members of the slain family can’t be named to protect the identity of the daughter, now 15, under the Youth Criminal Justice Act
She was convicted last year and is now serving a 10-year sentence.
