It is 10 years since she slashed her little brother’s throat and left him to die among his blood-spattered toys, and waited on as her boyfriend Jeremy, stabbed her parents to death in a violent frenzy. Richardson faced a final court hearing announcing her absolute freedom in May, Queen’s Bench Justice Scott Brooker told her “I think your parents and brother would be proud of you. Clearly you cannot undo the past; you can only live each day with the knowledge you can control how you behave and what you do each day.” (by not slashing your little brothers throat?) She offered no apology or expression of remorse for what she had done.
Now the 22-year-old is living quietly in the community at a secret location. Richardson’s name cannot be published in her home country, where she is known as “JR” and she is even being described as “a poster child” for rehabilitation.
Online accounts belonging to both Steinke and Jasmine revealed that it was she who came up with the murder plan. Jasmine discussed her plans to kill her parents with her friends, but no-one believed her.
Writing to Jeremy online, she said “I have this plan. It begins with me killing them and ends with me living with you.”