The Richardson Family Murders [2]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
[Part 2 of 3] After three members of the Richardson family are found dead, the police continue to search for the missing 12-year-old girl. But a darker picture has started to emerge involving her 23-year-old boyfriend.
* Additional content warning: this episode includes the death of a child. Please take care when listening.
The intention of this series is to take a look back at a shocking crime sensationalized through headlines and explore how it impacted the community.
Some names have been changed to respect the privacy of those involved.
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| 0:00.0 | Canadian True Crime is a completely independent production, funded mainly through advertising. |
| 0:04.7 | You can listen to Canadian True Crime ad-free and early on Amazon music included with Prime, |
| 0:09.6 | Apple Podcasts, Patreon, and Supercast. |
| 0:12.5 | The podcast often has disturbing content and coarse language. |
| 0:16.1 | It's not for everyone. |
| 0:17.4 | Please take care when listening. |
| 0:19.5 | This is part two of a now three-part series. I'm sorry, |
| 0:24.3 | I can't help myself. Part three is available now as well. As a reminder, some names have been |
| 0:31.4 | changed to respect privacy and a Canadian publication ban. Previously, in the case of the Richardson family murders, |
| 0:41.1 | the police were on a desperate hunt for 12-year-old Jade Richardson |
| 0:45.0 | and the 23-year-old man she was calling her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinkie. |
| 0:50.9 | Jade's immediate family members, parents Mark and Deborah Richardson and eight-year-old |
| 0:56.3 | brother Jacob had been found dead in their home in the early afternoon of Sunday, April 23rd |
| 1:03.5 | of 2006. There had been serious tension brewing inside the Richardson family home for several months. Investigators |
| 1:13.6 | soon learned that Jade Richardson had told a number of people that she wished her parents |
| 1:19.6 | were dead, and Jeremy Steinkie had asked a few of his own friends for help to kill Jade's family, |
| 1:26.6 | but they dismissed him. |
| 1:28.3 | The day before the murders, Jeremy appeared to be growing increasingly frustrated that his friends weren't taking him seriously. |
| 1:37.3 | That Saturday night, he was hanging at his trailer with a group of teenagers, drinking and using drugs, and watching |
| 1:46.6 | natural-born killers. Jeremy Steinkie seemed fixated on the 1994 film, which tells the story |
| 1:54.6 | of a young couple who embark on a violent killing spree across America. By about 1 a.m. on the Sunday morning, |
| 2:03.6 | most of the teenagers had gone home. |
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