Just days after Jeremy Steinke was arrested in the killing of a Medicine Hat couple and their young son, the 23-year-old told police that he participated in the slayings because he wanted to “impress” his 12-year-old girlfriend, who was the mastermind behind the plot to murder her family.

Jurors in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary took 11 hours to convict Mr. Steinke, now 25, of three counts of first-degree murder in the April, 2006, deaths of an eight-year-old boy and his parents. The couple’s daughter, known in court as J.R., was convicted last year on the same set of charges. Neither she nor her family can be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

In the weeks leading up to the slaughter of a Medicine Hat family, Jeremy Steinke exchanged e-mails planning the murders not only with his underage girlfriend – whom he describes as the mastermind of the plot – but also with two unnamed friends, an Alberta court was told yesterday.

Many of the Internet musings and exchanges were presented during the girl’s trial last year, when she was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder. But new e-mails were made public yesterday at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary, where Mr. Steinke is facing the same set of charges.

An Alberta judge has sentenced Canada’s youngest convicted multiple murderer to 10 years – the maximum allowed for someone her age – for the slayings of her mother, father and eight-year-old brother.

A Medicine Hat girl may have made Canadian legal history by being the youngest person ever convicted of multiple murders.

A girl charged with murdering her entire family won’t go to trial next month, her lawyer said yesterday.

The 12-year-old Alberta girl accused of killing three members of her family is set to face trial in February, 2007.

A 12-year-old Alberta girl accused of killing her parents and younger brother has pleaded not guilty.

MEDICINE HAT — The court-ordered psychiatric assessment of a man accused of murdering three members of a southern Alberta family is complete, but lawyers won’t have access to it for at least two weeks.

The young woman charged in connection to a triple slaying in Medicine Hat made a brief court appearance Thursday.

12-year-old daughter charged in murders held at youth facility

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — Two acquaintances of a man accused of murdering his pre-teen girlfriend’s family say he professed to be a 300-year-old werewolf who liked the taste of blood.

Few could have predicted the bizarre twists after a young boy stumbles upon a triple slaying

A local goth vampiress worries alleged goth links to a triple murder in Medicine Hat could reinforce myths about a subculture that’s really about “exploring your uniqueness,� reports the Edmonton Sun.

Pair accused in deaths of Alberta family posted messages on notorious websites

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