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Alta Girl Says She and Boyfriend Had 'Hypothetical' Talks About Killing Her Family

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 15:14 CDT

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. (CP) - A 13-year-old Alberta girl accused in the bloody slayings of her entire family says she and her boyfriend had "hypothetical" conversations about killing her parents.

The girl, who could barely be heard in the packed courtroom, took the stand in her own defence Tuesday at her first-degree murder trial. She said she and co-accused Jeremy Steinke, then 23, used to talk late at night about how much she hated her parents, who didn't approve of their relationship.

She said they discussed possible ways of killing them, including making it look like a murder-suicide, or hitting them on the head while they slept and then burning their house down.

But she said she never took the conversations seriously and considered them no big deal because all of her friends talked like that.

The girl was 12 years old in April 2006 when the bodies of her parents and younger brother were found in their Medicine Hat home.

Source: Canadian Press

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