Young Killer Wrote Apology to Dead Family After Murders

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. (CP) – Canada’s youngest convicted multiple killer prayed for forgiveness for herself and her boyfriend in a letter written to her dead parents two days after they were slaughtered in their southern Alberta home.

The newly released letter was never shown to the jury because the trial judge ruled that heavy-handed police tactics were used in getting the girl to confess and to pen the apology in late April 2006.

The girl, who can’t be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, wrote to her parents that she wished the violent killings hadn’t happened and wished her parents were by her side.

She also apologized to her eight-year-old brother, who was stabbed four times and had his throat slit, “for frightening you so much” and causing him pain.

The girl also asked for forgiveness for 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke, saying he did the killings out of love and because he was “under the influence of mind-altering substance.”

The girl is to be sentenced Aug. 23; Steinke, who also faces three first-degree murder charges, is expected to enter a plea next week and have his trial date set.