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Jasmine Richardson Teen Killer Murders Family

Jasmine Richardson was twelve years old when she murdered her entire family in a case that shocked the murder. According to court documents Jasmine and her much older boyfriend Jeremy Steinke would murder her mother, father and her younger brother.

Due to her age at the time police initially thought that Jasmine Richardson had been kidnapped however when they caught up with the couple the scary truth came out. This teen killer would be convicted on three counts of first degree murder however due to Canada sentencing laws when it comes to young offenders she was only sentenced to the maximum penalty of ten years in custody.

Jeremy Steinke who now goes by the name of Jackson May would be sentenced to three life in prison sentences with parole eligibility after twenty five years. Jasmine Richardson has been released from custody

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SOMEWHERE in Canada, perhaps near her parents’ old home in Medicine Hat, Alberta, where she massacred her own family, Jasmine Richardson is walking free.

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 stabbed her parents to death in a violent frenzy.

Three months ago, Jasmine Richardson faced a final court hearing and, freed of any court-ordered conditions, restrictions or supervision. 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. But residents in the ordinary suburban neighbourhood near the Richardson family death house cannot forget and are not so sure that Jasmine Richardson should be living among them. “If you’re old enough to do the crime, you should do the time,” a woman told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Neighbours cannot forget April 23, 2006, a bright but freezing Spring day when a young boy spied bodies through the window of the Richardson family home, sparking a discovery that was to make Canadian criminal history. By that time, Richardson and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Goth and self-styled “300-year-old werewolf”, Jeremy Steinke, were on the run.

The neat grey weatherboard home with the gable roof and trimmed green lawn held grisly secrets that would shock the police who attended the scene. It was some time the previous night Jasmine Richardson, then aged 12, stabbed eight-year-old Jacob to death while her boyfriend, with her encouragement, murdered her parents. Detectives entering the home found Richardson’s parents in the basement and her brother in an upstairs bedroom.

They would later piece together the murder scene: Jasmine and Jeremy entered the home and Steinke killed his girlfriend’s mother first. Wearing a neoprene mask and carrying a knife he stabbed 48-year-old Debra Richardson 12 times, including a 12cm deep piercing to her heart. Hearing his wife’s screams, Marc Richardson, 42, came down the stairs to her aid and was set upon by Steinke who stabbed him 24 times, including nine times in the back. Jasmine reportedly wanted to take on her brother, eight-year-old Jacob, and climbed upstairs where he lay in his bedroom and stabbed him five times, including a wide, deep slash across his neck. Jacob would be found lying on his bed, surrounded by blood-splattered toys. When police arrived they at first feared 12-year-old Jasmine’s absence meant she had been kidnapped by the crazed murderer.

In reality, the pair had plotted the killings so they could run away together. Jasmine Richardson had met Steinke at a punk rock concert and immediately became intrigued by his goth lifestyle. Photographs on her MySpace page show how the clean cut young girl began changing under Steinke’s influence. Steinke had grown up with an alcoholic mother whose partners abused him. He was bullied by his classmates at school. A court later heard that by the age of 13, Steinke was diagnosed with depression and hyperactivity and later tried to hang himself.

Over the next 10 years he adopted the persona of the “300 year old werewolf” and wore a vial of blood around his neck. He had a user account at the VampireFreaks.com website and in 2006 he and Jasmine Richardson fell in love. Paramedics remove the bodies from the house where the murder scene traumatised detectives for years to come. When Jasmine’s parents discovered the relationship they forbade her from seeing him or going out. Online accounts belonging to both Steinke and Jasmine revealed that it was she who came up with the murder plan. Writing to Jeremy online, she said “I have this plan. It begins with me killing them and ends with me living with you.” Another message Steinke wrote on his Windows Live Spaces account about her parents read “Their throats I want to slit. They will regret the s*** they have done. Especially when I see to it that they are gone. They shall pay for their insulince [sic]. Finally there shall be silence. Their blood shall be payment!”.

Jasmine Richardson discussed her plans to kill her parents with her friends, but no-one believed her. On the night of the murders, Jasmine would later testify, her brother Jacob pleaded for his life and emitted a gurgling sound as she stabbed him, Steinke finishing him off by slitting his throat. She would later say that she killed him because it was too cruel to leave him without their parents. Two hours after the deaths Jasmine and Steinke were seen laughing and kissing at a restaurant. Soon after the pair’s arrest, Steinke asked Jasmine Richardson to marry him via letters from his prison cell, and she agreed.

Asked later why they committed the murders, Jasmine Richardson said: “I loved him so much. I thought it would bring us closer together”. In June 2007, aged 14, Jasmine Richardson went on trial for three counts of first degree murder. She was found guilty on all three and sentenced to 10 years jail, the maximum allowed by Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act. In 2008, Steinke was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to three concurrent life sentences in prison, with an earliest parole date of 25 years. His lawyers argued that Steinke was in an alcohol and drug-fuelled haze when he “snapped” and stabbed Jasmine’s parents. They described him as a lovestruck, immature man who would do anything to keep the pre-teen girl’s affection. His friends testified that he had asked for help to get rid of the Richardsons because he was worried she would leave him if he didn’t. He claimed in his evidence that it was Jasmine who slashed her brother’s throat while he watched from a doorway.

The prosecution fought Steinke’s attempts to lessen the charges to second-degree murder to manslaughter, saying “a father … fought for his family’s life to his death. You had [Medicine Hat] police officers who mourned the loss … years later of the terrible things they saw.” Believed to be the youngest person ever convicted of a multiple murder in Canada, Jasmine was committed to a psychiatric hospital for four years. She spent a further four under conditional community supervision and was allowed to attend Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. 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.”

Some of her old neighbours in Medicine Hat agreed Jasmine Richardson “should be given a second chance”. But Sue England told CBC she wondered “how she will continue on with her life with that being a part of her past life? … I have sympathy for her, but you can’t imagine anybody doing something like that”. Steinke has changed his name in prison to Jackson May and made a failed appeal against his sentence.

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Melissa Todorovic Teen Killer Murders Love Rival

Melissa Todorovic was fifteen years old when she manipulated her boyfriend to murder a perceived romantic rival. According to court documents Melissa Todorovic would withhold sex from her boyfriend until he murdered his ex girlfriend Stefanie Rengal. The boyfriend, David Bragshaw would wait for Rengal to leave her home then fatally stabbed the teenager to death.

This teen killer would receive a youth life sentence meaning she would serve no more than seven years.

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The puppet master has finally met her match.

And so killer Melissa Todorovic has had her day parole revoked and she’ll remain behind bars for orchestrating the senseless murder of 14-year-old Stefanie Rengel.

Melissa Todorovic, 27, had tried to convince the Parole Board of Canada that she had learned her lesson, that she now realizes she should have abided by her day parole conditions and disclosed that she was in the midst of an “unhealthy” love triangle with two ex-cons.

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But Melissa Todorovic kept it a secret, starting a dalliance with a high-risk offender named “Kirk” who she’d met at a group for reintegrating former inmates, signing herself out of her Brampton halfway house and lying about where she was going.

And then, unsatisfied with the sexual prowess of her first paramour, she set her sights on his best friend “Dennis” and started an affair with him, as well.

All the while, playing them against each other as only a cunning puppet master can do.

We’ve all heard this story before, of course. The jealous Melissa Todorovic was 15 when she blackmailed her boyfriend David Bagshaw into killing Rengel — whose parents were both Toronto cops at the time but her mom is now a grief counsellor.

Melissa Todorovic became strangely obsessed with Rengel, who had briefly — and platonically — dated Bagshaw, two years before. After her unrelenting eight-month campaign of phone calls, 50,000 MSN messages and thousands of texts rife with sexual blackmail — “Ur getting blocked until u kill her” — her lovesick boyfriend finally agreed to carry out the plan.

On New Year’s Day, 2008, just days shy of his 18th birthday, Bagshaw lured Stefanie from her East York home and stabbed her six times in the abdomen, ripping through the black sweater her mother had given her for Christmas just days earlier.

He then left her to bleed to death in a snowbank.

All this time later, released after serving only about 11 years of her life sentence for first degree murder, Melissa Todorovic is falling back into her old pattern: Playing with people’s lives.

Parole board hearing officer Shannon Stewart wasn’t falling for any of it: not her mea culpa or Melissa Todorovic’s insistence that she should be given another chance, this time at a halfway house in Kingston.

“It’s calculated deception,” Stewart told her, in revoking her day parole. “Within two months, you’re back to your offence cycle (of manipulating men). It’s very, very, very concerning.”

Rengel’s mother, Patricia Hung, said she was relieved by the revocation of Melissa Todorovic’s day parole.

“Getting the news that Melissa Todorovic reoffended badly enough to be taken into custody was shocking,” she said in her victim impact statement. “The fact that Melissa, in just a few short months, was unable to abide by her very limited conditions, raises red flags that are, frankly, terrifying.”

Melissa Todorovic was awarded day parole last November under pretty lenient conditions: All she had to do was continue counselling and report any relationships to her parole officer.

Yet almost immediately, she was secretly looking for love in all the wrong places. “I knew it was wrong,” Melissa Todorovic admitted. “I didn’t have people to talk to. I liked people complimenting me and giving me attention and didn’t want that to end.”

She even tried to deflect the blame. “Nobody asked me if I was in a relationship,” she said.

That didn’t fly with the hearing officer, who accused her of downplaying her web of lies to everyone from her family to her team of support workers.

“You chose to deceive,” Stewart said.

It was only by happenstance that her clandestine hook-ups were uncovered. Her community parole officer Angela Law told the hearing she was informed by Kirk’s probation officer, who had recognized Melissa Todorovic from past media coverage of the gruesome killing.

A search of her room found a Valentine’s Day card from Kirk in which he apologized for not satisfying her and for not treating her well.

Melissa Todorovic’s bail was suspended in March and she was returned to the Grand Valley Institution for Women for violating her conditions. Friday’s hearing was to determine whether her day parole should be permanently revoked — she can reapply in a year — or reinstated under new conditions.

Her parole officer recommended she remain in prison because her failure to disclose that she was involved in not one, but two, relationships and her “manipulating them against one another” show she still presents an undue risk to the public.

The hearing officer agreed — and so in prison she’ll remain.

Melissa Todorovic who has gained weight and cut her hair since her 2009 trial, wiped away tears throughout the hearing but simply stared coldly at Stewart when told she’d be losing her freedom.

Somebody had finally cut her strings.

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A woman who pressured her boyfriend into murdering his teenage ex more than a decade ago has lost her bid to overt urn the revocation of her parole.

In a decision released Friday, the appeal division of the Parole Board of Canada rejected Melissa Todorovic‘s argument that the board was unreasonable and overly strict in cancelling her day parole last year.

The parole board moved to send Todorovic back to prison after finding she had become entangled in a secret love triangle, contravening a condition of her release that required she disclose any new relationships.

The one-person panel found at the time that Todorovic’s “purposeful and calculated” deception meant she posed an undue risk to the public.

She had been granted six months of day parole in a halfway house in late 2018, after the board found she had improved in understanding what led her to orchestrate the 2008 killing of 14-year-old Stefanie Rengel.

But the board required that she report any new romantic or platonic relationships because of the role unhealthy romance played in her crime.

The love triangle was discovered in March of last year, causing the board to suspend Todorovic’s parole, and a hearing was held in August to decide whether to uphold the suspension.

At that hearing, Todorovic’s parole officer said the woman had become romantically involved with two men on probation who were friends, and appeared to be turning them against each other.

Todorovic, meanwhile, said she knew it was wrong to hide the relationships, but insisted there was no manipulation.

In challenging the revocation, Todorovic argued the board should have been more lenient in assessing whether she posed a risk to the community, given she has spent the last 12 years in prison without the opportunity to understand how to function in the community.

The appeal division rejected that argument, saying Todorovic had participated in numerous programs and been granted temporary absences and work releases to prepare her to reintegrate into society.

The reality is that you have been given every opportunity to improve your understanding of your risk and needs, to develop effective and meaningful strategies to recognize and manage your risks, and to prepare yourself for a graduated return to society,” the decision read.

“Your own choices resulted in your suspension of day parole; your own decisions to be evasive and manipulative precipitated the revocation of your parole,” it said.

“The board was not unreasonable in determining that, by engaging in romantic relationship with two friends, by psychologically manipulating one against the other, and by consciously choosing to not report these relationships to your (parole officer), you had become re-engaged in your offence cycle.”

The appeal ruling also dismissed her arguments that a victim impact statement read at the hearing went beyond what is permitted, and that there was a reasonable apprehension of bias because the panel member who heard her case had previously interacted with her in a professional capacity.

“The board member conducted a thorough hearing, was respectful and collegial with you and did not act in a manner that would suggest bias; nor did the decision appear to suggest that the board member relied upon her past knowledge of you to influence the decision,” the document said.

Todorovic was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 for ordering her then-boyfriend, David Bagshaw, to kill Rengel. Both were sentenced to life in prison, with Todorovic eligible for parole after seven years.

The plot was fuelled by Todorovic’s jealous obsession with Rengel, a girl she had never met but who Bagshaw had briefly dated years earlier. Todorovic, who was 15 at the time, continuously threatened to break up with Bagshaw or withhold sex unless he killed Rengel.

He eventually lured Rengel out of her family’s Toronto home and stabbed her to death on New Year’s Day 2008.

Kruse Wellwood And Cameron Moffat Teen Killers

Kruse Wellwood and Cameron Moffat murdered an eighteen year old woman. According to court documents the two teen killers would kidnap the young woman before dragging her into a home where she was repeatedly sexually assaulted, tortured and finally murdered. The two teen killers would be arrested and convicted of the brutal crime. However due to Canadian law they received life sentences but due to their ages at the time of the murder are eligible for parole after ten years.

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The father of a Langford teen who was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered by two classmates in 2010 says the family feels betrayed by the criminal justice system.

Cameron Moffatt and Kruse Wellwood, then 17 and 16 years old, were sentenced in 2011 to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 10 years for the horrific torture, murder and mutilation of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor.

Proctor’s body was discovered in March 2010 along the Galloping Goose Trail in Colwood.

Her father, Fred Proctor, told CTV News on Tuesday that he was “tormented” to learn last week that a parole hearing for one of his daughter’s killers, which was initially scheduled for June, has been postponed until August.

“This torment was already going to be almost six months long,” Proctor said of the delay of Wellwood’s day parole hearing. “Now it’ll be eight months with this monkey on our backs before we can put this parole hearing behind us.”

Proctor said he feels “powerless” and “betrayed by the system” for subjecting families of victims to annual parole hearings.

“Our situation is made worse because of the fact there were two killers and thus far only one of them has applied for parole,” he said. “We could be spending many years attending parole hearings.”

Proctor said that if Canadians knew the grisly details of his daughter’s murder, he believes they would demand tougher sentencing in cases like hers.

“The coroner found that Kim had been raped, her genitals were mutilated, foreign objects were found in her vagina, underwear was stuffed in her mouth and taped shut,” he said. “She was bound and thrown in a deep freezer still alive and eventually succumbed to asphyxiation.”

Kimberly’s badly burned body was discovered March 19, 2010, but it took three days to identify her remains. An autopsy showed the girl died of asphyxiation from duct tape that was placed over her mouth.

“However horrific the details,” Proctor added, they “should be broadcast loudly so that perhaps the bleeding hearts of this country can be silenced and actual victims of crime can be heard.

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One of the two men involved in the murder of Langford teen Kimberly Proctor was denied parole earlier this month, and the decision from the Parole Board of Canada says he would still be a risk to the public’s safety if released on full parole.

In March 2010, then 16-year-old Kruse Wellwood and 17-year-old Cameron Moffat bound, sexually assaulted, choked, gagged and placed Proctor, 18, in a freezer. The next day, they put her body in a duffel bag and took it to an area near the Galloping Goose to burn it. They were handed adult sentences of life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years for premeditated rape and murder.

A report from the parole board says both Wellwood and Moffat were interested in dating Proctor but she denied them both. Wellwood contacted Proctor the night before she was reported missing indicating his intention to apologize.

Wellwood, who is now 26, faced a hearing on May 15 to determine his eligibility for full parole. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Proctor’s family members phoned in to listen to the hearing and deliver victim impact statements.

In August, Wellwood was denied day parole. The parole board’s decision says a clinician did a psychological assessment of him in July and “was unable to envision a scenario where [Wellwood] would be in the community without supervision.” The clinician noted the severity of Wellwood’s psychopathology and lack of progress despite his completion of the high intensity sex offender program.

Wellwood began displaying problematic behaviour in school in Grade 3, the report says, and he met Moffat in Grade 5. Wellwood was a defiant, argumentative, verbally abusive and sometimes violent teen and was verbally and physically abusive towards his mother, the report says. He and Moffat shared information and fantasies related to sexuality and violence.

About two weeks after Wellwood’s August hearing for day parole, the parole board report says he met with members of his case management team to discuss it but the meeting had to be rescheduled due to its length.

“You reacted by slouching down off the chair and laying face down on the floor,” the report says. “While being escorted to your cell, you began crying aggressively punching yourself in the face multiple times.”

Wellwood has had “temper tantrums” according to the report and has reacted with self-harming behaviours like hitting himself in the head and pulling his hair. He refused to attend an emotions management group, saying he did not want to listen to other people’s problems.

He has, however, gained support from the prison’s chaplain and a sponsor as well as individuals in the religious community.

The parole board’s report says Wellwood’s plan is to reside with the chaplain or at a community residential facility on the lower mainland if on full parole, however, his case management team says living with the chaplain is not possible and that he is not supported for any form of conditional release. The report also says the July psychological assessment shows concerns with Wellwood’s “deflection and minimization, sexual sadism, level of psychopathology and high risk to re-offend.”

His case management team also says his level of accountability remains low.

If full parole were to be granted, it is recommended that he not be allowed on or near Vancouver Island without prior written approval of his parole supervisor, that he has no direct or indirect contact with the victims of any family members of the victims, that he report all intimate sexual and non-sexual relationships and friendships with females and he follow a treatment plan or program in the area of sexual deviancy.

“The [case management team] views your episodes with mismanaged emotions as demonstrating deterioration in terms of overall stability and readiness for any form of conditional release,” the report says.

The report says Wellwood was open and understanding that full parole would not be supported but said he is confident in his ability to seek assistance and be successful under community supervision. He also “acknowledged the extreme violence and sexual deviancy” in his actions and said he wants to learn more about the diagnoses and labels attributed to him in assessments.

Full parole for Wellwood was denied due to his “insufficient gains in risk reduction.”

“Your case calls for a very gradual, closely monitored and structured release,” the report says. “Your release on full parole at this time would present undue risk to the public’s safety.”

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A convicted murderer who escaped from the minimum security unit at Mission Institution on Friday is back in custody.

Robert Raymond Dezwaan’s disappearance was discovered Friday during a 3:45 p.m. head count. He was captured by Agassiz RCMP at 11:15 a.m. Saturday.

Agassiz is about 50 kilometres from the Mission prison and is home to Kent Institution, where Dezwaan’s son, Kruse Wellwood is incarcerated.

Wellwood, along with an accomplice, Cameron Moffat, raped and murdered Langford teen Kimberly Proctor in 2010. Wellwood said at his trial that he had not had contact with his father since 2001.

Dezwaan was convicted of second-degree murder in 2003 and is serving a life sentence for the death by strangulation of 16-year-old Cherish Billy Oppenheim near Merritt in 2001. He was out on bail at the time for attacking another girl in Kelowna.

Dezwaan left Oppenheim’s badly damaged body covered with rocks and debris off a deserted road. He took RCMP there after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Those crimes followed a 1993 incident in which he was convicted of unlawful confinement and break-and-enter after he broke into a woman’s home at night, climbed on top of her and tried to stuff a rag into her mouth.

Dezwaan’s crimes bear a striking similarity to the rape and murder of Proctor by Wellwood and Moffat. They lured Proctor to Wellwood’s home, bound her hands and ankles with duct tape and then gagged her with a sock before repeatedly sexually assaulting her. The teens tried to strangle her; they eventually suffocated her with a bag over her head.

Wellwood’s defence lawyer, Bob Jones, read a letter to the court at Wellwood’s sentencing hearing. In the letter, Wellwood mentioned his troubled relationship with his dad: “As a child, I hated my father for what he had done. I felt I was less than him and now I find I have become a worse man.”

The Correctional Service of Canada is reviewing the circumstances of Dezwaan’s escape and are focused on assisting the RCMP with the ongoing investigation.

A spokesman for the service refused to comment further, saying it would be inappropriate while the investigation is underway.

On a typical day, inmates are counted at 6:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., according to the correctional service. Informal inmate counts also take place several times a day, without interrupting activities.

During the night, correctional officers make regular rounds to ensure inmates are safe and in their cells or rooms between lock-up and the morning count.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/murderer-father-of-proctor-killer-captured-after-escape-from-prison-4648611

Kruse Wellwood 2022 Update

Teen killer Kruse Hendrick Wellwood has again been denied day parole by the Parole Board of Canada.

Wellwood, now 28, is serving a life sentence for the murder of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor in March 2010.

Wellwood, then 16, and Cameron Moffat, 17, lured the Grade 12 student to Wellwood’s home in Langford, tied her up, gagged her, sexually assaulted her, beat her, suffocated her and mutilated her body with a knife over several hours.

They put her body in a freezer, and the next day travelled to the Galloping Goose trail and set it on fire. Her badly burned body was found under a bridge on the trail on March 19, 2010.

The teens, who were sentenced as adults, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and were given life sentences in 2011 with no possibility of parole for 10 years. They were both eligible for day parole in 2018.

At the time, a psychological assessment prepared for court assessed Wellwood as a high risk for violence toward an intimate partner. The psychologist concluded Wellwood had many of the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy, sexual sadism and necrophilia.

“At sentencing the judge said the murder was so horrific that words could not adequately describe the inhuman cruelty you and your co-accused showed,” the parole board says in a decision released today. “The judge noted you and your co-accused planned to sexually assault and kill the victim whom you brutalized for several hours before killing her. The judge noted you minimized your own participation and pointed your finger at your coaccused.”

Wellwood applied for day parole and escorted temporary absences from Mission Institution in August 2019 but was denied.

At his hearing on Aug. 4, 2022, the Correctional Service of Canada advised against day parole.

The parole board decision says the most recent psychological assessment, completed in April, concluded Wellwood’s risk for violent and sexual reoffending remains high.

The psychologist found Wellwood continues to use sex as a way to cope with negative emotions. She noted that during the assessment, Wellwood sat slumped, failed to make eye contact, called the murder the “event” and did not use Kimberly’s name. The psychologist concluded that not only is Wellwood’s risk unmanageable on day parole, his risk is too high for a transfer to a minimum security institution.

“Your psychological risk assessments are very concerning … those specific to psychopathology point to a high risk. You appear to have an entrenched sexual deviance that began at a very young age, and which you acted out in a most violent manner on an innocent woman,” says the decision.

The board is also concerned that Wellwood had been writing to Moffat, his co-accused, before Moffat’s case management team decided it was inappropriate.

Wellwood continues to have emotional outbursts and attempts to hurt himself. He continues to have an interest in risky sexual thoughts and sex that is controlling, says the decision.

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Skylar Prockner Teen Killer Murders Ex Girlfriend

Skylar Prockner was sixteen years old when he brutally murdered an ex girlfriend. According to court documents Skylar Prockner was still upset that the victim had ended a relationship with him and he proceeded to stalk the girl months before the murder. On the day of the murder Skylar Prockner attacked the teenager and stabbed her repeatedly causing her death. Due to the violent nature of the crime this teen killer would be charged as an adult and once convicted he would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for ten year

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As a result of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal’s decision, released on Wednesday, 20-year-old Skylar Prockner will continue serving a life sentence for first-degree murder.

“The sentencing judge’s assessment and weighing of the evidence is entitled to deference,” read the decision penned by Chief Justice Robert Richards. “She did nothing in relation to this issue that would warrant or justify the intervention of this Court.”

Justices Ralph Ottenbreit and Peter Whitmore made the decision unanimous.

Skylar Prockner pleaded guilty to the January 2015 murder, but wasn’t as ready to accept the penalty sought by the Crown. At a sentencing hearing before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Jennifer Pritchard, the Crown argued nothing but an adult sentence was appropriate given the brutal nature of the crime and the events leading to and surrounding the fatal stabbing.

Skylar Prockner, through defence counsel, urged Pritchard to consider a youth sentence, suggesting the Youth Criminal Justice Act’s maximum 10 years would hold him accountable.

But Pritchard returned almost exactly one year ago with her decision, siding with the Crown’s position on sentence. Because he was under 18 at the time of the offence, Skylar Prockner can apply for parole after 10 years.

Skylar Prockner appealed and, in April, argued his case before the province’s highest court.

His appeal was based, in essence, on two claims: that Pritchard did not properly assess and weigh evidence relevant to sentencing; and that she was wrong in her handling of a defence application to quash a provincial determination that a youth sentence involving Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) was unavailable.

In deciding to leave Pritchard’s decision as is, the appeal court restated the facts surrounding the homicide — events that sprang from Leflar’s breakup with Prockner in May 2014.

Skylar Prockner engaged in stalking and other disturbing behaviour, including a plot dubbed Project Zombify targeting a boy Leflar was dating.

While Skylar Prockner had talked about killing or harming Leflar, it wasn’t until Jan. 12, 2015 that he decided to carry it out, having seen Facebook photos of Leflar with a new boyfriend. He recruited a friend — who, like Prockner, was 16 at the time — and the two entered Leflar’s Regina home once they saw she was back from school. There, Prockner stabbed her to death.

The pair made attempts to conceal their roles in the crime, but were soon arrested.

The second teen ultimately received a youth sentence, despite an attempt by the Crown to have him sentenced as an adult.

The appeal court also considered the evidence of several experts who testified at Skylar Prockner’s sentencing hearing, describing his risk to reoffend, his mental health and personal struggles, and his attitude toward the crime, among other areas. Some deemed Prockner a risk to reoffend should his issues not be addressed.

In the decision, Richards pointed out it’s not the court’s role to reweigh evidence; rather, he said, findings of fact by a sentencing judge “may be overturned only if they involve palpable and overriding error.”

That was not the case here, the court found. Further, the court found no error with Pritchard’s weighing of evidence such as Project Zombify, nor did it find any reason to overturn the sentence based on details such as Pritchard’s preference of a Crown expert’s opinion over that offered by a defence expert.

In relation to the IRCS portion of the appeal, the court found Pritchard had not erred when she chose not to decide on the application. Richards wrote the judge deemed only an adult sentence appropriate, even if IRCS was available.

“Even supposing the Provincial Director’s determination about the availability … was ultimately reversed, any such reversal would make no difference to the bottom line of (Pritchard’s) decision,” Richards wrote.

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Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky Teen Killers

Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky are two teen killers from Canada that would keep Canada on edge during a massive manhunt. According to police reports the two teens made a plan to murder as many people as possible and they expected to be dead within the week What ended up taking place is three murders before the two fugitives would take their own lives. There first murder took place in British Columbia where they would take the life of a professor before days later taking the lives of two people who were on the side of the highway with road problems.

The manhunt would span four provinces and thousands of kilometres. In the end the pair of teen killers would commit suicide but not before filming a brief video confessing to the three murders and what they wanted done with their remains.

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The RCMP said two teenage suspects charged with the murder of three individuals in British Columbia confessed to the killings via video recordings they left behind before shooting themselves.

The B.C. homicides sparked a massive manhunt across Western Canada over the summer that ended when the bodies of the suspects — 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky — were found on Aug. 7, some 3,000 km away in the Manitoba wilderness.

The RCMP, which released its investigative findings on Friday, said Schmegelsky and McLeod expressed no remorse and did not give a motive.

“They were cold, they were remorseless, matter-of-fact,” said Assistant Commissioner Kevin Hackett at a press conference.

McLeod and Schmegelsky were charged in the deaths of a couple, American Chynna Deese, 24, and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23, as well as 64-year-old Leonard Dyck, a botany lecturer at the University of British Columbia.

The case shocked Canadians and drew international attention as authorities chased the suspects’ trail across remote parts of Western Canada.

Deese and Fowler were found early in the morning on July 15 along the Alaska Highway in northern B.C., while Dyck’s body was nearly 550 kilometres away from where Deese and Fowler were discovered.

Investigators believe McLeod and Schmegelsky came across Fowler’s van and targeted the couple for unknown reasons. They shot and killed them before continuing up to Yukon.

Fowler and Deese died from multiple gunshot wounds, with some of the shots coming from behind the victims, according to the pathologist’s report.

On July 19, RCMP responded to a vehicle fire near Dease Lake and found Dyck’s body about two kilometres south. He had head and body injuries, including bruises and burns, and a single bullet wound.

Spent casings found at both murder scenes were found to be the same.

The police eventually determined that the burnt-out pick-up truck belonged to McLeod and learned from family members that the two teenagers were on a trip to northern B.C. and Yukon to look for work. Their last contact with family was on July 17.

RCMP determined that the two suspects returned to B.C. days after killing Deese and Fowler, due to car trouble and came across Dyck, who was on an outdoor research trip. The suspects then burned their vehicle to hide evidence, before stealing Dyck’s car, money and other personal items.

The murder confessions were filmed on a digital camera belonging to Dyck.

The search concentrated around the northern Manitoba community of Gillam after Dyck’s burned out Toyota RAV4 was found in the area shortly after the police named them as suspects.

Schmegelsky and McLeod, who were initially reported as missing and possible victims, died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds and were already dead for several days when their bodies were discovered after an exhaustive and challenging search through difficult terrain, police said.

McLeod likely shot Schmegelsky before shooting himself in a suicide pact, Hackett said.

Two rifles found nearby were determined to be the same weapons that killed the three victims as well as the two suspects themselves.

The murders appear to be random crimes of opportunity with no known motive, Hackett said, and authorities have no reason to believe there are other suspects or victims.

Six videos and three still images were found on the camera. The first video, just under a minute long, showed Schmegelsky confessing to the three murders. Schmegelsky said in a second video that they may have to commit suicide, and again took responsibility for Fowler, Deese and Dyck’s deaths without expressing any remorse.

The suspects said in another video they were preparing for their own deaths, but were planning to kill more people. In their final video, which they called their last will and testament, they expressed their wish to be cremated.

The RCMP will not release the videos, Hackett said, due to concerns they could inspire copycat murders. The videos may have been made for notoriety, and the release of the video would sensationalize their actions and be disrespectful to the victims’ families, he added.

Up to 160 police officers worked extended shifts on the investigation, sifting through thousands of hours of CCTV videos, 1,500 calls from the public, and extensive trail of evidence, but found no indication the murders were premeditated and no clues that could shed light on the killers’ motivations.

The RCMP said they ensured the families were always made aware of any information that would be released to the public, including those in Friday’s report.

“We respect that the answers have not reduced the trauma and the grief experienced by the families of Lucas Fowler, Chynna Deese, and Leonard Dyck,” Hackett said.

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Two fugitives suspected of killing three people before taking their own lives had recorded videos in which they took responsibility for the deaths of the victims, authorities said Friday.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said six videos on a digital camera were found near the bodies of the two suspects. Authorities don’t plan to release the videos to the public, but described their contents.

The bodies of the suspects, 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky, were found Aug. 7 in dense bush in Manitoba. Authorities say they died by suicide.

The teens were charged with the murder of a University of British Columbia botany lecturer Leonard Dyck. They were also suspects in the deaths of American Chynna Deese and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler.

“We have no evidence that leads us to identify what the motive was,” RCMP assistant commissioner Kevin Hackett said. “If there was a motive, it is gone with the accused.”

A manhunt for the teenage suspects had spread across three provinces and involved the Canadian military.

In the first video, which lasts 58 seconds, Schmegelsky says the pair are responsible for the three killings, according to police. They say they are planning to march to Hudson Bay where they hope to hijack a boat and go to Europe or Africa.

In the second, 51-second video, Schmegelsky says they have reached a river that is fast moving. Schmegelsky says they may have to kill themselves, to which McLeod agrees. They again take credit for killing the three people.

In a 32-second video, Schmegelsky says the pair have shaven in preparation for their death. They now plan to kill more people and expect to be dead in a week.

In a 19-second video the pair describe how they are going to kill themselves.

In a 31-second video, McLeod and Schmegelsky states this is their last will and testament. They wish to be cremated.

There is also a six-second video which appears to have been taken unintentionally.

Hackett said the pair looked “cold, remorseless” on the videos.

Fowler and Deese may have been targeted because they were stopped on a remote northern British Columbia highway with vehicle problems, according to Hackett.

“There is no real clear understanding of why they were ultimately targeted, other than the fact they were at the side of the road,” Hackett said.

Police declined to release the videos. The bodies of the suspects were found near Gillam, Manitoba — more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from northern British Columbia.

The bodies of Deese and Fowler were found near the Alaska Highway, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) from where Dyck’s body was discovered, on July 19.

The digital camera used to make the videos belonged to Dyck.

Fowler, the son of a chief inspector with the New South Wales Police Department in Australia, was living in British Columbia and Deese was visiting him.

The couple had met at a hostel in Croatia and their romance blossomed as they adventured across the U.S., Mexico, Peru and elsewhere, the woman’s older brother said.

The brother, British Deese, said the couple was on a trip to visit Canadian national parks when they were killed