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Jeremy SteinkeJeremy Steinke was 23 years old when he helped his 12-year-old girlfriend kill her family.In April 2006, the community of Medicine Hat in Alberta, Canada was horrified when Marc Richardson, Debra Richardson, and their eight-year-old son Tyler were found murdered in their home. Their 12-year-old daughter Jasmine was also missing. But as investigators soon shockingly discovered, Jasmine and her older boyfriend Jeremy Steinke were the killers behind the brutal triple homicide. Steinke, then 23 years old, had met Jasmine through a friend. He purportedly didnt know her true age though he knew she was very young and the two fell in love. Then, when Jasmines parents forbid their relationship, Jasmine suggested killing them. And Jeremy Steinke helped her do it. But while Jasmine Richardson was tried as a minor and sentenced to 10 years for the gruesome crime, Steinke, of course, was tried as an adult. He was sentenced to life in prison. This is his story, from his childhood of abuse to his purported remorse over the Richardson family murders. Jeremy Steinkes Abusive ChildhoodJeremy Allan Steinke was born on January 15, 1983 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. And as the jury heard at his murder trial, Steinkes upbringing was anything but stable.He spent most of his childhood with his mother, Jacqueline Ann May, who struggled with alcoholism. They moved often, which made it hard for the young boy to make friends, and Steinkes mothers boyfriends and husbands were frequently abusive. According Runaway Devil by journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose, Steinke endured terrible abuse as a child. At one point, one of Steinkes stepfathers locked the boy in a deep freezer. At another, Steinke broke the arm of one of his mothers ex-boyfriends while defending himself with a lead pipe.Jeremys dad started using the belt on him around two, Steinkes mother testified, according to reporting by CBC in 2008. He would sometimes pick Jeremy up by the ears and carry him to his room, or grab him by the ears and drag him to his room.Medicine Hat High SchoolJeremy Steinkes high school yearbook photo.Steinkes life at school, where his classmates called him Stinky wasnt much better. CBC reported in 2008 that Steinke was diagnosed with depression and hyperactivity at the age of 13, and soon began cutting. He even tried to hang himself.He continuously would say to me that he wished that he wasnt alive, May, Steinkes mother, testified. He wished he was dead.By the age of 14, Steinke had started drinking. He then began to consume other substances as well, including shrooms, ecstasy, acid, and marijuana. Then, in 10th grade, he dropped out of high school. Though Jeremy Steinke spent the next several years trying to find ways to continue his education or find a job, he eventually seemed to give up. Instead, Steinke became immersed in the goth subculture. According to reporting from the New Zealand Herald in 2016, he described himself as a 300-year-old werewolf and began to wear a vial of blood around his neck. Then, through mutual friends, Jeremy Steinke crossed paths with a girl named Jasmine Richardson. Jeremy Steinke Meets Jasmine RichardsonAccording to Runaway Devil, Jasmine Richardson though just 12 had embraced the violent fringes of the goth subculture as much as Steinke had. On social media, she posted a picture of herself holding a replica handgun, and claimed she was 16. Jasmine also listed her interests as hatchets, serial killers, criminal psychology, blood, moonlight, human anatomy, and kinky shit,' and claimed to be a fan of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. It was during this time that Jeremy Steinke, 23, met Richardson through a mutual friend at the beginning of 2006. They soon began dating. But when Jasmines parents, Marc and Debra, heard about their daughters much-older boyfriend, they refused to allow the relationship to continue. Wikimedia CommonsJasmine Richardson was 12 years old when she started dating Jeremy Steinke.As a result, Jasmine Richardson reportedly began to plot their murder. According to the New Zealand Herald, she sent Steinke an online message which read: I have this plan. It begins with me killing them and ends with me living with you. Meanwhile, Steinke also began expressing his desire to hurt Jasmines parents online. My girlfriends family are totally unfair, he wrote. She is slowly going insaneTheir throats I want to slit, they will regret the shit they have done Their blood shall be payment!And Jeremy Steinke and Jasmine Richardson soon put their plan into action. The Gruesome Richardson Family MurdersOn April 23, 2006, Jeremy Steinke arrived at the Richardson family home in Medicine Hat. He snuck into the family basement wearing a neoprene mask and carrying a knife, and when he encountered Debra Richardson, Steinke stabbed her to death 12 times. Marc Richardson, hearing his wife in distress, came running. Google MapsThe Richardson family home.Though Marc tried to fight back with a screwdriver, Steinke stabbed him 24 times. And when Marc Richardson asked why he was doing it, Steinke replied: Its what your daughter wanted.However, Steinke and Jasmine Richardson both told different stories about what happened next. According to Reuters in 2007, Jasmine claimed that Steinke ordered her to then murder her eight-year-old brother, Tyler, who was upstairs in his bedroom. Steinke, however, testified that he stood in the doorway and watched as Jasmine stabbed her brother and slashed his throat. She reportedly did not want to leave her brother an orphan. After the murders, Jeremy Steinke and Jasmine Richardson had sex, according to Reuters. They later went to a party where they were seen kissing so intently that they made some guests uncomfortable, and where partygoers also noticed that Steinke had a black eye. The two also reportedly bragged about the murder. Indeed, it didnt take long for investigators to find them. The very next day, April 24, the two were arrested in Leader, Saskatchewan. There was little doubt about their guilt. Steinke had even bragged to an undercover police officer about the murder, stating that while it was Jasmines idea, he had also been inspired by the film Natural Born Killers. Jeremy Steinke Is Sentenced To Life In PrisonAfter the Richardson family murders, both Jeremy Steinke and Jasmine Richardson were put on trial. Jasmine, tried as a minor, was found guilty and sentenced to a 10-year Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) sentence, which included four years in a psychiatric hospital. Steinke, who claimed at trial that there had been no murder plot and that he had been surprised by Debra Richardson, was also found guilty. He was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility for parole after 25 years behind bars. He said he was extremely remorseful, Steinkes lawyer stated. If he could take it back, he would, but he just couldnt speak. He actually did say those things. I think its an apology. I definitely think thats what it is.Jeremy Steinke, who now goes by the name Jackson May, remains in prison to this day. After reading about the man behind the gruesome Richardson family murders, discover the disturbing murder of Jun Lin. Then, learn about the Barbie and Ken killers of Ontario.The post How Jeremy Steinke Helped His 12-Year-Old Girlfriend, Jasmine Richardson, Murder Her Entire Family appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Einar Storsul/UnsplashA modern Siberian husky, which has ancestral connections to ancient dogs.Two new studies published in Science are revealing more information about the history of domestic dogs. One study analyzed dozens of ancient dog genomes and found that canines were migrating across Eurasia with early humans as far back as 10,000 years ago, showcasing how important the creatures were to our ancestors even during the Stone Age. The second study took a look at hundreds of dog and wolf skulls to determine when exactly the wide range of diversity seen in modern dogs emerged.This latest research is changing much of what we know about some of the earliest relationships between humans and their canine companions.A Variety Of Dog Skull Shapes Among Early Human PopulationsAllowen Evin, a bioarchaeologist at CNRS University of Montpellier in France, spoke with Nature about the results of the dog skull study. We often assume that dog diversity emerged since the Victorian period over the last two centuries, said Evin. But no what we found is that from the beginning, there is a huge diversity, much more than what we expected.Evins research took a look at 3D scans of the skulls of 643 dogs and wolves that lived over the past 50,000 years. The team identified a distinctive dog skull shape with a shorter snout and wider face than wolves that first appeared in fossils from northwest Russia that date back nearly 11,000 years. Around that same time period, dogs associated with late hunter-gatherers and early farming populations showed an explosion in skull shapes and sizes, accounting for more than half of the diversity in todays breeds.Carly Ameen/University of ExeterTwo of the dog skulls used in the analysis.By about 10,000 years ago, half of the amount of diversity present in modern dogs is already present in the Neolithic, Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter who co-authored the study, told NPR. So very early on in our relationship with dogs, we not only change them from wolves, but they begin to change among themselves and generate a lot of diversity.This early diversity likely reflects deliberate breeding efforts as humans adapted dogs for specific purposes, including hunting, protection, and companionship, the researchers said. This desire to breed certain traits into canines was evidenced in the second study, too this time through DNA. Genome Study Reveals Regionally Distinct Dog PopulationsA companion study analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes from East Asia and Central Eurasia, including 17 that were newly sequenced. All of the canines studied lived within the last 10,000 years. This research revealed that early humans brought their dogs along with them as they migrated across Eurasia. The genome analysis found that different human ancestries tended to be associated with regionally distinct dog populations. For example, ancestry from ancient people in northeastern Siberia was linked to Arctic dogs, whose descendants include modern huskies and sled dogs.In some cases, however, disconnects between human and dog ancestries in certain populations suggest that canines were traded between civilizations, likely to bring out specific traits in working animals. Laurent Frantz, a population geneticist at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich who co-led the genome study, noted that dogs with Arctic ancestry proved especially popular, appearing with hunter-gatherers on the Eurasian Steppe and later with Bronze Age populations in southern China.However, the researchers also noticed that even the earliest samples of known dogs from 11,000 years ago didnt look much like wolves, which could only mean one thing: Humans already had dogs by that point. Canine domestication, then, had to have happened much earlier. Sumit Surai/Wikimedia CommonsDogs have been a key part of humans lives since ancient times, as evidenced by this mosaic found at Pompeii.[B]y 11,000 years, you already had dogs all the way in Siberia and in Europe for thousands of years, probably long enough for them to become different, said Frantz. So were looking at a time where everybody had dogs already.Despite these new insights, major questions about modern dogs are still unanswered, including exactly when, where, and why wolves were first domesticated.Remaining Questions About Early Dog DomesticationOne major challenge in the research is identifying very early dog fossils, which likely closely resembled those of wolves. Genome studies suggest the main dog lineages began diverging around 20,000 years ago during the Pleistocene period, but confirmed dog fossils from that era remain elusive. None of the 17 Pleistocene skulls analyzed in the new research, for example, showed signs of domestication.Meanwhile, early dog trade might stretch even further back than the new studies indicate. To find remains from the first domestic dogs, researchers may need to look beyond skulls to other features like lower jaws or rely on DNA analysis of fragmentary remains, scientists said.Very early dog has to look very similar to a wolf, noted Evin.While answers to these questions may remain elusive for now, one thing is certainly clear: Domesticating wolves and other animals was vital to humanitys success as a species. Without them, we have no food, Ameen said. Without them, we have no plants to eat. We have no cereal Its possibly one of the most important things that humans have ever done. And the dog is the first species we make this relationship with. After reading up on these new studies into domestic dogs origins, learn the heartwarming stories of these famous dogs throughout history. Then, check out 44 ancient artifacts that reveal how our ancestors truly lived.The post New Studies Reveal How Prehistoric Humans Traveled With And Bred Their Canine Companions appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Paloma Laguens/IDACOR CONICET/Museo de Antropologas UNCThis 1,000-year-old statuette is just one of the many artifacts left behind by this previously-unknown population in present-day Argentina.A new analysis of prehistoric and ancient DNA has revealed a previously-unknown Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for roughly 8,500 years.The early history of human settlement in the southern tip of South America had long remained mysterious. By the time humans first occupied the region about 12,000 years ago, it was one of the last locations on Earth to be populated.Now, the discovery of this new Indigenous lineage begins to fill in a gap in researchers understanding of who was living in present-day Argentina thousands of years ago.Uncovering A Previously-Unknown Population That Flourished In Prehistoric ArgentinaStephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff PhotographerHarvard Universitys David Reich, one of the 68 co-authors of the new study.Previous studies had identified three separate Indigenous groups in the area throughout the prehistoric era: one in the central Andes, another in the tropical lowlands of Amazonia, and a third in Patagonia. Until now, it was unclear who, if anyone, was living in central Argentina.A new study published in Nature, put together by 68 co-authors across the world, used DNA analysis to identify a different Indigenous group that appeared in South Americas central Southern Cone about 8,500 years ago.Scientists analyzed the DNA, primarily bones and teeth, from 310 prehistoric and ancient people whose remains date as far back as 10,000 years. The genetic material gathered for this study has increased the amount of prehistoric and ancient DNA data from the region more than ten-fold.This part of the world was almost a blank spot on the map, David Reich, senior author of the study and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, told the Harvard Gazette. Like most of South America, there was very little data.Wikimedia CommonsCueva de las Manos in Santa Cruz, Argentina, one of the few significant prehistoric archaeological sites in the region.Likewise, very few archaeological sites from the prehistoric era exist in this region. The Cueva de las Manos, or the Cave of the Hands, in central Argentina is one rare example of such a site. The caves prehistoric artwork was made between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago.Its assumed that the people who made the cave paintings were ancestors to the hunter-gatherers that European colonizers came across thousands of years later and they may be connected to the population uncovered by the new study.A Resilient Indigenous Population That Kept To Itself For Thousands Of YearsBefore the discovery of this new Indigenous lineage, scientists analyzing the DNA first expected to learn more about migration patterns in prehistoric South America. Instead, they found a group that persisted for thousands of years that did not migrate, and instead mostly kept to themselves, only barely mixing with other Indigenous groups at the edges of their homeland.Finally, the new study shows that the archaeogenetic trail of this lineage ended at around 1800 C.E., though the genetic line still exists in some forms in the DNA of modern Argentinians. It is likely the main Indigenous American lineage in Argentina today.Paloma Laguens/IDACOR CONICET/Museo de Antropologas UNCAnother artifact, also about 1,000 years old, made by a member of the newly-identified Indigenous group.There is still much that scientists have yet to discover about the newly-identified Indigenous lineage. For instance, its unclear why exactly the population primarily kept to themselves.There are no geographical features in the region that wouldve prevented groups from interacting. Meanwhile, the newly-found population was able to endure environmental challenges like droughts, technological advancements, and the introduction of new languages.This is unusual compared with similar findings in prehistoric Europe and Asia. In many of those populations, things like droughts or the introduction of a new language prompted migration and intermixing and thus led to some sort of change in the genetic lineage.In this region you have a diversity of language and diversity of cultural changes, and you see interactions with other groups in the archaeological evidence, co-author Rodrigo Nores told Science Magazine. But the population is the same.Researchers believe that future studies with more samples from underrepresented communities may help to shed light on the lack of migration and interaction with other groups. Scientists hope to fill in more gaps in the timeline of prehistoric South America, a timeline that had been almost completely shrouded in mystery until now.After reading about the discovery of this previously-unknown Indigenous group in Argentina, learn about the ancient Siberian population that scientists believe could be the ancestors of Native Americans. Then, read about the 20,000-year-old genetic link that scientists discovered between Indigenous Brazilians and Australians.The post Scientists Just Discovered A Previously-Unknown Indigenous Population That Lived In Isolation In Argentina For 8,500 Years appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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