Saskatchewan’s new law: no more hiding in plain sight

How one family’s tragedy forced Canada to close a loophole — and why it matters in 2025

The night that still haunts Medicine Hat, Alberta, was April 23, 2006. 

A quiet spring evening in Medicine Hat, Marc Richardson, 42, and his wife Debra, 48, were stabbed to death in their basement. Their eight-year-old son, Tyler Jacob, was found upstairs—stabbed once in the chest. Court records later revealed his final words: “I’m scared. Please don’t.”

Trial of Jeremy Steinke

Originally published  Nov 20, 2008 

The alleged accomplice of Canada's youngest multiple murderer (whose identity is protected by the Youth Offenders Act) is on trial in the last quarter of 2008. Jeremy Steinke's trial got underway in Calgary, Alberta, in the third week of November and was expected to last three weeks. Last year in Medicine Hat, Alberta the girl was tried, convicted, and sentenced to between six and ten years in a psychiatric facility. Now the Crown is proceeding against Jeremy Steinke, 25 (23 at the time of the murders)