- Hey fancy seeing you here again. Can you believe it? I always just want to be comfortable but this chair doesn't allow for comfort. Hi guys. How are you today? I hope you are having
a wonderful day so far. If not, sorry. My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday which
means it's murder, mystery and makeup Monday. (Bailey vocalizing) If you are new here, every Monday, I sit down, I do my makeup and I talk about a true crime case that has been on my brain, AKA my noggin. I'm here every Monday for you. I'm doing it for you. If you like makeup and maybe you have an
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hit that subscribe button, ring that bell, take a lap. Yeah, because it's a good time over here. I mean, is it, I mean, yeah, kind of. I mean, it's sad, but like. Really quick, my eyelids don't worry. I'm not sick. I used a red eyeshadow the other day and like stained my eyelid. I love that for me. So today I wanted to have a little chat about the Richardson family and this story is based out
of Medicine Hat, Canada. If you watched last week's episode I got really hung up on the city names Elephant Butte and Truth or
Consequences, New Mexico. And I was just like, dude,
these names, these names. Okay, and then a lot of
you guys explained to me where these names came from. Very interesting. Thank you for that. And then this week Medicine
Hat, I was stuck on it. These city names, man,
they're just getting to me. So Medicine Hat, Canada. Let me tell you about it. It's like a little suburb area. A lot of middle-class
family lives there. Quiet. So the Richardson family was made up of Marc was a father, Debra was the mother, and then there were two
children, Jasmine and Jacob Jasmine was 12 years old
when this story takes place. And Jacob was eight years old. Jasmine was attending, I think it was an all
girls Catholic school. She was known to be a good kid. What can you say about a 12 year old? You know, they're always good until they hit their teenage years. Am I right? But Jasmine was nice. She was a good kid, did well in school and Jacob, the eight year old, like family friends would say
that he was a class clown. He was goofy, just like a typical typical eight year old, you know? The Richardson family,
they were pretty tight knit and they were just a very
close, loving family. So Jasmine was 12, right? And she was approaching her teenage years. And her parents noticed that
she did, she started to change, as most do when they
hit their teenage years or pre-teen years. So when they started
to notice just a change in Jasmine's attitude they didn't really think much of it. With Jasmine, okay, so she had some friends at
her Catholic school, right? And she was like a rule follower and she just, I don't want
to call her a goody two shoes because I feel like
that's not the right word. She she's just followed the
rules and was a good kid, right? She liked to wear pink or like color and like quote unquote girly things. When she was 12, her parents
started noticed a change in her attitude, but then they also noticed
a change in her appearance and it kind of started
a little slow, right? So at first it was just like Jasmine really liked
wearing color and pink. And now all of a sudden she
seemed to be more interested in darker makeup, the first red flag. Then she started to just mainly want to wear
darker clothes, all black. And then Jasmine was more interested in punk rock, the devil's music. So Jasmine and her friends at school they started to like go
their own ways a little bit. They noticed that Jasmine,
her interests were changing and she was becoming a
little bit of a rebel. Jasmine was showing up to
school in all black clothing, fish nets, choker. We got chains, the dark, Gothic makeup and jewelry that wasn't
allowed at the school. So she started to draw like fake tattoos on her hands and stuff
with like a Sharpie marker. But it was like devil stuff. And she's at a Catholic school. So she would get pulled into the office. She would get in trouble. And school officials kind
of found themselves really on Jasmine's behind because
she wasn't obeying dress code. She was writing stuff all over her body that was like satanic. And Jasmine just started to
get in trouble more and more. And it wasn't even
because of her schoolwork, she was still doing well in school. It was just that she wasn't
following the dress code. And she started to have a little sass the school teachers at
the Catholic school. They thought it was odd because they knew Jasmine
as the goody girl. And now she was challenging
teachers giving pushback snarky remarks. She was just being sassy. So one evening Jasmine
attended a punk rock show. I don't know which one I try to find it. I'm a curious cat. I've said this before. Meow. I just want to know, couldn't find it. I don't know if she went
with friends or anything but the only information I could find was that she attended a punk rock show. So while she was there she met this guy and she sees him at the show. She's like, oh my God, he is so fine. And his name is Jeremy. So Jeremy like showed
some interest in Jasmine. He was talking to her. He was making her feel cute,
making her feel special. And guess how old Jeremy was? 23, he was 23 at this time
talking to a 12 year old. I don't know about you, but
I think that's a problem. Jeremy, a little bit about him. He was unemployed. He was a high school dropout. He lived in a not so great neighborhood. What Jasmine really found appealing about him was first of
all, this older man is just like showing interest in her, you know? But also he was just full-blown goth kid. He wore, you know, all
black, he had eyeliner it was all smudged and just like, Hmm. And she just thought, Ooh, bad boy. Which side note I feel like
this needs to be talked about just in general because I don't know if any of
you guys can relate to this. But when I was in high school I remember high school student,
like my fellow classmates. They would be talking about how they were dating
like an 18 year old. I remember one girl was
dating a 20 year old. And at the time a lot of us were like, Oh my God, she's so cool. She's dating like an older man. Wow. Oh my gosh. And now looking back, I'm like, huh? If you were in high school you do not need to be dating older men. And if older men are dating
young, high schoolers like that's gross. And I never really thought
about that until recently. And I was like, wait a minute. It's not cool to date an older guy. Well, I'm dating an older guy but like when you're a kid it's not cool. So just don't okay. That's my one piece of
advice just don't do it. Anyways, I'm getting off track. Okay, so at this show, Jasmine
gives Jeremy, her new friend her phone number and the two
start hanging out secretly. Jasmine would tell her
parents that she was like going to her friend's
house or something to study. She was going out. She was sneaking out to
go see this Jeremy guy. But when they couldn't
hang out, they would stay in touch by messaging each
other, like on chat website. They also had MySpace,
other social media sites. This was 2006. My apologies back to
Jeremy, the guy she met he would wear a vial of
blood around his neck. Like it was a necklace. Right. And have it on file. And he said that there was blood in there. And he would brag all the time to Jasmine that he loved the taste of blood and he needed it to survive. And she's like, why is that?
Why do you need to survive? Oh my God, are you a vampire? No, he's not a vampire,
but guess what he is. So Jeremy tells Jasmine,
this part made me laugh, cry and I'm sorry for laugh, crying,
but it was hilarious to me. So Jeremy tells Jasmine that
he's a 300 year old werewolf. And when Jasmine heard
this, she was like, wow 300 year old, werewolf who
drinks blood, sign me up. I feel bad for this
Jeremy Guy because he's 23 and he just kind of seems
very lost in the world. But again, Jasmine is 12 years old. When you are a teenager or
have that adolescent brain that is the dumbest
brain you will ever have in your whole life. You have no common sense. Jasmine and Jeremy, they
were sexually active as well. So she kind of started to
just act different too. A couple months after meeting Jeremy, that's when Jasmine
becomes full-blown Gothic, she was in a deep now. She was committed. A lot of Jasmine's older friends would say that they became afraid of her. They were scared of her dressing scary, she would draw like little crosses and stuff on her forehead. They said that she was just quote weird. That's what they said. I'm not saying she's weird. Jasmine said that she liked the idea of scaring people because
it made her feel powerful. And like in charge and Jeremy just became
the center of her world. She was infatuated. So Jasmine, she would
spend a lot of her time on like MySpace was on this website
called VampireFreaks.com. But it's pretty similar to
MySpace, social media platform where you have friends,
you can talk to people. You can leave comments,
pictures, all that jazz. But I guess mainly towards
the vampires of the world, I think. It doesn't matter. On Jasmine's MySpace profile,
her heroes used to be her mom and her dad and like God and now she had changed her hero section to Marilyn Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer, another red flag for the parents. Like, Ooh, on VampireFreaks.com on her like about me or where
you describe yourself. She described herself
as bisexual, a Wiccan, and it's like this big
fat, long list of stuff. But like let's pick and choose. Wiccan, awkward, loud, a
deep thinker, and insane. She listed her interests as unnatural hair colors,
dark poetry, blood, and kinky shit. Jeremy was so heavily on that website. That was like his main go-to website. And that's where they would
communicate most of the time. So Jeremy's profile, his about
me section, also very long. He said that he liked
skateboarding, mosh pits loud music, tattoos, kinky fetishes, Criss Angel, who likes Criss Angel? That would be my red flag,
not the point Bailey. So Jasmine kept the relationship hidden. You can't let your family know that you're dating a 23 year old werewolf. And then finally Jasmine's parents, they like go look at her social media and they see that she loves somebody and they kind of connect the dots. They find out that she sneaking out or just like not coming home. That just pissed them off. Her parents just, they
finally had to do something. She was being disrespectful. She was acting more rebellious. Jasmine wasn't respecting
their household, their rules. They told Jasmine, you have
to stop seeing this guy. Like you can't be seeing him. He's way older than you. They told her that she's no longer allowed to see Jeremy, not allowed
to leave the house, unless she's going to
school, no ifs, ands or buts. And of course this just
caused Jasmine to lose lose it completely. And she just talked it out even more. She rebelled even more. And basically that started
a war in the house. So Jeremy and Jasmine, they
would still communicate online. And that was now the main
way that they talked. And Jasmine would be the one who proposed that Jeremy maybe gets rid of the problem. She wrote to Jeremy which later they were able
to pull these records. But she wrote to Jeremy
quote, I have this plan. It begins with me killing them and ends with me living
with you, very suspish. And then Jeremy would
go on to write quote, their throats, I want to slit. They will regret the shit they have done. Finally, there shall be silence. Their blood shall be
my payment, end quote. And Jeremy wrote this in response and she would constantly express to Jeremy how much she hated her family. She just wanted them gone because they were the reason
why they couldn't be together. So then on the evening
of April 23rd, 2006, it's nighttime, okay, it's
quiet suburban street. Everybody's in bed or at
least getting ready for bed. But Debra, the mom, she
heard some noises downstairs. She puts on her robe and she
goes downstairs to investigate, goes to turn on the light, she was met with a man wearing
a mask, holding a knife. So naturally she starts screaming. She ends up being attacked by this intruder and Debra, poor Debra, she was stabbed 12 times
over and over and over again. And she's just screaming the whole time. Because she's screaming, she woke up everybody in
the house, her husband, Marc or Jasmine's dad comes downstairs
to see what's going on. That's where he sees
this man over his wife just going at it like stabbing her and just blood everywhere. Oh my gosh. I couldn't even imagine like seeing especially the one you love,
your partner being attacked. So Marc reacts and he grabs
tool that was close by. I think it was a screwdriver or something. He like grabs it and he's
trying to like fight this guy that's on top of his wife and
he's trying anything he can. He's punching him. He's trying to stab him. And he's sadly though,
he doesn't win the fight. He ended up being stabbed
a total of 24 times which resulted in Marc's death. Jasmine was like upstairs in her room or something, pretending to sleep. So upstairs next to Jasmine's room is her younger brother's room. So the little boy he's eight. And he woke up because of
all the ruckus, he's scared. So he's like hiding in
his room on his bed. And so then Jasmine comes
running into the room. So then she's putting her
hands over her brother's ears and just like protecting him from the loud screaming that's happening. And it's so stupid because then Jasmine's
boyfriend comes upstairs after just, he just killed
the both parents, right? He comes upstairs. Instead of Jasmine just saying
like, Hey, maybe, you know we don't kill my brother. Let's not do it. He's a little kid. He's only eight. No, Jasmine instead is
the one who decided Jacob, her eight year old brother, he had to go. She's completely heartless. So her reasoning for having to get rid of her younger brother was because both of his parents were dead now. So what was the point? He wouldn't have anybody and she was ready to start
her new life with Jeremy. So this poor eight year old little boy, Jasmine is the one who ends up stabbing her brother five times. And then on top of that just to make sure that he is indeed dead. She slits his throat. Like, what the hell? How do you I do that? I was reading this and I was
just like, dude, I hate them. I hate them. Okay, so that same evening
when the murders took place, a six-year-old little
boy, he was a neighbor, he came over to the Richardson's house because he wanted to ask Jacob
if he wanted to come outside and play with him. So he's knocking on the
door, hello, he's waiting. So he kind of like peaks through the window by the front door. When this little boy
peaks through the window, he sees some shit. So this poor little boy
traumatized forever. He sees just blood everywhere
and then body on the floor. So he went running home, just screaming. And he tells his parents I think they go over to the house to look. And then the police are called. So the police come over to the home. When they walk into the house the police see just a nightmare. I guess that there was
just blood everywhere. Okay. Just every where
what a hard job, huh? You kind of forget. They got to see some
really fucked up shit. Bailey stop cussing. The investigators in the
house, searching everything. So they had no idea what happened, right? They're thinking, what is this? Like domestic abuse,
a burglary gone wrong? The, when they go into Jacob's room and they see like his, his throat is cut. Instigators are like, okay this is somebody who
had to know the family. Like this is personal. So one of the officers inside the home he notices a family portrait that was like hanging on the wall. And he sees, okay, we have
the mom, the dad, the brother, and then the daughter. Police think that the 12 year old daughter had been kidnapped by the killer. So they put out an Amber
alert, hoping that somebody somebody will find the missing daughter. Just hours after the murders,
police go down to the school of Jasmine to search her school locker and they're hoping to
find any types of clues looking for signs, anything. So they're going through Jasmine's locker. Right away, they find a drawing that gives everybody the creeps but it's like stick
drawings, very creative but it's like a drawing of a house with stick
figures inside the home. And then the homes on fire. And it looks like the stick
figures were on fire as well. Then there are like two
stick figures running away from the home that's on fire. Next to a car and above
it, it says muahahahaha. Like they had gotten away from the fire or maybe set the fire just looking at all sorts
of stick figure evil. So once they found that drawing, investigators looked at
the missing girl, Jasmine, from a missing person
to now a murder suspect. I mean, this drawing was super suspish. They're like, why is this
girl drawing this evil thing? What looks to be two stick
figures that represented her and somebody else setting
in this house on fire which resembles or looks like
or could be her family home. You know, they got to
put the pieces together. Police investigators
go looking for Jasmine and it doesn't even take
them that long to find her. Now I couldn't exactly
find how they found her like how they did somebody
tip them off or what happened. But they ended up finding, well, Jasmine and Jeremy within the first 24 hours. And they were about a hundred miles away in the town called Leader. And they were placed under arrest. Now, when they were being
arrested, police they said like they didn't display any grief or sadness. They didn't seem concerned at all. And Jeremy, he bragged about his eye cause he had like a black eye. Jeremy said that Marc, Jasmine's father, the father had punched him in the face and was kind of like laughing about it. So first with Jasmine and her trial. Her trial began in June
of the following year. So at her trial, Jasmine was asked why
she murdered her parents and her little brother. And Jasmine said, quote,
I loved Jeremy so much. I thought it was going to
bring us closer together, end quote. So then evidence was brought in and this evidence was a stack of jail house letters
exchanged between Jasmine and Jeremy after their arrest. So when they're in prison,
they were writing one another, there were tons of letters. And in one of those letters, Jasmine joked that they were legends and immortal. Neither Jasmine or Jeremy
mentioned any guilt or remorse for what they did. It was more of them just
planning their future together as if they were going to
get out of prison tomorrow. I keep having to remind myself over and over again like that
she's only 12 at this time. So she just has no idea. Like she killed her family. She's in prison. And in another letter from Jasmine they brought forward as evidence. It said, quote, never has a
person affected me so much. Always, will there be something
missing without you with me. My lawyer tells me where legends, hah. Closer to immortality, it would seem. So then they bring in
another letter from Jeremy and it says, quote, I love
you more than life itself. I've added you to my visitors list. So once you're released,
please visit often. Never forget how much I care or that I love you. Without you, this life isn't worth living. You said you want to get
engaged, question mark. Then here's the question. Will you marry me? If so, then it's a verbal agreement. So pretty much he was
asking her to marry him. Sounds great. Okay, and then in her response letter, she said, yes, this is quotes. Yes. Yes I will. I would love to. And then she said the world really is against us. Rawr, end quote. Roar? Rawr? Side note because I
remembered the MySpace kids using that word. Rawr, rawr, I never understood it. It was always the same kids. Rawr. I'm going to Google it. Hold on. Rawr. That means I've
love you in dinosaur. Anyways. I saw all the same
kids always using that word. I never got it. No, I can't relate. Anyways. She, yeah. She said that to him in a letter. So whatever. So again, in these letters they never mentioned any guilt or remorse over the crimes instead
focusing on their relationship and how being in prison seemed
to be a temporary setback. Jasmine took the stand in her own defense on July
3rd, 2007, during her testimony she told the court that she
had a hypothetical conversation about killing her family and possibly making the deaths
look like a murder, suicide, or an accident but never intended on actually going through with it. And then when questioned
about the letters to Jeremy she said she was referring
to her five minutes of fame that people are going
to remember them forever. I mean, they, they seem
to like the idea of that. Jasmine said she was home
when the murders took place, that she was upstairs
in her brother's room, trying to cover his ears so he wouldn't hear
their parents screaming. She then said that Jeremy came upstairs into the brother's room and yelled at her to kill her brother and that she had to do it because he just killed
her parents for them. So she needed to participate. Jasmine would go on to say that she stabbed him,
but quote, not very hard. She pled not guilty to all three counts of
first degree murder. But after just three hours of deliberation on July 10th, 2007 the jury found her guilty
on all three counts. She was sentenced. Get this, wait, let me do my lip liner. Cause this is a serious
Canada is for the people. She was sentenced to only
10 years of imprisonment. The maximum sentence allowed by the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which states that convicts
who are under the age of 14 at the time they committed
the act can not be charged as an adult and can only be given a
maximum sentence of 10 years. When I first heard this, I was like, what? So she got a credit for 18 months for the time that she had already served while waiting for her trial. And then four of those
years out of the 10 years those were going to be spent
in a psychiatric facility. She would do four and a half years under conditional
supervision in the community. So a lot of people were outraged. I should put on lipstick. I probably looked crazy, huh? A lot of people were outraged. The Canadian law is set
up to rehabilitate people, to help them and to not necessarily punish them. I mean, obviously if you don't know this I don't live there. So I'm sure there are a lot of arguments about this
and how it all works. But based from like me and somebody on the outside looking in, kind of sounds nice. Before you start yelling at
me, put those fingers down. When you think about how
we work here in the US, they don't care about actually helping and like fixing people or treating people for a mental illness or setting them up for
like success beyond prison. Pretty much out here in the US it's like they just lock you up and
they throw away the key. They treat you like shit. I don't know. I just thought like, Oh at least they're trying to
kinda like give her a chance but it should be case by case. You know, like with her case,
I don't know, man, moving on. So Jeremy, the boyfriend,
who killed the mom and dad, his trial was
in December of 2008. He was just straight up, found guilty of three counts of first degree murder and sentenced to three concurrent
life sentences in prison. He will be up for parole
after serving 25 years. I was about to say, well,
it's kind of not fair that she only got 10
years, but I don't know. I'm kind of torn on this one. Like they both did very, very awful thing. Anyways, so in 2012, Jeremy, he changed his name to Jackson May and he tried to appeal
his case, but he failed which is so strange to me. Like, I didn't even know you could you could change your name in prison. I'm just learning all sorts of new things. Oh, guess what, though? So in 2015, Jasmine, she
completed her sentence and was fully released at the age of 23. She's been keeping a very low
profile since her release. If she can go five years
without any legal altercations her juvenile record will
be expunged, AKA erased. Like it never existed. So Jasmine, she got the crown of Canada's youngest
convicted murderer at age 12. Congratulations, Jasmine. Yeah, that's inappropriate. But like what? She's 12. What the fuck? So it's pretty uncertain though. There's no like clear reports
indicating that Jasmine and Jeremy are still a
couple, that they got married. Nobody really knows. I doubt it, but who knows? So then there's another side. People standing up for Jeremy. There are a lot of people behind Jeremy, saying he shouldn't have
received such a harsh sentence compared to Jasmine. He came from a very abusive upbringing. And it's also said that
Jeremy has severe FAS, what would be considered
distinct facial characteristics popular amongst fetal
alcohol syndrome sufferers. Part of this condition is
severely impaired judgment. Meaning that Jeremy didn't
have the full mental capacity to fully understand what he was doing. And just followed along
with what Jasmine told him or suggested he did. And that Jasmine is the
one who manipulated him into killing her family. I don't know. 'Cause I don't want to say
like he should be released. 'Cause at the end of the day, he didn't like to stab
him one or two times. He went for it. Kind of scary. I don't know. This is your fight, Canada, not mine. We have pretty bad people or whatever. And that is the story about
the Richardson family. Rest in peace to Marc, Debra, and Jacob. You know their lives were
taken for no God damn reason. And on that note, they should
remain in prison because that. I just feel bad that Jeremy is still in prison while Jasmine was just like, okay, thanks, bye. And then got to go onto college. I guess she got a scholarship
when she was in prison. She got a scholarship to go to college. Let me know your thoughts
about this case down below. Do you think Jasmine should be out? I mean, I was trying
to find like an update. Where is she now? I found like a YouTube video and people think it's her as an adult, but you can't really tell. Plus I'm sure she doesn't
even want to be associated with what she did. I will say this though, when
I was reading about this case and like trying to get all
the info, all that good stuff. The one thing I could not find and I looked high, I looked low. I still could have missed
it cause I'm not perfect. And the one thing I could
not find was an apology. Not once did I see or read something where like Jasmine maybe cried
and said, I'm so sorry. I understand what I did. And maybe she did in private. She doesn't have to do it publicly. If you have such a public murder trial and stuff, you think you would
do it just to get forgiveness from your community, right? Again, she could have
apologized and I just missed it. Maybe she changed her name too and she just didn't
announce it like Jeremy. I think if there's anything
to take away from this case, I don't know because Jasmine's family, they seem like to do
everything kind of right. I don't know what they
could've done differently besides like lock her up. And this is why I don't want kids because they are the devil. They're already hard to raise and now you gotta be all worried t hat they're going to murder you. Like, come on. When do you get a break? Oh, I know parents make
sure to be checking on what your kids are doing. Check their phones, check in
with them on social media. Make sure they're not
talking to any werewolves and stuff like that. Okay. Okay. Tell them I sent you if
they are asking you why. Thank you guys so much for
hanging out with me today. I hope you have a wonderful day. Make good choices. And I'll be seeing you guys later. Bye!
