Inside J.R.’s sentencing review hearing, it was all business. A carefully vetted presented assessment that was light on making public specific details and familiar in heaping praise on her obedience: following curfew and contact conditions, therapy participation etc. Once again, J.R. was painted as the poster child of Canada’s Intensive Rehabilitation and Custody and Supervision […]
J.R. is in the homestretch serving time for her triple first-degree murder conviction. Now nearly 21, she is facing a judge Thursday, Sept. 11 for one of her final sentencing review hearings. I’ll be there covering the story for the Calgary Herald, so follow me on Twitter @GirlReporter for the updates at 10 a.m. For […]
SkillShare This might be too close to seeming like summer school, but it’s pretty thrilling to learn about writer Susan Orlean’s new SkillShare class.
Hard to believe it’s been eight years.
Whoa. Shades of Runaway Devil in Ocala, Florida Daughter, 13, gets 15-year-old boyfriend to slit mother’s throat. This kind of case made history in Canada. I’m wondering what Americans think of it? It’s eerily similar to Runaway Devil’s case: A woman had her throat slit by her teenage daughter’s boyfriend. The girl’s parents opposed the […]
From Little Golden Books: Ahhh, rows and rows of people indeed. But I like that there is an editor-looking guy raging in the background. Accuracy.
Video: Dustin Paxton police interrogation. UPDATED: Dustin Paxton has been declared a dangerous offender today. That means he will be jailed indefinitely. Paxton was seen slouching and smirking as the judge read her ruling. He offered no apology, but he did say: “I’m working with these experts who are working to make me a better person,” […]
For the second time, JR has lost her bid to shake her 11:30 p.m. curfew. The reason? The Solicitor General says the curfew is already flexible. In fact, JR has been out on an overnighter and had another late night since being shot down at her last September review. What for? JR is enjoying pro-social […]
Join us online tonight as Runaway Devil is the focus of Darkness on the Edge of Town Radio’s True Crime Tuesday theme. Listeners of Minnesota’s paranormal talk radio show are going to get an earful about Runaway Devil and her Soul Eater, who claimed to be a 300-year-old werewolf who liked the taste of blood. […]
Despite being called a “poster child” of success for intensive court-ordered psychotherapy, a judge denied a curfew extension for Canada’s youngest multiple killer. During an annual sentencing review in Medicine Hat Court of Queen’s Bench Monday morning, the young woman convicted of first-degree murder for her role helping her boyfriend slay her Medicine Hat family […]
Sherri Zickefoose: journalist 