Investigators worried for JR’s safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online. Runaway Devil professed a fondness for a darker world of death metal music, the goth subculture, and a love for Jeremy Steinke, a twenty-three-year-old high-school dropout who lived in a rundown trailer park. Soon, shocking evidence in JR’s school locker—printed here for the first time—led police to believe the girl was a suspect in her family’s murders.
The case horrified parents everywhere. Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose have been covering it from the beginning, and in Runaway Devil, they reveal what really happened: the unlikely young love, the teenage rebellion, a troubling world of adolescent drifters, and a small community torn apart by an unthinkable crime.
A modern cautionary tale, Runaway Devil is also a chilling portrait of an approval-seeking man smitten with a manipulative young girl—who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
Author
Robert Remington
Award-winning journalist Robert Remington is a former columnist and editorial writer with the Calgary Herald and national correspondent for The National Post. He has also written for the Globe and Mail, was arts editor and sports editor at The Edmonton Journal, and a syndicated television columnist for United Features, New York. His journalism career has taken him to Pakistan, East Africa, India, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Central America. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Sherri Zickefoose
Sherri Zickefoose is a crime reporter for the Calgary Herald. Her tenacious reporting on the murders led her to an exclusive interview with Steinke’s mother, who revealed a different side of the man being called a monster.
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