Castle in the Sky: Healing from a true crime story

Jenn Martin / Megaphone Magazine

In April 2006, a 12-year-old girl and her 23-year-old boyfriend fatally stabbed her parents and eight-year-old brother in Medicine Hat, Alberta. It made her the youngest person in Canadian history to have been convicted of multiple first degree murder charges. Now, 10 years later, the controversial play about these murders, Castle in the Sky by the Castlereigh Theatre Project, comes to Victoria to offer a new perspective on crime stories and encourage people to search for truth in different ways

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Documentary play revisits Medicine Hat murders

Pamela Roth / Victoria News

It was a crime that sent shock waves across the nation and left a southern Alberta community in unbearable grief.

In April 2006, a 12-year-old girl and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke fatally stabbed her mother, father and six-year-old brother in their Medicine Hat home after the girl’s parents forbid her from seeing him. The youth was handed a 10-year sentence for first-degree murder while Steinke was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 25 years.

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Monday Magazine - Arts & Events

Laura Lavin / Monday Magazine

A group of emerging local actors, established designers and director Britt Small (Atomic Vaudeville) take on Castle In The Sky, a docu-drama that examines a shocking triple murder that made front page news across the country in 2006.

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