Theme Of Runaway Devil By Robert Remington And Sherri Zickefoose

Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose wrote Runaway Devil, a captivating story of how a forbidden love affair ended in the murder of an innocent family. They are both journalists at the Calgary Herald with Remington focusing on writing various columns and Zickefoose on crime reporting. They collaboratively released their book in 2009 based on true events that occurred in Medicine Hat Alberta in 2006.,

Runaway Devil: how forbidden love drove a year 12-year-old to murder her family by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose is a book that extensively describes the chilling true-story of a 12-year-old girl who was driven to murder her family as a result of a forbidden love affair in the small town of Medicine Hat, Alberta. The book focuses

It starts with a very story-like introduction that seems as if you are about to enter a fantasy world, but it quickly gets serious in the first chapter describing the scene of Gareth, Jacob (JR’s little brother) discovering the bodies of his former friend and family in their home, covered in blood.

The story unfolds in a rather surprising way; the police arrive at the grotesque scene to find the daughter who appears to be missing from the familial slaughter. The family is described with the highest regard with Marc and Debra (father and mother), as former substance abuse survivors that found each other and worked for everything they ever accomplished and held their family as their highest possession, as many family and friends are quick to point out. However, daughter, JR, became an outsider in the pursuit of her interests and of self-discovery. The authors spend a significant amount of time on the Goth subculture and its possible role in the tragic events of 2006. The book is very descriptive of JR and

She is also portrayed as a 12 year old monster almost on the same level as big serial killers such as Karla Homolka (see chapter 16), where the authors make the couple seem as mentally unstable people who joined the Gothic subculture which somehow influenced them to become violent killers. They do this through portraying them as ‘dark’ and unconventional with her interest in heavy metal, and Wicca and his interests in blood and lycanthropy. However, the fact remains that the people who did know them and spent time with them had positive things to say as JR’s friend Aubrey says, “JR was an understanding, decent, outgoing, absolutely amazing person” (p. 22). There are many positive accounts of Jeremy’s friend Squishy described him as “loving, caring, and kind” (p. 178). As things began to get more involved in the Goth culture, her school counsellor, Sandra Richards, was getting concerned about her extreme change in a short amount of time. She became aware of the trouble she was having at home through meetings, where JR mentioned how aggravated she was and that she could not stand to be at home anymore. She was also was aware of the problems and her demeanour, yet was still comfortable saying that she was not being “mistreated or abused”, but simply angry with her parents for their control over her life (p. 56). Earlier, the authors put a rather large emphasis on her