Today a prosectuer alleged that a boyfriend of 15 year-old school girl pressured him into killing a fellow schoolgirl Stefanie Rengel over jealousy. The unnamed boyfriend lured the 15-year-old girl in the early evening of New Year's Day 2008 from her East York home with a cellphone call, and then proceded to stab her six times. In the previous weeks before the murder, police had found several MSN chat messages, and numerous phone calls which had urged the boyfriend to kill Rengel. At the time she was a Grade 9 Student at Rosedale Heights School for the Arts.
Flumerfelt was who was the prosecuter had stated that Stefanie Rengel was savagely murdered for no other reason besides jealousy.
In previous months, the stabber had "come on to" Rengel, and she felt bad for the accused, Flumerfelt said. So Rengel asked the accused's cousin to warn her about the boyfriend. "And so (the accused) decided for herself that Stefanie Rengel's life would end."
Today she had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
After killing Stefanie, the boyfriend than proceded to a friend's house and confessed that he had stabbed Rengel around 5 times, and then received a phone call from the accused asking if he had killed Rengel. The previus October before the killing, the boyfriend had visited Rengel at her Northdale Blvd. home and asked for her. He had asked Stefanie to call his girlfriend, and just tell her that he had tried to kill her, to get her to stop pestering him. The girlfriend tried several times through MSN messaging to pressure her boyfriend. Messages like " I want her dead....LOL", and messages like "UR getting blocked until u kill her"



Opinion: In my opinion I thought that this was an appaling story. However I think that the boyfriend was really in fault here. Empty threats like " Im gonna block you on MSN", or that "we are going to be friends, if you dont kill her in a week" are not threats that should pressure you to commit a murderous acts. The boyfriend should have taken better action, and probably have called the police. Better job by the parents, to keep a computer in a public place where the whole family can moderate computer activity probably could have prevented this from happening. I also believe that Stefanie should have maybe been in contact with authorities, if she was aware of death threats being opposed to her.