Man Pleads Guilty To Murder Of Stepdaughter, 17

First Posted: 02/13/2012 6:24 pm Updated: 02/14/2012 1:26 pm


The stepfather of a 17-year-old Calgary girl killed two years ago pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Monday, saying he strangled the teen while raping her.


The guilty plea came as the two-week trial of Bradley Wade Rietze, 47, was about to start.


Brittney Nora McInnes’s body was found in a box spring in her Canyon Meadows home in January 2010.


Her mother had reported the 17-year-old missing.


When police searched the home, they did not find the Grade 12 student.


It was hours later that a family member searched the house and found her body stuffed into a box spring.


Rietze — McInnes's stepfather for 13 years — was charged with the girl's slaying a few days after her body was found.


Rietze pleaded guilty against the advice of his lawyers.


First-degree murder in Canada carries with it an automatic sentence of life with no possibility of parole for 25 years.


The sentencing hearing will be held on Wednesday at 2 p.m. MT, when victim impact statements will be read.


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The stepfather of a 17-year-old Calgary girl killed two years ago pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Monday, saying he strangled the teen while raping her. The guilty pl...
The stepfather of a 17-year-old Calgary girl killed two years ago pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Monday, saying he strangled the teen while raping her. The guilty pl...
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11:16 PM on 02/15/2012
I cannot get my head around this story either. Children expect and deserve protection and support from their parents as they work towards making their future happen. What even irks me more is that this animal gets life in prison. (what ever happened to the death penalty for this kind of an animal). Now he will spend his life in prison and who do you think is paying for his 3 square meals a day, his TV that he will lay around all day watching, his clean bed he will be sleeping in??? US, the tax payers, their are thousands more like him living the same life at the tax payers expense. I know the "do goodies" who supported abolishing the death penalty had good intentions and one of their arguments was that an innocent person could be put to death. Now we have DNA and can get 100% positive proof that the person did this despicable crime like in the case of Bradley Weitze raping and killing this poor little 17 year old girl. If we could re-instate the death penalty, we could save the tax payers billions of dollars. Unfortunately, we cannot bring back the lives of the poor children that have been raped and killed by these animals but in my opinion if we brought back the death penalty for these filthy pigs, maybe it would send a message.
10:50 PM on 02/16/2012
The death penalty ever stopped anyone from committing a crime. If that were the case, then no such crimes should occur in many areas of the U.S., no? But they continue to. As much as he deserves death, and as much as we are all outraged, we really should make decisions based on a sense of anger and pain. Think about it.
12:30 PM on 02/14/2012
I used to see stuff like this all the time in my work. Psycho predators just love single women with young kids. Some start criminal behaviour with the littles immediately. This one waited :( Single women: be very, very careful about who you let into your kids' lives.
10:23 PM on 02/13/2012
This man was in this girl's life from the age of 4 and killed her in the process of raping her! HOW COULD SUCH A THING HAPPEN? Is this man a psychopath? I just can't get my head around this story.