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Western Canadian Women's National Motocross King in 2nd The first round is over and Sara King is sitting in 2nd place. She finished the day at the Wasteland Motocross Track in Nanaimo, with a 3rd in the 1st moto and 2nd in the 2nd moto for a 2nd overall in the standings of this 3 round event. The next round was in Kamloops on June 7th and the Final round will be in Calgary on June 14th. Women from all over Western Canada and some from the USA compete in this event. There were 25 Ladies for the gate drop in Nanaimo.
The trial of Cody Legebokoff under way Bill Phillips Prince George Free Press A 14-member jury is set to decide the fate of Cody Alan Legebokoff, charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
Cody Legebokoff The Fort St. James man, who had been living in Prince George when he was arrested in 2010, is charged with the murders 35-year-old Jill Stacey Stuchenko, 35-year-old Cynthia Frances Maas, 23-year-old Natasha Lynn Montgomery and 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie. Montgomery’s body was never found. His trial got underway Monday morning before Justice Glenn Parrett. Legebokoff ap-
peared wearing a suit and tie. He has shaved his head and is now sporting a small goatee. Stuchenko was reported missing October 22, 2009 and her body was found in a gravel pit off Otway Road October 26, 2009. Mass was reported missing by friends September 23, 2010. Her body was found Oct. 9, 2010 in L.C. Gunn Park. Montgomery, who had recently been released from the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre, was last seen Aug. 31, 2010 and reported missing September 23. Her body has not been found. Leslie’s body was discovered November 27, 2010 in the bush a short distance off the highway between Fort St. James and Vanderhoof. Crown prosecutor Joseph Temple, in his opening statement, said autopsies on Stuchenko, Maas, and Leslie showed each of the three had been severely beaten. “(Stuchenko) had received multiple blows to the back of her head and face,” he said. “She suffered multiple cerebral contusions.” Both Leslie and Maas were discovered with their pants pulled down to their ankles, Temple said. Maas died of “blunt force trauma to the head and penetrating wounds to the chest,” that
were not from a bullet or knife, Temple said. Leslie died of blood loss and brain injury. Temple added she had received “powerful” blows to the head that fractured both jaws. While Montgomery’s body has not been found, Temple said evidence will be presented at the trial outlining 32 instances of her DNA being found in Legebokoff’s apartment and on his clothing. DNA evidence will also link Legebokoff and Maas, Temple said. Legebokoff was arrested November 27, 2010 when he was pulled over by police between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James, shortly after one Police vehicles block access to the crime scene where the body of Loren of the officers saw a truck Donn Leslie was discovered November 27, 2010 on an unused logging pull onto the highway from road off Highway 27, between Fort St. James and Vanderhoof. a logging road. Temple said when the tially denied having known Les- she “went psycho” and killed RCMP officers pulled him over, lie. herself, Temple said. And, in yet they noticed blood on LegeboIn several interviews he had another interview, told police koff. When he told police he was with police following his arrest, that Leslie had tried to kill herpoaching deer, the RCMP called Legebokoff ‘s story changed, self and he had hit her twice “to in Conservation Officers who said Temple. put her out of her misery.” searched the side road LegeboLegebokoff said he discovLegebokoff and Leslie had met koff had been seen pulling out ered her body in the bush by the on the social media site Nexopia of by RCMP. It was there they logging road, panicked and left, in early November, Temple said, found Leslie’s body and Lege- taking some her personal items and had been exchanging text bokoff was charged with murder with him because he had touched messages up to November 26. that night. them. In a subsequent interview, The trial is expected to last six Temple said Legebokoff ini- he said he was with her but that to eight months.