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CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:47 am
Man charged in death of B.C. girl, 15
RCMP probe possible links to 'Highway of Tears' homicides
Last Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010 | 8:29 PM PT
CBC News
A 20-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a teenaged girl whose body was found along a snowy forest road in northern B.C.
Cody Alan Legebokoff of Prince George was charged Monday in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, of Fraser Lake after a Mountie pulled over a truck after it turned onto a highway from an unused logging road.
Legebokoff was arrested after the RCMP officer stopped the pickup, which turned onto Highway 27 north of Vanderhoof on Saturday night.
A conservation officer was called in and retraced the pickup's path in the snow.
"As the [conservation service officer] examined the area, he located the lifeless body of the teenage girl at around 11:50 p.m., a distance away from the side road," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. "The state of the young girl indicated that she had been murdered just hours before the man's arrest."
Legebokoff has been remanded in custody without bail until his next court appearance on Wednesday.
Moskaluk said in a statement that investigators expect to remain on the scene until after an autopsy.
Police have not released a possible cause of death or a motive for the killing.
Leslie was a Grade 10 student at Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof.
Another body found in area last month
Highway 27 connects to Highway 16 near Vanderhoof. Locals often call Highway 16 the Highway of Tears, because of the number of aboriginal women who have gone missing in the area in recent years.
Moskaluk said the latest homicide brings to mind the discovery of Cynthia Frances Maas, a 35-year-old sex trade worker who was found dead near the highway last month.
"We're all very sensitive to all of the incidents that have been ongoing in the northern part of the province," said Moskaluk.
Nobody has been arrested in Maas's death.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/29/bc-northern-homicide-highway.html#ixzz16jo8NoKk
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B.C. police ship slain teen's body to Pennsylvania lab
The RCMP have taken the rare step of shipping to a crime lab in
Pennsylvania the remains of a young, blind girl who was murdered last
week in northern British Columbia.
But police aren’t saying why
the body of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie has been sent to an unnamed
facility in the U.S., other than that the procedure will allow a
forensic specialist to help investigators gather evidence.
“It’s extraordinarily unusual. Especially over such a vast distance,”
said Robert Gordon, director of the School of Criminology at Simon
Fraser University, of the decision to ship the girl’s remains across the
continent.
“That’s an incredibly elaborate process,” he said. “That would involve
very careful preservation of the remains and transportation of the
remains, there and back again. And the coroners in two jurisdictions
would obviously be very closely involved in that. The big question for
me is what is so peculiar about this case that would justify that kind
of time, trouble and expense?”
But answers to questions like that will have to wait, say the RCMP, who
found the girl’s body in the bush south of Fort St. James, after
stopping a pickup truck that was seen swerving off a logging road onto a
remote section of Highway 27.
“The investigators are not releasing any information pertaining to the
cause of death or of the injuries sustained by the victim at this point
in the investigation,” RCMP Corporal Dan Moskaluk said Tuesday.
“We can confirm that part of the post-mortem forensic examination was
performed at the Kamloops Royal Inland Hospital last week. Investigators
also sought the expertise of a particular specialist, state side, in
Pennsylvania last week, which saw the transfer of the young girls’
remains to a facility in Pennsylvania. We are unable to provide details
at this time as to the nature of this particular portion of the
post-mortem examination, but can state that it was a necessary and
important step to take. We want to ensure that we are very thorough and
do our best by Loren and her family,” he said.
Cpl. Moskaluk indicated RCMP investigators have used the expert in Pennsylvania before.
“It’s my understanding that yes, we have utilized, or had prior
knowledge of this resource available and we went that route. It’s all
about being as thorough as possible,” he said.
“I guess what we are saying as well is that it will be some time yet
before we get concrete pathologist’s reports … once those reports are
submitted to the investigator certainly we’ll be in a better position to
comment on why we’ve gone this route.”
The RCMP case began on Nov. 27, when an officer on a routine assignment
to deliver some material to another officer, saw a pickup truck pull on
to the highway and speed away. The officer, whose name has not yet been
released, pursued and stopped the truck. After questioning the driver
the officer called a provincial Conservation Officer, who tracked the
truck’s route back into the bush, where the body of Loren was found.
The girl, who was completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the
other, had gone missing earlier in the day after leaving her home to
meet a friend for coffee.
Police arrested the driver of the pickup truck, Cody Legebokoff, 20, of
Prince George, who has been charged with one count of murder.
Cpl. Moskaluk said police have not linked Loren’s death to any other
unsolved homicides in the Prince George area, where an RCMP task force
is trying to find out what happened to 18 women who disappeared or were
found dead along the Highway of Tears.
“We are still at the same point at the fork of the road where we are not
ruling anything out yet, nor have we confirmed at this time any
linkages to other investigations,” said Cpl. Moskaluk.
Highway 16, which links Prince George to Prince Rupert, has been
dubbed the Highway of Tears because of the number of women and girls
that have gone missing along it over the past 20 years.
Loren’s body was found off Highway 27, a spur road to Highway 16.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-police-ship-slain-teens-body-to-pennsylvania-lab/article1828528/
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Body of LOREN LESLIE returns from U.S.
The body of murdered 15-year-old Vanderhoof student Loren Donn Leslie
has returned home after being sent to Pennsylvania for further
investigation over a week ago.
Her body came back on Friday and was cremated at a private family burial in Vanderhoof Saturday.
Leslie’s body was discovered Saturday, November 27 off an unused
logging road between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James, after an RCMP member
from Fort St. James pulled over a vehicle that was emerging out of an
unused logging road on Highway 27.
A Fort St. James man, 20-year-old Cody Alan Legebokoff, the lone driver
of the truck, was detained and later arrested when the lifeless body of
Leslie was discovered a short way up the logging road from which his
truck had emerged.
Legebokoff has since been charged with one count of first-degree murder
and has made is first court appearance in Prince George. His next court
date will be January 5 in Prince George which is also the same day as
Leslie’s birthday.
“Some people say they should move the court date, but I don’t think they
should,” Loren’s father Doug Leslie told the Express on Monday.
“There’s a significance there so I think we should leave it,” he said.
Read more: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/111828784.html
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Legebokoff back in court Feb. 8
Updated: January 05, 2011
Cody Alan Legebokoff, charged with murder in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, made another brief court appearance Tuesday in Prince George.
Legebokoff was charged after the body of Leslie, 15, was discovered near an unused logging road off Highway 27 between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James on Nov. 27. An RCMP officer travelling the highway noticed a truck pull out onto the highway from the logging road, and stopped the vehicle.
A search of the area up the road by conservation officers discovered the body.
Legebokoff will be back in court in Prince George on Feb. 8.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/112952769.html
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15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie
Next Court Date Set For Legebokoff
February 8, 2011
Prince George, B.C. - A lawyer representing Cody Legebokoff appeared in provincial court in Prince George this morning, seeking a date for a preliminary hearing.
The 20-year-old Prince George man remains in custody, where he's been since being arrested on November 28th. He's charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake.
The young teen's body was found in a wooded area near an unused logging road off Highway 27 between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James just before midnight, November 27th.
Legebokoff's lawyer, Bruce Kaun, says the preliminary hearing, expected to last two weeks, likely won't be scheduled until late this year or early next year. Kaun will be back in court on his client's behalf on February 23rd to fix that date.
A preliminary hearing determines whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/19277/1/next+court+date+set+for+legebokoff
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Date Set For Legebokoff Preliminary Inquiry
February 24, 2011
Prince George, B.C. - Dates for a Preliminary Inquiry for Cody Allen Legebokoff have been set for next year.
Legebokoff is charged with first degree murder in relation to the death of fifteen-year old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake. Leslie's body was found off an unused logging road near Vanderhoof on November 27th of last year.
The Inquiry will take place from January 10th to 13th and 17th to 20th at the Vanderhoof Law Courts. At that time, court will determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a trial against Legebokoff. Legebokoff's next scheduled court appearance is a pre-trial conference on June 29th in Prince George.
http://hqprincegeorge.com/news/news/Local/11/02/24/Date-Set-For-Legebokoff-Preliminary-Inquiry
RCMP probe possible links to 'Highway of Tears' homicides
Last Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010 | 8:29 PM PT
CBC News
A 20-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a teenaged girl whose body was found along a snowy forest road in northern B.C.
Cody Alan Legebokoff of Prince George was charged Monday in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, of Fraser Lake after a Mountie pulled over a truck after it turned onto a highway from an unused logging road.
Legebokoff was arrested after the RCMP officer stopped the pickup, which turned onto Highway 27 north of Vanderhoof on Saturday night.
A conservation officer was called in and retraced the pickup's path in the snow.
"As the [conservation service officer] examined the area, he located the lifeless body of the teenage girl at around 11:50 p.m., a distance away from the side road," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. "The state of the young girl indicated that she had been murdered just hours before the man's arrest."
Legebokoff has been remanded in custody without bail until his next court appearance on Wednesday.
Moskaluk said in a statement that investigators expect to remain on the scene until after an autopsy.
Police have not released a possible cause of death or a motive for the killing.
Leslie was a Grade 10 student at Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof.
Another body found in area last month
Highway 27 connects to Highway 16 near Vanderhoof. Locals often call Highway 16 the Highway of Tears, because of the number of aboriginal women who have gone missing in the area in recent years.
Moskaluk said the latest homicide brings to mind the discovery of Cynthia Frances Maas, a 35-year-old sex trade worker who was found dead near the highway last month.
"We're all very sensitive to all of the incidents that have been ongoing in the northern part of the province," said Moskaluk.
Nobody has been arrested in Maas's death.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/29/bc-northern-homicide-highway.html#ixzz16jo8NoKk
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B.C. police ship slain teen's body to Pennsylvania lab
The RCMP have taken the rare step of shipping to a crime lab in
Pennsylvania the remains of a young, blind girl who was murdered last
week in northern British Columbia.
But police aren’t saying why
the body of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie has been sent to an unnamed
facility in the U.S., other than that the procedure will allow a
forensic specialist to help investigators gather evidence.
“It’s extraordinarily unusual. Especially over such a vast distance,”
said Robert Gordon, director of the School of Criminology at Simon
Fraser University, of the decision to ship the girl’s remains across the
continent.
“That’s an incredibly elaborate process,” he said. “That would involve
very careful preservation of the remains and transportation of the
remains, there and back again. And the coroners in two jurisdictions
would obviously be very closely involved in that. The big question for
me is what is so peculiar about this case that would justify that kind
of time, trouble and expense?”
But answers to questions like that will have to wait, say the RCMP, who
found the girl’s body in the bush south of Fort St. James, after
stopping a pickup truck that was seen swerving off a logging road onto a
remote section of Highway 27.
“The investigators are not releasing any information pertaining to the
cause of death or of the injuries sustained by the victim at this point
in the investigation,” RCMP Corporal Dan Moskaluk said Tuesday.
“We can confirm that part of the post-mortem forensic examination was
performed at the Kamloops Royal Inland Hospital last week. Investigators
also sought the expertise of a particular specialist, state side, in
Pennsylvania last week, which saw the transfer of the young girls’
remains to a facility in Pennsylvania. We are unable to provide details
at this time as to the nature of this particular portion of the
post-mortem examination, but can state that it was a necessary and
important step to take. We want to ensure that we are very thorough and
do our best by Loren and her family,” he said.
Cpl. Moskaluk indicated RCMP investigators have used the expert in Pennsylvania before.
“It’s my understanding that yes, we have utilized, or had prior
knowledge of this resource available and we went that route. It’s all
about being as thorough as possible,” he said.
“I guess what we are saying as well is that it will be some time yet
before we get concrete pathologist’s reports … once those reports are
submitted to the investigator certainly we’ll be in a better position to
comment on why we’ve gone this route.”
The RCMP case began on Nov. 27, when an officer on a routine assignment
to deliver some material to another officer, saw a pickup truck pull on
to the highway and speed away. The officer, whose name has not yet been
released, pursued and stopped the truck. After questioning the driver
the officer called a provincial Conservation Officer, who tracked the
truck’s route back into the bush, where the body of Loren was found.
The girl, who was completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the
other, had gone missing earlier in the day after leaving her home to
meet a friend for coffee.
Police arrested the driver of the pickup truck, Cody Legebokoff, 20, of
Prince George, who has been charged with one count of murder.
Cpl. Moskaluk said police have not linked Loren’s death to any other
unsolved homicides in the Prince George area, where an RCMP task force
is trying to find out what happened to 18 women who disappeared or were
found dead along the Highway of Tears.
“We are still at the same point at the fork of the road where we are not
ruling anything out yet, nor have we confirmed at this time any
linkages to other investigations,” said Cpl. Moskaluk.
Highway 16, which links Prince George to Prince Rupert, has been
dubbed the Highway of Tears because of the number of women and girls
that have gone missing along it over the past 20 years.
Loren’s body was found off Highway 27, a spur road to Highway 16.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-police-ship-slain-teens-body-to-pennsylvania-lab/article1828528/
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Body of LOREN LESLIE returns from U.S.
The body of murdered 15-year-old Vanderhoof student Loren Donn Leslie
has returned home after being sent to Pennsylvania for further
investigation over a week ago.
Her body came back on Friday and was cremated at a private family burial in Vanderhoof Saturday.
Leslie’s body was discovered Saturday, November 27 off an unused
logging road between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James, after an RCMP member
from Fort St. James pulled over a vehicle that was emerging out of an
unused logging road on Highway 27.
A Fort St. James man, 20-year-old Cody Alan Legebokoff, the lone driver
of the truck, was detained and later arrested when the lifeless body of
Leslie was discovered a short way up the logging road from which his
truck had emerged.
Legebokoff has since been charged with one count of first-degree murder
and has made is first court appearance in Prince George. His next court
date will be January 5 in Prince George which is also the same day as
Leslie’s birthday.
“Some people say they should move the court date, but I don’t think they
should,” Loren’s father Doug Leslie told the Express on Monday.
“There’s a significance there so I think we should leave it,” he said.
Read more: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/111828784.html
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Legebokoff back in court Feb. 8
Updated: January 05, 2011
Cody Alan Legebokoff, charged with murder in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, made another brief court appearance Tuesday in Prince George.
Legebokoff was charged after the body of Leslie, 15, was discovered near an unused logging road off Highway 27 between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James on Nov. 27. An RCMP officer travelling the highway noticed a truck pull out onto the highway from the logging road, and stopped the vehicle.
A search of the area up the road by conservation officers discovered the body.
Legebokoff will be back in court in Prince George on Feb. 8.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/112952769.html
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15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie
Next Court Date Set For Legebokoff
February 8, 2011
Prince George, B.C. - A lawyer representing Cody Legebokoff appeared in provincial court in Prince George this morning, seeking a date for a preliminary hearing.
The 20-year-old Prince George man remains in custody, where he's been since being arrested on November 28th. He's charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake.
The young teen's body was found in a wooded area near an unused logging road off Highway 27 between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James just before midnight, November 27th.
Legebokoff's lawyer, Bruce Kaun, says the preliminary hearing, expected to last two weeks, likely won't be scheduled until late this year or early next year. Kaun will be back in court on his client's behalf on February 23rd to fix that date.
A preliminary hearing determines whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/19277/1/next+court+date+set+for+legebokoff
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Date Set For Legebokoff Preliminary Inquiry
February 24, 2011
Prince George, B.C. - Dates for a Preliminary Inquiry for Cody Allen Legebokoff have been set for next year.
Legebokoff is charged with first degree murder in relation to the death of fifteen-year old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake. Leslie's body was found off an unused logging road near Vanderhoof on November 27th of last year.
The Inquiry will take place from January 10th to 13th and 17th to 20th at the Vanderhoof Law Courts. At that time, court will determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a trial against Legebokoff. Legebokoff's next scheduled court appearance is a pre-trial conference on June 29th in Prince George.
http://hqprincegeorge.com/news/news/Local/11/02/24/Date-Set-For-Legebokoff-Preliminary-Inquiry
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by Joanie Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:41 pm
karma wrote:Man charged in death of B.C. girl, 15
RCMP probe possible links to 'Highway of Tears' homicides
Cody Alan Legebokoff of Prince George was charged Monday in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, of Fraser Lake after a Mountie pulled over a truck after it turned onto a highway from an unused logging road.
Legebokoff was arrested after the RCMP officer stopped the pickup, which turned onto Highway 27 north of Vanderhoof on Saturday night.
A conservation officer was called in and retraced the pickup's path in the snow.
"As the [conservation service officer] examined the area, he located the lifeless body of the teenage girl at around 11:50 p.m., a distance away from the side road," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. "The state of the young girl indicated that she had been murdered just hours before the man's arrest."
Wow I think it's amazing how they caught this guy. They must of thought he was a poacher and caught them selves a possible serial killer. just stunning!
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CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 ~ Prince George BC-1
by TomTerrific0420 Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:24 pm
An RCMP officer's hunch led to the discovery of the body of a 15-year-old girl, who was legally blind, in woods near Vanderhoof, B.C., a finding that comes less than two months after a woman was found murdered in nearby Prince George. The remains of the Fraser Lake teenager, identified by friends and family as Loren Leslie, were found hours after a local officer pulled over a GMC pickup truck on Highway 27, about 22 km north of Vanderhoof. Cody Alan Legebokoff, 20, of Prince George was charged on Monday with first-degree murder. The teen's devastated mother, Donna Leslie, said her daughter was a gentle, introspective soul who cared deeply for other people. "One of the most special parts of Loren is that she was so kind," said Ms. Leslie. "She always cared about everybody else. She was so empathetic and sensitive." Loren was completely blind in one eye and had only 50% vision in the other, and had problems with depth perception as well, said her parents. "But nobody would know it. She coped really well," said her father, Doug Leslie. Police are attributing the discovery of the body to the officer's quick-thinking and intuition. The Fort St. James Mountie was returning from a meeting with a Vanderhoof detachment colleague at around 9:25 p. m when he spotted the truck turn out of an unused logging road, said Corporal Dan Moskaluk, a spokesman for the RCMP's north division in B.C. "The vehicle was speeding and the officer wanted to confirm the identification of the driver," he said. Since it was late and the side road is rarely used, the officer became suspicious. He pulled it over and questioned the driver. After speaking with the man, the officer detained him -- a move that launched a sweeping search of the area surrounding the isolated road. The RCMP and conservation officials combed the area and traced tire tracks from a vehicle that had been driving down the logging road, Cpl. Moskaluk said. At 11:50 p.m., a fair distance from the roadway, conservation officials came upon the girl's body. "The state of the young girl indicated that she had been murdered just hours before the man's arrest," said Cpl. Moskaluk, declining to say how it appears she had been murdered and whether she knew the suspect. Mr. Legebokoff has been remanded in custody and will appear in court on Wednesday. Earlier Monday, on his Facebook account, Loren's father says the suspect was his daughter's friend, and asked anyone making threats against the young man to stop. Fraser Lake Mayor Dwayne Lindstrom said the entire village will take the loss hard. The Leslie family is known in the small community and, the last time he heard, 15-year-old Loren had moved to Prince George. The town is just off of Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears where 18 women have gone missing since 1989. That notorious stretch of road has been subject to E-PANA, the police task force into what happened to the women. (The names of all RCMP units in B.C. begin with the E prefix. Pana is an Inuit god who cares for souls in the underworld until reincarnation.)
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CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 ~ Prince George BC
by karma Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:48 am
Joanie wrote:karma wrote:Man charged in death of B.C. girl, 15
RCMP probe possible links to 'Highway of Tears' homicides
Cody Alan Legebokoff of Prince George was charged Monday in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, of Fraser Lake after a Mountie pulled over a truck after it turned onto a highway from an unused logging road.
Legebokoff was arrested after the RCMP officer stopped the pickup, which turned onto Highway 27 north of Vanderhoof on Saturday night.
A conservation officer was called in and retraced the pickup's path in the snow.
"As the [conservation service officer] examined the area, he located the lifeless body of the teenage girl at around 11:50 p.m., a distance away from the side road," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. "The state of the young girl indicated that she had been murdered just hours before the man's arrest."
Wow I think it's amazing how they caught this guy. They must of thought he was a poacher and caught them selves a possible serial killer. just stunning!
Hi Joanie.
I don't see how or if this murderer is connected to the serial killings along the 'Highway of Tears' since he is only 20 yrs old.
Kudos to the conservation officer for following through on his suspicions that night... or Loren may still be missing.
Women have gone missing or found dead along this corridor since at least 1969. Is there just one killer or many?
There is a 5 part investigative series at this link that you might want to peruse and I don't hesitate to post the link here since many were young teens when they went missing . . .
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/vanished/index1.html
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:55 am
Murdered 15-year-old inspires woman to walk
June 17, 2011
A Cowichan Valley woman is joining a walk to Ottawa to raise awareness about the numbers of women, particularly First Nations women, who go missing or are found murdered every year.
The trek starts from Vancouver on June 21 and some of its participants will reach Parliament Hill in September for a big rally. The Valley's Laurie Harding is walking the first leg to Kamloops.
The walkers consist of family members from across Canada who have lost their loved ones and who are now looking for justice, accountability and closure and Harding said this week the cause is close to her heart.
She had already been taking part in the Highway of Tears memorial walk in Victoria to protest the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the north of B.C. when her reason became more personal.
"My cousin's 15 year-old-daughter, Loren Donn Leslie, was murdered on Nov. 27, 2010 on a remote logging road between Vanderhoof andFortSt. James. Weare walking to call for a national missing and murdered women's symposium to be held in Vancouver," she said last week.
So far, group organizers have collected information on 2,932 names of missing and murdered women nationwide but Harding said the numbers only tell part of the story.
"It was realized that discrimination and racism were very prevalent as the numbers for First Nations women were much higher than any other ethnic group," she said, pointing to figures from the Native Women's Association of Canada that shows First Nations people in total make up only three per cent of the total population of Canada. First Nations women thus appear disproportionately at risk.
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June 17, 2011
A Cowichan Valley woman is joining a walk to Ottawa to raise awareness about the numbers of women, particularly First Nations women, who go missing or are found murdered every year.
The trek starts from Vancouver on June 21 and some of its participants will reach Parliament Hill in September for a big rally. The Valley's Laurie Harding is walking the first leg to Kamloops.
The walkers consist of family members from across Canada who have lost their loved ones and who are now looking for justice, accountability and closure and Harding said this week the cause is close to her heart.
She had already been taking part in the Highway of Tears memorial walk in Victoria to protest the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the north of B.C. when her reason became more personal.
"My cousin's 15 year-old-daughter, Loren Donn Leslie, was murdered on Nov. 27, 2010 on a remote logging road between Vanderhoof andFortSt. James. Weare walking to call for a national missing and murdered women's symposium to be held in Vancouver," she said last week.
So far, group organizers have collected information on 2,932 names of missing and murdered women nationwide but Harding said the numbers only tell part of the story.
"It was realized that discrimination and racism were very prevalent as the numbers for First Nations women were much higher than any other ethnic group," she said, pointing to figures from the Native Women's Association of Canada that shows First Nations people in total make up only three per cent of the total population of Canada. First Nations women thus appear disproportionately at risk.
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:37 am
Legebokoff trial moved to Supreme Court
October 5, 2011
A 20-year-old Fort St. James man accused of murder has had his trial moved to Supreme Court.
Cody Alan Legebokoff is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake.
Leslie’s body was found on an unused logging road off Highway 27 just to the north of Vanderhoof on November 27 2010.
Legebokoff, who was born and raised in Fort St. James but moved to Prince George after he graduated from high school, was arrested after his vehicle was stopped on Highway 27, just 22 Kilometres north of Vanderhoof.
A member of the Fort St. James RCMP detachment had noticed the truck while he was traveling south on Highway 27. The truck was pulling out onto the highway from an older unused logging road, and given the time and location, the police officer deemed it as suspicious and pulled the vehicle over.
He was detained following his identification, a conversation and the officer’s observations. The officer then contacted an area conservation officer, Cam Hill, to conduct a thorough search of the area. Just before midnight, Hill located the body of Leslie just half a kilometre up the logging road from which the truck had emerged.
Leslie, who was originally from the Fraser Lake area, was enrolled in Grade 10 at Nechako Valley Secondary School (NVSS) in Vanderhoof at the time of her murder.
Originally a preliminary hearing was set to take place over a period of two weeks in Vanderhoof in January 2012. However, Legebokoff appeared in court in Prince George on September 14 where it was decided that his trial would go straight to Supreme Court in front of a judge and jury.
Counsel for the Crown and Defense will be meeting in the near future to set a date for the trial.
The accused remains in custody.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/131155838.html
October 5, 2011
A 20-year-old Fort St. James man accused of murder has had his trial moved to Supreme Court.
Cody Alan Legebokoff is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake.
Leslie’s body was found on an unused logging road off Highway 27 just to the north of Vanderhoof on November 27 2010.
Legebokoff, who was born and raised in Fort St. James but moved to Prince George after he graduated from high school, was arrested after his vehicle was stopped on Highway 27, just 22 Kilometres north of Vanderhoof.
A member of the Fort St. James RCMP detachment had noticed the truck while he was traveling south on Highway 27. The truck was pulling out onto the highway from an older unused logging road, and given the time and location, the police officer deemed it as suspicious and pulled the vehicle over.
He was detained following his identification, a conversation and the officer’s observations. The officer then contacted an area conservation officer, Cam Hill, to conduct a thorough search of the area. Just before midnight, Hill located the body of Leslie just half a kilometre up the logging road from which the truck had emerged.
Leslie, who was originally from the Fraser Lake area, was enrolled in Grade 10 at Nechako Valley Secondary School (NVSS) in Vanderhoof at the time of her murder.
Originally a preliminary hearing was set to take place over a period of two weeks in Vanderhoof in January 2012. However, Legebokoff appeared in court in Prince George on September 14 where it was decided that his trial would go straight to Supreme Court in front of a judge and jury.
Counsel for the Crown and Defense will be meeting in the near future to set a date for the trial.
The accused remains in custody.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/131155838.html
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:59 pm
B.C. man accused of being serial killer
Man charged in 4 slayings lived in Alberta from 2008 to 2009
October 17, 2011
A total of four counts of first-degree murder have been laid against 21-year-old Cody Alan Legebokoff. (RCMP)
A 21-year-old man who was already charged in the slaying of a 15-year-old girl has now been charged in the deaths of three additional women, say RCMP in Prince George, B.C.
Cody Legebokoff was charged in late 2010 with first-degree murder in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, whose body was found on a remote logging road just off Highway 27 near Vanderhoof, B.C., last November.
Legebokoff was charged with three new first-degree murder charges while awaiting trial in the November 2010 homicide of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, from Fraser Lake, B.C.
On Monday, police announced Legebokoff is now facing three new counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery following a 10-month investigation.
Jill Stuchenko's body was found in October 2009 in a gravel pit on the outskirts of Prince George, B.C. (RCMP)
The remains of Cynthia Maas were found in L.C. Gunn Park, in a remote area of Prince George, on Oct. 9, 2010. (RCMP)
Natasha Montgomery, 23, was reported missing the same day as Cynthia Maas. Her body has not been recovered,
but investigative findings have resulted in a murder charge in relation to her disappearance. (RCMP)
Legebokoff is being held at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre.
At a news conference in Prince George, attended by members of the media and representatives from local First Nations communities, police said they believe Legebokoff acted alone.
Police said the investigation was "far from over," as investigators are looking for witnesses and additional victims.
It's believed Legebekoff used the internet and social media websites to meet women, frequently using the online name 1CountryBoy, and he lived in Lethbridge, Alta., from June 2008 to 2009, said police.
Deaths date back to 2009
Stuchenko, 35, was found dead in a gravel pit off Otway Road, on the outskirts of Prince George, in 2009.
Montgomery, 23, originally from Quesnel, was reported missing in August 2010. Her body has not been found, but police say they are working hard to locate her remains.
Maas, 35, went missing in September 2010. Her remains were found in L.C. Gunn Park, in a remote area of Prince George, the following month.
Leslie's body was found just off Highway 27 in November 2010.
Police have not revealed how Leslie died, but her remains were sent to the United States for investigation by a specialist.
Leslie, who was visually impaired, was a Grade 10 student at Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof.
Otway Road and L.C. Gunn Park
Earlier this year, police interrogated more than 140 Prince George taxi drivers in connection with the deaths of Maas and Stuchenko.
The manager of P.G. Taxi told CBC News at the time that all of his drivers had been interviewed by police and asked for DNA samples as part of an investigation into several murders.
Difficult time for families
In a written release, RCMP Insp. Brendan Fitzpatrick said the victims' families have been notified.
"It was evident by our meeting ... these women were all very vibrant, talented and loving. They were all mothers, daughters, and aunts and possess large extended families who miss them tremendously. The families request privacy at this very sad time," said Fitzpatrick.
"We also respect news of this development and the charges will be met with mixed emotions by the community. These are difficult and complex investigations that require a dedicated team of resources. This group and particularly the RCMP remain committed to ensuring justice is delivered."
Fitzpatrick said police are limited in the amount of information they can release, but he confirmed police executed two search warrants at Legebokoff's home during the course of the investigation.
"It was a combination of many factors, along with a dedicated team of investigators that has brought us to the point where these additional three charges can be laid," Fitzpatrick said.
Anyone with any information is asked to call a special tip line that has been established for the case at 1-877-987-8477.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/17/bc-prince-george-homicide.html
◘ List of missing or slain native women grows
Man charged in 4 slayings lived in Alberta from 2008 to 2009
October 17, 2011
A total of four counts of first-degree murder have been laid against 21-year-old Cody Alan Legebokoff. (RCMP)
A 21-year-old man who was already charged in the slaying of a 15-year-old girl has now been charged in the deaths of three additional women, say RCMP in Prince George, B.C.
Cody Legebokoff was charged in late 2010 with first-degree murder in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, whose body was found on a remote logging road just off Highway 27 near Vanderhoof, B.C., last November.
Legebokoff was charged with three new first-degree murder charges while awaiting trial in the November 2010 homicide of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, from Fraser Lake, B.C.
On Monday, police announced Legebokoff is now facing three new counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery following a 10-month investigation.
Jill Stuchenko's body was found in October 2009 in a gravel pit on the outskirts of Prince George, B.C. (RCMP)
The remains of Cynthia Maas were found in L.C. Gunn Park, in a remote area of Prince George, on Oct. 9, 2010. (RCMP)
Natasha Montgomery, 23, was reported missing the same day as Cynthia Maas. Her body has not been recovered,
but investigative findings have resulted in a murder charge in relation to her disappearance. (RCMP)
Legebokoff is being held at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre.
At a news conference in Prince George, attended by members of the media and representatives from local First Nations communities, police said they believe Legebokoff acted alone.
Police said the investigation was "far from over," as investigators are looking for witnesses and additional victims.
It's believed Legebekoff used the internet and social media websites to meet women, frequently using the online name 1CountryBoy, and he lived in Lethbridge, Alta., from June 2008 to 2009, said police.
Deaths date back to 2009
Stuchenko, 35, was found dead in a gravel pit off Otway Road, on the outskirts of Prince George, in 2009.
Montgomery, 23, originally from Quesnel, was reported missing in August 2010. Her body has not been found, but police say they are working hard to locate her remains.
Maas, 35, went missing in September 2010. Her remains were found in L.C. Gunn Park, in a remote area of Prince George, the following month.
Leslie's body was found just off Highway 27 in November 2010.
Police have not revealed how Leslie died, but her remains were sent to the United States for investigation by a specialist.
Leslie, who was visually impaired, was a Grade 10 student at Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof.
Otway Road and L.C. Gunn Park
Earlier this year, police interrogated more than 140 Prince George taxi drivers in connection with the deaths of Maas and Stuchenko.
The manager of P.G. Taxi told CBC News at the time that all of his drivers had been interviewed by police and asked for DNA samples as part of an investigation into several murders.
Difficult time for families
In a written release, RCMP Insp. Brendan Fitzpatrick said the victims' families have been notified.
"It was evident by our meeting ... these women were all very vibrant, talented and loving. They were all mothers, daughters, and aunts and possess large extended families who miss them tremendously. The families request privacy at this very sad time," said Fitzpatrick.
"We also respect news of this development and the charges will be met with mixed emotions by the community. These are difficult and complex investigations that require a dedicated team of resources. This group and particularly the RCMP remain committed to ensuring justice is delivered."
Fitzpatrick said police are limited in the amount of information they can release, but he confirmed police executed two search warrants at Legebokoff's home during the course of the investigation.
"It was a combination of many factors, along with a dedicated team of investigators that has brought us to the point where these additional three charges can be laid," Fitzpatrick said.
Anyone with any information is asked to call a special tip line that has been established for the case at 1-877-987-8477.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/17/bc-prince-george-homicide.html
◘ List of missing or slain native women grows
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:19 am
Updated: Oct 17, 2011 4:15 PM PT
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In a written statement released on Monday, Maas's family described her as a "poster child for vulnerability in our society."
"We are concerned about all the other unsolved missing and murdered women," the statement read. "Murders do not just harm families but our society is harmed as we forget and are numbed by senseless violence perpetrated against women portrayed as deserving of death."
In September, the B.C. Missing Women Inquiry held a series of forums in northern B.C. to hear from the families of missing and murdered women in the area. At least 18 young women have been murdered or gone missing on a 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16, the so-called Highway of Tears, between Prince George and Prince Rupert. None of the cases have been solved.
Leslie's body was found just off Highway 27 in November 2010.
Police have not revealed how Leslie died, but her remains were sent to the United States for investigation by a specialist.
Leslie, who was visually impaired, was a Grade 10 student at Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/17/bc-prince-george-homicide.html
A billboard just outside Moricetown, B.C., warns young women of the dangers of hitchhiking.
Betsy Trumpener/CBC
A billboard along the Highway of Tears near Vanderhoof for Madison Scott,
who disappeared from a nearby campground on May 28.
Betsy Trumpener/CBC
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In a written statement released on Monday, Maas's family described her as a "poster child for vulnerability in our society."
"We are concerned about all the other unsolved missing and murdered women," the statement read. "Murders do not just harm families but our society is harmed as we forget and are numbed by senseless violence perpetrated against women portrayed as deserving of death."
In September, the B.C. Missing Women Inquiry held a series of forums in northern B.C. to hear from the families of missing and murdered women in the area. At least 18 young women have been murdered or gone missing on a 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16, the so-called Highway of Tears, between Prince George and Prince Rupert. None of the cases have been solved.
Leslie's body was found just off Highway 27 in November 2010.
Police have not revealed how Leslie died, but her remains were sent to the United States for investigation by a specialist.
Leslie, who was visually impaired, was a Grade 10 student at Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/17/bc-prince-george-homicide.html
A billboard just outside Moricetown, B.C., warns young women of the dangers of hitchhiking.
Betsy Trumpener/CBC
A billboard along the Highway of Tears near Vanderhoof for Madison Scott,
who disappeared from a nearby campground on May 28.
Betsy Trumpener/CBC
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:50 am
Court Dates Set For Legebokoff
October 18, 2011
Court dates have been set for a Prince George man facing four first degree murder charges.
Regional Crown Communications Counsel Neil Mackenzie says it's too soon to say if 21-year old Cody Legebokoff will be tried for all four counts at the same time.
"Mr. Legebokoff will be appearing next on the three additional charges that have just been approved against him on November 2nd," says Mackenzie, "The next scheduled appearance on the prior file is on October 31st."
Legebokoff is awaiting trial for the murder of 15 year old Loren Leslie of Fraser Lake in November 2010. Mackenzie says Crown will proceed on that matter by way of direct indictment, and as a result it has been moved directly to Supreme Court.
Three additional first degree murder charges were announced by police yesterday.
http://hqprincegeorge.com/news/local/news/Local/11/10/18/Court-Dates-Set-of-Legebokoff
October 18, 2011
Court dates have been set for a Prince George man facing four first degree murder charges.
Regional Crown Communications Counsel Neil Mackenzie says it's too soon to say if 21-year old Cody Legebokoff will be tried for all four counts at the same time.
"Mr. Legebokoff will be appearing next on the three additional charges that have just been approved against him on November 2nd," says Mackenzie, "The next scheduled appearance on the prior file is on October 31st."
Legebokoff is awaiting trial for the murder of 15 year old Loren Leslie of Fraser Lake in November 2010. Mackenzie says Crown will proceed on that matter by way of direct indictment, and as a result it has been moved directly to Supreme Court.
Three additional first degree murder charges were announced by police yesterday.
http://hqprincegeorge.com/news/local/news/Local/11/10/18/Court-Dates-Set-of-Legebokoff
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:53 am
Tens of thousands of text messages linked to accused serial killer
Tens of thousands of text messages tied to accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff – also known online as 1CountryBoy – are part of the police focus into allegations that the 21-year-old murdered four women in northern B.C., the RCMP say.
“Just over the course of a couple of months, there were an extraordinary number of text messages,” RCMP Inspector Brendan Fitzpatrick said Tuesday, adding the material that “caused a lot of work” for officers is part of the police investigation.
Police are asking anyone who had any contact with Mr. Legebokoff to contact them. “There’s a possibility he’s meeting people online and that a lot of these people may be people we want to talk to,” Insp. Fitzpatrick said. “They may have information. He may have corresponded with them. He may have tried to meet them. They may know where’s been.”
In one message on the social-media site nexopia, someone with the 1CountryBoy handle quotes from the 2009 Justin Moore country-music song Backwoods. The section quoted includes a reference to “a real good life in the backwoods.”
Mr. Legebokoff has been in custody since he was detained last November while driving away from a logging road near Vanderhoof, where officers found the remains of 15-year-old Loren Leslie, who reportedly knew Mr. Legebokoff. Insp. Fitzpatrick declined to elaborate on that point Tuesday, saying it was “close to the evidence.”
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Tens of thousands of text messages tied to accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff – also known online as 1CountryBoy – are part of the police focus into allegations that the 21-year-old murdered four women in northern B.C., the RCMP say.
“Just over the course of a couple of months, there were an extraordinary number of text messages,” RCMP Inspector Brendan Fitzpatrick said Tuesday, adding the material that “caused a lot of work” for officers is part of the police investigation.
Police are asking anyone who had any contact with Mr. Legebokoff to contact them. “There’s a possibility he’s meeting people online and that a lot of these people may be people we want to talk to,” Insp. Fitzpatrick said. “They may have information. He may have corresponded with them. He may have tried to meet them. They may know where’s been.”
In one message on the social-media site nexopia, someone with the 1CountryBoy handle quotes from the 2009 Justin Moore country-music song Backwoods. The section quoted includes a reference to “a real good life in the backwoods.”
Mr. Legebokoff has been in custody since he was detained last November while driving away from a logging road near Vanderhoof, where officers found the remains of 15-year-old Loren Leslie, who reportedly knew Mr. Legebokoff. Insp. Fitzpatrick declined to elaborate on that point Tuesday, saying it was “close to the evidence.”
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:59 am
B.C. mom comforted that daughter’s killing may have saved lives
October 21, 2011
Donna Leslie scoffs at the term “closure.” She says there’s no end to the tragedy she has endured since her 15-year-old daughter, Loren, was found slain along a desolate logging road last November.
But as Ms. Leslie sits in her living room, clutching a plush Eeyore backpack that holds a velvet bag containing Loren’s ashes, she talks at length about where she does find comfort.
“Her death was a catalyst in stopping a serial killer,” she says, at times fighting back tears.
For months, the mother of three struggled to understand why anyone would want to hurt her middle child. RCMP announced this week that the young man charged with killing Loren is accused of three more slayings.
It’s strange, Ms. Leslie admits, but hearing that her daughter was the victim of an alleged serial killer – that she did nothing to provoke the attack – made the situation a little easier to bear.
The same, she said, is true of knowing that Cody Legebokoff, the 21-year-old charged with four counts of first-degree murder, was taken into custody immediately after Loren’s death. Her daughter’s killing, Ms. Leslie says, may have saved the lives of others.
“It gives a meaning to why she had to die, rather than just because [someone] felt like killing her,” says Ms. Leslie, a 50-year-old social worker.
At the family’s townhouse in the central British Columbia community of Vanderhoof, Loren’s photos are splashed all over the walls. In the living room, the pine coffin made by a family friend in which the visually impaired teen was to be buried has been turned into a makeshift piece of furniture. (By the time forensic testing was done and Loren’s remains were returned, the family opted for cremation.) The casket has been filled with Loren’s belongings, and her friends have scrawled messages on its side. A couple of mattresses balance on top and Ms. Leslie – who’s recovering from a broken leg – uses it as a bed.
“It makes me feel closer to her,” she says. “I just look forward to seeing her again, in heaven.”
Ms. Leslie, who had not spoken publicly about her daughter’s death until this week, says her daughter never mentioned her accused killer. She believes the two met through mutual friends and then chatted on Facebook.
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October 21, 2011
Donna Leslie scoffs at the term “closure.” She says there’s no end to the tragedy she has endured since her 15-year-old daughter, Loren, was found slain along a desolate logging road last November.
But as Ms. Leslie sits in her living room, clutching a plush Eeyore backpack that holds a velvet bag containing Loren’s ashes, she talks at length about where she does find comfort.
“Her death was a catalyst in stopping a serial killer,” she says, at times fighting back tears.
For months, the mother of three struggled to understand why anyone would want to hurt her middle child. RCMP announced this week that the young man charged with killing Loren is accused of three more slayings.
It’s strange, Ms. Leslie admits, but hearing that her daughter was the victim of an alleged serial killer – that she did nothing to provoke the attack – made the situation a little easier to bear.
The same, she said, is true of knowing that Cody Legebokoff, the 21-year-old charged with four counts of first-degree murder, was taken into custody immediately after Loren’s death. Her daughter’s killing, Ms. Leslie says, may have saved the lives of others.
“It gives a meaning to why she had to die, rather than just because [someone] felt like killing her,” says Ms. Leslie, a 50-year-old social worker.
At the family’s townhouse in the central British Columbia community of Vanderhoof, Loren’s photos are splashed all over the walls. In the living room, the pine coffin made by a family friend in which the visually impaired teen was to be buried has been turned into a makeshift piece of furniture. (By the time forensic testing was done and Loren’s remains were returned, the family opted for cremation.) The casket has been filled with Loren’s belongings, and her friends have scrawled messages on its side. A couple of mattresses balance on top and Ms. Leslie – who’s recovering from a broken leg – uses it as a bed.
“It makes me feel closer to her,” she says. “I just look forward to seeing her again, in heaven.”
Ms. Leslie, who had not spoken publicly about her daughter’s death until this week, says her daughter never mentioned her accused killer. She believes the two met through mutual friends and then chatted on Facebook.
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:58 am
Crown to Call For All Four Murder Charges to Be Tied Together
October 24, 2011
Prince George, B.C.- Opinion250 has confirmed, the Crown hopes to tie together the four charges of murder against Cody Alan Legebokoff, for a single trial.
Communications Counsel for the Criminal Justice Branch , Neil MacKenzie, has confirmed the Crown has filed to have the murders of Loren Donn Leslie, Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery, tried in a single trial.
He says the paperwork was filed on Friday, and calls for the case to move forward on the basis of direct indictment, which means there would be no preliminary hearing.
MacKenzie says the Supreme Court will examine the order on October 31st, which is the next scheduled date for Legebokoff to be in court.
21 year old Cody Alan Legbokoff remains in custody, where he has been since being arrested in late November of last year for the murder of 15 year old Loren Leslie of Fraser Lake. Her body was found off an abandoned logging road after police had stopped a pick up truck which had just turned off that road on to highway 27, south of Fort St. James.
Last week, RCMP announced that Legebokoff was also being charged with the three other murders, including that of 23 year old Natasha Lynn Montgomery, although her remains have not been found.
RCMP continue to seek the public’s assistance in this case, hoping to hear from anyone who may have information on the time period between the death of Jill Stuchenko in October of 2009, and Legebokoff’s arrest in November of 2010.
That tip line number is 1-877-987-8477
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/21841/1/crown+to+call+for+all+four+murder+charges+to+be+tied+together
October 24, 2011
Prince George, B.C.- Opinion250 has confirmed, the Crown hopes to tie together the four charges of murder against Cody Alan Legebokoff, for a single trial.
Communications Counsel for the Criminal Justice Branch , Neil MacKenzie, has confirmed the Crown has filed to have the murders of Loren Donn Leslie, Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery, tried in a single trial.
He says the paperwork was filed on Friday, and calls for the case to move forward on the basis of direct indictment, which means there would be no preliminary hearing.
MacKenzie says the Supreme Court will examine the order on October 31st, which is the next scheduled date for Legebokoff to be in court.
21 year old Cody Alan Legbokoff remains in custody, where he has been since being arrested in late November of last year for the murder of 15 year old Loren Leslie of Fraser Lake. Her body was found off an abandoned logging road after police had stopped a pick up truck which had just turned off that road on to highway 27, south of Fort St. James.
Last week, RCMP announced that Legebokoff was also being charged with the three other murders, including that of 23 year old Natasha Lynn Montgomery, although her remains have not been found.
RCMP continue to seek the public’s assistance in this case, hoping to hear from anyone who may have information on the time period between the death of Jill Stuchenko in October of 2009, and Legebokoff’s arrest in November of 2010.
That tip line number is 1-877-987-8477
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/21841/1/crown+to+call+for+all+four+murder+charges+to+be+tied+together
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:17 am
Accused B.C. serial killer to face one trial in alleged murders of four women
October 26, 2011
Accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff will face one trial covering four allegations of first-degree murder in the death of four Prince George area women, the Crown said Wednesday.
And the prosecution against the 21-year-old will proceed by direct indictment, which voids the need for a preliminary hearing in which evidence is presented in provincial court to prove the Crown has a enough material to go to trial.
Until the revised indictment was filed in court last Friday, Mr. Legebokoff was facing court dates dealing with one of the allegations and a separate date to deal with the three others.
Now all four matters will be handled at an Oct. 31st court hearing in Prince George.
Neil MacKenzie, spokesman for the B.C. crown, announced the move in an interview, but declined to get into specifics about the case to explain the decision.
Instead, he referred to the policy manual for B.C. Crown counsel, which lists 14 possible reasons for proceeding by direct indictment.
The crown spokesman noted the effect of the decision will be that the case will come to trial more quickly though no date has yet been set.
James Heller, Mr. Legebokoff’s lawyer, declined comment on the latest development in the matter when contacted on Wednesday.
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October 26, 2011
Accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff will face one trial covering four allegations of first-degree murder in the death of four Prince George area women, the Crown said Wednesday.
And the prosecution against the 21-year-old will proceed by direct indictment, which voids the need for a preliminary hearing in which evidence is presented in provincial court to prove the Crown has a enough material to go to trial.
Until the revised indictment was filed in court last Friday, Mr. Legebokoff was facing court dates dealing with one of the allegations and a separate date to deal with the three others.
Now all four matters will be handled at an Oct. 31st court hearing in Prince George.
Neil MacKenzie, spokesman for the B.C. crown, announced the move in an interview, but declined to get into specifics about the case to explain the decision.
Instead, he referred to the policy manual for B.C. Crown counsel, which lists 14 possible reasons for proceeding by direct indictment.
The crown spokesman noted the effect of the decision will be that the case will come to trial more quickly though no date has yet been set.
James Heller, Mr. Legebokoff’s lawyer, declined comment on the latest development in the matter when contacted on Wednesday.
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:28 am
Trial for accused B.C. serial killer could take up to a year
October 31, 2011
PRINCE GEORGE — The trial of an accused B.C. serial killer could take up to a year to be heard, a courtroom was told Monday.
Cody Alan Legebokoff, 21, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of three women and a blind teenage girl.
Crown prosecutor Lara Vizsolyi said Monday that although she estimates the trial will take six months to a year to complete, she has no estimate on when it will begin.
The Crown has elected to proceed by direct indictment on all four charges, which means there will be no preliminary hearing, and Legebokoff will face a single trial before a jury.
Legebokoff appeared in court in Prince George on Monday looking pale with his head shaved and wearing red prison garb.
He has been behind bars since November 2010, when he was charged with killing 15-year-old Loren Leslie.
The legally blind teenager told her family she was going out for coffee with a friend and never returned.
Legebokoff was arrested after an RCMP officer from Fort St. James, B.C., spotted a truck turning out of a unused logging road the evening Leslie disappeared.
He pulled over and questioned the driver before calling in a conservation officer to investigate whether the man had been illegally hunting.
The conservation official traced the tire tracks back down the logging road and found the teen dead in the snow. Leslie had been murdered just hours before, RCMP said at the time.
After an extensive investigation involving U.S. forensic experts, Legebokoff was charged in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery.
Stuchenko, 35, was reported missing in October 2009 and found dead four days later in a gravel pit on the outskirts of Prince George.
Maas, 35, and Montgomery, 23, were both reported missing on the same day in September 2010. Maas's body was found in a Prince George park the following month but Montgomery's body has never been found.
Police have not released details of how any of the women were killed.
Legebokoff was raised in Fort St. James, where he was arrested, and also lived in Lethbridge, Alta. He was an "avid user of social media and technology" where he was known by the moniker 1CountryBoy, RCMP said.
"Our investigation indicates he extensively utilized social media and online dating to correspond with friends, associates, potential girlfriends and others," police said in an Oct. 17 news release announcing the latest charges.
Legebokoff was not on the RCMP's "radar screen" before his unusual arrest just hours after Leslie's slaying, police said.
He does not have a criminal record.
RCMP said Legebokoff is not a suspect in the 18 murders and disappearances along the so-called Highway of Tears because of his age.
The slayings along the highway that connects Prince George and Prince Rupert, B.C., date back to the 1970s.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Trial+serial+killer+could+take+year/5634722/story.html
October 31, 2011
PRINCE GEORGE — The trial of an accused B.C. serial killer could take up to a year to be heard, a courtroom was told Monday.
Cody Alan Legebokoff, 21, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of three women and a blind teenage girl.
Crown prosecutor Lara Vizsolyi said Monday that although she estimates the trial will take six months to a year to complete, she has no estimate on when it will begin.
The Crown has elected to proceed by direct indictment on all four charges, which means there will be no preliminary hearing, and Legebokoff will face a single trial before a jury.
Legebokoff appeared in court in Prince George on Monday looking pale with his head shaved and wearing red prison garb.
He has been behind bars since November 2010, when he was charged with killing 15-year-old Loren Leslie.
The legally blind teenager told her family she was going out for coffee with a friend and never returned.
Legebokoff was arrested after an RCMP officer from Fort St. James, B.C., spotted a truck turning out of a unused logging road the evening Leslie disappeared.
He pulled over and questioned the driver before calling in a conservation officer to investigate whether the man had been illegally hunting.
The conservation official traced the tire tracks back down the logging road and found the teen dead in the snow. Leslie had been murdered just hours before, RCMP said at the time.
After an extensive investigation involving U.S. forensic experts, Legebokoff was charged in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery.
Stuchenko, 35, was reported missing in October 2009 and found dead four days later in a gravel pit on the outskirts of Prince George.
Maas, 35, and Montgomery, 23, were both reported missing on the same day in September 2010. Maas's body was found in a Prince George park the following month but Montgomery's body has never been found.
Police have not released details of how any of the women were killed.
Legebokoff was raised in Fort St. James, where he was arrested, and also lived in Lethbridge, Alta. He was an "avid user of social media and technology" where he was known by the moniker 1CountryBoy, RCMP said.
"Our investigation indicates he extensively utilized social media and online dating to correspond with friends, associates, potential girlfriends and others," police said in an Oct. 17 news release announcing the latest charges.
Legebokoff was not on the RCMP's "radar screen" before his unusual arrest just hours after Leslie's slaying, police said.
He does not have a criminal record.
RCMP said Legebokoff is not a suspect in the 18 murders and disappearances along the so-called Highway of Tears because of his age.
The slayings along the highway that connects Prince George and Prince Rupert, B.C., date back to the 1970s.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Trial+serial+killer+could+take+year/5634722/story.html
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by karma Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:47 am
Publication Ban In Legebokoff Case
November 09, 2011
Prince George, B.C.- While there was a Supreme Court Chambers appearance today for 21 year old Cody Alan Legebokoff, there is little that can be reported.
Because the case is proceeding as a jury trial, a publication ban is automatically in place and will remain in place for any material presented in the absence of the jury.
We can tell you Justice Glenn Parrett will be recommending the Chief Justice appoint a judicial case manager immediately.
Legebokoff is facing four counts of murder in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Maas, Natasha Lynn Montgomery and 15 year old Loren Donn Leslie.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/22045/1/publication+ban++in+legebokoff++case
November 09, 2011
Prince George, B.C.- While there was a Supreme Court Chambers appearance today for 21 year old Cody Alan Legebokoff, there is little that can be reported.
Because the case is proceeding as a jury trial, a publication ban is automatically in place and will remain in place for any material presented in the absence of the jury.
We can tell you Justice Glenn Parrett will be recommending the Chief Justice appoint a judicial case manager immediately.
Legebokoff is facing four counts of murder in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Maas, Natasha Lynn Montgomery and 15 year old Loren Donn Leslie.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/22045/1/publication+ban++in+legebokoff++case
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Re: CANADA • Loren Donn LESLIE, 15 /Accused: Cody Legebokoff ~ Prince George BC
by admin Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:00 am
Blatchford: Accused’s shorts had victim’s DNA, Cody Alan Legebokoff’s trial told
http://o.canada.com/news/national/blatchford-accuseds-shorts-had-victims-dna-cody-alan-legebokoffs-trial-told
Christie Blatchford
Published: June 2, 2014, 8:43 pm
Updated: 3 hours ago
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — British Columbia Supreme Court Judge Glen Perrett was careful to tell the jurors that a real-world trial is nothing like those portrayed on television, “not a smooth chronological narrative from beginning to end,” and right he is.
But if the judge prepared them for the bumps and detours of the Canadian justice system, the horrors allegedly dispensed by Cody Alan Legebokoff upon the women of this logging city in northern British Columbia nonetheless could have come straight from a melange of Criminal Minds episodes.
Now 24, Legebokoff is from nearby Fort St. James but had been living and working for a car dealership in Prince George, a city of about 70,000 people 780 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
He is pleading not guilty to the murders of three adult women and a legally blind teenager over the course of about a year.
As laid out by Crown prosecutor Joseph Temple in his opening statement here Monday, Legebokoff is alleged to have begun killing when he was just 19 and to have been a killer of exceptional viciousness, who variously beat and stabbed his victims with a variety of tools — including a pickaxe, a pipe wrench and a utility tool — and who may even have stomped upon the neck of one.
The adult victims — Natasha Montgomery, 23, and Jill Stacey Stuchenko and Cynthia Frances Maas, both 35 — were vulnerable women from the margins of this city, cocaine users who sometimes worked in the sex trade to get money for drugs.
One of them, Montgomery, had just recently been released from jail. She was free only 12 days before she was last seen alive.
Legebokoff was charged in these three deaths — linked it appears by DNA, even to Montgomery, whose body has never been found — only after his arrest on Nov. 27, 2010, in the slaying of 15-year-old Loren Leslie, a high-school student he met just weeks earlier online on the Nexopia social media site for young people.
If convicted at the end of a trial that may last six to eight months, he would be the youngest serial killer in Canada.
No longer possessed of the mop of blond curls which had him four years ago described as a fresh-faced boy-next-door, Legebokoff now sports a shaved head and some decorative facial hair. He still looks young, his skin very pale against the dark suit he wore, and was alert and interested in court.
When he was arrested — his pickup truck was spotted speeding and stopped as it left a logging road by an alert RCMP officer, Const. Aaron Kehler — the boy-next-door was dappled with blood.
The officer noticed a smear of it on his chin, drops on his legs (Legebokoff was wearing shorts, what allegedly turned out to be, according to the DNA evidence, his killing shorts), and a reddish puddle of it on the floor mat.
But, the prosecutor said, he told Const. Kehler “a story about poaching deer.”
Yet when the officer looked in the truck, after arresting Legebokoff for a poaching offence, he found a backpack in the shape of a monkey head and a pipe wrench “wet with snow and blood.”
The Mountie called in a conservation officer, who followed the truck tracks, then the footprints in fresh snow which came after them, and discovered the body of Leslie, her pants at her ankles, her hair matted with blood.
Over the next two days, Legebokoff gave five separate statements to the RCMP, Temple said.
In the first, Legebokoff denied hurting Leslie, but admitted seeing her body and even touching her. With blood on him now, he said, he got scared and fled the scene, grabbing the teen’s backpack and phone in his panic.
In the second, he said nothing new.
But in the third statement, he said not only that he didn’t kill Leslie, but also that she effectively had killed herself.
“The b—- went f—— psycho,” he told the police, stabbing herself in the throat.
He acknowledged watching “her dying for some minutes … and did not offer help,” Temple told the jurors, telling the police he “was stunned.”
In the fourth statement, Temple said, Legebokoff admitted to twice having had sex with Leslie — the very girl who in a text message hours earlier reminded him “we’re just hanging out, right? Nothing sexual” — and when the police expressed skepticism at his claim that Leslie had inflicted her own injuries, Legebokoff insisted she had even smacked herself in the side of the head with the wrench several times.
For the fifth statement, his girlfriend was brought in to visit him.
He admitted to her that he’d had sex with Leslie “and that’s when she started to go crazy, hitting herself with the wrench” and stabbing herself in the throat.
But, he told the girlfriend, “I did put her out of her misery” by whacking her in the head “maximum two times.”
The first of the women to die was Stuchenko, whose badly decomposed body was found Oct. 26, 2009, half-buried in a gravel pit on the outskirts of the city. She died of a head injury and skull fracture, her face, arms, legs and anus covered in bruising.
Maas’s body was found Oct. 9, 2010, in a city park. Her pants were at her knees and she had suffered both blunt trauma and penetrating wounds to the chest. Several ribs were fractured, bones in her neck and cheekbone were fractured, and two fingers broken.
Montgomery was last seen alive Aug. 31, 2010, reported missing that September. Though her remains haven’t been found, Temple said forensic tests on the shorts Legebokoff was wearing on the night of his arrest contained her DNA in bloodstains.
Montgomery’s DNA was also found on his hooded sweatshirt, in deposits on his bedsheets and in stains on the walls, floor, curtains and bath mat of his apartment.
Listening stoically to this summary of the evidence to come were relatives and friends of the four, three women and a girl, the former worn by life, the latter naive: It didn’t seem to matter.
cblatchford@postmedia.com
http://o.canada.com/news/national/blatchford-accuseds-shorts-had-victims-dna-cody-alan-legebokoffs-trial-told
Christie Blatchford
Published: June 2, 2014, 8:43 pm
Updated: 3 hours ago
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — British Columbia Supreme Court Judge Glen Perrett was careful to tell the jurors that a real-world trial is nothing like those portrayed on television, “not a smooth chronological narrative from beginning to end,” and right he is.
But if the judge prepared them for the bumps and detours of the Canadian justice system, the horrors allegedly dispensed by Cody Alan Legebokoff upon the women of this logging city in northern British Columbia nonetheless could have come straight from a melange of Criminal Minds episodes.
Now 24, Legebokoff is from nearby Fort St. James but had been living and working for a car dealership in Prince George, a city of about 70,000 people 780 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
He is pleading not guilty to the murders of three adult women and a legally blind teenager over the course of about a year.
As laid out by Crown prosecutor Joseph Temple in his opening statement here Monday, Legebokoff is alleged to have begun killing when he was just 19 and to have been a killer of exceptional viciousness, who variously beat and stabbed his victims with a variety of tools — including a pickaxe, a pipe wrench and a utility tool — and who may even have stomped upon the neck of one.
The adult victims — Natasha Montgomery, 23, and Jill Stacey Stuchenko and Cynthia Frances Maas, both 35 — were vulnerable women from the margins of this city, cocaine users who sometimes worked in the sex trade to get money for drugs.
One of them, Montgomery, had just recently been released from jail. She was free only 12 days before she was last seen alive.
Legebokoff was charged in these three deaths — linked it appears by DNA, even to Montgomery, whose body has never been found — only after his arrest on Nov. 27, 2010, in the slaying of 15-year-old Loren Leslie, a high-school student he met just weeks earlier online on the Nexopia social media site for young people.
If convicted at the end of a trial that may last six to eight months, he would be the youngest serial killer in Canada.
No longer possessed of the mop of blond curls which had him four years ago described as a fresh-faced boy-next-door, Legebokoff now sports a shaved head and some decorative facial hair. He still looks young, his skin very pale against the dark suit he wore, and was alert and interested in court.
When he was arrested — his pickup truck was spotted speeding and stopped as it left a logging road by an alert RCMP officer, Const. Aaron Kehler — the boy-next-door was dappled with blood.
The officer noticed a smear of it on his chin, drops on his legs (Legebokoff was wearing shorts, what allegedly turned out to be, according to the DNA evidence, his killing shorts), and a reddish puddle of it on the floor mat.
But, the prosecutor said, he told Const. Kehler “a story about poaching deer.”
Yet when the officer looked in the truck, after arresting Legebokoff for a poaching offence, he found a backpack in the shape of a monkey head and a pipe wrench “wet with snow and blood.”
The Mountie called in a conservation officer, who followed the truck tracks, then the footprints in fresh snow which came after them, and discovered the body of Leslie, her pants at her ankles, her hair matted with blood.
Over the next two days, Legebokoff gave five separate statements to the RCMP, Temple said.
In the first, Legebokoff denied hurting Leslie, but admitted seeing her body and even touching her. With blood on him now, he said, he got scared and fled the scene, grabbing the teen’s backpack and phone in his panic.
In the second, he said nothing new.
But in the third statement, he said not only that he didn’t kill Leslie, but also that she effectively had killed herself.
“The b—- went f—— psycho,” he told the police, stabbing herself in the throat.
He acknowledged watching “her dying for some minutes … and did not offer help,” Temple told the jurors, telling the police he “was stunned.”
In the fourth statement, Temple said, Legebokoff admitted to twice having had sex with Leslie — the very girl who in a text message hours earlier reminded him “we’re just hanging out, right? Nothing sexual” — and when the police expressed skepticism at his claim that Leslie had inflicted her own injuries, Legebokoff insisted she had even smacked herself in the side of the head with the wrench several times.
For the fifth statement, his girlfriend was brought in to visit him.
He admitted to her that he’d had sex with Leslie “and that’s when she started to go crazy, hitting herself with the wrench” and stabbing herself in the throat.
But, he told the girlfriend, “I did put her out of her misery” by whacking her in the head “maximum two times.”
The first of the women to die was Stuchenko, whose badly decomposed body was found Oct. 26, 2009, half-buried in a gravel pit on the outskirts of the city. She died of a head injury and skull fracture, her face, arms, legs and anus covered in bruising.
Maas’s body was found Oct. 9, 2010, in a city park. Her pants were at her knees and she had suffered both blunt trauma and penetrating wounds to the chest. Several ribs were fractured, bones in her neck and cheekbone were fractured, and two fingers broken.
Montgomery was last seen alive Aug. 31, 2010, reported missing that September. Though her remains haven’t been found, Temple said forensic tests on the shorts Legebokoff was wearing on the night of his arrest contained her DNA in bloodstains.
Montgomery’s DNA was also found on his hooded sweatshirt, in deposits on his bedsheets and in stains on the walls, floor, curtains and bath mat of his apartment.
Listening stoically to this summary of the evidence to come were relatives and friends of the four, three women and a girl, the former worn by life, the latter naive: It didn’t seem to matter.
cblatchford@postmedia.com
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