Cody Alan Legebokoff

Victims
4
Years active
October 2009 - November 2010
Location
Prince George and Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada
Method
Blood loss and blunt force trauma
Status
Convicted of four counts of first degree murder on September 11, 2014 and sentenced on September 16 to life with no eligibility for parole for twenty-five years.

Legebokoff was born in 1990 in Fort St James, British Columbia, and was nineteen when he began. He lived in Prince George and worked as a car dealership employee.

Between October 2009 and November 2010 he killed Jill Stuchenko, thirty-five; Cynthia Maas, thirty-five; Natasha Montgomery, twenty-three; and Loren Leslie, fifteen. Three of the women were Indigenous, and the bodies of two were found in gravel pits and a park near Prince George; Natasha Montgomery's body has never been recovered, though her blood was found in his flat.

He was caught on November 27, 2010 when a conservation officer stopped his truck coming off a bush road at night. Loren Leslie's body was found nearby, and there was blood on him and in the vehicle.

His defence at trial was that he had been present at the deaths but that others had committed them. He was convicted of four counts of first degree murder on September 11, 2014 and sentenced on September 16 to life with no eligibility for parole for twenty-five years.

The case belongs to the wider record of murdered and missing women along British Columbia's northern highways, and it was cited in submissions to the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Three of his four victims were Indigenous, and the entry records that in those terms.