A Burns Lake man has pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder from an April 2015 triple-homicide in the community.
Reuben Buhler, 56, entered pleas last week during a hearing in B.C. Supreme Court in Smithers.
Buhler had remained in custody since he was arrested for the deaths of Ridge Vern Vienneau, Ehr Ola Andersen and Mitchel Wade Ruttan in the community of about 2,000 people 226 kilometres east of Prince George.
Second degree murder differs from first degree in that the killings were carried out on impulse rather than being planned. The deaths were related to a domestic dispute, police said at the time of Buhler's arrest.
The offence carries an automatic life sentence but he could be eligible for parole in as little as 10 years, depending on the outcome of a sentencing hearing set for late October.
