A long list of DNA evidence that Crown prosecution alleges connects Cody Alan Legebokoff to the murders of three woman and one teenage girl was referred to during an opening statement to the jury on Monday.
The evidence was found in his truck and in his Prince George home, the court heard.
About 45 people were in the gallery for the first morning of the long-awaited trial at the Prince George courthouse with 15 of them from local and Lower Mainland media.
Legebokoff, 23, is accused of murdering 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie of Fraser Lake, Jill Stacey Stuchenko and Cynthia Frances Maas, both 35, and 23-year-old Natasha Lynn Montgomery. Stuchenko, Maas and Montgomery were from Prince George.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Glenn Parrett told jurors they must conclude Legebokoff not only committed the killings but that they were planned and deliberate or carried out during a sexual assault to find him guilty of first-degree murder. They also have the options of finding him guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter or to find him not guilty altogether.
Wearing a suit and tie and with his head shaved and sporting a trimmed goatee, Legebokoff was led into the courtroom in handcuffs. He showed no emotion during the morning's proceedings.
