The final days of two of Cody Alan Legebokoff's alleged victims were recalled by Natasha Lynn Montgomery's boyfriend and Jill Stacey Stuchenko's fiance during testimony Monday morning at the Prince George courthouse.
Montgomery's boyfriend, Brian Godwin, said he knew her since she was about 12 years old and they began dating by the time she was 17 or 18 years old and when he was about 20 years old.
He said they had been living together in Quesnel, where they were the parents of two children for four or five years when she developed a serious drug problem centered on crack cocaine and the relationship broke up.
However, Montgomery stayed in close contact with the children, usually calling them every second day.
"She loved them more than anything in the world," Godwin said at one point.
Montgomery was 23 when she went missing in September 2010, shortly after she had been released from Prince George Regional Correctional Centre, and her body has never been found.
A week after her release, Godwin said she called and told him she wanted to come back home to Quesnel. Because he couldn't get a ride, Godwin wired her enough money to pay for a bus ticket.
"She was crying on the phone that she really wanted to come home and see the children," Godwin said.
In earlier testimony, Leonard Kinney testified that he was Stuchenko's fiance and while he admitted he had twice been convicted of assaulting her, he testified the relationship was back on better terms just before she went missing in October 2009.
Stuchenko's body was found in a shallow grave in a gravel pit off Otway Road, near Foothills Boulevard, on Oct. 20, 2009.
Kinney said they were the parents of two children and their fights were over her drug habit and because she was selling her sexual services to pay for drugs.
"I was against drugs, I wanted us to be a family," Kinney said.
When he learned Stuchenko had been reported missing and a story with her picture and story had been published in the newspaper, Kinney said he went to the Prince George RCMP detachment with some more photos.
And he then made some missing person posters with Stuchenko's picture on them and posted them around the city.
Kinney said he last saw her about a week-and-a-half before she was reported missing. She was standing on Queensway and he pulled over to ask her what she was doing.
"It looked like she was working, but she was waiting for a date or a ride," Kinney said.
