A former girlfriend of Cody Allan Legebokoff testified Thursday during the trial for the young man accused of murdering a teenage girl and three women.
Amy Veoll said she was in an intimate relationship with Legebokoff for about three months starting in September 2010. She and Legebokoff were co-workers at a local auto dealership and had known each other since the summer of that year, the court heard.
Once together, Voell said she would stay overnight at Legebokoff's 1400-block Liard Drive apartment three or four times a week.
Voell said she noticed a bloody handprint on a wall near the apartment's front door, a blood stain on the curtains in the living room and on the carpet at the end of the hallway.
Voell confirmed she asked Legebokoff about the stains.
"I was told that the handprint and the stain on the carpet were his own blood, that he cut his foot one night and came home intoxicated and made a mess," Voell said.
"And the blood on the curtain was from a nose bleed."
Voell also confirmed she saw blood on the couch but did not elaborate on whether Legebokoff gave an explanation for that stain.
The court has heard the stain first appeared on the couch sometime over the October 2009 Thanksgiving long weekend while he was living in the basement suite of a 1500-block Carney Street home.
A housemate testified that when she first noticed the stain at about that time, Legebokoff told her he had gotten high and had a nosebleed. Legebokoff had become a user of cocaine while living in the home, the court has also heard.
Voell said Legebokoff had friends over on only one night when she was there. She had seen him drink and knew he smoked marijuana but told her he did not use any other form of drugs.
Voell recounted the last time she saw him prior to his arrest on Nov. 27, 2010.
She said both had worked that day with Legebokoff's work day ending sooner than hers. As soon as her day finished, Voell said she took the short drive to Legebokoff's apartment where they watched TV while sitting on the couch.
"He began to fall asleep on my lap on the couch and said he was really tired, so I decided to go home and that was about 6:30 when I left and I didn't hear from him after that," Voell said.
Crown prosecution is alleging Legebokoff drove out to Vanderhoof, a community of about 4,500 people 100 km west of Prince George, that night to meet in person Loren Donn Leslie, 15, with whom he had been conversing over a social media website.
At about 9:30 p.m., a Fort St. James RCMP officer pulled Legebokoff over after he drove onto Highway 27 from an offroad north of Vanderhoof in an erratic manner and continued south at above the speed limit.
When the officer noticed blood on Legebokoff and in his truck, Legebokoff said he had been out poaching and a conservation officer was called in to retrace his route. By about midnight, Leslie's lifeless but still warm body was found near a gravel pit along the offroad.
Worried because she hadn't heard from him, Voell drove by the apartment the next morning before going to work and noticed his truck was gone. When she came back after work, Voell saw police at the building.
The next day, she agreed to participate with Legebokoff in an interview with the RCMP in Vanderhoof. Voell was not asked to provide any further details.
Voell was taken through photos police took of Legebokoff's apartment following his arrest. One showed a pickaroon stood against a bedroom wall next to Legebokoff's bed and another showed an axe stored in a linen closet in the hallway.
Voell said she did not remember seeing either item.
DNA analysis determined that blood found on the pickaroon was from Cynthia Frances Maas, 35, whose decomposed body was found in L.C. Gunn Park on Oct. 9, 2010 and blood on the axe came from Natasha Lynn Montgomery, 35, who went missing in early September 2010 and has never been found.
The blood on the couch matched that from Jill Stacey Stuchenko, whose body was found in a gravel pit off Otway Road near Foothills Boulevard.
Earlier Thursday, defence lawyer Jim Heller focused on blood samples that showed a mix of contributors during a cross examination of Jason Solinski, who conducts DNA analysis at the RCMP's forensics laboratory in Edmonton.
In many of those instances, a major contributor was identified but the rest of the mixture was too weak to allow Solinski to identify the second source.
They also went through 11 samples in which Legebokoff was either the sole or major contributor that were not presented to the court during direct examination by Crown prosecution.
