Testimony wrapped up Wednesday from the RCMP officer who headed the forensic identification section at the time the bodies of three of Cody Alan Legebokoff's alleged victims were found.
Under cross examination from defence lawyer Jim Heller, now-retired Sgt. Norman Striker went over the steps he took in gathering evidence at the scenes where the bodies were found, at their subsequent autopsies, during a search of Legebokoff's pickup truck and at his apartment.
Legebokoff, now 24 years old, is accused of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas, Loren Donn Leslie and Natasha Lynn Montgomery.
Stuchenko's body was found at a dormant gravel pit at Otway Road and Foothills Boulevard on Oct. 26, 2009 and Maas' was found nearly a year later, on Oct. 9, 2010, next to a road in L.C. Gunn Park. Both were 35 years old at the times they were found.
The body of Leslie, 15, was found nearly two months after Mass' body was uncovered, on Nov. 27, 2010 near a gravel pit off Highway 27 about halfway between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James, and shortly after an RCMP officer had pulled over Legebokoff for speeding.
Montgomery, 23, went missing in September 2010 following her release from Prince George Regional Correctional Centre. Her body has never been found but Crown prosecution alleges DNA evidence found on Legebokoff links him to her death.
On the search of Legebokoff's truck, Striker said nearly the entire interior was dismantled right down to the metal by the time investigators' work had been done. Even the steering wheel was removed, the court heard.
"There was almost nothing inside," Striker said.
Red stains on the passenger side seat and trim and on a carpet behind the seat were found to have been blood, Striker said.
Striker also said he helped during a two-day search for trace evidence in Legebokoff's apartment. Blood pattern analysts from the RCMP's national forensic identification services had been brought in, Striker said.
Striker admitted to a lapse in failing to take a photograph of a tampon found on Stuchenko during an autopsy.
About two dozen people were in the gallery as the trial, expected to last six to eight months, entered its seventh day.
The trial continues today at the Prince George courthouse, 9:30 a.m. start.
.png;w=120;h=80;mode=crop)
