Cody Allan Legebokoff pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder but Crown prosecution will continue to seek convictions for first-degree murder, the court heard Monday.
Legebokoff, 24, is claiming that while he was involved in the killings of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, 35, Cynthia Frances Maas, 25 and Natasha Lynn Montgomery, 23, three other people which he identified as X, Y and Z carried out the acts.
As for the death of Loren Donn Leslie, the partially-blind 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an isolated area north of Vanderhoof, Legebokoff has testified he struck Leslie with a pipe wrench but the act was not planned and deliberate.
Crown is arguing Legebokoff planned the killings and carried them out during the commissions of sexual assaults, making the deaths first degree murder.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Glen Parrett is expected to begin giving his charge to the jury, instructing them on the factors they must take into consideration in reaching their verdicts, later this morning.
Trouble with the court's sound system has delayed the start of that process. Once Parrett has completed his charge, the jury will sequester for deliberations.
