The grisly task of taking the jury through videos of the scenes where the bodies of the teenage girl and two of the women Cody Alan Legebokoff is alleged to have murdered was carried out on Tuesday.
The images were taken largely as police had found the scenes with the bodies remaining untouched, now-retired RCMP Sgt. Norman Striker told the court before about 45 minutes of footage was presented.
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 nearly 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.
Striker's videos showed both the general locations and particular features of the scenes as well as of the bodies themselves. As the videos were played, Legebokoff, now 24, spent most of the time writing notes and showed no emotion as he has done throughout most of the trial so far.
Striker also went through photos taken of the scene where Stuchenko was found and of the autopsies peformed on her and Maas a few days after their respective discoveries.
Photos from Maas' autopsy also included images of the three layers of clothing she was wearing. Striker said they showed a series of irregular holes and that three holes on the upper right shoulder of her fleece jacket lined up with those on her dress shirt and undershirt.
In an statement given at the trial's start on June 2, Crown prosecutor Joseph Temple submitted that Maas' blood was found on a pickaxe in Legebokoff's Prince George apartment.
Defence lawyer Jim Heller focused on the tire tracks in the snow where Leslie's body was found when his cross examination of Striker began. Striker said powder snow and the -15 C temperature made collecting a cast of the track difficult but one was taken where the vehicle had appeared to stop and then back out of the scene.
