Cody Alan Legebokoff was convicted in September 2014 of the first-degree murders of three women and a 15-year-old girl in and near Prince George, in the northern interior of British Columbia. The killings took place between October 2009 and November 2010. He was 19 when the first of them happened, according to the CBC, and 20 when he was arrested.
The women were Jill Stuchenko, 35, Natasha Montgomery, 23, and Cynthia Maas, 35, all of them mothers, and all caught up in the city's drug scene, according to the Prince George Citizen. The girl was Loren Leslie, 15, of Fraser Lake, who was legally blind and had met him online. He was caught on the night she died, when a Mountie on an unrelated errand stopped his pickup as it sped out of a logging road. Only after that arrest did investigators connect him to the three women. A jury in Prince George found him guilty on all four counts, and he is serving life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years. Natasha Montgomery's body has never been found.
Legebokoff grew up in Fort St. James, a logging community in northern British Columbia. Acquaintances described him to the Vancouver Sun in 2011 as a regular young man who played hockey and snowboarded. A Daily Beast profile that year said he was raised by a respectable family in the region and that his grandfather had taken him hunting and fishing. Loren Leslie's mother later told the Prince George Citizen that the Legebokoff family was prominent in Fort St. James.
From June 2008 to August 2009 he lived in Lethbridge, Alberta, police said. He then moved to Prince George. He had no criminal record and had never had serious dealings with police, and his employer in Prince George thought well of him, the Vancouver Sun reported. RCMP Inspector Brendan Fitzpatrick said in 2011 that Legebokoff had not been on the police "radar screen at all" before the night of his arrest.
He was a heavy user of social media and online dating, police said, and sometimes went by the handle "1CountryBoy." Police said he used these sites to contact friends, acquaintances and potential girlfriends.
In late August 2009 Legebokoff and three people he had grown up with in Fort St. James rented a house in Prince George. He took the basement bedroom. His former housemates testified at his trial that he began using cocaine while living there, despite their objections, and that after they caught him he grew secretive and began spending time with people one of them called "shady characters." Two of them remembered a small axe or a pickaroon, a logger's hooked tool, beside his bed; he told them it was "scary downstairs" and he worried about intruders. He met girls through a social networking site popular with young people and brought some of them home. The shared house lasted until early April 2010, and he later moved into an apartment of his own.
In the summer of 2010 he worked at an auto dealership in Prince George. A co-worker there began a relationship with him in September 2010 that lasted about three months. She testified that he told her he drank and smoked marijuana but used no other drugs.
Jill Stacey Stuchenko was 35 and lived in Prince George. She was a mother; the CBC described her as a mother of five, while CTV reported that she had six children. The RCMP called her a talented singer. Police said she had been known to them for drug use, that she was well liked, and that she had worked as an escort for several years.
Her family reported her missing on October 22, 2009. Her body was found in a gravel pit on the outskirts of Prince George. The Canadian Press and the Vancouver Sun reported that a hiker found her four days after the missing-person report, and that police estimated she had been there about ten days; Prince George Citizen trial reports give the date of discovery as October 20, 2009. She had died of blunt-force injuries, the CBC reported.
The Crown alleged that she was killed over the Thanksgiving long weekend of 2009 in the basement of the house Legebokoff shared. His housemates testified that after one of them returned from a family visit that weekend she found him on a couch; he said he had been high and had fallen asleep. Later she saw him cleaning a stain on the carpet. The co-worker who dated him in 2010 testified that he had told her a handprint and a carpet stain were his own blood, and a curtain stain came from a nosebleed. An RCMP DNA analyst from the force's laboratory in Edmonton testified about the forensic evidence.
Natasha Lynn Montgomery was 23. She was originally from Quesnel and had been living in Prince George. Her mother testified early in the trial that Natasha was a loving mother of two children who had trouble with cocaine; after her death the children lived in Quesnel, sharing their time between their grandmother and their father. Police described her as a "beautiful, loving and caring person." A man who spent time with her in August 2010 told the jury that she had "a great sense of humour, she was smart, she was a lot of fun to be around."
That witness testified that he drove Montgomery and a friend around Prince George for about two weeks, several times to collect drug debts on behalf of someone he described as dangerous. The last time he saw her, he dropped her off one evening; she said she would call him later and never did. She was last seen in late August or early September 2010. Friends reported her missing on September 23, 2010, the same day Cynthia Maas was reported missing.
Her body has never been found. At trial, a DNA analyst testified that her profile matched blood samples from Legebokoff's apartment and an axe found there. The CBC reported that shirts and bedsheets from the apartment also tested positive for her DNA. Police believed she was killed in his apartment, the Prince George Citizen reported, and after the charges her family held a smudging ceremony there.
Cynthia Frances Maas was 35. The Vancouver Sun reported that she was originally from Quesnel and had moved to Prince George recently; The Globe and Mail reported that programs for people in difficulty had brought her to the city to get help. The CBC described her as coming from a First Nations family. Her family called her "a social victim of disability, ethnicity, class, gender" and "a poster child for vulnerability in our society." At the sentencing hearing her sister remembered "Cindy" with affection, recalling among other things that she had decided to go on a school trip to China.
She was last seen in the summer of 2010. Her mother reported her missing on September 23, 2010, after weeks without contact. Her body was found in a Prince George park on October 9, 2010, according to the Vancouver Sun and the Prince George Citizen.
The Crown linked her death to a party on September 10, 2010. Two young men from Burns Lake, one of whom had played hockey against Legebokoff, testified that they met him at a party in Prince George, used cocaine with him and went back to his apartment. Around sunrise he left, and one of them recalled him saying he was going to meet an older woman. Neither saw him come back before they drove home that afternoon. Both men were unsure of the date.
Before Legebokoff was linked to her death, police investigating the Maas and Stuchenko cases interviewed more than 140 local cab drivers in 2011, asking some for DNA samples.
Loren Donn Leslie was 15 and lived with her mother in Vanderhoof, more than 100 kilometers west of Prince George; news reports describe her as being from Fraser Lake. She was legally blind. Despite her poor vision she earned a blue belt in karate, and she loved swimming and boating. Her father called her "awesome, caring" and said she treated people with dignity, compassion and respect. He told the jury she was a "typical teenager" who was mostly happy but had some anxiety. Her mother testified that Loren had struggled with depression. Defence counsel told the jury in closing that she had come home from an 18-day hospital stay less than a week before she died.
About two weeks before her death she met a person calling himself "Cody" on a social networking site aimed at young people. On Saturday, November 27, 2010, she was exchanging text messages with him. She told her mother she was going out for coffee with a girlfriend.
That night Constable Aaron Kehler of the Fort St. James RCMP was meeting another officer, Constable Kanwalprit Sidhu, on an unrelated matter on the highway between Fort St. James and Vanderhoof. At about 9:30 p.m. Kehler saw a black pickup pull out of an unused logging road about 22 kilometers north of Vanderhoof and drive off erratically. He stopped it.
The driver was Legebokoff. Both officers testified that they saw what looked like blood on him. In the truck they found a pipe wrench and a multi-tool, both bloodied, and a jacket with blood on it. They also found a backpack with a stuffed monkey and a wallet holding a B.C. Children's Hospital identification card in the name of Loren Leslie.
Legebokoff said he and a friend had killed a deer with the pipe wrench. Kehler testified that he did not believe it. The officers arrested Legebokoff and read him his rights for a possible poaching offense, and called in a provincial conservation officer, Cameron Hill.
Kehler's computer showed an older missing-person report for Loren Leslie, and before Hill drove up the logging road Kehler told him he might find a person there. Hill testified that Legebokoff's story made no sense to him: Legebokoff claimed he had driven a short way up the road to look at a hunting spot, but the tire tracks went much farther. Hill also found it odd that Legebokoff wore shorts and running shoes in winter, and that he seemed so relaxed. Hill followed the tracks to an old gravel pit and down a ravine, where he found signs that something had been covered with snow. About 15 to 20 minutes after setting out he radioed back: "It's worst-case scenario." He had found Loren Leslie's body. Investigators concluded that she had died only hours before.
Another officer then read Legebokoff his rights in connection with a killing. Kehler testified that Legebokoff said, "I found her like that." In later police interviews he said Loren had killed herself. At trial he admitted that a version of the deer story he gave police, in which a friend had shot the animal, was "a complete fabrication."
The co-worker he was dating testified that she had left his apartment about 6:30 that evening. The next morning she found his truck gone and police at his building, and she agreed to be interviewed by the RCMP in Vanderhoof.
The RCMP announced a first-degree murder charge in Loren Leslie's death in November 2010. Legebokoff stayed in custody, and by 2011 he was being held at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre to await trial.
Behind the scenes, the North District Major Crime Unit and the Prince George RCMP opened a joint investigation called Project E-Prelude. It lasted ten months and drew on resources from police in the United States, according to the Vancouver Sun. Investigators executed search warrants at two Prince George homes linked to Legebokoff and spent weeks forensically examining his black 2004 GMC half-ton pickup. A forensic specialist from Pennsylvania examined evidence from two crime scenes.
In October 2011 police went to the correctional centre and arrested him again, on a Friday. On the following Monday, Prince George RCMP announced three new counts of first-degree murder, in the deaths of Jill Stuchenko and Cynthia Maas and the disappearance of Natasha Montgomery. He was 21. Police said they believed he had acted alone and had used social media to meet women. At a meeting with the families, he said, police had heard that "these women were all very vibrant, talented and loving." Police asked anyone with information about Legebokoff, particularly from October 2009 to November 2010, to come forward, and said the investigation was not over.
The Maas family issued a statement that began, "Murders do not just harm families." A Carrier Sekani Tribal Council chief called the charges "a good step forward." Loren Leslie's grandmother said of the other families, "I can't even imagine what they're going through."
Natasha Montgomery's remains were never located. In March 2012 her family held a healing ceremony and asked the public for help, saying that not being able to lay her to rest added to their pain. The RCMP said it had already carried out systematic searches and was identifying more areas between Prince George, Vanderhoof and Fort St. James. As the weather warmed, police asked hunters and others heading into the woods to report any remains they found. A publication ban covered the proceedings leading up to the trial, the Prince George Citizen noted at the time.
In December 2012 Legebokoff's trial lawyer, Jim Heller, asked the court to move the trial from Prince George to Vancouver. The defence relied on opinion polls suggesting that heavy local coverage, including stories that linked the case to the Highway of Tears, could prejudice jurors in the north.
Justice Glen Parrett of the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused the application. He found the defence had not shown that safeguards in jury selection could not deal with the risk of bias. He also found the defence poll flawed, and he noted that the case had drawn heavy coverage across the province, across Canada and in the United States; a defence suggestion that interest was concentrated in the region was "disingenuous at best," he wrote. He described some paragraphs of the defence application as "breathtaking in the sheer hypocrisy they represent." His written reasons, which criticized Heller, were not released until after the trial ended. That timing later became the basis of the appeal.
Proceedings set to begin on September 9, 2013, were put back a month to October 7, 2013, and the trial was delayed several times before it finally opened.
Jury selection took place on Saturday, May 31, 2014. Hundreds of potential jurors were called to the Prince George courthouse, and an outdoor farmers' market nearby was moved to make room. Fourteen jurors and two alternates were chosen. That morning Legebokoff, now 23, his head shaved and wearing a suit, pleaded not guilty to all four counts.
The trial opened on Monday, June 2, 2014, before Justice Parrett. Joseph Temple led the prosecution. It was expected to run six to eight months and to hear more than 100 witnesses. A series of admitted facts shortened it considerably. The Crown called 93 witnesses and closed its case on August 1, 2014, after which the jury had a three-week break.
The first days were taken up by the arrest. Constable Kehler described the blood on the multi-tool. Constable Sidhu described the blood he saw on Legebokoff, the jacket and the pipe wrench. Cameron Hill described the tire tracks and the search. Loren Leslie's father identified her monkey backpack, her wallet and her glasses. Under cross-examination by Heller he agreed that she had "serious anxieties" and had been in hospital for psychiatric episodes, though he did not agree that she needed to be there; the court heard that she had never been suicidal.
The Crown then turned to the three women. Former housemates described the Thanksgiving weekend of 2009 and the axe by his bed. His former girlfriend described the evening of November 27, 2010. The two Burns Lake men described the party the Crown placed on September 10, 2010. The man who had driven Natasha Montgomery around in August 2010 described the last time he saw her. A DNA analyst testified about blood samples from the apartment and the axe.
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014, Legebokoff took the stand. He said he had been "involved" in the deaths of Jill Stuchenko, Cynthia Maas and Natasha Montgomery, but that the killings were carried out by a drug dealer and two other men, whom he called only X, Y and Z. He said X killed Stuchenko over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2009 in the basement suite, shortly after he had moved to Prince George. Of Montgomery's death he said two of the men attacked her in his apartment and that he had handed one of them a kitchen knife: "I just passed him the knife." He said he was under the influence of drugs at the time. He denied killing Loren Leslie and repeated that she had taken her own life, a claim her father rejected. He refused to name X, Y or Z, saying he did not want to go to prison known as a "rat."
Under cross-examination the next day, Temple put it to him that he was the killer and that X, Y and Z were invented. "No, I did not," Legebokoff answered. Temple pointed to differences between his account and the physical evidence, including where Montgomery's blood was found and where Leslie's belongings were. He noted that Legebokoff had told police Leslie was "trying to make a run," which Temple said showed he had chased her. He asked whether the jury was really expected to believe he was so trusted by a drug dealer. Legebokoff agreed he had not told police the truth after his arrest, and that the story of a friend shooting a deer was false. In each story, Temple said, the main actor, Mr. X or the friend from the poaching story, had "vanished into the night." Justice Parrett said an application to find Legebokoff in contempt of court for refusing to name the three men would be heard at the end of the trial.
In his closing argument, Temple told jurors that the X, Y and Z accounts were "completely and utterly improbable" and "just fabrication." He said Maas's blood had not been found in the apartment, as Legebokoff's account would require. He also argued that even if the other men existed, Legebokoff would still be guilty of first-degree murder, because by his own account he knew of the plan and supplied the weapons: "you have made yourself a party to a planned and deliberate murder."
Heller asked the jury for verdicts of second-degree murder. He said Legebokoff admitted involvement in all four deaths but had not acted in a planned and deliberate way. He pointed to evidence that Stuchenko and Montgomery had drug debts, to the lack of any trace of Montgomery or Stuchenko in the truck, to a tire track at the gravel pit that did not match his client's truck, and to the lack of forensic evidence that Maas had been in the apartment. He reminded jurors of Loren Leslie's recent hospital stay, and said that Legebokoff's reaction to events was "hard to get one's mind around" but that "not everybody responds and reacts in the way you might expect."
Before the jury retired, Heller entered guilty pleas to four counts of second-degree murder. Asked to answer each original charge, Legebokoff said, "Not guilty, and I plead guilty to second-degree murder." Justice Parrett asked whether the Crown accepted the pleas. "My lord, the Crown does not consent," the prosecutor replied, and the not-guilty pleas to first-degree murder stood. The judge then finished his charge, and the jury retired.
Just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 11, 2014, the jury returned unanimous verdicts of guilty on all four counts of first-degree murder. In Canada that verdict carries an automatic life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
Outside court, Natasha Montgomery's mother said it was not over for her: "I still don't have Natasha back." She asked the public to keep watching for her daughter's remains. Montgomery's grandfather said he had broken down during the testimony about her death: "I thought I was a big tough guy, but big tough guys fall apart too." Cynthia Maas's sister, who had held an eagle feather throughout the trial, called the verdict bittersweet and thanked the Carrier Sekani First Nation and the drummers who had supported the families. "All we wanted in this system was justice," she said. She asked that the women not be dismissed: "They weren't 'just' a drug addict and they weren't 'just' a sex trade worker. They were loved. They're missed." Loren Leslie's father thanked the officer who had stopped the truck and said Legebokoff "should never walk the streets ever."
At a sentencing hearing on the Friday of verdict week, the court heard 15 victim impact statements, some read by court staff and some by relatives standing near the accused. They described families broken by grief, depression and anxiety. Some children had learned of their mothers' deaths from news reports. Several relatives had taken stress leave from work. The families asked that the women be remembered for who they were, bubbly, outgoing and devoted to their families, and not as stereotypes from the fringes of society. Loren Leslie's father spoke of being overwhelmed at her funeral; Cynthia Maas's sister spoke of her family's grief at the graveside.
Legebokoff showed no emotion. Asked if he wished to speak, he said he had already said everything he had to say in his testimony. Justice Parrett put off sentencing to the following Tuesday so he could consider the Crown's request to place Legebokoff on the national sex offender registry.
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Justice Parrett sentenced Legebokoff to life imprisonment on each count, to be served concurrently, with no eligibility for parole for 25 years. He ordered his name added to the national sex offender registry. He called it one of the most difficult cases of his career and said there was no reasonable doubt about who had committed the murders. Of the X, Y and Z account he said, "Nothing is ever his fault. There is no evidence." He said Legebokoff "lacks any shred of empathy or remorse" and "should never be allowed to walk among us again."
The judge also spoke about the wider problem of missing and murdered women in northern British Columbia. "It is a mistake, in my view, to limit the seriousness of this issue," he said, and he referred to an 84 percent cut in the budget of the RCMP's Highway of Tears task force. B.C.'s attorney general, Suzanne Anton, disputed reports that the investigation had been gutted.
Because his parole ineligibility runs from the date of his arrest, news reports said that Legebokoff would be 45 when first eligible for full parole; MyPrinceGeorgeNow gave the date as November 28, 2035. He may apply for day parole after 22 years. News reports at the sentencing said Justice Parrett told him he could apply after 15 years to have his parole ineligibility reduced under the so-called faint hope clause; whether that route is open to him was not reported.
Patrick Storey, a spokesman for the National Parole Board, said at the time that eligibility does not mean release, and that an offender who denies his crimes faces a harder case: "If you're claiming your innocence or you're saying you didn't pull the trigger, or somebody else did, then it's an issue." A lifer, he said, is "always under sentence right until the day you die." The families said they wanted Legebokoff to stay in prison for the rest of his life.
News coverage often placed the case alongside the Highway of Tears, the unsolved killings and disappearances of women, many of them Indigenous, in northern British Columbia. In 2011 the RCMP ruled out any connection between Legebokoff's crimes and Project E-Pana, its investigation of 18 murders and disappearances along Highways 16, 97 and 5 between 1969 and 2006. "You just have to look at his age in comparison to the victims," Inspector Fitzpatrick said in 2011.
In February 2015 Legebokoff appealed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal. His new lawyer, Eric Gottardi, did not challenge the conduct of the trial or the strength of the evidence; he acknowledged "overwhelming Crown evidence" and called it a "slam-dunk Crown case." His argument was that Justice Parrett's critical opinion of trial counsel, kept private until after sentencing, made the trial appear unfair. Legebokoff should have known of it before trial, Gottardi said, so that he could have chosen other lawyers. "The judge should have bent over backwards to ensure the accused had a fair trial, and he didn't," he told the court at a hearing in May 2016. Loren Leslie's father, who attended with other relatives, opposed any move of the trial: "That's the area where he did the crime, so that's the area he should be tried in."
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal on September 26, 2016, in R. v. Legebokoff, 2016 BCCA 386. Justice David Frankel wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel. He held that a judge's view that counsel acted unprofessionally does not show bias, that Legebokoff had been competently represented throughout, and that nothing suggested the judge's views had affected the trial. "The trial judge was not under a duty to express his views earlier," he wrote, and "a well-informed reasonable person's confidence in the administration of justice would not be shaken" by the delay. The court also found the trial judge's criticisms of Heller unfounded, according to the Prince George Citizen. Loren Leslie's father said, "I thought it was a waste of time and money anyway."
Gottardi filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on November 25, 2016, arguing that a judge "cannot hide concerns about a lawyer's competence, ethics or honesty" from the people before him. On February 16, 2017, the court dismissed the application without reasons. The convictions became final.
Legebokoff was held at Kent Institution, a maximum-security federal prison in Agassiz, British Columbia. On January 23, 2019, he was moved to Warkworth Institution, a medium-security prison in Trent Hills, Ontario. Natasha Montgomery's mother learned of the move from a registered letter from victim services dated January 31. She said she had been called in the past before his medical trips and other movements, and she feared he could escape and offend again. "Cody hasn't admitted to any of his crimes, he hasn't told me where the remains of my daughter are," she said. Loren Leslie's father learned of the transfer from another parent's Facebook post. "I don't think he should be able to get out of maximum security," he said.
The Correctional Service of Canada would not discuss the case, citing the Privacy Act and its case management process. A spokesperson said medium-security institutions have the same security safeguards as maximum-security ones but allow more interaction among inmates, and that a gradual and controlled release works better than holding offenders in maximum security until the end of their sentences.
The local member of Parliament, Todd Doherty of Cariboo-Prince George, raised the transfer with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale in the House of Commons and on March 18, 2019, published an open letter demanding that Legebokoff be returned to maximum security. He said two of the families had not been told of the move. Brendan Fitzpatrick, who had led the B.C. RCMP major crime section during the investigation, wrote to Doherty that the families "have barely had a chance for their grief to numb." Goodale replied that the prison was surrounded by two razor-wire fences with electronic detection, and that the government "remains focused on ensuring that our correctional system holds guilty parties accountable." A women's center at the University of Northern British Columbia circulated a letter of protest.
Doherty kept up the campaign. In 2023, after Paul Bernardo's transfer to medium security set off a national debate, he said he had raised Legebokoff's case "easily a dozen times" with the minister, and he backed Bill C-342, a private member's bill from Conservative MP Tony Baldinelli that would require offenders convicted of more than one first-degree murder to be held in maximum security. Doherty also said that Legebokoff had used his knowledge of where Natasha Montgomery's remains lie as a bargaining chip in an effort to have his sex offender designation removed; no court or correctional record confirms it. "Quite frankly, I'd just love to see him rot in maximum security," Doherty said.
In August 2023, CKPG Today reported, Legebokoff was serving his life sentences at Warkworth Institution. The Correctional Service of Canada has declined to give his location, citing the Privacy Act.
Loren Leslie's father founded the Loren Donn Leslie Foundation, which raises money for scholarships and bursaries and planned teen support workshops, peer mentoring and awareness walks, and later a youth leadership program in her name. Her mother told the Prince George Citizen that she often wondered what she could have done differently. "I just trusted her," she said. When she tried to reach out to his family, she said, she was told not to call again.
Natasha Montgomery's mother attended every day of the trial in the hope of a clue to where her daughter lay. "I feel traumatized by it all, I have many sleepless nights," she said. Cynthia Maas's sister, who also sat through the whole trial, criticized a system in which, she said, protecting the accused's right to a fair trial left witnesses bullied and families victimized again.
His own account. Legebokoff never admitted the murders. At trial he blamed three unnamed men for the deaths of the women and said Loren Leslie took her own life. The jury rejected that account, and the judge found no evidence for it. No other person was reported to have been identified or charged.
The contempt application. Justice Parrett said an application to hold Legebokoff in contempt for refusing to name X, Y and Z would be heard after the trial. Its outcome has not been reported.
The number of victims. Police asked in 2011 for information about his movements from October 2009 to November 2010 and said the investigation was not over. No further charges were laid, and no other death attributed to him by police has been reported.
Youngest serial killer. Early reports called him Canada's youngest serial killer. The CBC corrected this, noting that Peter Woodcock was younger when he was imprisoned in 1957.
Bargaining over the remains. The claim that he has tried to trade information about Natasha Montgomery's remains for a change in his status comes from MP Todd Doherty and no official record confirming it has been reported.
June 2008 to August 2009: Legebokoff lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Late August 2009: He moves to Prince George and rents a house with three people from Fort St. James.
Thanksgiving weekend, October 2009: Jill Stuchenko is killed, the Crown alleged, in the basement of that house.
October 2009: Stuchenko is reported missing on October 22; her body is found in a gravel pit outside Prince George (October 20 in Prince George Citizen trial reports; four days after the missing-person report in Canadian Press and Vancouver Sun reports).
Late August or early September 2010: Natasha Montgomery is last seen.
September 10, 2010: The party the Crown linked to Cynthia Maas's death.
September 23, 2010: Maas and Montgomery are reported missing.
October 9, 2010: Maas's body is found in a Prince George park.
November 27, 2010: Loren Leslie, 15, is killed; Constable Aaron Kehler stops Legebokoff's truck about 9:30 p.m.; a conservation officer finds her body; Legebokoff is arrested.
November 2010: Charged with first-degree murder in Loren Leslie's death.
October 2011: Arrested in custody and charged with three more counts of first-degree murder.
March 2012: Montgomery's family appeals for help; RCMP asks hunters to watch for her remains.
December 2012: Change of venue hearing; the application is later refused.
May 31, 2014: Jury selected; Legebokoff pleads not guilty.
June 2, 2014: Trial opens in Prince George.
August 1, 2014: Crown closes its case after 93 witnesses.
August 26 and 27, 2014: Legebokoff testifies and is cross-examined.
September 2014, before deliberations: Crown refuses to accept pleas to second-degree murder.
September 11, 2014: Guilty of four counts of first-degree murder.
September 2014, after the verdict: Fifteen victim impact statements.
September 16, 2014: Life sentences, no parole eligibility for 25 years; sex offender registry order.
February 2015: Appeal filed.
May 2016: Appeal argued in Vancouver.
September 26, 2016: B.C. Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal (2016 BCCA 386).
November 25, 2016: Leave application filed with the Supreme Court of Canada.
February 16, 2017: Leave to appeal refused.
January 23, 2019: Moved from Kent Institution to Warkworth Institution.
March 18, 2019: MP Todd Doherty's open letter to the public safety minister.
August 30, 2023: Reported still at Warkworth as Doherty backs Bill C-342.