Prince George, B.C. – Cody Alan Legebokoff , on trial for the murders of four  women, has admitted under oath that he was involved in the murders of Jill Stuchenko and Cynthia Maas,but he is not the one who actually did the killing.

In the case of Jill Stuchenko,  he told the court she  was at this Carney Street apartment along with  two men he identified only as  “X” and “Y”.  He had said he would not give their names for fear of being labelled a rat should he  face prison time.

He said they had been partying, smoking crack cocaine and that at one point in the evening, he and Jill Stuchenko had had sex.

He testified it was ‘X’ who said Jill had to be  killed because she owed someone  a lot of money. “There was a pipe beside my tool box,  I gave it to ‘X’.  He took it,  looked at me and nodded” said Legebokoff.

He told the court X then  hit Jill Stuchenko  on the head, she fell over on her side, and X hit her a “few times,  then he dropped the pipe on the ground, and continued to hit her with his hands, I thought he was choking her.”

When asked why he was  assisting X by giving him the pipe,  he responded “I wasn’t going to get in the way, I wasn’t going to stop it.”  He told the court  ‘X’ and ‘Y’ disposed of Jill’s body, while he disposed of her clothes and purse, dumping them  “in a random dumpster” near the SaveOn Foods store  at 15th and Victoria.

Legebokoff would then return to his apartment, try to clean the carpet before heading to Ft. St. James to join his family for Thanksgiving dinner “I knew what I did wasn’t right,  but there wasn’t much I could really  do.”  He told the court he was still shaken by the events, but “I tried to act like nothing happened.”

Then there was the death of Cynthia Maas.

It was  about a year later, and by this time, Legebokoff was in a  haze of cocaine and crack.

Legebokoff has told the court he looked out the window of his Liard Drive apartment to see X (his drug dealer) Y and a woman get out of  car  and he buzzed them  into the building.

This would be the first time he had  seen ‘Y” since the events with Jill Stuchenko.  When asked  if he had  any concerns about the scenario given that the last time he had seen X and Y with a woman, the woman had died,  he responded “I wasn’t thinking that at the time.”

He testified he was sitting on the couch in his apartment,  X and Cynthia Maas were in the dining room area when he  heard “a  slap,  like a crack, followed by a thud.”  He told the court he was on the edge of his seat, but ‘Y’ gestured to him to remain seated. He said his vision  was obscured “but I knew what was going on.”  He told the court  he didn’t know what  she had been hit with, but that  X “hit  her a  few times”.  When asked to describe the weapon,  Legebokoff could only say it was about a foot and a half long and thin in diameter.

X then left the apartment, and Legebokoff and “Y” were left to deal with the body.

He says ‘Y’ carried her over his shoulder,  and she was placed in the  middle seat of his pickup truck.  Together with ‘Y’  he drove his pickup truck to L.C. Gunn Park.   He says  that’s when ‘Y’ said Maas was still alive  “I reached  behind the seat and pulled out  a picaroon and passed it through the cab to “Y”. He testified he figured ‘Y’ was going to  “finish her off”  said he heard the sound of Maas being hit  three or four times, then ‘Y’ passed  the picaroon back to him and he put it back  behind the seat.  He testified  Y was moving Cynthia Maas’s body deeper into the bush and was  out of his site  for more than 5 minutes so he has no idea what might have happened  during that time.

The trial  continues.