Prince George, B.C.- The closing statements  in the trial of accused serial killer  Cody Alan Legebokoff are scheduled  to start today.

Justice Glen Parrett had advised the Jury  last week, that  closing statements could take up  the better part of this short week.  Rather than risk having his  instructions  to the jury interrupted by the weekend, he planned to have the jury return on Monday  September the 8^th  for those  instructions before the jury would retire to  deliberate a verdict in each of the four counts.

Court Sketch of Cody Legebokoff by CJ Hardeman

Legebokoff stunned the court room last week when he took to the stand to testify and  told the court he  was an accomplice in the  murders of Jill Stuchenko, Cynthia Maas and Natasha Montgomery, but  there were “three other people involved” and he named them as  X, Y and Z.

His refusal to offer the  real identities of the three  resulted in Legebokoff being cited for Criminal Contempt of Court,  a matter Justice Parrett  advised would be dealt with once the murder trial  had reached its conclusion.

Legebokoff’s testimony was , as his lawyer  James Heller  prefaced “shocking and incriminating”.  Legebokoff told the jury he  provided the pipe that was used by X to  hit Jill Stuchenko.   He said   that in the case of Cynthia Maas,  he passed the picaroon to “Y” who used  it to “finish her off”  and in the case of Natasha Lynn Montgomery,  provided the  kitchen knife used  by  “Z” to  slit  Natasha’s throat.  Each of those murders took place in his  dwelling.

He told the court  15 year old Loren Leslie had  smashed herself in the face with a pipe wrench and then stabbed herself in the throat (although he didn’t actually see her do that with  his leatherman style knife).  Although there was no  DNA to corroborate his claim, he testified he and Loren Leslie had had  consensual sex twice before she  started “flying off the handle.”

Legebokoff has been in custody since late November of 2010 when he was arrested on  Highway 27 by an RCMP Constable  who thought it odd that a truck  was  travelling towards the highway  from an abandoned logging road. He detained the driver of that pick up  truck, and within a couple of hours, the body of Loren Leslie was discovered.