Canada

LEGEBOKOFF
Cody Alan

Active from 2009 to 2010 in British Columbia, Canada

DID YOU KNOW...

Parole Fact

In Canada, parole allows offenders to serve their sentences in the community under strict conditions, for their entire life in the case of offenders serving a life sentence.

Interesting Fact

Legebokoff was arrested after telling police he was poaching wildlife

Check Your Fact

Legebokoff is not the youngest serial killer in Canada (that was Peter Woodcock)

THE DISPATCH

The Beginning

On November 27, 2010, rookie RCMP officer Cst. Aaron Kehler was driving on rural Highway 27. He was travelling the rarely patrolled area to return a purse to a woman who had struck a moose earlier in the evening. He spotted headlights through the treeline just off the roadway, and a pickup truck pulled out onto the highway in front of him. It didn’t slow down as it entered the highway from the snowy side road, it didn’t yield to traffic, and it sped down the highway for 10km while Cst. Kehler followed. When a second officer arrived in the area, the pickup truck finally pulled over, it was under one of the only streetlights in the area. What the officers saw was alarming.

The Murders

Jill Stacey Stuchenko

Jill Stuchenko was a 36-year-old prostitute when she met Cody Legebokoff. Her body was found on October 26, 2009 in a remote gravel pit at Foothills Boulevard and Otway Road, in Prince George, British Columbia. She had been sexually assaulted, and died of blunt force trauma. Six children were taken into custody by local authorities after her death.

Like many in the sex trade, Stuchenko reportedly had a drug problem. Sex trade advocates immediately voiced concerns that “someone is out there and the women will be targeted.”

Natasha Lynn (Tasha) Montgomery

On August 31, 2010, Natasha Lynn (Tasha) Montgomery went missing. On October 8, 2010, Prince George RCMP and Quesnel RCMP asked the public for help locating the missing woman. They repeated their appeals in trying to locate Montgomery, who lived a “high risk lifestyle”, for a number of months. Montgomery, 23 at the time of her disappearance, was never found. She was declared legally dead in 2012.

Police later came to believe, based on evidence at the scene, that she was murdered in Legebokoff’s home.

Cynthia Frances Maas

On October 9, 2010, a woman’s body was found by plain clothes officers and a police dog in a wooded area of L.C. Gunn Park, just off Highway 16 in Prince George. Police were searching the area known to be used by sex trade workers, in efforts to further various missing persons investigations. Police did not immediately identify the remains, but in news articles, they linked the disappearances of Natasha Montgomery and Cynthia Frances Maas.

On October 17, police announced the body was that of Cynthia Maas. The 35-year-old sex trade worker had been last seen on September 10. As part of the police reaction to the country’s Justice and Public Safety Ministers vowing to take action on “missing and murdered Indigenous women”, a team of between 30 and 40 investigators were assigned to Maas’s murder. After the killer’s arrest, her DNA was found in nine places on a picaroon inside Legebokoff’s apartment.

Loren Donn Leslie Killed, Legebokoff Arrested

Loren Donn Leslie, 15, was legally blind, and often used the Internet to converse. She met Legebokoff online. She texted her girlfriend that she was out “riding around in Prince [George] with Cody”, although the girlfriend later said she had never heard of him.

On November 27, 2010, two RCMP officers stopped a suspicious vehicle that had turned onto a highway from an unused forestry road. When stopped, the driver, Cody Legebokoff, explained his presence at a remote location by saying he had just poached a game animal. He had blood on his face and legs, and an open beer bottle. He was detained under the Canada Wildlife Act, and an Animal control officer was called in to track the kill spot. That officer traced the truck to the body of a teenage girl who had been murdered shortly before Legebokoff’s arrest. At the time of his arrest, Legebokoff was 20 years old.

Trial & Outcome

Legebokoff Convicted

RCMP investigated Legebokoff’s home and vehicle, and on October 18, 2011, announced he was also charged with the murders of Stuchenko, Maas and Montgomery. This was in addition to the murder of Leslie. During trial, the killer had denied all of the murders, but had admitted to being present when they died. In Leslie’s case, he claimed she hit herself in the head repeatedly with a wrench. He later said he hit her with the wrench but said she bludgeoned and stabbed herself to death with a knife. Legebokoff also said three other people were present in all the murders, but declined to say who.

On September 11, 2014, Legebokoff was found guilty of four murders and sentenced to life in prison with a chance for parole after 25 years.

Appeals

Legebokoff’s 2016 appeal was denied by the Canadian Supreme Court in 2017.

Legebokoff’s Location

At the age of 20, Legebokoff joined the ranks of some of the world’s most odious murderers. After his trial he fell quickly into semi-oblivion, but for the loved ones of the victims and a few researchers and writers who keep those victims’ stories alive. In 2019, Legebokoff was moved from a maximum security prison in B.C. to an unidentified medium security facility in Ontario. His first chance at parole is 2039.

The victims are memoralized as part of the Carrier Sekani Highway of Tears.

WHERE IT HAPPENED

An interactive map of where things happened

BOOKS

Books about or including The Killer

The Country Boy Killer: The True Story Of Serial Killer Cody Legebokoff by J.T. Hunter

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pedialaw Press (June 23, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0578711001
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578711003

He was the friendly, baby-faced Canadian boy next door. He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family. Blessed with good looks and back-woods charm, he was popular with his peers and he excelled in sports. A self-proclaimed “die hard” Calgary Flames fan, he played competitive junior hockey and competed on his high school’s snowboarding team. And he enjoyed the typical pleasures of a boy growing up in the country: camping, hunting, and fishing with family and friends.But he also enjoyed brutally murdering women, and he became one of the youngest serial killers in Canadian history.

Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder by Lee Mellor

Publisher ‏ : ‎ ReadHowYouWant (April 5, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 710 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1525237659
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1525237652

Canada is seen as a peaceful place, but this wake-up call shows us that there have been more than 60 serial killers in our history.

There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined to West Coast butcher Clifford Olson and the “Schoolgirl Murderers” Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, along with the horrific acts of pig farmer Robert Pickton. Unlike our American neighbours, Canada has been viewed as a nation untouched by the shadow of multiple murder. Then came Colonel Russell Williams and his bizarre homicides and serial home invasions, which were sensational news worldwide on the Internet and television and in scores of newspapers and magazines.

The reason for Canada’s serial killer blackout is clear: until now such information has never been compiled and presented in a single concise work. Cold North Killers is a wake-up call. This detailed and haunting account of Canada’s worst monsters analyzes their crimes, childhoods, and inevitable downfalls. It is an indispensable compendium for any true crime lover, criminologist, or law-enforcement officer.

Serial Killer Rapists: Serial Killer Quick Reference Guides #2 by Kevin Smith

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Serial Killer QRG (May 12, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 178 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1733630619
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1733630610

This book contains 266 serial killers who have been known to rape at least one victim during their acts as a serial killer. Each serial killer profile contains 30 points of data backed by our publicly accessible serial killer database. QR codes included in each profile leads the reader to the killers online profile on Killer.Cloud the serial killer database. Killer.Cloud’s data is crossed linked to other online datasets, easily referenced by short codes for readers as well as at the bottom of each serial killers online profile page.

VIDEOS & PODCASTS

Videos and podcasts about serial murderer Cody Alan Legebokoff.

True Crime Canada

Canadian True Crime Podcast

Generation Why Podcast

THE STATS

Age at which Legebokoff was arrested

Age of his youngest victim

Years before parole eligibility

Statistical table for Cody Alan Legebokoff

Killer Name	LEGEBOKOFF, Cody Alan
Gender	M
Arrest Date	November 27, 2010
Conviction Date	September 11, 2014
Sentence	Life term no parole for 25 years
Birth Location	Fort St. James, British Columbia Canada
Birth Date	January 21, 1990
Status	Alive or Unknown
School Grade	Gr 12
Job Types	Ford dealership
Labour Type	White
Killer Type	Sexual/Sadistic, Territorial
Drug Abuse	crack, cocaine
comment1	RCMP stopped killer just after killing his last victim. He said the blood belonged to a deer or grouse he poached so he was arrested under the Canada Wildlife Act
comment2	Animal control officer was called and he tracked to the last victim's body
comment3	Judge added killer to national database of sex offenders
comment4	Maas linked by DNA on a pickaroon (similar to pickaxe)
Total Dead Victims	4
Victims (Convicted)	4
Victim Gender	F
Victim Race	Indigenous, White
Victim Age	23, 35, 36, 15
Victim Type	prostitute, drug addict
Method of Killing	stomping, stabbing, blunt force
Weapon	pickaroon (similar to pickaxe)
Abduction	Yes
Sex Assault	Yes
Overkill	Yes
Body - Moved, Hidden	Yes
Body - Moved, Buried	Yes
Previous Crimes	minor

Killer Rating

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Last updated on 30 October 2022 by E. Kelly Hemingway