WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:16.039 As a hiding place. This highway is ideal. 2 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.960 A body might not be found ever or maybe never. 3 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:27.760 For years, Lauren was kind of a free spirit, and 4 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:32.039 we didn't worry about her when probably we should have 5 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:32.960 worried about her more. 6 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:38.840 From the very beginning, Cody starts saying things about sex 7 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:44.719 to Lauren, very very graphic things about sex. It's so 8 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:49.320 frightening to hear the story. 9 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:54.200 It appears that Cody was a proverbial taking time bomb, 10 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:55.320 just waiting to go off. 11 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:05.000 There wasn't poaching, it was it was murder. You can't 12 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.079 learn that you have to be born that way. You 13 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.000 can't learn that evil. 14 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.719 And if one is already killed, then how many other 15 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:16.319 victims may still be out there. 16 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:07.480 British Columbia is really a fascinating place and it's incredibly isolated. 17 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.439 We're in the middle of a sea of trees. 18 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:19.439 British Columbia is about one point seven times the size 19 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:20.039 of France. 20 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:26.000 You know how these little communities that for years didn't 21 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.840 have running water or update electricity. 22 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.960 I go back along way and there were just small 23 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.400 little villages even till I was fourteen week traveled to 24 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.599 town once a week by horse and buggy or horse 25 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:49.240 and slay. Never heard of anyone go missing like this. 26 00:02:56.599 --> 00:03:00.159 Cutting through these rural communities is a highway that the 27 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.599 last few decades has become increasingly. 28 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:07.240 Notorious, Highway sixteen. 29 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:15.680 Between Prince George and Prince Rupery. It is seven hundred 30 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.400 and twenty five kilometers long. 31 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:27.919 Highway sixteen in British Columbia has a much more well 32 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.479 known name. It's often referred to as the Highway of Tears. 33 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:39.599 It relates back to the incredible amount of murdered and 34 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:46.039 missing women and girls that have simply just disappeared on 35 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:52.960 that highway. When these cases happen, it takes a very 36 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:55.000 It hits close to home. 37 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:02.719 Usually they're a hitch hiking and doing so at a desperation. 38 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:08.199 They really have no other form of transportation. Can you 39 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:13.639 imagine as seven and twenty kilometers stretch, there's maybe a 40 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.400 town every hour. 41 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:18.439 As a hiding place. 42 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:21.000 This highway is ideal. 43 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.480 A body might not be found ever, or maybe never 44 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:29.120 for years. 45 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.839 Fort Saint James, a small village just off the Highway 46 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:47.040 of Tears, is home to Cody Lechebakhov. He's born in 47 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:52.800 nineteen ninety and grows up close to this infamous stretch 48 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:53.199 of road. 49 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:58.839 By all appearances, Cody came from a great family, didn't 50 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:02.480 want for much growing up, had everything, all the comforts 51 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:08.800 of home, essentially his full life ahead of them. 52 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:13.600 I didn't know him personally. I didn't know his father 53 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:18.439 or mother personally, but his grandparents I knew extremely well. 54 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:20.680 I can't say anything bad about. 55 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:21.079 My dog. 56 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.360 Legendbikoff was in some respects a normal kid. He was 57 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:37.839 a big kid, an early bloomer in some ways. But 58 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:39.199 one of the things that kind of stood out about 59 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:43.319 him is he loved to play hockey. But he stood 60 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.319 out in terms of his level of violence on the 61 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:47.920 hockey rink. 62 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.439 Other parents would take their children off the ice when 63 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.680 he was participating in hockey because of his aggressive nature. 64 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.519 We all can come out out and be very very 65 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:05.680 aggressive at certain times. The difference is are we able 66 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.600 to control our anger and not have it come out 67 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:21.560 that serious violent acts occur to other people. Here you 68 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.639 have someone who's a deer hunter, and he is hunting 69 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.759 the deer, but maims them first and then goes with 70 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.800 his hands to finish the deal of killing them. 71 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.639 This is somebody who would literally beat a deer to death. 72 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.800 The fact that he's a hunter doesn't surprise me. But 73 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.079 the fact that he took pleasure in seeing those animals suffer, 74 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.120 that is that's staggering. 75 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:56.800 Actually, it is a marker. It is a risk factor 76 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:03.920 for violence against humans. And yet in some respects it 77 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.079 was compartmentalized because he was very well liked and got 78 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:08.600 along and had plenty of friends. 79 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.480 I think the hardest part of all is anyone that 80 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:17.680 knew him never suspected for a minute that any of 81 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:18.839 this would have ever gone on. 82 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.199 After graduating high school, Legenbokhov moves one hundred miles from 83 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:33.480 rural Fort Saint James to the city of Prince George. 84 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:37.079 My name is Todd Doherty. I'm the Member of Parliament 85 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:44.240 for Carebrew Prince George. We have a tremendous amount of 86 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:49.120 First Nations communities in and around our area, and gradually, 87 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:54.839 over time, as our forestry industry has been decimated, we've 88 00:07:54.879 --> 00:08:02.439 seen a lot of economic hardship. You've got families that 89 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.480 are finding it harder to make ends meet. You have 90 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:12.639 substance abuse issues, you have domestic abuse issues. 91 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:21.560 Cody gets a job as a mechanic, starts a relationship, 92 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.040 and appears to quickly adapt to city life. 93 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.040 If you want to find trouble, that's not difficult to 94 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:31.279 find a Prince George. 95 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.320 It could be a bit of a party town. 96 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:41.639 There are certainly escort services in the city. It's not 97 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.679 difficult to find drugs in this town. 98 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:50.039 So imagine moving to this urban environment, this environment with 99 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:55.320 all of these different stimulus, all these different ideas, all 100 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.279 these different things coming at you from you coming from 101 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:03.919 a small rural environment. That's a lot. We can now 102 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.759 see the potential as he's in this urban area for 103 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:08.960 him to escalate. 104 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.799 Cody eligible CoV seemed to like the party a lot. 105 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.879 He was fairly popular with the girls. He really got 106 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:17.919 into the cocaine. 107 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:22.440 I think Legibikov, he almost lived a double life. I 108 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:27.080 think you have somebody who is working at a Ford dealership, 109 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.240 who's got a relationship, who people see as very personable, 110 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:36.360 is likable, is funny, and then you have this other side. 111 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.279 It's like the dark depths of the soul that you 112 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:41.960 start seeing. 113 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:48.919 Here you have an individual who is now working, but 114 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.960 the cocaine addiction is there girlfriend in the middle. The 115 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.200 idea to juggle all of those this is more stress 116 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.879 on an individual. This anger, this this aggression is already there. 117 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.559 You have elements starting to line up now that can 118 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.279 lead someone to be involved in very violent activities. 119 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:17.960 My name is Doug Leslie and I am Lauren don 120 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:23.279 Leslie's father. From what I can understand, she did meet 121 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.840 him online and he went. 122 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:35.759 And picked her up. It's so frightening to hear the story. 123 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.919 It appears that you know Cody was a taking time bomb, 124 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:40.120 just waiting to go off. 125 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:57.519 Cody lejobock Off, now aged twenty, has a girlfriend and 126 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.879 is working as a mechanic. He's also hiding a cocaine addiction, 127 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:08.919 and it started chatting with the fifteen year old girl online, 128 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.480 Lauren Leslie. 129 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:20.360 Lauren was special from day one. As she grew, she 130 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.879 spent a lot of time at my house visiting. She 131 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.480 was a unique girl, very unique girl. 132 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.759 She was always awesome, very thoughtful. 133 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:38.000 She had a vision problem. She was legally blind, but 134 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.159 you'd really never know it by watching her because she 135 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.000 never let on. It never really slowed her down at all. 136 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.320 When she was four, she went to school with a 137 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.679 little boy and liked this little boy. But when this 138 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:59.399 boy was nine, he drowned in the lake. When it 139 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.080 came to the the funeral, she wanted to sit with 140 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:05.679 the parents, and she sat beside the mother in stroke 141 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:10.200 her arm. And this is how unique. She's nine years old. 142 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:12.440 This is the unique little girl. 143 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.399 Lauren Leslie is a very innocent fifteen year old girl. 144 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:29.039 She meets this predator on a Canadian internet site called Nexopia. 145 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:34.399 From the very beginning, it is clear that the agendas 146 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:41.679 are very, very different. From the very beginning, Cody starts 147 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.559 saying things about sex to Lauren, very very graphic things 148 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.960 about sex. You can see that this makes Lauren very 149 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:54.360 very uncomfortable. And the way she handles that in their 150 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.360 communication online is she tries to ignore it, and then 151 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.279 she tries to kind of say to him, Hey, that's 152 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.440 not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something different. 153 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.519 And you know, it's just a dramatic to see the 154 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.080 differences in what these two people are saying. 155 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.120 Well, the last time I saw her was about three 156 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:35.559 o'clock in the afternoon, and she was hanging around with 157 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:36.960 friends and walking downtown. 158 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.159 On the night of November twenty seventh, she tells her 159 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:44.399 mom she's going to have coffee with a friend, and 160 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:50.480 she goes and she meets this person, this predator, at 161 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:56.679 a school on the playground. He offers to get her 162 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.759 some alcohol, which you know she's much too young to 163 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.039 be drinking, but she finally says, okay, I'll have some 164 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:09.919 mud sliders. What is it about to happen? I think 165 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:16.639 is something that's very, very scary. 166 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.799 There were two RCP officers, one from the Prince Hur's detachment, 167 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.279 one from the boundary of Detachment that we're meeting on 168 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:30.799 Highway sixteen late at night. It is amongst one of 169 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:36.559 the darkest highways I've ever been on. Just ahead of them, 170 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:43.200 this truck pulls out of a isolated logging road and 171 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.440 at a high rate of speed, kind of fish tailing 172 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:46.000 down the road. 173 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:52.480 To his credit, this cops spidy senses just start going off, 174 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.080 puts his lights on, calls her back up, and pulls 175 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:58.919 over this black truck. 176 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:06.759 Think about the remoteness of the Highway of tears, but 177 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:10.080 can you imagine making a traffic stop in a remote 178 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:11.039 area like this. 179 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:17.960 The police officer comes up to the window, he's shining 180 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.879 his light. He looks at his credentials and he notices 181 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.320 that there's this kind of red smudge on this person, 182 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.679 the driver's chin, and it looks like his blood Meanwhile, 183 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:37.360 his backup person comes. They start looking around and they 184 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.360 find blood. There's a knife in the car that's got 185 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:42.799 blood on it, there's a wrench in the car that's 186 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:46.200 got blood on it. They plum blood just about everywhere. 187 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.799 The first response from him is, well, I've been hunting, 188 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:57.120 been poaching deer, and that's what happened. Okay, blood on 189 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.759 a wrench. The officer continues on. 190 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.480 Even though the police don't at all believe Cody's story, 191 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:17.039 they're going to check it out. They go back to 192 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:22.679 this logging road and they discover the worst case scenario. 193 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:31.000 They discover the body of a young girl who's in 194 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:36.600 the snow. She has been beaten so badly that her 195 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:43.440 face is unrecognizable. They have some clue though, in terms 196 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.840 of who she is, because they also had found this 197 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:51.039 really adorable monkey backpack. They find a wallet, a polka 198 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:56.120 dot wallet, and in that has got Lauren Leslie's identification card, 199 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:56.960 her medical card. 200 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.879 I got a car all from the cops that I 201 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:07.519 don't know. It was probably midnight, dish. I went up 202 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.200 to the to the site and that when I got there, 203 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:12.839 the cops are at the end of the road. 204 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.680 My son Doug called me by phone quite early in 205 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.720 the morning to tell me what had happened. At the end. 206 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.720 It was devastating to hear that news. 207 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:36.480 Lauren was so young, Absolutely devastated that family, Absolutely devastated 208 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:45.440 that family in so many ways. I couldn't imagine what 209 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:46.559 Lauren's last moments were. 210 00:17:46.640 --> 00:18:01.119 Late. I remember vividly that the photo that they issued 211 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:05.279 of Cody Legibokoff, he looked like an absolute trade wreck. 212 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.440 You could tell he did a lot of drugs. 213 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.279 I ended up in the police station in Vanaru for 214 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.839 about thirty feet from Ledgerbokoff. He was in the cell 215 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.559 in the next couple of rooms over, and you know, 216 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.799 I told the cop to let me in for five minutes, 217 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:28.559 and I found out later on and that's all he 218 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:32.240 could do is to not let me in. But it was, 219 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:37.640 you know, to have that thirty feet away from me 220 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.039 at that time was pretty rough. 221 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.160 This is somebody who was not out of control of 222 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:51.000 his life. This was somebody who had a girlfriend. This 223 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.640 was somebody who was holding down a job. So this 224 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.359 is not somebody whose life is going off the rails 225 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:02.279 because of their cocaine use. When you look at the 226 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:07.839 premeditated and calculating way that this offender, that this predator 227 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:15.400 goes online, needs somebody, and that's not the kind of 228 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:19.960 murder that you see with somebody who's psychotic because of 229 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.720 some dragon fueled frenzy. 230 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:30.279 Ledgebokoff is held in custody, his apartment is searched and 231 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.480 he swabbed for DNA as police began preparing evidence for 232 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:40.279 his trial twelve months after Lauren's death. After examining new evidence, 233 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:43.839 police contact Laurence family was shocking news. 234 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.440 About a year later, we got called in when they 235 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.400 connected the dots and found out that he was in 236 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.319 fact being charged with three more murders. 237 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:04.039 It's unbelievable stumbled upon what turned out to be Canada's 238 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.319 youngest serial killer. You never know what's going on in 239 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:11.480 the house beside you. With this case, that's probably one 240 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:12.759 of the most terrifying things. 241 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:27.880 Cody Leedjebakhov is in custody charged with the first green 242 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:33.279 murder of fifteen year old Lauren Leslie. Police now suspects 243 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:38.079 Lauren isn't his first victim. They've been investigating the murders 244 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.920 and missing persons cases of three other women. 245 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:47.079 This happened over a course of a long period of 246 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.160 time when you have one body turn up and then 247 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:53.960 maybe you have another body and completely unrelated. You don't 248 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:57.039 believe that you have a serial killer of walking amongst us. 249 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:03.559 And it was only after the discovery of Lauren that 250 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:10.200 investigators were they able to really piece together that, holy smokes, 251 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.000 we have a serial killer amongst us. 252 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.799 The unsolved murders and missing person cases back to over 253 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:28.960 a year before Lauren Leslie was killed. On October ninth, 254 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:34.000 two thousand and nine, local woman Jills Touchinko is reported missing. 255 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:39.000 Jill Stutchenko a thirty five year old mother of five 256 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.200 who was very much deep into your addictions. 257 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:46.200 She was kind of known and I actually kind of 258 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.039 known and liked. 259 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:49.759 She had friends who wanted to get the word out 260 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.079 about her disappearance, and of course turned to us to 261 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:54.119 get that word out. 262 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:58.880 This is a woman who had had some struggles in 263 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:05.480 her life. She had a pretty significant cocaine addiction that 264 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.640 she was battling, but she was also the mother of 265 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:13.160 five children and she really really wanted to get her 266 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.319 life straightened out so she could take care of her children, 267 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:17.200 and she was just having a difficult time with it. 268 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:31.880 Stitchenko was found half buried in a gravel pit just 269 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:33.319 outside Prince George. 270 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:40.559 She had been completely mutilated. There was evidence that she 271 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:44.319 had been beaten with a blunt object, she had been stabbed, 272 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:48.400 There was evidence that she had been sexually assaulted. It 273 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:51.839 was just an absolutely horrendous crime scene. 274 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:56.799 Whenever they find a body, they do a lot of forensics. 275 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:00.880 They just gather as much evidence as they can. They'll 276 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:06.640 close the scene down for a day or so. 277 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.559 By comparing DNA records from Jill Stucchinko to a stain 278 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:17.440 found on Legibakhov's sofa, police now believe he is Jill's killer. 279 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:24.720 This is Cody Lejebikov's first murder, at least first confirmed murder. 280 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:31.240 Cody would often contact women who were sex workers. He 281 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:35.839 also would get them to get crack cocaine for him. 282 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:38.519 He seemed to have a pretty significant addiction around this 283 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:42.400 time to crack cocaine, and so those both may have 284 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:45.200 been in play in terms of when she came over 285 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:50.599 to his apartment. We know that she died an absolutely horrendous, 286 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:54.440 horrendous death based on autopsy results. 287 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.079 The first murder was probably very opportunistic and he found 288 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:01.319 that will wait a second, I got away with this. 289 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:04.720 It was easy to do, and he had it in 290 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:09.519 him and that just fueled the passion to do more. 291 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.759 Another vulnerable woman is reported missing from Prince George. 292 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:35.000 Natasha Montgomery was a girlfriend Quinnell, which is a small 293 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:38.240 community probably about an hour hour and a half drive 294 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:40.079 south of Prince George. 295 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:42.559 Came from a good. 296 00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:46.319 Family, did a lot of figure skating as a youngster, 297 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:48.839 and sort of lost her way once she came up 298 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:49.839 to Prince George. 299 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:55.119 Natasha Montgomery was twenty three years old. She had struggled 300 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:58.680 with crack cocaine that was kind of a monkey on 301 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:01.000 her back that she had a really hard and time 302 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:05.079 getting rid of. She sometimes resorted to sex work as 303 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:07.880 a way to supplement her income, So she was really 304 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:12.079 somebody who was in a high risk category. 305 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:17.720 She was missing, and we you know, quite honestly, every 306 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.720 couple of weeks somebody goes missing, and more often than 307 00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:22.960 not they sort of resurface. 308 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:25.200 But she hadn't resurfaced. 309 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:30.160 Natasha Montgomery is still missing and presumed dead. When Legen 310 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:36.079 balk Off is charged with Lauren's murder, Police find Natasha's 311 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:40.799 DNA on Ledgenbakoff's clothing and in various places in his apartment. 312 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:47.279 They blue lighted it and there was swabs everywhere, and 313 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:51.279 it was it looked like he basically started chasing her 314 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:54.319 from his bedroom into the kitchen and beat. 315 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:54.640 Her to death. 316 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:02.119 Now we have another victim that's linked to him because 317 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:07.119 of DNA evidence found in his apartment. If we have 318 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.200 Montgomery's body that has never been found, we just never 319 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.079 know how many others are out there, whether it be 320 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:16.960 on the Highway of Tears or some other place that 321 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:20.680 if one is already killed, then how many other victims 322 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:21.799 may still be out there. 323 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:28.640 There is eleven months between Cody's first murder and a 324 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:32.599 second one. Is it possible that he did other murmurders 325 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.440 during this time? It is. There certainly have been serial 326 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:40.480 killers who have started out slowly and then ramped up. 327 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.960 They did one one year, one the next year, one 328 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:47.319 six months later, and ramped up. So it's possible that 329 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:50.839 he waited for a year. But it's also possible that 330 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.519 there are other victims that we don't know about. 331 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:58.759 It would be horrifying for parents do not be able 332 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:02.599 to find their children, regardless of what has happened to them, 333 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.400 you know, to not know anything. It would be very, 334 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.160 very difficult. 335 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:23.640 The best way to describe hers is through her sister. 336 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:30.440 The way she described Cynthia was a very trusting, you know, 337 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:35.119 a bit of a happy It sounds like, you know, 338 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:37.359 she was quite the pleasant person. 339 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:44.039 Cynthia seemed to struggle at times with cocaine addiction and 340 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:47.680 also would engage in sex work is a way to 341 00:27:47.720 --> 00:28:01.960 supplement her income. On September the tenth, two thousand, Cynthia 342 00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:05.559 Moss was murdered, leaving behind one child to now be 343 00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:09.680 without a mom. 344 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:15.279 Moss is found in a wooded park in Prince George. 345 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:20.359 One of Legebokov's socks is found to contain DNA matching Cynthia's. 346 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:25.559 Her DNA is also found on an axe in Ledgebahkov's bedroom. 347 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:29.000 What we see with the brutal murder of miss Moss 348 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:34.799 is just pure aggression and violence coming out. We have 349 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.359 seen his violence with animals and the way that he 350 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:43.880 hunts and the way he kills with his hands. We 351 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:46.839 hope that we don't see that move to a human being, 352 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:49.839 but we do with the victim of Moss. 353 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:57.079 These three victims are clearly targeted. I believe they're vulnerable, 354 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:00.920 and they're individuals that Cody knows he can hand take 355 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:01.480 advantage of. 356 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:08.319 Most of his victims are mothers who now leave behind 357 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:12.200 children who will never see the smile the affection of 358 00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:13.119 their mother again. 359 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:23.839 Ledgibokhov arranged to meet Lauren Leslie less than three months 360 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:28.240 after murdering Cynthia Moss. Lauren had no way of knowing 361 00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:31.440 that the guys she met online was already a serial killer, 362 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:35.480 because until he met Lauren, he'd gotten away with it. 363 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:40.000 I'm certain that Cody Legebokov was really counting on nobody 364 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.319 finding Laura Lesley's body. The way he was trying to 365 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:46.960 get away from the scene, it sounded like he had 366 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:49.720 a probably a lot of guilt on his mind, a 367 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:50.400 lot of fear. 368 00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.799 It's challenging for those that go missing that maybe on 369 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.240 the street and maybe do not have ragilar content act 370 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:08.880 with loved ones. It also speaks to how uh incredibly 371 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:13.200 fortunate that that rhamp officer on the on the on 372 00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:15.640 the road was, because if they hadn't caught him that night, 373 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:18.559 they likely wouldn't have caught him for a while. 374 00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:23.720 The way the bodies were positioned and the injuries that 375 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:29.440 they suffered, and what he did to them afterwards, you know, 376 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.160 it was all it was definitely the signs of the pattern. 377 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.119 If he was not stopped, would we have the ability 378 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:42.480 to catch this individual because he is moving on from 379 00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:46.000 people being involved women being involved in the sex trade 380 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:49.400 to people who are not involved in the sex trade. 381 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.240 We often like to put our serial killers in a 382 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.519 box where we can find that these similar characteristics are 383 00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:59.559 telling us of giving us some sort of profile or 384 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:04.000 indication of where he she may go next. This switch 385 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.480 up is a difficult one to take, and thank goodness 386 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:09.599 he was taken into custody. 387 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:23.599 It's bittersweet because I mean, it's terrible to have a 388 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:29.200 child gone, but that she was a catalyst to stop him, 389 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:31.160 that was the good part. 390 00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:41.000 One of the really impressive things about the story is 391 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:45.559 that Lauren Leslie's family has said a couple of times 392 00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:49.119 that the one thing they've held on to is the 393 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:55.119 fact that their daughter's murder prevented additional murders and that 394 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:58.680 that has been somewhat comforting to them. And I am 395 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:06.519 sure that if they had not caught him at this point, 396 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.240 he would have continued to murder until he was caught. 397 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:25.200 During court, we were pretty much all together, so many 398 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:26.920 people were impacted by it. 399 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:35.319 He was living with three girls, and one of the 400 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:41.680 girls testified that she saw him his nose was bleeding 401 00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.640