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Canada’s Youngest Serial Killer - Serial Killer Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: As a hiding place. This highway is ideal.
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Speaker 2: A body might not be found ever or maybe never.
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Speaker 3: For years, Lauren was kind of a free spirit, and
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Speaker 3: we didn't worry about her when probably we should have
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Speaker 3: worried about her more.
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Speaker 4: From the very beginning, Cody starts saying things about sex
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Speaker 4: to Lauren, very very graphic things about sex. It's so
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Speaker 4: frightening to hear the story.
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Speaker 5: It appears that Cody was a proverbial taking time bomb,
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Speaker 5: just waiting to go off.
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Speaker 3: There wasn't poaching, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was murder.
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Speaker 3: You can't learn that. You have to be born that way.
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Speaker 3: You can't learn that evil.
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Speaker 6: But if one is already killed, then how many other
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Speaker 6: victims may still.
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Speaker 1: Be out there.
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Speaker 4: British Columbia is really a fascinating place and it's incredibly isolated.
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Speaker 7: We're in the middle of a sea of trees.
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Speaker 8: British Columbia is about one point seven times the size
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Speaker 8: of France.
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Speaker 4: You know how these little communities that for years didn't
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Speaker 4: have running water or update electricity.
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Speaker 2: I go back a long way and there were just
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Speaker 2: small little villages even till I was fourteen week toraveledj
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Speaker 2: toown once a week by horse, and buggy or horse
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Speaker 2: and slay. Never heard of anyone go missing like this.
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Speaker 9: Cutting through these rural communities is a highway that the
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Speaker 9: last few decades has become increasingly.
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Speaker 1: Notorious, Highway sixteen.
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Speaker 6: Between Prince George and Prince Rupery. It is seven hundred
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Speaker 6: and twenty five kilometers long.
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Speaker 4: Highway sixteen in British Columbia has a much more well
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Speaker 4: known name. It's often referred to as the Highway of Tears.
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Speaker 5: It relates back to the incredible amount of murdered and
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Speaker 5: missing women and girls that have simply just disappeared on
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Speaker 5: that highway. When these cases happen, it takes a very
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Speaker 5: It hits close to home.
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Speaker 8: Usually they're a hitch hiking and doing so at a desperation.
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Speaker 7: They really have no other form of transportation.
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Speaker 8: Can you imagine as seven and twenty kilometers stretch, there's
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Speaker 8: maybe a town every hour.
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Speaker 1: As a hiding place. This highway is ideal.
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Speaker 2: A body might not be found ever, or maybe never
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Speaker 2: for years.
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Speaker 9: Fort Saint James, a small village just off the Highway
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Speaker 9: of Tears, is home to Cody Lechebakhov. He's born in
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Speaker 9: nineteen ninety and grows up close to this infamous stretch
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Speaker 9: of road.
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Speaker 5: By all appearances, Cody came from a great family, didn't
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Speaker 5: want for much growing up, had everything, all the comforts
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Speaker 5: of home, essentially his full life ahead of them.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know him personally. I didn't know his father
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Speaker 2: or mother personally, but his grandparents I knew extremely well.
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Speaker 2: I can't say anything bad about.
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Speaker 1: My dog.
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Speaker 4: Legendbikoff was in some respects a normal kid. He was
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Speaker 4: a big kid, an early bloomer in some ways. But
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Speaker 4: one of the things that kind of stood out about
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Speaker 4: him is he loved to play hockey. But he stood
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Speaker 4: out in terms of his level of violence on the
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Speaker 4: hockey rink.
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Speaker 6: Other parents would take their children off the ice when
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Speaker 6: he was participating in hockey because of his aggressive nature.
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Speaker 6: We all can come out out and be very, very
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Speaker 6: aggressive at certain times.
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Speaker 1: The difference is are we able to.
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Speaker 6: Control our anger and not have it come out that
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Speaker 6: serious violent acts occur to other people. Here you have
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Speaker 6: someone who's a deer hunter, and he is hunting the deer,
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Speaker 6: but maims them first and then goes with his hands
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Speaker 6: to finish the deal of killing them.
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Speaker 4: This is somebody who would literally beat a deer to death.
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Speaker 5: The fact that he's a hunter doesn't surprise me, but
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Speaker 5: the fact that he took pleasure in seeing those animals suffer,
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Speaker 5: that's staggering.
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Speaker 4: Actually, it is a marker. It is a risk factor
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Speaker 4: for violence against humans, and yet in some respects it
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Speaker 4: was compartmentalized because he was very well liked and got
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Speaker 4: along and had plenty of friends.
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Speaker 2: I think the hardest part of all is anyone that
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Speaker 2: knew him never suspected for a minute that any of
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Speaker 2: this would have ever gone on.
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Speaker 9: After graduating high school, Legebokhov moves one hundred miles from
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Speaker 9: rural Fort Saint James to the city of Prince George.
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Speaker 1: My name is Todd Doherty.
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Speaker 5: I'm the Member of Parliament for Carebrew Prince George. We
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Speaker 5: have a tremendous amount of First Nations communities in and
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Speaker 5: around our area, and gradually, over time, as our forestry
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Speaker 5: industry has been decimated, we've seen a lot of economic hardship.
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Speaker 5: You've got families that are finding it harder to make
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Speaker 5: ends meet. You have substance abuse issues, you have domestic
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Speaker 5: abuse issues.
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Speaker 9: Cody gets a job as a mechanic, starts a relationship
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Speaker 9: and appears to quickly adapt to city life.
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Speaker 8: If you want to find trouble, that's not difficult to
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Speaker 8: find a Prince George.
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Speaker 7: It could be a bit of a party town.
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Speaker 8: There are certainly escort services in the city. It's not
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Speaker 8: difficult to find drugs in this town.
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Speaker 6: So imagine moving to this urban environment, this environment with
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Speaker 6: all of these different stimulus, all these different ideas, all
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Speaker 6: these different things coming at you from you coming from
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Speaker 6: a small rural environment.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot.
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Speaker 6: We can now see the potential as he's in this
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Speaker 6: urban area for him to escalate.
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Speaker 8: Cody Eligibokov seemed to like the party a lot. He
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Speaker 8: was fairly popular with the girls. He really got into
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Speaker 8: the cocaine.
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Speaker 4: I think Legibikoff he almost lived a double life. I
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Speaker 4: think you have somebody who is working at a Ford dealership,
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Speaker 4: who's got a relationship, who people see as very personable,
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Speaker 4: is likable, is funny, and then you have this other side.
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Speaker 4: It's like the dark depths of the soul that you
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Speaker 4: start seeing.
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Speaker 6: Here you have an individual who is now working, but
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Speaker 6: the cocaine addiction is there girlfriend in the middle. The
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Speaker 6: idea to juggle all of those this is more stress
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Speaker 6: on an individual. This anger this, this aggression is already there.
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Speaker 6: You have elements starting to line up now that can
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Speaker 6: lead someone to be involved in very violent activities.
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Speaker 3: My name is Doug Leslie and I am Lauren don
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Speaker 3: Leslie's father. From what I can understand, she did meet
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Speaker 3: him online and he went and.
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Speaker 7: Picked her up.
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Speaker 4: It's so frightening to hear the story.
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Speaker 5: It appears that you know Cody was a taking time bomb,
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Speaker 5: just waiting to go off.
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Speaker 9: Cody lejobock Off, now aged twenty, has a girlfriend and
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Speaker 9: is working as a mechanic. He's also hiding a cocaine addiction,
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Speaker 9: and it started chatting with the fifteen year old girl online,
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Speaker 9: Lauren Leslie.
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Speaker 2: Lauren was special from day one. As she grew, she
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Speaker 2: spent a lot of time at my house visiting. She
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Speaker 2: was a unique girl, very unique girl.
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Speaker 4: She was always awesome, very thoughtful.
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Speaker 3: She had a vision problem. She was legally blind, but
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Speaker 3: you'd really never know it by watching her because she
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Speaker 3: never let on. It never really slowed her down at all.
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Speaker 2: When she was four, she went to school with a
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Speaker 2: little boy and liked this little boy. But when this
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Speaker 2: boy was nine, he drowned in the lake. When it
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Speaker 2: came to the the funerals. She wanted to sit with
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Speaker 2: the parents, and she sat beside the mother in a
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Speaker 2: stroke her arm. And this is how Nique. She's nine
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Speaker 2: years old. This is the unique little girl.
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Speaker 4: Lauren Leslie is a very innocent fifteen year old girl.
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Speaker 4: She meets this predator on a Canadian internet site called Nexopia.
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Speaker 4: From the very beginning, it is clear that the agendas
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Speaker 4: are very, very different. From the very beginning, Cody starts
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Speaker 4: saying things about sex to Lauren, very very graphic things
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Speaker 4: about sex. You can see that this makes Lauren very
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Speaker 4: very uncomfortable. And the way she handles that in their
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Speaker 4: communication online is she tries to ignore it, and then
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Speaker 4: she tries to kind of say to him, Hey, that's
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Speaker 4: not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something different.
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Speaker 4: And you know, it's just a dramatic to see the
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Speaker 4: differences in what these two people are saying.
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Speaker 3: Well, the last time I saw her was about three
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Speaker 3: o'clock in the afternoon and she was hanging around with
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Speaker 3: friends and walking downtown.
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Speaker 4: On the night of November twenty seventh, she tells her
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Speaker 4: mom she's going to have coffee with a friend, and
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Speaker 4: she goes and she meets this person. This predator at
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Speaker 4: a school on the playground. He offers to get her
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Speaker 4: some alcohol, which you know she's much too young to
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Speaker 4: be drinking, but she finally says, okay, I'll have some
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Speaker 4: mud sliders. What is about to happen, I think is
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Speaker 4: something that's very, very scary.
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Speaker 5: There were two RCP officers, one from the Prince Hur's detachment,
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Speaker 5: one from the boundary of Detachment that we're meeting on
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Speaker 5: Highway sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Late at night.
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Speaker 5: It is amongst one of the darkest highways I've ever
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Speaker 5: been on. Just ahead of them, this truck pulls out
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Speaker 5: of a isolated logging road and at a high rate
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Speaker 5: of speed, kind of fish tailing down the road.
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Speaker 4: To his credit, this cops spidy senses just start going off,
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Speaker 4: puts his lights on, calls her back up, and pulls
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Speaker 4: over this black truck.
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Speaker 6: Think about the remoteness of the Highway of tears, but
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Speaker 6: can you imagine making a traffic stop in a remote
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Speaker 6: area like this.
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Speaker 4: The police officer comes up to the window, he's shining
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Speaker 4: his light. He looks at his credentials and he notices
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Speaker 4: that there's this kind of red smudge on this person,
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Speaker 4: the driver's chin, and it looks like his blood. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 4: his backup person comes. They start looking around and they
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Speaker 4: find blood. There's a knife in the car that's got
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Speaker 4: blood on it. There's a wrench in the car that's
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Speaker 4: got blood on it. They plum blood just about everywhere.
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Speaker 6: The first response from him is, well, I've been hunting,
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Speaker 6: been poaching.
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Speaker 1: Deer, and that's what happened.
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Speaker 6: Okay, blood on a wrench, The officer continues on.
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Speaker 4: Even though the police don't at all believe Cody's story,
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Speaker 4: they're going to check it out. They go back to
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Speaker 4: this logging road and they discover the worst case scenario.
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Speaker 4: They discover the body of a young girl who's in
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Speaker 4: the snow. She has been beaten so badly that her
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Speaker 4: face is unrecognizable. They have some clue though, in terms
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Speaker 4: of who she is, because they also had found this
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Speaker 4: really adorable monkey backpack. They find a wallet, a Polka
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Speaker 4: dot wallet, and in that has got Lauren Leslie's identification card,
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Speaker 4: her medical card.
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Speaker 3: I got a car all from the cops that I
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Speaker 3: don't know. It was probably midnight, dish. I went up
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Speaker 3: to the to the site and that when I got there,
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Speaker 3: the cops are at the end of the road.
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Speaker 2: My son Doug called me by phone quite early in
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Speaker 2: the morning to tell me what had happened. At the end.
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Speaker 2: It was devastating to hear that news.
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Speaker 5: Lauren was so young, Absolutely devastated that family, Absolutely devastated
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Speaker 5: that family in so many ways. I couldn't imagine what
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Speaker 5: Lauren's last moments were.
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Speaker 8: Late. I remember vividly that the photo that they issued
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Speaker 8: of Cody Legibokoff, he looked like an absolute trade wreck.
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Speaker 8: You could tell he did a lot of drugs.
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Speaker 3: I ended up in the police station in Vanaru for
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Speaker 3: about thirty feet from Ledgerbokoff. He was in the cell
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Speaker 3: in the next couple of rooms over, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I told the cop to let me in for five minutes,
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Speaker 3: and I found out later on and that's all he
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Speaker 3: could do is to not let me in. But it was,
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Speaker 3: you know, to have that thirty feet away from me
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Speaker 3: at that time was pretty rough.
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Speaker 4: This is somebody who was not out of control of
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Speaker 4: his life. This was somebody who had a girlfriend. This
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Speaker 4: was somebody who was holding down a job. So this
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Speaker 4: is not somebody whose life is going off the rails
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Speaker 4: because of their cocaine use. When you look at the
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Speaker 4: premeditated and calculating way that this offender, that this predator
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Speaker 4: goes online, needs somebody, and that's not the kind of
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Speaker 4: murder that you see with somebody who's psychotic because of
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Speaker 4: some dragon fueled frenzy.
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Speaker 9: Ledgebokoff is held in custody, his apartment is searched and
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Speaker 9: he swabbed for DNA as police began preparing evidence for
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Speaker 9: his trial twelve months after Lauren's death. After examining new evidence,
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Speaker 9: police contact Laurence family was shocking news.
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Speaker 3: About a year later, we got called in when they
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Speaker 3: connected the dots and found out that he was in
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Speaker 3: fact being charged with three more murders.
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Speaker 5: It's unbelievable he stumbled upon what turned out to be
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Speaker 5: Canada's youngest serial killer. You never know what's going on
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Speaker 5: in the house beside you. With this case, that's probably
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Speaker 5: one of the most terrifying things.
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Speaker 9: Cody Leedjebakhov is in custody charged with the first green
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Speaker 9: murder of fifteen year old Lauren Leslie. Police now suspects
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Speaker 9: Lauren isn't his first victim. They've been investigating the murders
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Speaker 9: and missing persons cases of three other women.
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Speaker 5: This happened over a course of a long period of time.
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Speaker 5: When you have one body turn up and then maybe
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Speaker 5: you have another body and completely unrelated, you don't believe
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Speaker 5: that you have a serial killer of walking amongst us.
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Speaker 5: And it was only after the discovery of Lauren that
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Speaker 5: investigators were they able to really piece together that, holy smokes,
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Speaker 5: we have a serial killer amongst us.
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Speaker 9: The unsolved murders and missing person cases back to over
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Speaker 9: a year before Lauren Leslie was killed. On October ninth,
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Speaker 9: two thousand and nine, local woman Jills Touchinko is reported missing.
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Speaker 8: Jill Stutchenko a thirty five year old mother of five
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Speaker 8: who was very much deep into your addictions.
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Speaker 7: She was kind of known, and I actually kind of
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Speaker 7: known and liked.
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Speaker 8: She had friends who wanted to get the word out
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Speaker 8: about her disappearance, and of course turned to us to
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Speaker 8: get that word out.
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Speaker 4: This is a woman who had had some struggles in
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Speaker 4: her life. She had a pretty significant cocaine addiction that
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Speaker 4: she was battling, but she was also the mother of
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Speaker 4: five children and she really really wanted to get her
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Speaker 4: life straightened out so she could take care of her children,
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Speaker 4: and she was just having a difficult time with it.
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Speaker 6: Stitchenko was found half buried in a gravel pit just
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Speaker 6: outside Prince George.
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Speaker 4: She had been completely mutilated. There was evidence that she
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Speaker 4: had been beaten with a blunt object, she had been stabbed,
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Speaker 4: There was evidence that she had been sexually assaulted. It
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Speaker 4: was just an absolutely horrendous crime scene.
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Speaker 8: Whenever they find a body, they do a lot of forensics.
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Speaker 8: They just gather as much evidence as they can. They'll
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Speaker 8: close the scene down for a day or so.
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Speaker 9: By comparing DNA records from Jill Stucchinko to a stain
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Speaker 9: found on Legibakhov's sofa, police now believe he is Jill's killer.
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Speaker 4: This is Cody Lejebikov's first murder, at least first confirmed murder.
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Speaker 4: Cody would often contact women who were sex workers. He
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Speaker 4: also would get them to get crack cocaine for him.
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Speaker 4: He seemed to have a pretty significant addiction around this
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Speaker 4: time to crack cocaine, and so those both may have
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Speaker 4: been in play in terms of when she came over
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Speaker 4: to his apartment. We know that she died an absolutely horrendous,
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Speaker 4: horrendous death based on autopsy results.
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Speaker 5: The first murder was probably very opportunistic and he found
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Speaker 5: that will wait a second, I got away with this.
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Speaker 5: It was easy to do and he had it in him,
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Speaker 5: and that just fueled the passion to do more.
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Speaker 9: Another vulnerable woman is reported missing from Prince George.
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Speaker 8: Natasha Montgomery was a girlfriend Quinnell, which is a small
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Speaker 8: community probably about an hour hour and a half drive
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Speaker 8: south of Prince George.
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Speaker 7: Came from a good.
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Speaker 8: Family, did a lot of figure skating as a youngster,
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Speaker 8: and sort of lost her way when she came up
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Speaker 8: to Prince George.
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Speaker 4: Natasha Montgomery was twenty three years old. She had struggled
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Speaker 4: with crack cocaine that was kind of a monkey on
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Speaker 4: her back that she had a really hard and time
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Speaker 4: getting rid of. She sometimes resorted to sex work as
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Speaker 4: a way to supplement her income. So she was really
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Speaker 4: somebody who was in a high risk category.
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Speaker 8: She was missing, and we you know, quite honestly, every
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Speaker 8: couple of weeks somebody goes missing, and more often than
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Speaker 8: not they sort of resurface.
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Speaker 7: But she hadn't resurfaced.
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Speaker 9: Natasha Montgomery is still missing and presumed dead. When Legen
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Speaker 9: balk Off is charged with Lauren's murder, police find Natasha's
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Speaker 9: DNA on Ledgenbakoff's clothing and in various places in his apartment.
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Speaker 8: They blue lighted it and there was swabs everywhere, and
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Speaker 8: it was it looked like he basically started chasing her
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Speaker 8: from his bedroom into the kitchen.
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Speaker 7: And beat her to death.
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Speaker 6: Now we have another victim that's linked to him because
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Speaker 6: of DNA evidence found in his apartment. If we have
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Speaker 6: Montgomery's body that has never been found, we just never
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Speaker 6: know how many others are out there, whether it be
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Speaker 6: on the Highway of Tears or some other place that
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Speaker 6: if one is already killed, then how many other victims
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Speaker 6: may still be out there.
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Speaker 4: There is eleven months between Cody's first murder and a
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Speaker 4: second one. Is it possible that he did other murmurders
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Speaker 4: during this time? It is. There certainly have been serial
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Speaker 4: killers who have started out slowly and then ramped up.
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Speaker 4: They did one one year, one the next year, one
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Speaker 4: six months later, and ramped up. So it's possible that
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Speaker 4: he waited for a year. But it's also possible that
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Speaker 4: there are other victims that we don't know about.
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Speaker 2: It would be horrifying for parents do not be able
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Speaker 2: to find your children, regardless of what has happened to them,
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Speaker 2: you know, to not know anything. It would be very,
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Speaker 2: very difficult.
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Speaker 8: The best way to describe hers is through her sister.
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Speaker 8: The way she described Cynthia was a very trusting, you know,
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Speaker 8: a bit of a happy It sounds like, you know,
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Speaker 8: she was quite the pleasant person.
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Speaker 4: Cynthia seemed to struggle at times with cocaine addiction and
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Speaker 4: also would engage in sex work is a way to
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Speaker 4: supplement her income. On September the tenth, two thousand, Cynthia
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Speaker 4: Moss was murdered, leaving behind one child to now be
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Speaker 4: without a mom.
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Speaker 6: Moss is found in a wooded park in Prince George.
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Speaker 9: One of Legebokov's socks is found to contain DNA matching Cynthia's.
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Speaker 9: Her DNA is also found on an axe in Ledgebahkov's bedroom.
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Speaker 6: What we see with the brutal murder of miss Moss
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Speaker 6: is just pure aggression and violence coming out. We have
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Speaker 6: seen his violence with animals and the way that he
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Speaker 6: hunts and the way he kills with his hands. We
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Speaker 6: hope that we don't see that move to a human being,
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Speaker 6: but we do with the victim of Moss.
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Speaker 4: These three victims are clearly targeted. I believe they're vulnerable
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Speaker 4: and they're individuals that Cody knows he can can take
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Speaker 4: advantage of.
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Speaker 6: Most of his victims are mothers who now leave behind
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Speaker 6: children who will never see the smile the affection of
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Speaker 6: their mother again.
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Speaker 9: Ledgibokhov arranged to meet Lauren Leslie less than three months
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Speaker 9: after murdering Cynthia Moss. Lauren had no way of knowing
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Speaker 9: that the guys she met online was already a serial killer,
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Speaker 9: because until he met Lauren, he'd gotten away with it.
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Speaker 8: I'm certain that Cody Legebokov was really counting on nobody
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Speaker 8: finding Laura Lesley's body. The way he was trying to
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Speaker 8: get away from the scene, it sounded like he had
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Speaker 8: a probably a lot of guilt on his mind, a
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Speaker 8: lot of fear.
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Speaker 5: It's challenging for those that go missing that maybe on
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Speaker 5: the street and maybe do not have ragilar content act
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Speaker 5: with loved ones. It also speaks to how uh incredibly
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Speaker 5: fortunate that that rhamp officer on the on the on
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Speaker 5: the road was, because if they hadn't caught him that night,
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Speaker 5: they likely wouldn't have caught him for a while.
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Speaker 8: The way the bodies were positioned and the injuries that
30:23
Speaker 8: they suffered, and what he did to them afterwards, you know,
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Speaker 8: it was all It was definitely the size of the pattern.
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Speaker 6: If he was not stopped, would we have the ability
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Speaker 6: to catch this individual because he is moving on from
30:42
Speaker 6: people being involved women being involved in the sex trade
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Speaker 6: to people who are not involved in the sex trade.
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Speaker 1: We often like to put our serial killers in.
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Speaker 6: A box where we can find that these similar characteristics
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Speaker 6: are telling us of giving us some sort of profile
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Speaker 6: or indication of where he she may go next. This
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Speaker 6: switch up is a difficult one to take, and thank
31:07
Speaker 6: goodness he was taken into custody.
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Speaker 3: It's bittersweet because I mean, it's terrible to have a
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Speaker 3: child gone, but that she was a catalyst to stop him,
31:29
Speaker 3: that was the good part.
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Speaker 4: One of the really impressive things about the story is
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Speaker 4: that Lauren Leslie's family has said a couple of times
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Speaker 4: that the one thing they've held on to is the
31:49
Speaker 4: fact that their daughter's murder prevented additional murders, and that
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Speaker 4: that has been somewhat comforting to them. And I am
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Speaker 4: sure that if they had not caught him at this point,
32:07
Speaker 4: he would have continued to murder until he was caught.
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Speaker 3: During court, we were pretty much all together, so many
32:25
Speaker 3: people were impacted by it.
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Speaker 8: He was living with three girls, and one of the
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Speaker 8: girls testified that she saw him his nose was bleeding
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Speaker 8: into a toilet and she said, Cody, you know, just
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Speaker 8: kind of warned him, like, you're.
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Speaker 7: Doing way too much cocaine. He was a bit of
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Speaker 7: a puzzle.
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Speaker 8: I remember during that during the trial, there was a
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Speaker 8: you know, a sex worker who supplied drugs to them,
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Speaker 8: and she said, yeah, I owe you three hundred bucks
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Speaker 8: and he said, oh, don't worry about it, you know,
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Speaker 8: I'll catch you on the rebound. I just don't quite understand.
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Speaker 8: I think it was a little bit of probably a
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Speaker 8: bit impulsive.
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Speaker 9: Friends of Jill'stachinko, Natasha Montgomery, and Cynthia Moss also testify
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Speaker 9: in court.
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Speaker 8: They really wanted to get their stories out and really.
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Speaker 7: They were scared.
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Speaker 8: They were really worried that they could be the next victim,
33:34
Speaker 8: and I think they really wanted to put them away.
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Speaker 7: Pretty much.
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Speaker 8: The first thing that the Crown prosecutor says was, we
33:42
Speaker 8: have three thousand pages of forensic evidence. You know, they
33:46
Speaker 8: weren't going to miss a beat on this. One basically said, well, uh,
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Speaker 8: these three women were in trouble with the local drug
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Speaker 8: dealers and uh, you know they wanted to get them
34:10
Speaker 8: because they owed them money.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 8: And a mister X and a mister Y and a
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Speaker 8: mister Z. Uh said, Cody, you got to help us out.
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Speaker 8: He said that he was. He was the one who
34:25
Speaker 8: handed them in the weapons. And they these characters actually
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Speaker 8: did did these three n and uh disposed of the bodies.
34:34
Speaker 8: It was it was, you know, so outrageous and so ridiculous.
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Speaker 9: Ledja Bokoff has another explanation for Lauren's death.
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Speaker 6: He claims that her death is because she brought a
34:50
Speaker 6: knife with her and self inflicted this harm on herself.
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Speaker 8: She you know, somehow escaped from the track and she
34:59
Speaker 8: was doing this to her stall, and he decided, well, okay,
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Speaker 8: she's done for I'm going to just put her out
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Speaker 8: of her messy with us ranch.
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Speaker 4: He truly seems to have a lack of understanding about
35:16
Speaker 4: normal emotions, and he also seems to have a limited
35:20
Speaker 4: ability to feel them. You know, when you hear him
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Speaker 4: talk about the murders, there's just no sense of emotion, remorse, regret, guilt,
35:29
Speaker 4: or any of the things that we would hope to see.
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Speaker 8: He was going to roll the dice and see if
35:36
Speaker 8: he could fool everybody.
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Speaker 9: The jury are considering their verdict at Legebokov's murder trial.
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Speaker 9: His defense claimed Lauren Leslie tried to take her own
35:59
Speaker 9: life and that three unnamed individuals are responsible for the
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Speaker 9: murders of Jill Stachinko, Natasha Montgomery, and Cynthia Moss.
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Speaker 6: Ledger Balkoff is convicted in September of twenty fourteen of
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Speaker 6: four counts of murder.
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Speaker 4: I think what's interesting is how rare it is for
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Speaker 4: a serial killer to start in their teens, and I
36:37
Speaker 4: think that speaks to the level of depravity to some extent.
36:43
Speaker 4: And Cody about fourteen percent of serial killers start in
36:47
Speaker 4: their teens.
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Speaker 6: Remember, the brain does not fully form until about age
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Speaker 6: twenty five, so he has the impulsivity of a teenager
36:59
Speaker 6: with the anger that's developed that usually doesn't make its
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Speaker 6: way to criminal activity of this nature until one is
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Speaker 6: in their late twenties or thirties. That shows itself in
37:11
Speaker 6: the aggressive nature of how these people were killed.
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Speaker 4: I think that we often do tend to look primarily
37:20
Speaker 4: at circumstances, trauma and those kinds of things, and I
37:23
Speaker 4: think it's easy to forget that there are people who
37:28
Speaker 4: seem to, for whatever reason biologically to seem to have
37:33
Speaker 4: something missing. And I do think that Cody is an
37:37
Speaker 4: example of that.
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Speaker 5: I would say he's a predator. He prayed on the week,
37:42
Speaker 5: he prayed on the most vulnerable, and he took full
37:45
Speaker 5: advantages of their disadvantages.
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Speaker 1: As his methods.
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Speaker 5: And modus operandi kind of evolved with their others.
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Speaker 8: What they do is they give prisoners a bit of
38:26
Speaker 8: a faint hope as a way to make them behave
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Speaker 8: themselves and kind of do the right things and you know,
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Speaker 8: not being corrigible and not make it difficult or on
38:37
Speaker 8: the staff. It gives him that a bit of incentive
38:41
Speaker 8: and keeps amount of trouble.
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Speaker 6: It seems he's following the rules, and therefore he is
38:50
Speaker 6: rewarded with being in a less secure prison. What that
38:53
Speaker 6: means more privileges, a better environment. Years is a long time.
39:02
Speaker 6: Some people become institutionalized and follow the rules and make
39:06
Speaker 6: their way toward rehabilitation. Others take the time to simply say,
39:11
Speaker 6: let me go along with this, let me play the
39:14
Speaker 6: game if you will, and do my time and then
39:17
Speaker 6: go back to whatever.
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Speaker 3: I just want him to stay in jail for the
39:38
Speaker 3: rest of his life. I'm working with MPs to try
39:43
Speaker 3: to get him back in maximum security where he belongs.
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Speaker 7: I think a lot of.
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Speaker 8: People are very angry that this has happened, just on principle,
39:54
Speaker 8: the whole turmoil that he caused these people.
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Speaker 5: I've raised this in Parliament a number of times as
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Speaker 5: Cody has gone through the system. You know, how can
40:06
Speaker 5: correct this? Canada transfer this horrific killer, Canada's youngest serial killer.
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Speaker 5: He's shown no signs of remorse, still holds the information
40:18
Speaker 5: to whereabout so one of his victims.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you speak with the.
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Speaker 5: Victims' families, it's absolutely heartbreaking and overwhelmingly the question is
40:35
Speaker 5: who fights for us?
40:37
Speaker 4: Where's our voice?
40:39
Speaker 1: You know, it's just.
40:43
Speaker 5: You can't help but get emotional and get drawn into it.
40:52
Speaker 4: We've never seen any remorse from this person. This is
40:56
Speaker 4: somebody who to this day is saying he didn't do it.
41:00
Speaker 4: He's blaming it on three other people. There's no evidence
41:04
Speaker 4: that even exist, and so when you look at risk
41:07
Speaker 4: factors for recidivism, they're all over the place. I think
41:13
Speaker 4: he has the capacity to kill again.
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Speaker 3: How many more are there actually out there that he
41:23
Speaker 3: has murdered? I don't think it's done. You can't learn that.
41:29
Speaker 3: You have to be born that way because you can't
41:32
Speaker 3: learn that evil.
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Speaker 4: I think the word psychopath gets used and overused all
41:40
Speaker 4: the time. I have not personally evaluated him, but I
41:44
Speaker 4: will tell you there is something about him I think
41:46
Speaker 4: that is very scary.
41:52
Speaker 5: We have so many people that seemingly just disappear in
41:57
Speaker 5: our neck of the woods, and there's lots of different
41:59
Speaker 5: theres as to what's happening with that. Did he use
42:05
Speaker 5: that as a cover, did that motivate him, did that
42:09
Speaker 5: fuel him to try it himself? That's something to ask
42:14
Speaker 5: Cody Lejah Balkoff, And I don't think he'll ever tell that.
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Speaker 3: Lauren was kind of a free spirit and we didn't
42:27
Speaker 3: worry about her when probably we should have worried about
42:32
Speaker 3: her more. And you know, you take it for granted
42:36
Speaker 3: that people are what you see, but they're not really.
42:43
Speaker 3: We got to pay more attention to our kids, for sure.
42:48
Speaker 2: Definitely has affected everyone around people that I never knew
42:54
Speaker 2: before that I've come in contact know about Lauren.
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Speaker 4: Certainly, it's made an impact.
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Speaker 2: What would she be doing today if she was still here,
43:08
Speaker 2: she would still be going around helping people. That's what
43:11
Speaker 2: she would be doing in some way or another. I
43:15
Speaker 2: try not to think about that. It's too much to
43:21
Speaker 2: think about it.
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Speaker 1: To do what you want me