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00:00Lauren Leslie a bright artistic teenager with a trusting nature is heading off to meet a new
00:09friend one she's met online she tells her mom that she's going to meet a friend the last time
00:18I saw her was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and she was hanging around with friends and walking
00:24downtown and then I never thought anything of any of anything until I got a call four hours later
00:36an officer on the remote and notorious highway 16 spots a truck speeding out of control the officer
00:45calls for backup this is an officer who knows that there could be something wrong there's a knife in
00:52the car that's got blood on it there's a wrench in the car that's got blood on it my buddy and I
00:56were out in this logging road yeah we were poaching and that's why there's all this blood is this man
01:03involved in the disappearance of 15 year old Lauren Leslie you know if if there is something more to
01:10the story you might as well tell us now there's nothing I told you what happened
01:22on the edge of Canada's Pacific Coast British Columbia a wilderness of remote beauty where tiny
01:45scattered communities are separated by forests rivers and distance it's just so vast here we're in the
01:56middle of a sea of trees British Columbia is about 1.7 times the size of France there's so many logging roads in
02:10the area and that it is so vast like you can go off the highway on a logging road and connecting logging roads and
02:19probably go all the way to Vancouver without hitting a highway like it's just unbelievable and and you can go down a road for
02:2650 miles and there's nothing just think about a remote area the beautiful Canada western coast area all of that coming
02:41together where you have the ability to commit an activity a crime and maybe even get away with it
02:48there's everything you want here the little towns lots of bush just about anything you want or sometimes
02:59what you don't want my name is Doug Leslie and I am Lauren Don Leslie's father
03:08Lauren Doug's daughter was born in 1995 and spends her childhood five miles from the tiny town of
03:23Vanderhoof happy close to nature we lived on the lake most of the time and kids loved the lake and you know
03:35lots of swimming and fishing and stuff it's a great place to live she could swim like a fish and she
03:45could see under water but she couldn't see above water so she spent lots of time in the lake she had a
03:53vision problem she was legally blind but you'd really never know it by watching her because she never let
04:01on and I never really slowed her down at all she would help other people even in school doing stuff
04:08when she was had books with great big printing on it so she could read it she was always awesome very
04:17thoughtful she you know right from a little kid she would do anything for anybody well Lauren was special
04:26from day one when she was four she went to school with a little boy and other little kids and and like
04:36this little boy and especially after four they never went to school together again but when this boy was
04:45nine he drowned in the lake and right away Lauren wanted her dad to take her to see the mother and Doug did
04:55and he she sat beside the mother and stroked her arm and talked to her when it came to the day of the
05:02funeral she wanted to sit with the parents it gives you an idea of the feeling the feelings she had for
05:09other people she was kind of a free spirit and we didn't worry about her when probably we should have
05:20worried about her more
05:25growing up in a remote part of Canada Lauren like many others turns to the internet to meet new people
05:45that's where she connects with Cody Ledger Bokoff a 20 year old stranger from a nearby town a familiar
05:56face locally he plays junior ice hockey and is seen as confident and sociable by 2010 he's living in
06:04Prince George working as a mechanic at a car dealership by all appearances Cody came from a great family
06:11um uh didn't didn't want for much growing up had everything all the comforts of home came from a great family
06:21I didn't know him personally I didn't know his father or mother personally but his grandparents I knew
06:30extremely well and grew up with his grandfather and very fine people can't say anything bad about them at all
06:40one of her friends got her interest in some dating site we didn't know anything about it was a teenage
06:49thing and this so that's where she met him Lauren is very interested maybe in you know in meeting a boy
06:57she's kind of at that age that does not seem to be at all what Cody Lebedjikoff is interested in at all
07:10you can see this just by the varying agendas of their texts and emails back and forth to each other
07:19um from the very beginning um Cody starts saying things about sex to Lauren very very graphic things
07:27about sex you know he's talking in a way to kind of degrading to her and you can see that this makes
07:35Lauren very very uncomfortable and the way she handles that in their communication online is she
07:42tries to ignore it um that's something that she tries to do and then she tries to kind of say to
07:46him hey that's not what I'm looking for even though some of the messages make her feel uncomfortable
07:53Lauren keeps the conversation going she's trying to figure out you know how to have relationships
08:00and so what she's doing is she's meeting somebody that she thinks is safe online which is he's anything
08:06but safe
08:07Prince George the regional center of British Columbia an hour's drive away from Lauren's home near Vanderhoof
08:22the two are connected by Highway 16 a road that cuts through dense forest and links the two isolated
08:32worlds well Prince George is quite a large place people come from uh different highways into Prince George
08:40it's a major hub
08:42if you want to find trouble it's not difficult to find a Prince George it could be a bit of a party
08:51town there are certainly escort services in in the city and we have lost a lot of young people
09:02particularly with overdosing with the bad drugs they call them well it certainly has mushroomed since my
09:09day we had none we had no drugs or something a doctor gave you alcohol wasn't accessed easily and no
09:19one had the money to buy it anyway when we were growing up so we didn't have those two items to cause us
09:26trouble growing up now it's another story we drugs are very prevalent
09:39as evening falls in Vanderhoof Lauren Leslie sets off to see the man she's met online 20-year-old Cody
09:52Ledger Bokoff will it be the last time that her friends and family hear from her she tells her mom
09:59she's going to have coffee with a friend and she goes and she meets this person at a school on the playground
10:08well the last time I saw her was about three o'clock in the afternoon and she was hanging around with
10:17friends and walking downtown I never thought anything of any of anything until I got a call
10:25Lauren Leslie has made plans to meet someone a 20-year-old man she's only ever spoken to online
10:42his name is Cody Ledger Bokoff in a remote corner of British Columbia he's just another young man
10:50living in a small town Ledger Bokoff was in some respects a normal kid very athletic and well liked
10:58by his peers but one of the things that kind of stood out about him is he loved to play hockey
11:03of course the hockey is a pretty aggressive sport but he stood out in terms of his level of violence
11:12on the hockey rink I was talking to one woman in Fraser Lake whose daughter played hockey against
11:24Cody and she said that they wouldn't put the girls on the ice when he was on because he was too violent
11:31outwardly stable a job a girlfriend a routine privately Ledger Bokoff begins using cocaine
11:41Cody Ledger Bokoff seemed to like the party a lot he was fairly popular with the girls he really got
11:48into the cocaine there's no doubt that Cody Ledger Bokoff had a cocaine addiction and we know that crack
12:03cocaine can be a disinhibitor in terms of behavior as can many drugs
12:09this was somebody who had a girlfriend a steady girlfriend who had no idea that he was abusing
12:19cocaine this was somebody who was holding down a job this was somebody whose family had no idea
12:25so this is not somebody whose life is going off the rails because of their cocaine use
12:32but there's something else something hidden beneath the surface of Cody Ledger Bokoff's life
12:38it's so frightening to hear this story here you have someone who's a deer hunter and he is hunting the
12:48deer but mains them first and then goes with his hands to finish the deal of killing them
12:55I mean our region is a hunting and fishing region we all pretty much grew up with either wild game or
13:03fish you know in our freezers so the fact that he's a hunter doesn't surprise me but the fact that he took
13:13pleasure in seeing those animals suffer that is that's staggering actually this is somebody who would
13:22literally beat a deer to death animal cruelty is a serious crime a very serious crime and not only is
13:33it serious because of the pain inflicted upon an innocent animal but it is a marker it is a risk factor
13:42for violence against humans one of his hobbies was going out and winging a deer and then beating it to
13:51death with a club well that's pretty harsh
13:55typical young guy in his early 20s by day you know holding down a steady job Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
14:06by night you know puts on his killing shorts and does his crack cocaine and goes out and finds the victim
14:15it appears that you know Cody was a proverbial ticking time bomb just waiting to go off
14:23unbeknownst to her family 15-year-old Lauren has agreed to meet Ledger Bokov at a school playground in Vanderoove
14:53he offers to get her some alcohol which you know she's much too young to be drinking
14:59but she finally says okay I'll have some mudsliders
15:04it's been hours since anyone has heard from Lauren Leslie
15:1612 miles away two police officers are about to come across a gruesome discovery on the infamous highway 16
15:26there were two officers one from the Prince George detachment one from the Vanderoove detachment that
15:33were meeting on highway 16 late at night and if you ever be in on highway 16 it is amongst one of the
15:42darkest highways I've ever been on there's no light very dark and the snow well it's there would be
15:54probably a foot or so of snow at that time
15:56highway 16 in British Columbia has a much more well-known name it's often referred to as the highway of tears
16:09and it came to be known by its name in acknowledgement of the number of women who've gone missing and
16:18murdered over the years there are a tremendous amount of unsolved disappearances off of the highway of tears
16:29quite frankly it's not difficult to dump a body up here
16:36you can walk maybe 20 feet off the road and you're into thick bush in in some areas
16:46returning from an earlier accident the two officers happen to be passing along this remote stretch
17:03of highway 16 a place where no one's usually seen after dark
17:07the end of November above 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening theoretically there wouldn't be anybody on that highway
17:21just ahead of them you know 100 yards 100 feet ahead of them this truck pulls out of a isolated logging road
17:28at a high rate of speed kind of fish tailing down the road
17:31there is a new cop
17:39only been on his position for about a year who notices it's pitch black dark it's freezing cold
17:46there's hardly anybody around and yet here's this truck that is literally peeling out so fast from this logging road
17:53that his truck fish tails and he kind of takes off
17:57to his credit this cop's spidey senses just start going off
18:06and he thinks you know what possible reason would there be
18:11it's you know it's dark it's it's cold
18:13so he just followed him and then he followed him at 115 kilometers an hour for 10 miles
18:22to stop him
18:26this isn't any regular traffic stop this is an officer who knows that there could be something wrong
18:37the officer calls for backup he stops him and he finds hmm the individual driving the car
18:49with a sweatshirt on and shorts unusual with it
18:53being so cold at this time of year
18:57he's shining his light he looks at his credentials
19:02and he notices that there's this kind of red smudge on this person the driver's chin
19:10and it looks like his blood and he becomes a little bit concerned about this
19:16meanwhile his backup person comes
19:18comes and is there with him and they are both kind of thinking this is not right
19:24there's also a knife in the car that's got blood on it
19:29officer seized his wrench with blood on it
19:40it's just past midnight
19:51police have pulled over a speeding truck that came out of the woods near vanderhoof
19:56in british columbia canada
19:58inside they have found blood alcohol and a pipe wrench
20:03the driver of the truck 20 year old cody ledger bockhoff the officers follow the tracks back up the logging road
20:11they find blood just about everywhere and
20:15you know of course their first thought i would imagine is this must be some animal
20:19prop thing this must be poaching there's some explanation for this and it's not good
20:24but we don't know what it is
20:25they're talking to cody but the story he starts telling just doesn't make any sense you know he
20:33starts telling them um i think that he killed a bird at first and they're not buying this
20:40there's way too much blood for there to be a bird and he then changes his story okay oh yeah i forgot i
20:47forgot that there also was a deer the first response from him is well i've been
20:55hunting been poaching deer and that's what happened okay blood on a wrench
21:01officers continue to question cody ledger bockhoff
21:06why would you shoot something and dump it
21:13like now that you're kind of caught i don't know it just doesn't seem really that right anymore does it
21:20you know if if there is something more to the story yet you might as well tell us now because
21:26there's nothing i told you what happened well it just seems kind of weird
21:30we shot the deer we bludgeoned the deer to death
21:34and now we move the deer you know anybody who knows anything about hunting would know that this
21:39makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and so at this point uh law enforcement they are at full alert
21:49they go back to this logging road
21:52they discover the body of a young girl who's in the snow
22:07she has been beaten so badly that her face is unrecognizable
22:14they have some clue though in terms of who she is because
22:24when they were doing the search of the truck not only did they find all these pools of blood
22:29they also had found this really adorable monkey backpack so when they look inside this backpack
22:37they found they find a wallet a polka dot wallet and in that has got lauren leslie's identification
22:43card her medical card and so when they find this body they suspect that it is this young girl who's 15 years
22:52old i got a call from the cops at i don't know it was probably midnight ish to see if lauren was home
23:07and uh she was staying with her mother at the time i said what's going on and they said well if lauren's
23:14home somebody's using her id so i said well i i want to know what's going on and they couldn't tell me
23:21right then they were going to get back to me and they didn't so i phoned dispatch and they told me
23:26that they were up on the highway somewhere so i went and looked for them and found them and and uh
23:33that was that was it
23:40i went up to the to the site and that when i got there the cops were at the end of the road and they
23:55just told me they were investigating a homicide and they wanted me in vanderhoof so they we went to
24:00banderhoof and and i had to wait whenever they find a body they do a lot of forensics they they just
24:15gather as much evidence as they can they'll close the scene down for a day or so
24:20my son doug called me by phone quite early in the morning to tell me what had happened
24:30it and it was devastating to hear that news i couldn't imagine um what lauren's last moments were late
24:40we don't know everything that happens from this point what we do know is that this child who was
24:51alive and with her mother several hours before that is now dead lying in a pile of snow with her face
25:00essentially unrecognizable it is sickening to think of this innocent 15 year old girl who goes out to meet
25:08somebody that she's very clear she just wants to hang out with and she is brutally raped and bludgeoned
25:17and essentially just obliterated
25:29um
25:39the time now is 001 5 hours on the 28th of uh november 2010
25:51Ben, I'm arresting you for the murder of Lauren Dawn Tolles.
25:57I did not murder anybody.
26:00I don't know why I'm in here.
26:02I told you, you're under arrest for murder.
26:04I did not murder anybody.
26:05I want to call my dad.
26:07You have the right to call a lawyer right now.
26:09How old are you?
26:10I want to call my dad.
26:16There was, I don't know how many cops,
26:18hundreds of them that were involved in the case
26:23to find out what went on and what was going on
26:26and charged him with murder because it wasn't poaching.
26:31It was murder.
26:38I ended up about 30 feet from Lejibokov.
26:40He was in the cell in the next couple of rooms over
26:44and, you know, I told the cop to let me in for five minutes
26:49and I found out later on and that's all he could do
26:53to not let me in.
26:54But it was, you know, to have that 30 feet away from me
27:01at that time was pretty rough.
27:04So he has just brutally murdered and sexually assaulted Lauren Leslie.
27:15I think the hardest part of all is anyone that knew him
27:19never suspected for a minute that any of this would have ever gone on.
27:25Faced with the discovery of the body and other evidence,
27:31Cody Lejibokov changes his story.
27:34He now says he was on his way to visit his sick grandfather
27:37and simply followed blood-stained tracks.
27:40When you started your story for me was you were driving your truck, right?
27:46Uh-huh.
27:47And it's a GMC pickup truck, right?
27:50And you're going home.
27:51So he told me that there was, when you got there,
27:54he said you saw quad trucks.
27:57I've seen, like, marks all over the place.
28:01And blood and these things.
28:06And then just a little bit off those kind of drag marks.
28:13Okay.
28:14There was that.
28:15There was the bag, wrench, knife.
28:19Okay.
28:20So let me see if I get this straight.
28:22I see you coming.
28:23You're in your truck.
28:24You get out.
28:25Where do you go?
28:26And then he walked up and seen her.
28:31And kind of rolled her over a bit.
28:35And seen James' dad a little bit.
28:38It was dark and her face was dark and light.
28:42And it was just, like, disgusting.
28:45And I got the hell out of there as fast as I could.
28:49Okay.
28:50Because I was scared.
28:52I don't need to be mixed up in something like this.
28:55Yeah, that's the story.
28:59Do you know who this person was?
29:01No.
29:02Like, have you ever met, like, do you think you've ever met this person before?
29:05No.
29:06So you don't recognize him?
29:08No.
29:09So what were the things that you grabbed?
29:10I don't know.
29:11I just picked him up and threw him in my truck.
29:14Like, will I be able to go home tonight?
29:16No.
29:17Because, again, you were at the scene of a murder with a dead girl.
29:20So you won't be dead.
29:21Under further questioning, Lejibokov shifts his version of events once more, admitting,
29:30for the first time, that he did know Lauren.
29:34He claims that meeting with Leslie, that her death is because she brought a knife with her
29:44and has inflicted this harm on herself.
29:47She was having a meltdown and decided to start beating herself with a wrench and stabbing herself
29:56and just kept going at it.
29:59And she, you know, somehow escaped from the truck and she was doing this to herself.
30:05And, uh, he decided, well, okay, she's done for.
30:09I'm gonna just put her out of her messy with this wrench.
30:17When you look at the premeditated and calculating way that this offender, that this predator,
30:26goes online, meets somebody, establishes somewhat of a relationship with her,
30:33goes and picks her up, knowing full well what he's gonna do.
30:37He's got tools in his car, murders her, and then attempts to claim that she committed suicide,
30:47essentially by beating herself to death with a wrench and then slitting her own throat.
30:52It's just, it's, I can't think of many murders that match that level of callousness.
31:03In British Columbia, Cody Ledjebokov is under arrest.
31:17Suspected of murdering 15-year-old Lauren Leslie on a remote logging road off Highway 16.
31:24He denies the charge, insisting Lauren took her own life.
31:29But as investigators searches home, what they uncover suggests Lauren may not have been his only victim.
31:36I'm certain that Cody Ledjebokov was really counting on nobody finding Lauren Leslie's body.
31:42And it was only after the discovery of Lauren that investigators, were they able to really piece together that,
31:56holy smokes, we have a serial killer amongst us.
32:01The DNA trial leads to other unsolved cases.
32:15A clear pattern is emerging.
32:17What we see from most of the victims is they're involved in sex trade work, and they're seen as the disenfranchised.
32:28So what we know is that Cody would often contact women who were sex workers.
32:36He also would get them to get crack cocaine for him.
32:41He seemed to have a pretty significant addiction around this time to crack cocaine.
33:08Stachenko was found half-buried in a gravel pit.
33:13The way her body was found, it was found by a guy who likes to kind of walk around picking up pot bottles
33:23and taking them back to recycling for loose change.
33:27He's one of these guys who hates being inside and just loves walking around.
33:33And he knows where all the bush parties are.
33:37So he was checking out one of the sites for the bush parties in a gravel pit.
33:42And, you know, there she was. There he found her.
33:48She had been completely annihilated.
33:53There was evidence that she had been beaten with a blunt object.
33:57She had been stabbed.
33:59There was evidence that she had been sexually assaulted.
34:03It was just an absolutely horrendous crime scene.
34:10Natasha Montgomery, 23 years old, last seen in Prince George.
34:30Within weeks, she's listed as a missing person.
34:35Natasha Montgomery was a girl from Cornell, which is a small community, probably about an hour and a half drive south of Prince George.
34:45It sounds like, you know, came from a good family.
34:50Did a lot of figure skating as a youngster and, you know, had a lot of interests.
34:56It sort of lost her way when she came up to Prince George.
35:01She had also struggled at times, you know, in terms of her life and her life circumstances.
35:08She had struggled with crack cocaine.
35:11That was kind of a monkey on her back that she had a really hard time getting rid of.
35:16She sometimes resorted to sex work as a way to supplement her income.
35:21So she was really somebody who was in a high risk category.
35:28Quite honestly, every couple of weeks, somebody goes missing and more often than not, they sort of resurface.
35:35But she hadn't resurfaced.
35:39Her remains had never been found.
35:42They were able to get DNA evidence, probably blood samples from her parents.
35:47And they were able to match that with what they found in the apartment.
35:54It looked like he basically started chasing her from his bedroom into the kitchen and beat her to death.
36:04Cynthia Mars is 35, a mother.
36:29She disappears without warning in the autumn of 2010.
36:33Her young child is left behind and a police fire is opened.
36:38Probably the best way to describe her is through her sister.
36:45And the way she describes Cynthia was very trusting, you know, a bit of a hippie.
36:54I know she was kind of well-liked amongst the street community.
37:03Cynthia seemed to struggle at times with cocaine addiction and also would engage in sex work as a way to supplement her income.
37:13On September the 10th, 2010, Cynthia Moss was murdered, leaving behind one child to now be without a mom.
37:22Moss is found in a wooded park in Prince George.
37:30They were young girls that he took advantage of and killed.
37:36I mean, this guy was a sexual predator, basically.
37:41Most of his victims are mothers who now leave behind children who will never see the smile, the affection of their mother again.
37:51Doug Leslie has lived a year without his daughter.
38:12Then comes a call from the police.
38:17We got called in when they connected the dots and found out that he was, in fact, being charged with three more murders.
38:28Four names, Lauren Leslie, Jill Stachenko, Natasha Montgomery, Cynthia Mars, all gone.
38:42And in court, Cody Lejibokov denies killing any of them.
38:46At trial, Lejibokov insists Lauren Leslie died by suicide.
39:04For the other three victims, he blames a trio of unnamed men, men he refuses to identify.
39:10He basically said, well, these three women were in trouble with the local drug dealers and, you know, they wanted to get them because they owed them money.
39:24And a Mr. X and a Mr. Y and a Mr. Z said, Cody, you got to help us out.
39:32Um, so I, you know, he basically, he, he said that he was the, he was the one who handed him the weapons.
39:39And they, these characters actually did, did these three in and, uh, uh, disposed of the bodies.
39:48It was, it was, you know, so outrageous and so ridiculous.
39:53He truly seems to have a lack of understanding about normal emotions.
40:00And he also seems to have a limited ability to feel them.
40:04You know, when you hear him talk about the murders, there's just no sense of emotion, remorse, regret, guilt, or any of the things that we would hope to see.
40:14At just 24, Cody Lejibakov is found guilty of four counts of murder.
40:33Canada's youngest serial killer is sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
40:42I think Lejibakov literally compartmentalized his life.
40:48He, he almost lived a double life, I think.
40:51You have somebody who is working at a Ford dealership, who's got a relationship, who people see as very personable, as likable, as funny.
41:00And then you have this other side that is, it's like a different person.
41:07It's like the, the dark depths of the soul that you start seeing.
41:12And his ability to, to just compartmentalize is, is, is truly astounding, I think.
41:19I would say he's a predator.
41:25He preyed on the weak, he preyed on the, the most vulnerable, and he took full advantages of their disadvantages.
41:32The fact that he, he was walking amongst us, um, is terrifying.
41:37Cody beat, beat Lauren, uh, to death.
41:42And Lauren was so young, innocent, um, naive, uh, perhaps.
41:48That's probably what led her to, you know, falling prey to this, uh, this monster.
41:55I try not to think about that.
42:01It, it's too, too much to think about.
42:06Definitely has affected everyone around.
42:10Uh, people that I never knew before, that I've come in contact, know about Lauren.
42:18And know, know about what happened.
42:20Um, certainly it's made an impact.
42:23If he was not stopped by the police, if he was not arrested, taken into custody, would we have the ability to catch this individual?
42:35Because he is moving on from people being involved, women being involved in the sex trade, to people who perhaps are not involved in the sex trade.
42:44One of the really impressive things about this story is that Lauren Leslie's family has said a couple of times that the one thing they've held onto is the fact that their daughter's murder prevented additional murders.
43:10And that, that has been somewhat comforting to them.
43:13And I am 100% sure that if they had not caught him at this point, he would have continued to murder until he was caught.
43:25It's bittersweet because, I mean, it's terrible to have a child gone, but that she was a catalyst to stop him. That was the good part.
43:43That's the good part.
43:44That's the good part.
43:45That's the good part.
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