Backwoods Murder (The Story of Cody Legebokoff): A True Crime Quickie, #6

By Kim Cresswell

Backwoods Murder - A True Crime Quickie is the sixth book in a compelling series of true crime short stories for readers who don't have time to read a full-length novel. "The Story of Cody Legebokoff" examines the horrific case of a baby-faced teenager who becomes one of Canada's youngest serial killers...and no one saw it coming.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kim Cresswell
• Release date: Apr 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781999558871

Kim Cresswell

Kim Cresswell resides in Ontario, Canada. Trained as a legal assistant, Kim has been a story-teller all her life but took many detours including; working in legal and adult education before returning to her first love, writing. Her debut romantic thriller, REFLECTION, has won numerous awards: *RomCon's 2014 Readers' Crown Finalists (Romantic Suspense) *InD'tale Magazine's Rone Award Finalist (Suspense/Thriller) *UP Authors Fiction Challenge Winner (2013) *Silicon Valley's Romance Writers of America (RWA) "Gotcha!" Romantic Suspense Winner (2004) *Honourable Mention in Calgary's Romance Writers of America (RWA) The Writer's Voice Contest (2006) Kim's short novel thriller, LETHAL JOURNEY, was a finalist in From the Heart Romance Writers (FTHRW) Golden Gate Contest (2003) and more recently won RomCon's 2014 Readers' Crown (thriller/suspense). Her action-packed thrillers have been highly praised by reviewers and readers. As one reviewer said, "Buckle up, Hang on tight!" Kim recently entered the true crime writing arena. Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie (two short stories) was published in January 2014. You can read her latest true crime stories in Serial Killer Quarterly, a new quarterly e-magazine published by Grinning Man Press.

Book preview

Chapter One

ON A FRIGID SATURDAY night, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer from Fort St. James, British Columbia, and another officer from Vanderhoof met on a dark and barren stretch of Highway 27, to exchange case notes since they jointly patrolled the area. At 9:45 p.m., the officer from Fort St. James eyed a suspicious black half-ton pickup truck speeding out from an unused logging road, a popular area for wildlife poachers. When the Mounties stopped the truck and questioned the driver, neither officer was satisfied with the young man's answers after finding blood on him, his truck, and a backpack in the shape of a monkey. The man claimed he had poached a deer. The Mounties immediately contacted a conservation officer to investigate whether the driver had been illegally hunting.

After the conservation officer arrived, he retraced the pickup truck's tire tracks along the backwoods trail a half-kilometer up the road. Expecting to find a freshly killed deer or elk, he discovered the lifeless body of a teenage girl near a gavel pit off Highway 27 between Vanderhoof and Fort St. James. The body had pants on, rolled down around the ankles with the underwear rolled down within the pants.

Investigators from the North District Major Crime Unit and Vanderhoof RCMP cordoned off the area until a thorough scene examination was completed. To preserve any possible evidence at the site, a no-fly restriction of 2000 feet was implemented for a 2-mile radius around the scene. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk with the North District Major Crimes Unit said, "The state of the young girl indicated that she had