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By Pete McIntyre
logistical reasons

Change of venue approved for Vernon murder trial

Jan 18, 2024 | 1:45 PM

The site for a Vernon murder trial has been moved.

Peter Visintainer’s jury trial will be held in Kamloops after a B.C. Supreme Court judge approved Crown counsel’s application for a change of venue on Thursday in Vernon.

“The trial was ordered moved to the Kamloops courthouse for logistical reasons to accommodate a Supreme Court jury trial in 2024,” Dan McLaughlin from the BC Prosecution Service told Vernon Matters. “As the matter remains before the court, the BCPS will have no further comment at this time.”

The start date for the trial will be set Jan. 29 in Kamloops.

Visintainer, who was born in 1961, is charged with the first-degree murder of Wolf-Ingo Rudolph Beyer whose body was found in the Six Mile Creek area near Westside Road on May 29, 2022.

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The suspect was arrested a few days later, and the charge was upgraded from second, to first-degree murder in August 2022.

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