Mountie says ‘dishevelled’ B.C. murder suspect confessed, said he’d attempted suicide
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A Mountie has testified that a “very dishevelled” man later identified as murder suspect Vitali Stefanski appeared by a British Columbia roadside as his bloodstained car was being towed away, telling officers he’d murdered his ex-wife and had tried to kill himself.
Const. Neil Horne told the jury in Stefanski’s second-degree murder trial in Kamloops that he was surprised by the man, who had messy hair and was shoeless with his toes poking out of his socks when he was seen by two officers who were trailing behind a tow truck heading back to Lumby, B.C.
Horne says the man spoke unprompted and in a matter-of-fact manner on the morning of April 14, 2024, as he confessed to the killing, gesturing to indicate his ex-wife Tatjana Stefanski’s body was not nearby but down the forest road.
He says Vitali Stefanski showed the officers a “one-inch incision” to his abdomen and revealed a knife before placing it on the ground in front of the officers.
