B.C. Supreme courtroom in Vernon (file photo/Vernon Matters Staff)

By Pete McIntyre

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Ten weeks of court time set for Vernon murder case

Mar 4, 2024 | 4:00 PM

A trial into a 2022 Vernon murder investigation will be held in the summer of 2025.

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

Visintainer, born in 1961, was arrested a few days later, and was initially charged with second degree murder, but that was upgraded in August 2022 with the Crown alledging the death was “planned and deliberate.”

In B.C. Supreme Court in Vernon on Monday, March 4, Crown lawyer Margaret Cissell told Justice Steven Wilson, four weeks of voir dire hearings are expected before the trial begins to allow lawyers to argue over the admissibility of Crown evidence.

Those hearings will begin the week of May 27, 2024 in Vernon, then in Kamloops the week of June 3, and again in Vernon for the weeks of June 24 and July 2.

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Cissell said the trial, featuring a judge and jury, is expected to take six weeks, and will start July 21, 2025 in Vernon.

All those dates were approved by Justice Wilson.