KAMLOOPS - A Crown lawyer says murder suspect Vitali Stefanski emerged shoeless from a British Columbia forest and admitted to police that he had killed his ex-wife, whose body was then found with a bloody knife that carried both their DNA.

Rigel Tessmann has told the second-degree murder trial in B.C. Supreme Court that Tatjana Stefanski’s body was found halfway down an embankment on a dirt forest road near Mable Lake on April 14, 2024.