Jason Gaudreault, whose partner Tatjana Stefanski was found dead on April 14, 2024, after disappearing a day earlier, shows a photograph of her on his phone, in Lumby, B.C., on Monday, May 13, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Ex-husband pleads not guilty in 2024 killing of Tatjana Stefanski in rural B.C.
May 25, 2026 | 2:00 AM
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KAMLOOPS — The ex-husband of Tatjana Stefanski, whose body was found in rural B.C. two years ago, has pleaded not guilty to murdering her.
Vitali Stefanski made the plea in front of potential jurors at the B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops, where he was dressed in a dark suit and white dress shirt and faced the judge from a Plexiglas-enclosed defendant’s box.
The hearing adjourned after jury selection until Tuesday in a trial expected to last about five weeks.
Forty-four-year-old Tatjana Stefanski was last seen on April 13, 2024, at a property in the village of Lumby, about 25 kilometres east of Vernon in the B.C. Interior.
