A jury will be selected in February to decide the fate of ex-B.C. Lions player Josh Boden, who is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Burnaby more than 10 years ago.
The body of 33-year-old Kimberly Lynn Hallgarth, the mother of a young daughter, was found in a Colborne Avenue fourplex in March 2009.
She was found with “suspicious injuries,” according to police, and the case was taken over by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
Boden had been considered a “person of interest” early on, according to police, but he was not charged until last November, when IHIT announced it had new evidence, and a charge of second-degree murder had been approved against the former CFL player.
He was arrested without incident on Nov. 2, 2018.
Boden, who has been in custody since his arrest, made a video appearance at a pretrial conference Wednesday.
Jury selection has been scheduled for Feb. 27.
