B.C. dad to stand trial for slaying of three kids

A B.C. father accused in the deaths of his three children will stand trial for first-degree murder.

Allan Schoenborn will return to a Kamloops, B.C., courtroom Jan. 12, 2009 to fix a date for his trial for the slayings of 10-year-old Kaitlynne, eight-year-old Max and five-year-old Cordon last April.

Schoenborn's preliminary hearing was scheduled for eight days but was cut short after two days of testimony, when the defence agreed there was enough evidence to proceed to trial.

Witnesses included Kim Robinson, a local guide who found Schoenborn in the bush near Merritt, B.C., along with RCMP officers and the principal of the children's school.

A media ban prevents reporting of any testimony from the hearing.

Forty-year-old Schoenborn was found hypothermic and dehydrated in the woods in mid-April following a 10-day manhunt near Merritt.

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  Cordon, left, and Max Schoenborn are seen in this undated image taken from television.

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  Kim Robinson, a local hunter, describes how he captured Allan Dwayne Schoenborn in a wooded area on the outskirts of Merritt, B.C., on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.

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  Kim Robinson, a local hunter, describes how he captured Allan Dwayne Schoenborn in a wooded area on the outskirts of Merritt, B.C., on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.

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  Cordon, left, and Max Schoenborn are seen in this undated image taken from television.