Jeremy Anthony Micheal Skibicki was born in Winnipeg in 1986 or 1987 and was thirty-five when he was arrested there in May 2022. Reporting of the case describes a history of domestic violence and of racist and violent posts online; posts on a Facebook page linked to him, dated before his arrest, were read in court. Beyond that, his background has not been set out in detail in the public record, and this entry does not fill it in.
He lived in an apartment in North Kildonan, a residential district in the north-east of the city. The four women he killed were all from Manitoba First Nations and all, at the time, using Winnipeg’s homeless shelters. He brought each of them to the apartment, sexually assaulted and killed them, dismembered the bodies and put the remains out with the household refuse. The dates below are the ones police gave as the dates on or around which each woman was killed.
The first, on or about March 15, 2022, was a woman who could not be identified for three years. Indigenous elders gave her the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, Buffalo Woman, and a buffalo headdress sat on the prosecution table throughout the trial in her place. The only physical trace of her was DNA on the cuff of a woman’s jacket, recovered after Skibicki tried to sell it on Facebook Marketplace; it matched nobody in any database. On March 26, 2025, Winnipeg police identified her as Ashlee Shingoose, thirty, of St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation, who had been reported missing from Winnipeg in March 2022. Her parents had told police for years that they believed she was connected to the case.
Morgan Beatrice Harris, thirty-nine, of Long Plain First Nation, a mother of five and a grandmother, was last seen near Main Street and Henry Avenue north of downtown on May 1, 2022, and was killed on or about that date.
Marcedes Myran, twenty-six, also of Long Plain First Nation, was killed on or about May 4, 2022. Her grandmother, Donna Bartlett, described her as happy, smiley and trusting.
Rebecca Contois, twenty-four, of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also called Crane River, and the mother of one child, was killed on May 14 or 15, 2022. She was the last, and it was her death that ended it.
On May 16, 2022 officers found partial human remains in a garbage bin in a back lane behind an apartment building in North Kildonan. They secured the Brady Road landfill, the city-run site where that building’s refuse was taken, and on the same day, police later said, the remains of Harris and Myran were carried in a separate collection to the privately operated Prairie Green landfill north of the city. On May 18 Skibicki was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Contois, and a search warrant was executed at his apartment in the same area where the bin had been found. On May 19 police confirmed the remains in the bin were hers. A search of the Brady Road landfill began on June 2 and found more of her remains, identified on June 15.
In police interviews after his arrest Skibicki admitted killing Contois and three other women. He described the killings as racially motivated and referred to white supremacist beliefs. On December 1, 2022 he was charged with three further counts of first-degree murder, for Harris, Myran and the woman then known only as Buffalo Woman. Police said they believed there could be more victims; none has been identified.
The refusal to search Prairie Green became the public centre of the case. Police said that some ten thousand loads of refuse had been dumped and compacted with clay in the cell since May 2022, and that the conditions made a search dangerous; they declined to carry one out. Protests followed in Winnipeg and in several other cities, and the question of whether to search the landfill became the defining issue of Manitoba’s 2023 provincial election, with the governing Progressive Conservatives running advertisements against a search and the New Democrats under Wab Kinew promising one. Kinew won. The province gave environmental approval on June 11, 2024 and excavation began on December 2, 2024. On February 26, 2025 the province announced that potential human remains had been found; the RCMP identified them as Harris on March 7 and Myran on March 17. The Prairie Green search ended in July 2025 with private ceremonies for both families, and the equipment moved to Brady Road to look for Ashlee Shingoose, whose remains are believed to be there. That search began in December 2025.
Skibicki pleaded not guilty to all four counts. Shortly before the trial his lawyers elected to be tried by judge alone, and the case was heard by Chief Justice Glenn Joyal of the Court of King’s Bench in the spring of 2024. The defence did not dispute that he had killed the four women; it argued that he was not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder. On July 11, 2024 Joyal rejected that argument on every count and convicted him of four counts of first-degree murder. The courtroom, full of the women’s relatives and supporters, cheered.
On August 28, 2024 he was sentenced to four concurrent life terms with no eligibility for parole for twenty-five years. Joyal noted that the sentence was the one the law required. Relatives gave statements; Morgan Harris’s daughter Elle told the court she could not condense the loss of her mother into words on a page. Skibicki was thirty-seven.
He is recorded here with four victims, all of them the subject of convictions. Police have said publicly that they suspect no further deaths, and none has been attributed to him. The case is one of the clearest recent examples in Canada of the pattern documented in the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: four women from First Nations, all vulnerable, all taken from the same few blocks of one city within two months, and one of them nameless for three years.