"I Killed Four People": Jeremy Skibicki's Police Interrogation, as Shown in Court

Name: "I Killed Four People": Jeremy Skibicki's Police Interrogation, as Shown in Court
Uploaded: 2024-05-10
Duration: 2 min 58 s
Description: Hours into his 2022 interrogation, Jeremy Skibicki told Winnipeg police he had killed four people. CBC Manitoba's report on the video, played at his 2024 trial, includes his own words about the killings.

Hours into his 2022 interrogation, Jeremy Skibicki told Winnipeg police he had killed four people. CBC Manitoba's report on the video, played at his 2024 trial, includes his own words about the killings.

Subject: Jeremy Skibicki
Recorded: about May 17, 2022
Runtime: 2:58

Content warning: Concerns the sexual assault and murder of four First Nations women and the treatment of their bodies; the accused states racist motives.

The Interview

Jeremy Skibicki was arrested in Winnipeg on May 17, 2022, after the partial remains of Rebecca Contois were found in a garbage bin in the North Kildonan area. Winnipeg Police questioned him for about 20 hours. On May 8, 2024, the video was played at his trial, and CBC News Manitoba broadcast a report on it. In the excerpts, Skibicki tells the officers, "I killed four people." He speaks about Morgan Harris's last moments, says he became overconfident, refers to "hatred" and to the "survival of my people", and says that whatever happens to him "is never going to be enough".

Historical Context

Between March and May 2022, Skibicki killed four First Nations women in Winnipeg: Morgan Beatrice Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Stacey Contois, and a woman whom police could not identify and whom community members named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe (Buffalo Woman). In March 2025 she was identified as Ashlee Shingoose, 31, of St. Theresa Point First Nation. Skibicki was charged with Contois's murder on May 18, 2022, and with the three other murders on December 1, 2022. The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were recovered from the Prairie Green landfill in 2025, after a long campaign by their families.

Circumstances of the Interview

Skibicki was tried by judge alone before Chief Justice Glenn Joyal of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba. His lawyers did not dispute that he killed the women but argued that he was not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder. The Crown argued that the killings were intentional and racially motivated. The interrogation video was played in court on May 8, 2024, and released. The CBC report, by Brittany Greenslade, runs under three minutes and includes only short excerpts of Skibicki speaking.

What the Interview Covers

The report shows Skibicki being settled in the interview room, the officers taking a watch that police later learned belonged to one of the victims, and Skibicki relaxed and at one point napping on the floor. In the excerpts he says he killed four people; the narration adds that he told police he did not know all the women's names but remembered Morgan Harris, and he is heard saying that a cigarette would be her "last smoke". He speaks of being "overconfident" by the last killing, of "hatred" as the motive for the first, and of "extreme" action being needed "for the survival of my people". The narration states that he sexually assaulted the women, killed them and disposed of their bodies.

What Makes the Recording Significant

The interrogation video records Skibicki's own account of the killings in his own voice. On July 11, 2024, Chief Justice Joyal found him guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and rejected the defense of not criminally responsible. On August 28, 2024, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 25 years.

Archival Importance

The case drew national attention in Canada to the murders of Indigenous women and to the decision not to search the landfill where two of the victims' remains had been taken. This report preserves Skibicki's own words from the video, as the public first heard them during the trial.

Important Caveats

The report is a short CBC edit of a very long interrogation; a separate text page here carries a longer typed record of the interview. The audio of Skibicki's excerpts is poor, and several of his words could not be resolved; they are marked in the transcript and should not be quoted. At the time of the report the fourth woman had not been identified; she has since been identified as Ashlee Shingoose. Skibicki's statements about his motives are his own; the court found the killings were his deliberate acts.

Narrator: These are the first few moments after Jeremy Skibicki was arrested, the early morning hours of May 17th, 2022. The 37-year-old, taken into a police interrogation room by two officers. Skibicki gets settled in. They take the watch from his wrist, a keepsake police later learned was from one of the victims.

Police Interviewer: And [unclear: "what" / "who"] is this person, then? Her name is Rebecca Contois. Okay, that's [unclear: "what" / "who"] we're talking about.

Narrator: Rebecca Contois's partial remains had been found inside a North Kildonan dumpster just days before. It led them to Skibicki and his arrest, then a 20-hour police interrogation. Police questioned him about the gruesome discovery.

Jeremy Skibicki: [unclear: "Hello, there's just a third of any"] Yeah, well, this is the nature of human beings. You know, this is how a human being wants to [unclear: "like"].

Narrator: Skibicki appears at ease, sitting back in his seat, relaxed. At one point, he lays down to nap on the floor. Hours in, he makes a shocking confession.

Jeremy Skibicki: I killed four people.

Police Interviewer: Okay.

Narrator: Skibicki has admitted to killing Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and a fourth, still unidentified woman given the name Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe [unclear: final word heard as "Iban"]. His lawyers are arguing he shouldn't be held criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.

Jeremy Skibicki: [unclear: "Camper really"], it was like a lion [inaudible] with prey itself.

Narrator: He tells police he didn't know all the victims' names, but remembered Morgan Harris and her last moments.

Jeremy Skibicki: [unclear: "It's when Shouabh sure smoke"]. Like, I wasn't even going to [inaudible]. I don't have that, but I was saying, this is going to be [unclear: "her" / "your"] last smoke, so I [unclear: "let her" / "'d better"] enjoy that.

Narrator: Skibicki sexually assaulted the women, killed them, committed vile acts to their bodies and disposed of them.

Jeremy Skibicki: I was very overconfident by the last [unclear: "thought" / "daughter"], because I was like, sure, I [unclear: "re-get away with it" / "read it away"], because the other times, like, they were like [unclear: "in and in" / "and then then"] for like four or five days.

Narrator: The Crown is arguing he was intentional with his killings and they were racially motivated.

Jeremy Skibicki: The first one, it was just kind of like, just the hatred and [unclear: "disgust" / "the stuff"]. I think that extreme, desperate [unclear: "murders" / "matters"] need to be taken for the survival of my people.

Narrator: And he tells police:

Jeremy Skibicki: I'm [unclear: "coincident guilty" / "quite so keen to be guilty"] to all of it, because it doesn't, like, what happens to me is never going to be enough.

Narrator: Brittany Greenslade, CBC News, Winnipeg.

Jeremy Skibicki: I'm one person, it doesn't matter. [unclear: "I just don't."]

Police Interviewer: I kind of get your frustration with the system and where it seems to go. [recording ends] ---