‘Evil Monster’: Man Sentenced to Life for Slayings of 4 Women in Winnipeg

Published on August 29, 2024

They were loving daughters, mothers and friends whose ambition and potential were snuffed out by a “monster.” Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki was sentenced Wednesday to four concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years in the 2022 slayings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg. Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal told a sentencing hearing he was bound by law to impose the automatic sentence after convicting Skibicki, 37, last month of four counts of first-degree murder. Relatives and supporters of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman Indigenous community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, packed the courtroom as multiple victim impact statements were read....

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