Utoo Radio with Other News Sources, May 8, 2024 Prosecutors have accused Jeremy Skibicki of preying on vulnerable Indigenous women at Winnipeg homeless shelters before killing four in 2022 and throwing their remains in the garbage.

Skibicki is accused of four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three First Nations women—RRebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, and Marcedes Myran—aas well as the death of an as-yet unidentified woman named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders.

The Crown is arguing that Skibicki found the women at homeless shelters and invited them back to his apartment, where he assaulted, choked, smothered, or drowned them in a bathtub before engaging in vile sexual acts with their bodies and "disposed of the women as though they were garbage."

The Crown expects that the evidence will show that Skibicki, acting out of hatred, carefully calculated and considered how to kill the victims and then did just what he set out to do.

Skibicki was initially arrested in May 2022 in connection with the death of Contois and later charged in connection with the deaths of the other three women. The first day of the trial focused on video of Skibicki's confession to police following his May 2022 arrest.

A Winnipeg court heard the DNA of three women found on items in and outside Jeremy Skibicki's apartment, including a bloodstained pillow, cigarette butt, combat knife, and bra.

A 911 call in May 2022 revealed the partial remains of Contois in a bag near Skibicki's apartment. Police found the bag and remains, but more were not found until the following month.

Harris and Myran's remains are believed to be at the Prairie Green landfill, but the location of Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe's remains is unknown.

The federal and provincial governments have committed $20 million to search Prairie Green for Harris and Myran's remains. The trial continues until June 6, with forensic identification police describing the DNA found in 2022 inside Skibicki's apartment and in nearby back lanes.