Prosecutor says case is about a man’s ‘hate-filled’ acts as Jeremy Skibicki’s defence lawyers prepare to argue he was too mentally ill to be held criminally responsible
A supporter of the families stands outside the Manitoba Law Courts during the trial of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg on May 8.Crown prosecutors rested their case on Wednesday against a man who admitted to killing, dismembering and disposing the bodies of four First Nations women, prompting a Winnipeg superior court to adjourn his trial until early next month.
On Wednesday, just before she said the Crown was resting its case, Ms. Lagimodière submitted the prosecution’s final pieces of evidence: nine handwritten letters by Mr. Skibicki to his pen pal in a women’s prison in Truro, N.S. According to an agreed statement of facts by both the Crown and defence, in 2022, Mr. Skibicki killed a yet-to-be-identified woman whom Indigenous elders have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, meaning Buffalo Woman, on or about March 15; 39-year-old Morgan Harris on or about May 1 of that year; 26-year-old Marcedes Myran on or about May 4; and 24-year-old Rebecca Contois on or about May 15.
Some relatives of the victims would leave upon hearing graphic details about the killings. Others would pass around boxes of tissues, crying and whimpering in the gallery. The provincial and federal governments announced $500,000 and $200,000, respectively, to provide culturally sensitive mental-healthOver the past weekend, Mr. Skibicki was assessed by a forensic psychiatrist arranged by the Crown.
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