A judge is scheduled to give his decision today in the first-degree murder trial of a man who admitted to killing four women in Winnipeg.
Donna Bartlett, grandmother of Marcedes Myran, and other families and supporters of murdered women enter the Manitoba Law Courts for the trial of Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg on Tuesday, May 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
They have characterized the killings as racially motivated and say the 37-year-old targeted the Indigenous women at homeless shelters. The weeks-long trial heard from two forensic psychiatrists who presented opposing motivations for the slayings of the four women: Morgan Harris, 39; Marcedes Myran, 26; Rebecca Contois, 24; and an unidentified woman an Indigenous grassroots community has named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.
Dr. Sohom Das, who testified for the defence, said Skibicki felt compelled to kill the women because he was on a mission from God and heard auditory hallucinations coaxing him to kill. Dr. Gary Chaimowitz, a Crown-appointed expert, testified Skibicki likely has anti-social and substance abuse disorders but did not have an active major mental health disorder at the time of the slayings.The killings came to light in May 2022, when a man looking for scrap metal found the partial remains of Contois in a dumpster in Skibicki's neighbourhood. More of her remains were discovered at a city-run landfill the following month.
In 2022, police said they believed the remains of Harris and Myran were taken to another landfill outside the city but a search of that site would be too complex and dangerous.
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