Winnipeg serial killer guilty of murdering 4 women in case underscoring ‘grim reality’ of MMIWG – CBC

Jul 11, 2024

Jubilation as Jeremy Skibicki convicted in case that galvanized calls to search landfill for women’s remains

People pumped their fists in the air and a Winnipeg courtroom erupted into cheers as a judge convicted a serial killer who targeted Indigenous women of first-degree murder, in a case that sought justice for four women but reverberated far beyond that.

Jeremy Skibicki sat staring straight ahead as Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal delivered his judgment Thursday morning, though no sign of emotion appeared on Skibicki’s face as he learned his fate.

The decision, finding Skibicki guilty on all four counts of first-degree murder he faced, came after a trial that heard weeks of evidence in a high-profile case that galvanized people across the country to push for the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two of the women Skibicki killed.

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