US EditionCourt to hear from family, community of victim of Winnipeg serial killer
Family and community members provide personal accounts to aid judicial understanding of the impact of the Winnipeg serial killer's crimes during ongoing hearings.
- On August 15, 2025, Manitoba's Court of King's Bench held a special hearing involving Ashlee Shingoose’s relatives and community members; Shingoose was a First Nations woman who was killed in 2022 by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.
- Skibicki was found guilty of first-degree murder for the deaths of Ashlee Shingoose and three additional First Nations women in 2022, having targeted them at Winnipeg homeless shelters and discarded their remains in garbage bins.
- Following the trial, authorities identified Shingoose only this year and began a city-run search at Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill using excavation teams and ground-penetrating radar to locate remains.
- Ashlee Shingoose was known in court as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, which translates to Buffalo Woman, a designation bestowed upon her by members of the Indigenous grassroots community, while her father voiced his anger by stating he desired retribution, saying, "I want an eye for an eye."
- The hearing aimed to give Shingoose's family equal opportunity to present impact statements, highlighting ongoing efforts to address violence against Indigenous women and locate victims' remains.
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'Screaming into silence': Parents of serial killer victim address special hearing
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Court to hear from family, community of victim of Winnipeg serial killer - The Turtle Island News
By Brittany Hobson The parents of a First Nations woman who died at the hands of a Winnipeg serial killer are set to give victim impact statements at a special court hearing today. Manitoba Court of King’s Bench agreed to the hearing for the family and community of Ashlee Shingoose, a year after Jeremy Skibicki was convicted of killing her. Shingoose was one of four First Nations women killed by Skibicki in 2022. He was convicted of first-degree…
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