CANADA Canada- Winnipeg, Man, Landfill, Female, Indigenous, Mid-20s, Reversible Blk/Wht 'baby phat'' cat logo, jacket,15/3/22 *Poss. victim of SKIBICKI*

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CANADA - Jeremy Skibicki charged with four murders of Indigenous women

Pretty sure that earlier versions of this story, specifically with respect to Rebecca Contois, has appeared elsewhere on WS but a search did not provide any recent results, so please feel free to merge threads, Mods. Jeremy Skibicki has now been accused of four murders over a short period in...
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Alleged serial killer in Winnipeg accused of killing 3 more women

Four Indigenous women in Winnipeg are believed to be dead at the hands of an alleged serial killer.
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'One woman, who has not yet been identified, is believed to have been killed around March 15, 2022. Police said the victim is an Indigenous woman in her mid-20s with an average build.''

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Homicide Investigation – Update: C22-103187 | City of Winnipeg

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''Homicide Investigation – Update: C22-103187​

Released:​

December 1, 2022
As previously released on May 16, 2022, the Winnipeg Police Service provided information regarding the murder investigation of 24-year-old Rebecca CONTOIS of Winnipeg (a member of Crane River First Nation) after her partial remains were discovered in the 200 block of Edison Avenue.
On May 18, members of the Homicide Unit arrested and charged a 35-year-old male, Jeremy Anthony Michael SKIBICKI, of Winnipeg, for First Degree Murder, and he was detained in custody.
Due to the nature of the circumstances of this investigation, Homicide investigators did not rule out the possibility of additional victims.
The Homicide Unit continued the investigation and established that three additional victims were murdered by Jeremy SKIBICKI between March and May 2022.
Morgan Beatrice HARRIS, a 39-year-old female of Winnipeg and a member of Long Plain First Nation, is believed to have been killed on or about May 1, 2022. rbbm
Marcedes MYRAN, a 26-year-old female of Winnipeg and a member of Long Plain First Nation, is believed to have been killed on or about May 4, 2022.
A fourth female victim has been confirmed but has yet to be identified. She is believed to have been killed on or about March 15, 2022.
On December 1, 2022, the Homicide Unit, in conjunction with Manitoba Justice, attended Milner Ridge Correctional Centre and executed a warrant charging SKIBICKI with three further counts of First Degree Murder. He remains in custody.
Police are now at a point in the investigation where the public’s assistance is being sought to help identify this victim. We have provided a photograph of a jacket as we believe the victim wore a similar jacket. Any information may significantly progress this investigation.
The jacket is reversible: Please note the black and white pattern along with the words “baby phat” and the cat-like logo on the front and back of the jacket. There is also a fur hood.
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Outside of jacket (front and back)
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Inner/reversible side of jacket (front and back)
Anyone with information about this investigation, specifically about this jacket, is asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477).
 
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''Support is available for anyone affected by details of this case. If you require support, you can contact Ka Ni Kanichihk's Medicine Bear Counselling, Support and Elder Services at 204-594-6500, ext. 102 or 104, (within Winnipeg) or 1-888-953-5264 (outside Winnipeg).

Support is also available via Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Liaison unit at 1-800-442-0488 or 204-677-1648.''
 
rbbm
www.thestar.com

Indigenous women call on federal government to act in light of Winnipeg killings

OTTAWA - The daughters of an Indigenous woman police believe to have been the victim of a serial killer urged the federal government on Tuesday to act on what they call an ongoing genocide.
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''Jeremy Skibicki, 35, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and a fourth woman who has not been identified, but has been given the name “Buffalo Woman” by police and community leaders.

He made a brief court appearance last week and his lawyer said he maintains his innocence.''

ETA also posted link on thread for the accused.
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CANADA - Jeremy Skibicki charged with four murders of Indigenous women

Pretty sure that earlier versions of this story, specifically with respect to Rebecca Contois, has appeared elsewhere on WS but a search did not provide any recent results, so please feel free to merge threads, Mods. Jeremy Skibicki has now been accused of four murders over a short period in...
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dotr said:
rbbm
www.thestar.com

Indigenous women call on federal government to act in light of Winnipeg killings

OTTAWA - The daughters of an Indigenous woman police believe to have been the victim of a serial killer urged the federal government on Tuesday to act on what they call an ongoing genocide.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
''Jeremy Skibicki, 35, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and a fourth woman who has not been identified, but has been given the name “Buffalo Woman” by police and community leaders.

He made a brief court appearance last week and his lawyer said he maintains his innocence.''

ETA also posted link on thread for the accused.
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CANADA - Jeremy Skibicki charged with four murders of Indigenous women

Pretty sure that earlier versions of this story, specifically with respect to Rebecca Contois, has appeared elsewhere on WS but a search did not provide any recent results, so please feel free to merge threads, Mods. Jeremy Skibicki has now been accused of four murders over a short period in...
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He has been charged with the murder of the fourth victim, even though she hasn't been identified or found. There must be compelling evidence.
 
Lengthy article. rbbm.
Dec 16 2022 By Brittany Hobson
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Crown tasked with rare case of no body and no identity in alleged serial killer case

WINNIPEG - More than two weeks have passed since police laid additional murder charges against an alleged serial killer, including one for the killing of an unidentified woman whose remains have not been found.
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''The bodies of Harris and Myran have not been located, but are believed to be at a private landfill outside the city.

Little is known about the unidentified fourth woman. Police believe she is an Indigenous women in her mid-20s and was killed on or around March 15.''

Police released photos of a reversible, puffer-style jacket with a fur hood that is similar to the one the victim may have worn in the hopes of getting tips on identifying her.

In the meantime, Indigenous leaders are calling the woman Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, something police have also adopted.

There are still ways to prosecute a case in the absence of an identified victim, but it adds another layer of complexity, said Trask, who has no direct involvement or knowledge of the case and can only speak to generalities.

“Without a body, there’s going to be a fair bit of forensic evidence missing that would otherwise normally be featured in a prosecution,” he said. “That’s definitely a hurdle in a situation like this.”

If there are similarities between the killings, that may influence how the Crown ends up proceeding, added Trask.

Police have not commented on how Skibicki may have known the women. Family members of the women have said they were in vulnerable positions, and have called on the police and governments to address safety concerns for Indigenous women and girls.


Lawyers prosecuting Canada’s most prolific serial killer were tasked with arguing a murder charge without an identity and only partial remains to rely on.

Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 on six counts of second-degree murder, but is suspected of killing dozens of women who went missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He buried the women around his pig farm.''
 
Why is there no description of the victim other then an age estimate and a coat? I think that's weird.

Maybe it's this woman. Sadly no clothing description.

Ashlee Christine Shimgoose, 31 is Missing

Description​

Age 31
  • EYES: Brown
  • HAIR: Brown
  • HEIGHT: 5'4"
  • WEIGHT: 115 lbs, thin build
  • NOTICEABLE CHARACTERISTICS: No clothing description
  • LOCATION LAST SEEN: March 11, 2022, in the area of 180 Henry Ave, Winnipeg, Mb.
 
Cross posted with this thread concerning the missing woman referenced in the article...
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CANADA - Canada - Ashlee Shingoose, 31, Winnipeg, 11 March 2022 *reported 7 Dec*

Winnipeg police released a new image of a 31-year-old woman who has been missing since early last year on Friday in the hope it may generate new leads on her whereabouts. Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) shared the new photo of Ashlee Shingoose in a news release, adding her hair may be cut short...
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Feb 05, 2023
''Albert says he's concerned about the case of alleged serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, who's been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of four women including one unidentified woman known as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.

Police previously released images of a reversible Baby Phat brand jacket with a fur hood that investigators believe Buffalo Woman was wearing.

Albert says he, his wife and one of his daughters were asked by Winnipeg police to provide DNA samples about a month ago for comparison.

He said police shared results with him a couple days ago, and that lifted his spirits and gave him hope.

"The DNA samples didn't match [with Buffalo Woman]," Albert said. "That picked us all up — it didn't match. That was good."

Police weren't immediately available to comment Saturday on the DNA results, but officers say the search for Ashlee continues.''
 
The fact that they (apparently) have DNA on her and that Skibicki is being charged with her murder despite no body or identity makes me think that a crime scene was located (probably Skibicki's house or car) and enough blood was found to indicate a murder had occured. Maybe there was blood on the jacket? Either way the fact that there's DNA makes me hopeful she'll be identified, even if they can't locate her body.
 
Can somebody please explain it to me. There were 4 killings. Only Contois's body is found (partly remains near an apartment building, same victim partly remains on the Brady Landfill) Is it correct that the other 3 victim's bodies are not found, including the woman in this thread? And that LE is not going to look for them either because of the time that has passed and it would be "mission impossible" to find them on the filled-up landfill?

Though they have identified two other victims "The bodies of Harris and Myran have not been located", but are believed to be on a private landfill" How did they identify them. Just curious.

Did LE know she wore a jacket like this, because the killer told them so? Or did the killer tell them he dumped the bodies in a landfill and they found remains of the jacket. Was the jacket found in his house? Sorry for saying but finding a missing indigenous woman in her twenties who probably owned a black winter jacket with fur on the hood in Manitoba is like searching for trees in a forest, IMO.

There must be evidence that connects the jacket to an unknown deceased woman and the killer to the jacket. And they know for sure the jacket didn't belong to Contois, Harris or Myran?

Please help me out.
 
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Winnipeg police believe Rebecca Contois (left), Morgan Harris (centre) and Marcedes Myran are victims of an alleged serial killer. The identity of a fourth woman, known as Buffalo Woman, isn’t known at this time. Photo: APTN

''Police believe the women’s remains were left in a garbage bin three days apart in early May 2022, says the report. The contents of the dumpster were sent to the Prairie Green Landfill on May 16.

Jeremy Skibicki has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of the two women, as well as two others: Rebecca Contois, whose remains were found at the Brady Landfill, and an unidentified woman Indigenous leaders have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman''

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Appeal for Information to Help Identify Buffalo Woman: Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe

Do you recognize this jacket? If yes, please contact the Winnipeg Police Homicide Unit at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477). The Indigenous community in Winnipeg is increasing…
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Winnipeg police believe Rebecca Contois (left), Morgan Harris (centre) and Marcedes Myran are victims of an alleged serial killer. The identity of a fourth woman, known as Buffalo Woman, isn’t known at this time. Photo: APTN

''Police believe the women’s remains were left in a garbage bin three days apart in early May 2022, says the report. The contents of the dumpster were sent to the Prairie Green Landfill on May 16.

Jeremy Skibicki has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of the two women, as well as two others: Rebecca Contois, whose remains were found at the Brady Landfill, and an unidentified woman Indigenous leaders have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman''

scoinc.mb.ca

Appeal for Information to Help Identify Buffalo Woman: Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe

Do you recognize this jacket? If yes, please contact the Winnipeg Police Homicide Unit at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477). The Indigenous community in Winnipeg is increasing…
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Thank you Dotr. So the remains of 'Buffalo woman' are also believed to be dumped in a dumpster and subsequently transported to the Prairie Green Landfill? Still nothing about how the jacket turned up.

My heart is aching for this communities because it feels like the killing of indigenous women has seemingly reached 'epidemic' proportions. So many problems to deal with.

More on the landfill search, but it's mostly about finding the bodies of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.
"The feasibility study, which was shared with families ahead of time, looked at the various scenarios and challenges that come with searching a landfill and concluded a canvass of the Prairie Green Landfill, located to the west of Winnipeg, is feasible. ..........The AMC didn’t provide the full report – only a three-page executive summary.

I think the recommendations are a reflection of the problems the First Nation has to deal with and making this women vulnerable and "easy targets".

Technical Subcommitee Recommendations
1. Increase funding for social supports and culturally appropriate social programming for First Nation and Indigenous peoples, specifically MMIWG2S+, including addictions rehabilitation programs, affordable housing, mental health supports, and care and cultural connectivity.
2. Increase funding for Indigenous homeless shelters so the unhoused can transition into a safer life.
3. Mandatory GPS tracking systems in garbage trucks for all waste removal companies in Canada.
4. Mandatory rear-facing cameras in all garbage trucks so that operators can observe the material being dumped into their truck.
5. Video surveillance of landfill entrances and exits.
6. Support from the responsible Ministry for smaller municipalities/communities to make these changes.

I'm very happy to see the Indigenous community is looking out for her, though the above feels like the "lost sisters" were already lost far before they were murdered. Do they suggest the unidentified woman (and the others) was addicted and homeless? Is it safe to say Buffalo woman was disconnected with her family and community for a longer time and so far nobody realizes she is missing?
 
Alana Cole · CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2023 rbbm
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The name Buffalo Woman appears with a red dress along a pathway to Camp Marcedes near the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. (Alana Cole/CBC)

''Police have said they believe Buffalo Woman is Indigenous, in her mid-20s with an average build, and that she wore a reversible Baby Phat jacket.

Police have also said their investigation suggested she was the first of the four women to be killed, on or around March 15, 2022.

Last February, one father of a missing woman told CBC that police had determined his daughter was not the unidentified woman.

Robinson said he and one of Harris's daughters still spend time looking at missing cases from outside the province to see if there's a link.

"We don't stop," he said.

''They're not the only ones questioning whether the woman is originally from Manitoba.

Sandra Delaronde, an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, said she thinks it's important to search beyond Canada's borders.
There's been an increase in human trafficking and Winnipeg is one of the places it happens, she said.

"It's tragic that her family doesn't know, hasn't found their loved one," Delaronde said. "And I think that she's probably been a victim of human trafficking from outside, even outside of Canada."
 
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Alana Cole · CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2023 rbbm
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The name Buffalo Woman appears with a red dress along a pathway to Camp Marcedes near the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. (Alana Cole/CBC)

''Police have said they believe Buffalo Woman is Indigenous, in her mid-20s with an average build, and that she wore a reversible Baby Phat jacket.

Police have also said their investigation suggested she was the first of the four women to be killed, on or around March 15, 2022.

Last February, one father of a missing woman told CBC that police had determined his daughter was not the unidentified woman.

Robinson said he and one of Harris's daughters still spend time looking at missing cases from outside the province to see if there's a link.

"We don't stop," he said.

''They're not the only ones questioning whether the woman is originally from Manitoba.

Sandra Delaronde, an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, said she thinks it's important to search beyond Canada's borders.
There's been an increase in human trafficking and Winnipeg is one of the places it happens, she said.

"It's tragic that her family doesn't know, hasn't found their loved one," Delaronde said. "And I think that she's probably been a victim of human trafficking from outside, even outside of Canada."
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It's interesting they go into the trafficking angle. Although the other victims seem to be from the Manitoba area it's of course very likely she came from elsewhere.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...-buffalo-woman-mashkode-bizhikiikwe-1.6675261

Police said last week they believe she was killed by Jeremy Skibicki, who was also charged in May in the killing of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois. Contois was from O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also known as Crane River, located on the western shore of Lake Manitoba

Two of the additional alleged victims were identified as Morgan Harris, 39, and Marcedes Myran, 26. Both were from Long Plain First Nation in south central Manitoba.

All the identified women were living in Winnipeg when they were killed, police say.

ETA
What did this women had in common besides living in Winnipeg?
 
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JS stole, or as he said, 'took', the jacket and sold it on FB! eww.
Caitlyn Gowriluk · CBC News · Posted: May 09, 2024 rbbm
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''A shred of DNA from the cuff of a jacket is the only real clue investigators ever found in their efforts to identify the lone unknown victim of an admitted serial killer in Winnipeg, court heard during the man's trial on Thursday.

That female DNA profile was identified on a black-and-white Baby Phat-brand jacket that Jeremy Skibicki told police he took from the woman after he killed her in 2022, then sold on Facebook Marketplace.

No other items believed to be related to the woman were ever found during the police search of Skibicki's apartment and nearby garbage bins, following the discovery of partial remains of another of his victims in a North Kildonan dumpster, Winnipeg Police Service Const. Jan de Vries testified during the second day of the accused's murder trial.

"The point is that DNA profile has never been identified to this day," Crown attorney Christian Vanderhooft said.''
May 10, 2024
The lengthy police interrogation video of Jeremy Skibicki has been released. The 37-year-old is on trial for first-degree murder in the deaths of three First Nations women, and a fourth woman who has not been identified but who police believe was Indigenous. WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
 
May 26, 2024 rbbm
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''WINNIPEG — In mid-March 2022, a young Indigenous woman stood outside Winnipeg’s Salvation Army and spoke with a man who invited her back to his home.

Wearing a reversible Baby Phat branded jacket and a cloth face mask, she would later board a bus with the man and head to his apartment in the North Kildonan neighbourhood.

The woman was the first victim of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.''

“(Skibicki) forcibly confined Buffalo Woman because he thought she was taking some of his things,” prosecutor Renee Lagimodiere said on the first day of the trial.

“(He) choked her, filled his bathtub with water. He then drowned her.”
''Conversations in the community have included speculation about whether the woman was from Manitoba or even Canada, added Morrisseau, who has attended the trial.''
 
By Kathleen Martens
May 30, 2024
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“You require a body or a record of a missing person to compare that (DNA) to. If this anonymous DNA sample from his apartment is 16 cousins away from somebody who’s in Ancestry(.com), but that doesn’t tell me anything because there’s no record of who that person is.'''

She suggested Indigenous leaders learn more about investigative genetic genealogy and make DNA kits available to their community members, with the condition the DNA evidence is only used to help identify missing people and unidentified remains.

“I’m hoping there could be more awareness and education about this technology,” said Hookimaw-Witt. “Toronto police have even offered to provide us with DNA kits.”
 
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