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Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki has been sentenced to four concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years in the murders of four Indigenous women in Canada.
Skibicki was found guilty of first-degree murder last month in the killings of Morgan Harris, 39, Marcedes Myran, 26, Rebecca Contois, 24, and an unidentified woman who has been given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders.
The first three victims were all Indigenous women.
Initially arrested in May 2022, the 37-year-old from Winnipeg showed no emotion at his sentencing. When the Court of King’s Bench Justice Glenn Joyal asked him if he had anything to say, Skibicki replied, “No.”
He sat staring straight at his sentencing hearing, as the relatives of the victims told the court how the killings …