Man Gets Life for Killing Indigenous Women - No chance of parole for 25 years for serial killer who said his actions were racially motivated

No chance of parole for 25 years for serial killer who said his actions were racially motivated. Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal told a sentencing hearing he was bound by law to impose the automatic sentence after convicting Skibicki, 37, last month of four counts of first-degree murder.

- By Brittany Hobson

They were loving daughters, mothers and friends whose ambition and potential were snuffed out by a “monster.”

Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki was sentenced Wednesday to four concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years in the 2022 slayings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg.

Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal told a sentencing hearing he was bound by law to impose the automatic sentence after convicting Skibicki, 37, last month of four counts of first-degree murder.

Relatives and supporters of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman Indigenous community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, packed the courtroom as multiple victim impact statements were read.

Some wore sweatshirts bearing the smiling faces of Myran and Contois. A large painted portrait of Myran with a red handprint across her mouth was on display.

Elle Harris told court she can’t condense the loss of her mother into words on a piece of paper.