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5 minute read Yesterday at 6:31 PM CDTJeremy Skibicki acted out of hatred and a drive to “fulfill his deviant sexual urges” when he killed four Indigenous women and repeatedly defiled their corpses, prosecutor Renee Lagimodiere told court Monday as lawyers for the Crown and defence made their final arguments in the trial of the admitted serial killer.
“Racial motivation, sexual motivation, power and control motivation… intertwined in all four killings the accused committed,” Lagimodiere told King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal.
Skibicki has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the May 2022 slayings of three Indigenous women — Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran — as well as a fourth unidentified woman, known as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman, who police believe was slain in March 2022.
Skibicki has admitted to killing the women but argues he should be found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder, specifically schizophrenia. In a police interview video recorded after his May 17, 2022 arrest, Skibicki admitted strangling or drowning the victims in his McKay Avenue suite, having sex with their bodies, and then discarding their remains in nearby garbage bins. Skibicki has said he dismembered Contois and Myran.
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