The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the fourth victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashlee Shingoose of St. Theresa Point First Nation.
Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says she has spoken with the woman’s parents and offered her condolences.
Police are scheduled to confirm the identity of the victim, who was given the name Buffalo Woman, at a news conference later today.
Shingoose was 31 when she was last seen near a homeless shelter in Winnipeg in March 2022.
Jeremy Skibicki was convicted last year of first-degree murder in the slayings of four Indigenous women, including the unknown victim.
The trial heard that her remains had not been located.
It was also told that Skibicki met the woman sometime in March 2022 outside a homeless shelter and brought her back to his apartment before killing her.
Police provided few details about the victim. They released photos of a jacket that belonged to her in the hope that it could help identify her.
Court heard DNA found on a cuff on the jacket was the only evidence police had pointing to her identity.
A group of Indigenous grandmothers gave her the name Buffalo Woman, or Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe.
The remains of two of other victims, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, were recovered from a Winnipeg-area landfill earlier this year after a search was started in December.
The remains of Rebecca Contois were earlier found in a garbage bin and at a different landfill.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 26, 2025.
Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press
