Timeline of slayings of 4 women in Winnipeg, demands to search landfill for remains

A Winnipeg man has admitted to sidesplitting 4 women successful Winnipeg but claims he’s not criminally responsible because of intelligence illness. A judge is scheduled to springiness a verdict Thursday successful nan first-degree execution proceedings of Jeremy Skibicki.

Here is simply a timeline of nan case:

March 15, 2022 — Police opportunity an unidentified female is killed connected aliases astir this date.

May 1, 2022 — Morgan Harris, a personnel of Long Plain First Nation surviving successful Winnipeg, is past seen successful nan area of Main Street and Henry Avenue northbound of nan city’s downtown. Police opportunity nan 39-year-old is killed connected aliases astir this date.

May 4, 2022 — Police opportunity Marcedes Myran, 26, besides of Long Plain First Nation and surviving successful Winnipeg, is killed connected aliases astir this date.

May 14 aliases 15, 2022 — Police opportunity they judge 24-year-old Rebecca Contois of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, besides known arsenic Crane River, is killed connected aliases astir these dates.

May 16, 2022 — Officers find nan partial remains of Contois successful a garbage bin adjacent an flat building. They unafraid nan Brady Road Resource Management Facility, a city-run landfill, wherever they judge location could beryllium much remains. Police opportunity they judge nan remains of Harris and Myran were transported to nan privately operated Prairie Green landfill, northbound of Winnipeg, connected this day.

May 18, 2022 — Skibicki is arrested and charged pinch first-degree execution successful nan decease of Contois. Officers execute a hunt warrant astatine his flat successful nan aforesaid area wherever her remains were found.

May 19, 2022 — Police opportunity remains recovered successful nan garbage bin adjacent nan building beryllium to Contois.

June 2, 2022 — Police statesman searching nan Brady landfill.

June 20, 2022 — Police judge nan remains of different victims are astatine nan Prairie Green landfill.

June 21, 2022 — Police opportunity remains recovered astatine nan Brady landfill are of Contois.

Dec. 1, 2022 — Police complaint Skibicki pinch 3 counts of first-degree execution successful nan deaths of Harris, Myran and nan unidentified woman. They opportunity nan chartless female is believed to beryllium Indigenous and successful her mid-20s. Indigenous leaders later sanction her Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe aliases Buffalo Woman.

Dec. 2, 2022 — Skibicki appears successful court. Police Chief Danny Smyth says nan remains of Harris and Myran are believed to beryllium astatine nan Prairie Green landfill but nary hunt is planned because excessively overmuch clip has passed.

Dec. 6, 2022 — Police take sides their determination not to hunt Prairie Green. Relatives of Harris stock their disappointment and anger connected Parliament Hill and opportunity they’re prepared to hunt connected their own.

Dec. 8, 2022 — Operations astatine Prairie Green extremity arsenic the Manitoba government and nan City of Winnipeg determine really to proceed. First Nations leaders telephone for nan constabulary main to resign.

Dec. 14, 2022 — Smyth apologizes successful a gathering pinch First Nations leaders and nan victims’ families for comments astir not searching nan landfill. Police are to beryllium portion of an Indigenous-led committee that will study feasibility of a search.

May 12, 2023 — The study says a hunt is feasible but could return up to 3 years and costs $184 million. Family members and Indigenous leaders opportunity it must spell ahead.

July 5, 2023 — Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative authorities says searching nan landfill is excessively risky.

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July 6, 2023 — Protesters astatine a campy group up astatine nan Brady Road landfill statesman blocking entree to nan tract and request governments hunt Prairie Green .

July 14, 2023 — A judge grants a impermanent injunction to extremity nan blockade and says demonstrators tin proceed to protestation but cannot artifact nan road.

Aug. 4, 2023 — Relatives of Harris and Myran meet pinch national Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree. They later lead a information creation astatine a rally calling for a landfill search. Other rallies return spot crossed nan country.

Aug. 9, 2023 — Manitoba’s NDP promises a hunt if it wins nan provincial election, which it does successful October.

Jan. 26, 2024 — Another study says a hunt could beryllium done wrong 1 twelvemonth and costs $90 cardinal but searchers would look wellness risks from asbestos.

March 8, 2024 — Family members of Harris and Myran and supporters rally extracurricular the Manitoba legislature calling for a search.

March 22, 2024 — The national and Manitoba governments opportunity they will put up $20 cardinal each to hunt nan landfill.

May 2, 2024 — A judge rules Skibicki’s proceedings will beryllium heard by a jury. The defence had based on jurors could beryllium biased because of pretrial publicity.

May 6, 2024 — Lawyers for Skibicki opportunity he admits to sidesplitting nan 4 women but is asking to beryllium recovered not criminally responsible because of intelligence illness. The Crown says owed to complexities pinch nan defence, nan proceedings tin proceed without nan jury.

June 10, 2024 — Lawyers for nan Crown and defence make closing submissions.

June 11, 2024 —  The Manitoba government announces it has fixed biology support to nan Prairie Green search, which is to statesman successful nan fall.