Jeremy Skibicki is accused of first-degree murder in the deaths of several women who went missing from Winnipeg’s North End. Police believe he is a serial killer who operated in the vicinity of soup kitchens and warming shelters, preying on vulnerable Indigenous women.
Much of the attention in the case over the last year has been centred on the landfill where authorities believe the victims’ bodies are hidden. How would a search be conducted? How much would it cost? Is it even possible? The issue made it all the way to the province’s fall election, which the NDP won, in part on a promise to search the landfills.
In the March issue of Maclean’s, the investigative reporter Rachel Browne attempts to answer those questions. Her story, “A Killer Among Them,” teases out why the Winnipeg landfill search became so polarizing. But she also spotlights questions that have received much less attention: who was Jeremy Skibicki, and what dark forces might have propelled him to commit such ghastly crimes? Her grisly and captivating feature goes way beyond the headlines and sheds light on a troubled Canadian city.
—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief
