Ashlee Shingoose

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Ashlee Christine Shingoose was a woman who was presumably murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.

Skibicki was convicted of the murder of Shingoose and three other First Nations women on July 11, 2024, despite Shingoose being unidentified at the time, and her body (along with those of two others) not having been found. While unidentified, Shingoose was known as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.

Shingoose was identified publicly on March 26, 2025, by Winnipeg Police following a DNA analysis of a cigarette butt found at Skibicki's apartment. The search for her remains continues.

Shingoose was a member of St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation and had been reported missing from Winnipeg in March 2022.

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Between March and May 2022, Jeremy Skibicki, a man with a history of domestic violence and violent and racist online rhetoric, sexually assaulted, killed, and dismembered four First Nations women in Winnipeg, Manitoba. On May 19, 2022, he was charged with killing his last victim, Rebecca Contois, whose remains were found in a garbage bin behind an apartment building and at the Brady Road landfill on May 16, 2022, and June 15, 2022, respectively. On December 1, 2022, he was charged with killing Morgan Beatrice Harris, Marcedes Myran, and "Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe." Legal scholars considered the last charge exceptionally rare and difficult to prosecute as the victim had neither her legal name nor her body available at the time charges were laid.

Contois was a member of the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, and Harris and Myran were members of the Long Plain First Nation. All the women, some of whom were experiencing homelessness, lived in Winnipeg at the time of their murders, which suggested to authorities that "Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe" also lived in Winnipeg. Authorities have revealed that she had worn a Baby Phat reversible jacket with a fur coat.

"Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe" was previously referred to in Canadian media as "unknown woman" or "Jane Doe," but she was given her name by advocates and elders in the First Nations community as a way for the victim to be remembered more as a person, and refers to a buffalo spirit who gave her name to individuals who had not received a spirit name so that they could communicate with each other and allow the victim's acknowledgement in the spirit realm. The authorities adopted the name on December 5, 2022.

It is believed that Skibicki's remaining victims are buried at the landfill. Much to the dismay of the victim's families and advocates, authorities initially would not conduct a search due to the passage of time; between the month of Contois' murder and the discovery of her remains, 10,000 loads of debris had been dumped and compacted with clay. However, this was changed by late June 2024, with the provincial government of Manitoba planning to search the landfill in the late fall.

On July 11, 2024, Skibicki was convicted on all four counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to four life sentences in August 2024.

In February 2025, two sets of human remains were discovered at the Prairie Green landfill, which were later identified as Harris and Myran.

After Shingoose's identification on March 26, 2025, Winnipeg Police and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced plans to search the Brady landfill, where her remains are believed to be located.

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