Winnipeg police identify murdered Indigenous woman called Buffalo Woman as Ashlee Shingoose

A fourth woman murdered by a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashlee Shingoose of St. Theresa Point First Nation. Until today, she was known only as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.

In 2024, Jeremy Skibicki was convicted of first-degree murder after the serial killings of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg – including Shingoose, who was 31 at the time of her disappearance from a homeless shelter in 2022.

At the trial, it was heard that Skibicki had met her sometime in March 2022 and brought her back to his apartment before killing her.

The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran – two other women murdered by Skibicki – were found in a Winnipeg landfill in February, 2025 after a search was started in December.

The remains of Rebecca Contois were found in a garbage bin at a different landfill in May 2022.

At the time of the investigation, police had very little details about Shingoose. They released photos of her jacket, hoping it could identify her.

Shortly thereafter, a group of Indigenous grandmothers gave her the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, meaning Buffalo Woman.

Shingoose’s remains have still not been recovered, but police say DNA found on the cuff of the jacket pointed to her identity.

Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak – the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations – says she has spoken with the woman’s family and offered her condolences.

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