Alleged Winnipeg serial killer threatened to kill 2 previous partners, court records reveal
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Alleged serial killer Jeremy Skibicki threatened to kill two previous partners in the last seven years, according to a court hearing involving one woman and a protection order filed by the other.
In June 2015, the Winnipeg man — now charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of four women — was convicted of assaulting his common-law partner. After spending about two months behind bars, he was sentenced to two years probation.
According to a statement of facts agreed to by Crown and defence attorneys, Skibicki grabbed his pregnant partner's hair and punched her in the face several times, then tried to strangle her.
He told her he would kill her if she called police.
That woman applied for a protection order against Skibicki that same year, saying in her application she feared "he won't stop until I'm dead."
The application for the protection order was dismissed, but it's not clear why.
The conditions of his probation from the assault conviction required that he stay away from his partner and not make contact for two years.
Four years later, another woman — Skibicki's estranged wife — successfully filed for a protection order against him, alleging in both an application for the order and a hearing that she suffered a litany of abuse at his hands and that he threatened to kill her.
"He has suggested he would kill me or that other gangs will abduct me and torture or kill me or traffic me," and "told me he would put me in a garbage bag," she wrote in her application for the protection order.
"I'm actually extremely afraid for my life," she later said in the hearing for the protection order.
There was also an assault charge against Skibicki that was stayed.
The mother of the estranged wife says it was for attacking her daughter, who is Métis, in January 2021.
CBC News is not naming the women because they are victims of abuse. Both of them identify as Indigenous.