The trial of man who has admitted to killing four women has heard he searched the internet to look up the definition of what it means to be a serial killer.
A Winnipeg police analyst says other online searches found on Jeremy Skibicki’s laptop were about DNA and destroying fingerprints.
Riley Johansson testified that he traced months of online searches on Skibicki’s computer.
Skibicki is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of four Indigenous women in 2022: Rebecca Contois, 24, of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation; Morgan Harris, 39, of Long Plain First Nation; Marcedes Myran, 26, of Long Plain First Nation; and an unidentified woman given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe.
He has admitted to the killings but his lawyers plan to argue that he is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
Crown prosecutors say the killings were racially motivated and Skibicki preyed on the women at homeless shelters.
The judge-alone murder trial, which is being heard in Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench before Chief Justice Glenn Joyal, is expected to continue until June 6.