WARNING: This story contains details of violence against Indigenous women.

Albert Shingoose's long-held suspicions that his missing daughter might have been the unidentified victim of a Winnipeg serial killer have been confirmed.

On Wednesday, Winnipeg police confirmed Ashlee Shingoose, 30, was the first woman killed by Jeremy Skibicki in 2022. The identity of that victim had, until this week, not been confirmed, and she was given the name Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe , or Buffalo Woman, by Indigenous community members.

DNA results identified Shingoose as the victim this month, after Skibicki gave them new information in a December interview, police said at a Wednesday news conference.

Albert had spent years searching for his daughter , travelling from his home in St. Theresa Point An

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