WATCH ABOVE: We went back to the apartment where Nadine Skow was killed. Kendra Slugoski has more on her disturbing death.
EDMONTON — The man charged in connection with 38-year-old Nadine Skow’s death previously spent time in jail for sexual assault.
Silva Koshwal, 38, is facing charges of second-degree murder and indignity to a human body. Skow was found dead from multiple stab wounds in her apartment in the Central McDougall neighbourhood on Tuesday morning. Staff Sgt. Bill Clark, a veteran homicide detective, described the scene as one of the “most horrific” he had seen in his more than two decades of service.
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According to court documents, Koshwal pleaded guilty to sexual assault in 2010 and was sentenced to 70 days in jail and nine months probation. After his release, he failed to register for the National Sex Offender Registry and, when police couldn’t locate him, they put him on their most-wanted list. He pleaded guilty to that offence and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
He also has an assault conviction from 2006, for which he was sentenced to nine months probation.
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Skow’s death is Edmonton’s 13th homicide of the year.
“It was really upsetting,” one of her neighbours told Global News on Thursday.
“My boyfriend came to me and said ‘I think I hear some screaming down the hall’
“I go up to the door and put my ear up to the door and I could hear her and it sounded like a whining, almost like her last breaths of life.”
The woman said she broke down when she found out what happened and regretted not calling 911.
“I was just kind of freaking out myself… I don’t know… there was a party going on, this place is really not a good area. Trust me, I cried that I didn’t call the ambulance or phone 911, but, by the time they would have got here, I don’t think she would have been alive.”
The neighbour also let Skow’s co-workers into the building. They wanted to check on her after she didn’t show up for work.
“They were the first people in there… We actually seen in there – blood, knives everywhere. It was gross. We don’t even want to be in here any more.”
The woman said she woke up early Monday morning to find a strange man in her apartment. She said he hit him with an umbrella and screamed and scared him off.
Police said it’s believed the suspect went to the apartment and entered the wrong apartment suite. They believe Skow was killed sometime late Sunday or early Monday morning.
A memorial had started to grow in the lobby of her apartment on Thursday.
Skow worked with the YWCA in Lethbridge before moving to Edmonton about five years ago.
Police said Skow and Koshwal were involved in a common-law relationship that ended about a year ago.
“I would put this case up to a case of domestic violence,” Clark said Wednesday. “Definitely our victim had no issues with drugs or anything like that. All accounts, just a great lady, had a great job and everybody liked her.”
“She was an unfortunate victim who met an individual who, for whatever reason, did this to her… I mean, these types of situations where it’s almost a domestic type, there was probably a little bit of jealously or possibly, I would say in this case, some type of rage involved.”
Koshwal is scheduled to appear in court on August 28 in Edmonton.
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