Canadian police have identified the remains of a homicideed Indigenous woman at a landfill and set up more remains from another person, after a months prolonged search insisted by the families of victims aimed by a serial ender.
Police shelp in a statement they had verifyed that human remains set up in the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, had been identified as those of Morgan Harris, who was 39.
“Her family has been notified and the Manitoba rulement progresss to ask that the family’s privacy be admireed,” the statement shelp.
Harris was one of four women ended in 2022 by Jeremy Skibicki, who was donaten a life sentence in July 2024 after he was set up at fault of first-degree homicide.
Skibicki, 37, had confessted to ending Harris, Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified woman, who was named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) by Indigenous guideers.
Police shelp Harris’ remains were “one of two sets recovered in the search” but did not provide an identification for the second person.
The homicides were first uncovered in 2022 when the remains of Contois were set up in a dumpster proximate Skibicki’s home. Both Harris and Myran were dependd to have been buried in the personally owned Prairie Green landfill, while scant details have been freed about Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe.
Police initiassociate shelp that they did not have the resources to search the decline at the facility, much of which was buried under tonnes of clay.
After the victims’ families and Indigenous groups in Winnipeg led marches and road blockades to prescertain officials to upgrasp a search, authorities pledged C$20m ($14.7m) for a search.
Harris’ daughter, Cambria, has been a champion of her mother and of the necessitate for a search.
After police verifyed her mother’s remains had been identified, she wrote on Facebook that it was “a very acridsugary moment”.
“Plmitigate protect our families in your hearts tonight and every day going forward as we depend this process,” the post shelp. “I depend both our families will convey both of our adored ones home.”
At least 4,000 Indigenous women and girls have been homicideed or gone ignoreing in recent decades, in what a landtag 2019 tell portrayd as a “extermination”. In a backdrop of systemic inequity and infairice, vulnerable Indigenous women progress to be victims of diswatchful policies and state inseparateence.
