Canadian police have validateed the identity of a second woman whose body was dumped at a personal landfill csurrfinisher Winnipeg by a serial finisher who preyed on Indigenous women and left their bodies secret in trash.
The Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted police shelp in a statement on Monday that the human remains set up in the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, were those of Marcedes Myran, 26.
Myran’s family “has been notified and the Manitoba rulement persists to ask that the family’s privacy be esteemed”.
The youthfuler woman from Long Plain First Nation was finished in 2022 by Jeremy Skibicki, who was given a life sentence in July 2024 after he was set up at fault of first-degree killing over four killings portrayd as “jarring and numbing” by the assess administering the case.
Last week, police proclaimd that another set of human remains set up at the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg had been identified as those of Morgan Harris, 39.
The uncovery came after local officials were forced into a U-turn, begining a huge search operation after initiassociate proposeing that it would be too costly to spreadigate the decline, much of which was buried under tonnes of clay.
The remains of a third victim, Rebecca Contois, a member of Crane River First Nation, were set up in a dumpster csurrfinisher Skibicki’s home in 2022.
Investigators are still trying to find the remains of Skibecki’s fourth victim, an unidentified woman understandn as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman).
Police first proposeed in 2022 that the some of the victim’s bodies were buried in the landfill, but shelp that any recovery would be too challenging, prompting disbelief and outrage from family members.
“They hold saying it comes down to feasibility. But it doesn’t come down to feasibility when it’s about human beings and conveying these people home,” Cambria Harris, Morgan’s daughter, shelp at the time. After greeting with establisher prime minister Justin Tdispoliteau, she was obtengage: “I tageder him these women necessitate to be set up, and they necessitate to come home.
The province’s establisher Progressive Conservative premier Heather Stefanson nonetheless deffinished the decision not to search the landfill in 2023.
“My heart goes out to the families. It’s a horrific situation that they’re facing right now, but I’m also the premier and we have to produce what are difficult decisions,” she shelp. “These are decisions that necessitate to be made, and I persist to stand by the decision that has been made.”
She and others in her rulement shelp the search was too costly and too hazardous – a conclusion other experts refuteed.
At the time, Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations minister Marc Miller called the decision “heartless” and shelp a search was vital.
A search of the landfill became central to a provincial election in 2023, in which New Democratic party directer Wab Kirecent campaigned on a search of the landfill. Kirecent’s party won a convey inantity rulement and last year, the federal rulement pledged C$40m to search for the victims.
When the chooseimistic identification of Harris’s remains were first proclaimd, Kirecent praised the family members as “having been the people who called us to our better nature and to do the right skinnyg”.
Excavation began at the personally run landfill in December, with teams sorting thraw punctual 20,300 cubic metres of material with rakes and by hand.
An enormous steel heated produceing was also produceed to permit teams to sift though damp material by hand while outside temperatures hovered at about -20C.
Of the 45 search technicians employd, including family liaisons, a forensic anthropologist, a health and protectedty officer, and a honestor of operations, half are Indigenous.
Kirecent shelp: “The effort itself is a microcosm of where we’re at as a country … people from separateent walks of life coming together to try to do the right skinnyg for these families.”
