The authorities in Manitoba, a province in western Canada, announced on Wednesday that they may have discovered the remains of two Indigenous women who were allegedly murdered by a serial killer. This development could be a significant breakthrough in a case that has deeply affected local communities and brought attention to the issue of violence against Indigenous women in Canada.

Experts conducting a search at the Prairie Green Landfill near Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, identified possible human remains among the search materials, according to a government statement.

The families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, the two victims, have been informed and visited the site. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other agencies will now take over the investigations.

Between March and May 2022, Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki, then 35, killed four Indigenous women, all from the Winnipeg area. He was arrested in December of the same year. Skibicki had shown support for far-right ideologies on social media, including white supremacist, misogynistic, and antisemitic comments.

Last year, Skibicki was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole for the first-degree murders of Myran, Harris, Rebecca Contois, and an unidentified woman known as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, meaning Buffalo Woman.

While some of Contois’s remains were recovered in a separate landfill in 2022, the remains of Harris and Myran had not been found until now. The two women were killed within days of each other in early May 2022 and were from Long Plain First Nation, a reserve about 55 miles west of Winnipeg.

Harris’s and Myran’s families, friends, and communities had relentlessly pushed for the authorities to fund and permit a thorough search at Prairie Green Landfill, where GPS evidence suggested the remains might have been disposed of. The Canadian government had initially resisted the search, citing costs and technical difficulties.

In 2022, the homicide rate of Indigenous women and girls in Canada was more than six times higher than that of their non-Indigenous counterparts.

Cambria Harris, the daughter of Morgan Harris, requested privacy, stating, “I would like this time to grieve in peace.” Jorden Myran, a sister of Marcedes, did not respond to a request for comment.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/world/canada/canada-serial-killer-landfill-search.html