Possible human remains searching for murdered Aboriginal women linked to Canadian serial killers

The Manitoba Provincial Government said Wednesday that the body of a human remains found in a Canadian landfill may be the bodies of two murdered Aboriginal women suspects being disposed of by a serial killer.

In a grassland green landfill north of Winnipeg, experts “identified potential human remains in the search materials,” the government said in a statement.

Federal police and the province’s chief medical examiner are now investigating and seeking to identify the remains as those of Morgan Harris and Myran.

Two women were raped, killed, dismembered and thrown away, according to court testimony at last year’s trial.

Jeremy Skibicki was convicted of killing four indigenous women in July 2024.

The body of another victim, Rebecca Contois, was found in a separate landfill and trash can, while the remains of her fourth unidentified victim in her 20s remain missing.

Skibicki targets the indigenous women he met in the shelter of the homeless.

In December 2022, Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth wrote an open letter to Indigenous leaders vowing to secure a conviction. Follow communication with AFN, AMC, SCO, MKO and the long plains First Nation.

“The investigation involving Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and Buffalo women has been one of the most complex and important homicide investigations of my tenure,” Smith wrote. “I heard calls from families, indigenous leaders and communities. I understand your calls; pain and sorrow are unimaginable.”

Many in Canada believe that in a country, the dangers faced by indigenous women disproportionately to become victims of violence are symbolic of the dangers faced by indigenous women, a “genocide” of a nationwide public investigation in 2019.

Although only five percent of the female population, indigenous women represent about one-fifth of all women who died in gender-related homicides in the country.

There are similar situations In the United StatesNative American Women The goal is disproportionate In murders, whether on reservations or in nearby towns, sexual assault and other acts of violence.

According to anti-sex attack group Rainn, there were more than 5,700 reports in 2016 that indigenous women and girls disappeared in 2016, citing statistics from the National Crime Information Center. The BIA recently estimated that about 4,200 missing and murdered indigenous peoples have not yet been resolved.

Earlier this month, the body of a woman was found dead on a reservation in southwestern South Dakota Determined as Ms. Su A missing person over a year ago.