The possible human remains discovered on a Canadian landfill site can be the bodies of two suspicious women of the murdered Aboriginal police have been eliminated by a serial killer, the Provincial Government of Manitoba announced on Wednesday.
At the Green meadow discharge, north of Winnipeg, experts “identified potential human remains in research equipment,” said the government statement.
Federal police and chief medical examiner in the province are investigating now and seek to identify the remains like those of Morgan Harris and Micedes Myran.
The two women were raped, killed, dismembered and thrown with the trash, according to a testimony to the court of a trial heard last year.
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Jeremy Skibicki was found guilty in July 2024 for killing four Aboriginal women.
The body of another victim, Rebecca Contois, was found in a separate discharge and in a trash can, while the remains of an unidentified fourth victim in the twenties are always missing.
Skibicki targeted the indigenous women he met in shelters for homeless.
In December 2022, the Winnipeg police chief Danny Smyth, wrote an open letter To indigenous leaders, promising to obtain a conviction. Depending on the correspondence with AFN, AMC, SCO, MKO and the long Plaine First Nation.
“The investigation involving the murders of Rebecca Contois, Marcades Myran, Morgan Harris and Buffalo was one of the most complex and important homicide surveys during my mandate,” wrote Smith. “I heard the calls of families, indigenous leadership and community. I understand your calls; pain and sorrow are unimaginable.”
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The case was considered by many in Canada as a symbol of the dangers encountered by indigenous women in a country where they are victims of violence in a disproportionate manner, called “genocide” by a national public inquiry in 2019.
Aboriginal women represent approximately a fifth of all women killed in gender homicides in the country – despite only five percent of the female population.
A similar situation exists in the United Stateswhere Amerindian women are disproportionately targeted In murders, sexual assault and other acts of violence, both on reserves and in neighboring cities.
According to the Rainnn anti-sexual assault organizationwho cites the statistics of the National Crime Information Center. BIA estimated more recently than about 4,200 cases of gone and murdered indigenous peoples remain unresolved.
Earlier this month, the remains of a woman found on a reserve in southwest of southern Dakota were identified as a Sioux woman which disappeared more than a year ago.
