The authorities of the Western Canadian province of Manitoba said on Wednesday that they found what the ruins of two indigenous women who were murdered by a serial killer could be, a possible discovery in a case that has destroyed local communities and brought to the forefront.
During the search for the landfill Prairie Green near Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, the experts “found potential human residues in the search material,” the provincial government said in a statement.
The families of the two victims, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, had been alerted and visited the area, he said, adding that the Royal Canadian police and other organizations would undertake investigations.
Between March and May 2022, Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki, then 35 years old, killed four indigenous women, all from the Winnipeg area. He was arrested in December that same year. He had expressed his support for the far right in the social media, filling his facebook page with a white defender, misogyny and anti -Semitic comments.
Last year he was sentenced to 25 years in prison without a ban on Ms Myran’s first -degree murders, which was 26 years old when he was killed. Mrs Harris, who was 39 years old. Rebecca Contois, 24; And an unknown woman that the first seniors called Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, which means Buffalo woman.
Some of the residues of Mrs Contois were registered in a separate landfill in 2022, but the ruins of the unrecognized woman, Ms. Harris and Ms Myran were never found.
The last two women were killed in a few days in early May 2022, authorities reported at that time. Both were from Long Plain First Nation, a reserve about 55 miles west of Winnipeg, and had been reported to the police as missing.
Ms Harris and Mrs Myran families, friends and communities had placed a relentless struggle to persuade the authorities, both local and federal, to allow and finance a thorough search for their ruins at Prairie Green Handfill, where GPS elements indicate that they were likely to be.
The Canadian government had resisted landfills searching for the 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 native bonds.
Cambria Harris, daughter of Ms. Harris, who led the struggle to recover her mother and Ms Myran, called for private life. “I would like this time to mourn peace,” he said in a posting of social media.
Jorden Myran, Ms Myran’s sister, did not respond to a written request for comments.
