Possible human remains discovered at the Canadian landfill may be bodies of killed autochthonous women suspected of police police were delayed a serial killer, on Wednesday.
On the prairie green landfill, north of Winnipeg, experts “identified potential human remains in the search material”, said the UA government statement.
The Federal Police and the Province Chief is now exploring and want to identify residues as those Morgan Harris and Marcenes Myran.
The two women were raped, killed, disassembled and expelled with trash, according to court testimony from the trials that have heard last year.
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Jeremy Skibicki was found guilty in July 2024. year killing four indigenous women.
The body of another victim, Rebecca Contois, was found in a separate landfill and garbage bin, while the remnants of the fourth unidentified victims in the 20s are still missing.
Skibicki targeted the indigenous women who met in homeless shelters.
In December 2022, Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth wrote the open letter Indigenous leaders, he trampled to ensure the certificate. After correspondence to AFN, AMC, SCO, MCOs and long ordinary first nations.
“Investigation involving Rebecca Contois, Marcene Myran, Morgan Harris and Buffalo woman was one of the most complex and important investigations of murders during my term,” Smith wrote. “I heard my family calls, indigenous leadership and community. I understand your calls; pain and sadness are unthinkable.”
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The case was seen by many in Canada as a symbol of the dangers faced by indigenous women in a country in which the victim of violence is disproportionately, called “genocide” by national public investigation in 2019. Years.
Indigenous women represent around the fifth of all women killed in gender-related in the country in the country – despite only five percent of the female population.
A similar situation exists In the USWhere are domestic American women are disproportionately targeted In murder, sexual attacks and other acts of violence, both in reservations and nearby cities.
In 2016, there were more than 5,700 reports of missing domestic women and girls, states Anti-Sexual Assault Organization Railanindicating statistics from the Information Center for National Crime. BIA recently estimated that approximately 4,200 cases of missing and killed autochthonous people remain unresolved.
Earlier this month, the remains of a woman found dead on reservation in southwest of south dakota were identified as a Sioux woman who disappeared more than a year ago.
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