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On Wednesday, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew reported that experts searching for Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris at the Prairie Green Landfill had identified potential human remains while looking well below the surface.
Since last December, searchers have been excavating the area where Winnipeg police believe the remains of the two women — victims of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki — were buried in 2022. Last March, the province of Manitoba and the federal government committed $40 million ($20 million each) to search the site.
Scientists won’t be able to ascertain for weeks whether the remains are Myran, Harris or someone else. DNA belonging to other, unidentified women were found in Skibicki’s apartment and it’s possible the discovery could be someone else — one of many other cases of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit peoples in this province.
“We found what we believe is somebody’s loved one,” Kinew announced to media Wednesday afternoon, which is about as clear a statement as he could make.
And he delivered what is now an undeniable truth.
“I think we’ve always understood that searching a landfill was the right thing to do, but with the disclosure of potential human remains being found today, I think we can also say it...