The authorities of the Western Canadian province of Manitoba said on Wednesday that they had found what could be the remains of two indigenous women murdered by a serial killer, a possible breakthrough in a case that devastated local communities and highlighted the issue of violence against Aboriginal women in Canada.
During a excavation of the Green meadow discharge near Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, experts “identified potential human remains in research equipment,” the provincial government said in a statement.
The families of the two victims, Morgan Harris and Mercadedes Myran, had been informed and had visited the site, he said, adding that the Royal Police and other agencies would take control of the surveys.
Between March and May 2022, Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki, then 35, killed four Aboriginal women, all from the Winnipeg region. He was arrested in December the same year. He had expressed his support to far -right On social networks, filling its white, misogynist and anti -Semitic supremacist Facebook page comments.
Last year, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole for the first degree murders of Ms. Myran, who was 26 years old when she was killed; Mrs. Harris, who was 39 years old; Rebecca Contois, 24 years old; And an unidentified woman that the former First Nations called Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, which means Buffalo woman.
Some of the remains of Mrs. Contois were recovered in a separate discharge in 2022, but the remains of the unidentified woman, Mrs. Harris and Mme Myran have never been found.
The last two women were killed a few days at the beginning of May 2022, the authorities said at the time. The two came from a long first nation plain, a reserve about 55 miles west of Winnipeg, and had been reported to the police as disappeared.
The families, friends and communities of Mrs. Harris and Ms. Myran had set up an incessant struggle to persuade the authorities, both local and federal, to allow and finance in -depth research of their remains in the Green meadow discharge, where GPS evidence suggested that they had probably been thrown.
The Canadian government had resisted the search for discharge, citing costs and technical difficulties.
In 2022, the homicide rate of Aboriginal women and girls in Canada was more than six times higher than that of their non -Aboriginal counterparts.
Cambria Harris, the daughter of Mrs. Harris, who led to the restoration of the remains of her mother and Ms. Myran, asked for intimacy. “This time I would like to cry in peace,” she said during a publication on social networks.
Jorden Myran, a sister of Mrs. Myran, did not respond to a written request for comments.
