Officials in Manitoba, western Canada, said Wednesday they found the remains of two Indigenous women killed by serial killers.
During a search of a Prairie Green landfill near Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital, experts “identified the potential human remains in the search material,” the state government said in a statement.
The families of the two victims, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Milan, were notified and said they had visited, adding that the royal Canadian police and other agencies will take over the investigation.
Between March and May 2022, 35-year-old Jeremy Anthony Michael Skivicki killed four Indigenous women, all from the Winnipeg area. He was arrested in December of the same year. He expressed his far right support on social media, filling his Facebook page with white supremacist, misogynist and anti-Semitic comments.
Last year he was sentenced to 25 years without parole for the first-degree murder of Mylan, who was 26 years old when she was killed. Harris, 39 years old. Rebecca contois, 24; And the unidentified woman, which the elders of the First Nations called Mashkode bizhiki'ikwe, means a woman from Buffalo.
Part of Comtois' body was recovered in 2022 at another landfill, but no remains of unidentified women, Harris and Mylan, were found.
The latter two women were killed within days in early May 2022, authorities said. Both were from Longplane First Nation, a reserve about 55 miles west of Winnipeg, and were reported to police as missing.
Harris and Ms Milan's family, friends and community persuaded both local and federal authorities to allow and engage in a ruthless battle to complete a thorough search of the remains at the Prairie Green Reclaimed Landfill, where GPS was likely to have been dumped.
The Canadian government resisted searching for landfills, citing costs and technical difficulties.
In 2022, the rate of murder among Indigenous women and girls in Canada was more than six times higher than that of non-Indigenous people.
Harris' daughter, Cumbria Harris, led the fight to recover her mother and Mylan's body, seeking privacy. “I hope you will be saddened by peace this time,” she said in a social media post.
Milan's sister, Jorden Milan, did not respond to a written request for comment.
