Remnants of the indigenous woman killed by the serial criminal found at the landfill in Canada, the authorities confirm

The remnants of an indigenous woman killed by a serial killer sentenced three years ago were found in the Central Canada Waste deposit, the local authorities confirmed following a search for months.

Morgan Harris He was one of the indigenous women killed by Jeremy Skibicki, who executed several life sentences after being convicted of four crimes last year.

Skibicki met the victims in homeless shelters, in a case seen as a symbol of the dangers that indigenous women in Canada faces, where the victim of violence, called “genocide”, fall through a national public inquiry in 2019.

The testimony to Skibicki’s trial said he raped, killed and dismantled Harris and another woman, Marcedes Myran, in 2022.

The police thought that their remains were thrown on the site Prairie Green, north of Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba province.

Last month, the authorities announced that the remains of two bodies were found on the site. They confirmed on Friday that a set of remnants are Harris’s.

The Police of Manitoba “confirmed that the human remains found in search of the landfill Prairie Green were identified as those of Morgan Beatrice Harris from Long Plain Nation”, the province said in a statement Friday.

The identification of the second set of remains will be launched “as the facts are confirmed,” he added.

The body of another victim of Skibicki, Rebecca Contois, was found in a separate warehouse and in a trash, while the remains of a fourth victim not identified in the 20s, are still missing.

In a socializing post, Harris’s daughter called the identification of her mother’s remains “a sweet moment”.

“She comes home as I said from the beginning … We have fought with our hearts and now her spirit can rest,” said Cambria Harris.

The families in Harris and Myran pushed the Manitoba authorities to look for the bodies.

Prime Minister Wab Kinew from Manitoba, the first indigenous person to drive a Canadian province, said “Morgan Harris honor you”, in a post on social media.

In December 2022, the Winnipeg police chief Danny Smyth wrote an open letter Indigenous leaders, recognizing the “unimaginable” pain around the case.

“The investigation that involved the crimes of Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and Buffalo Woman was one of the most complex and important investigations on homicide during my term,” Smith wrote. “I have heard calls from families, indigenous leadership and community. I understand your calls; pain and sadness are unimaginable.”

Indigenous women represent about one-fifth of all women killed in gender-related homicides-despite the fact that they have included only five percent of the female population.

There is a similar crisis in the USwhere American native women are disproportionately targeted In crimes, sexual aggression and other acts of violence, both for reservations and in nearby cities.

In 2016 there were more than 5,700 reports on missing native women and girls, according to Anti-Sexual Rainn Assault Organizationwhich cites statistics from the National Center for Crime Information. The Indian Business Office has recently estimated that approximately 4,200 cases of indigenous and killed indigenous remains unsolved.

Last month were the remains of a woman found dead at a reservation in the south -South Dakota Vest identified as a woman Sioux which disappeared more than a year ago.