Manitoba police identified some of the human remains found in search of landfills near Winnipeg last month as one Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of the four indigenous victims of the serial killer, the authorities said on Friday.
Mrs. Harris and three other women, who were all from the Winnipeg area, were killed between March and May 2022.
By Friday, only the remains of one woman, Rebecca Contois (24) were found and identified.
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The other two victims were Marcedes Myran (26) and an unidentified woman called by the elders of the first nations Mashkode bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman.
The question of whether she would seek a green laundry landfill near Winnipeg for the remains has become a political issue during the 2023 provincial elections. Progressive Conservatives, who were defeated, led the campaign ads and set up the pans that opposed the pursuit, stating its costs, risks for investigators, and what the party claimed were small chances of finding anything.
Indigenous groups highlighted the contrast to the case of Robert Pickton, a serial killer in British Colombia, who captured women, mostly indigenous, in the impoverished neighborhood in Vancouver.
2002, the royal Canadian police mounted She turned her pig farm near Port Coquitlam, British Columbiaat the site of the largest Canadian investigation into the crime scene. Mr. Pickton was eventually convicted of killing six women, although he boasted to kill dozens.
The identification of Mrs. Harris’s remains announced in a statement on Friday by a new Democratic Party, which promised to search the landfill during the campaign. The party leader is Wab Kinew, the first native person to serve as a provincial prime minister.
“Please keep our families in your hearts tonight and every day they go forward because we believe in this process,” wrote the daughter of Mrs. Harris, Cabria, in a post on social networks. “That’s a very bitter moment.”
The remains of Mrs. Contois were found in 2022. The evidence suggested that Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Myran could be in Prairie Green. The provincial government announced at the end of last month that the police found “Potential human remains in the search material ”on the landfill.
In the legislative body of manitoba, the temporary leader of progressive conservatives apologized this week because of the party’s decision not to start the search.
“We lost our way with respect to empathy and also lost their way to closing the closing to the families of the victims,” said Wayne Ewasko leader.
Cambria Harris rejected an apology in a social network post.
“Unless your actions do not want to prove me differently, everything you are talking about are currently a word,” she wrote.
