Police have identified a second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said Monday.
Myran’s remains were one of two sets found at the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg in February. The remains of Morgan Harris were publicly identified on March 7.
Both Myran, 26, and Harris, 39, were originally from Long Plain First Nation, 95 kilometres west of Winnipeg. They were among four Indigenous women murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in 2022.
“Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris are coming home,” Premier Wab Kinew told reporters on Monday afternoon. “This is what we set out to do. I don’t know if many of us knew the odds of success … but, it turns out, bringing them home was within our grasp.”
The search was expected to continue throughout 2025, Kinew said.
“We went through a whole heck of a lot to get to this point, but at the end of the day, we did the right thing.”
Workers are still at Prairie Green to find additional remains of Harris and Myran, he said. The search could continue for a few more weeks before the province reassesses next steps alongside the women’s families.
“I can tell you that today we continue to find remains, and in the coming weeks, perhaps that will no longer be the case.”
Kinew would not say whether the search would continue in hopes of finding another victim of Skibicki, a still-unidentified woman who was given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders.
Last July, Skibicki was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Myran, Harris, Rebecca Contois, 24, and Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe.
Harris and Myran are believed to have been killed in early May 2022. Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe is believed to have been killed in mid-March of that year, but her remains have never been found.
Investigators believe Contois was the last woman Skibicki killed, on May 14 or 15, 2022. Her partial remains were found in a garbage bin in Winnipeg in mid-May of that year, with more later found at the city-run Brady Road landfill in June 2022.
Donna Bartlett, Myran’s grandmother, previously told CBC News that Myran made contact with family for the last time on March 15.
While the family had hoped that Myran would reappear, Bartlett said they contacted police and put out posters reporting her as missing later that fall.
The families of Harris and Myran had long called for Prairie Green to be searched for the women’s remains.
Kyra Wilson, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, says she witnessed the strength, determination and love of Myran’s family as they fought to bring her home.
“Their courage is a reflection of the love they carry for her. Our hearts are with them as they grieve and begin the journey of healing,” she said in a news release.
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