Police in Canada say the body of another Indigenous woman has been found at a Winnipeg landfill, in the latest grim episode of the country’s crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
The body of Linda Mary Beardy, a 33-year-old mother from Lake St Martin First Nation, was spotted on Monday by staff at the Brady landfill.
The find has shocked a city increasingly accustomed to the bodies of Indigenous women being dumped in landfills, but police do not believe it is linked to an alleged serial killer who targeted Indigenous women and was arrested last year.
“I can confirm at this time we have no information to suggest that there are any other victims or that this investigation is related to any previous incidents,” Inspector Shawn Pike of the Winnipeg police told reporters, adding that detectives believe Beardy’s remains were discovered only hours after they were deposited by a garbage truck. Investigators have called the death suspicious, but have not yet classified it a homicide.
“We as a society can never grow numb to this,” said Winnipeg’s mayor, Scott Gillingham. “This always needs to spark within us outrage, concern, grief … We need to value Indigenous women.”
In December, the city was shaken by allegations that Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris, Rebecca Contois and a fourth woman – later given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman – had been murdered by an alleged serial killer. Winnipeg police charged Jeremy Skibicki in connection with their deaths.
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