Potential human remains have been found at the Prairie Green landfill, according to experts on site, the province of Manitoba said in a news release Wednesday.
The search for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran officially started in December. They are two of the four women murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg in 2022.
The province said Wednesday that Manitoba RCMP are now involved in the investigation at the site and identification efforts are underway. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is also involved.
Harris, 39, and Myran, 26, are assumed to have been dumped at the privately run Prairie Green, in the rural municipality of Rosser, north of Winnipeg.
Their families have been notified of the development and have visited the site, the province said, and further information will be provided as facts are confirmed in the investigation.
The province has also asked for respect for the families’ privacy at this time.
Skibicki was convicted in July 2024 of four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of four women in total.
In addition to Harris and Myran, he was found guilty in the deaths of Rebecca Contois, 24, and a still-unidentified woman who has been given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders.
Investigators believe Contois was the last of the four women Skibicki killed, on May 14 or 15, 2022. They believe he killed Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe in mid-March of that year, and killed Harris on May 1 and Myran on May 4.
During Skibicki’s trial, court heard that when Contois’s remains were found in a dumpster, Harris’s and Myran’s remains were in a dumpster just a few blocks away and about to be taken to a landfill that same morning.
It wasn’t until June 20, 2022, that police realized Harris’s and Myran’s remains had been taken to Prairie Green, and by then, more than 10,000 more loads of garbage had been dumped there.
In October 2024, excavators started moving material away from a landfill area where Harris’s and Myran’s remains were believed to be, after an environmental assessment was completed earlier in 2024.
The province has previously said the landfill search could continue into early 2026 and would involve sifting through garbage from a total area of about 100 by 200 metres — or about four football fields — to a maximum depth of about 10 metres.
