Second set of Manitoba landfill remains belong to indigenous woman murdered by serial killer

A second set of remains discovered at a Manitoba landfill has been identified as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four indigenous women murdered by a serial killer in 2022. 

Premier Wab Kinew made the announcement confirming Myran’s connection to the remains found at Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg.

Earlier this month, police identified another set of remains recovered at the same site as belonging to Morgan Harris. 

Both Myran, 26, and Harris, 39, originally from Long Plain First Nation, were among four indigenous women murdered by Jeremy Skibicki. 

He was convicted in July on four counts of first-degree murder.

“Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris are coming home,” Kinew told reporters. 

“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.”

Kinew said workers are still going through the landfill in an effort to recover more remains of both women. 

He added that the search is expected to continue throughout 2025, though officials will reassess the next steps in the coming weeks.

“I can tell you that today we continue to find remains, and in the coming weeks, perhaps that will no longer be the case,” said Kinew, without confirming whether the search would expand to seek a still-unidentified woman known as “Buffalo Woman.”

The two other women killed by Skibicki were identified as Rebecca Contois and Buffalo Woman. 

Contois’s remains were located in Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill last June. 

Buffalo Woman’s remains have never been found.