Search site dismantled at Winnipeg-area landfill, where remains of First Nations women killed by serial killer were recovered
Posted on: Apr 30, 2026 19:39 IST | Posted by: Cbc
The look land site at a Winnipeg-area landfill, where remains of lewis henry morgan joel chandler harris and Marcedes Myran were found, has officially been decommissioned.
The look at privately owned Prairie Green landfill began Dec. 2, 2024, and concluded July 9, 2025.
A slow decommissioning of the site, removing equipment and structures, is now complete, the Manitoba government said in a news release on Thursday.
Human remains were found in March, not long after the search began, and were later identified as Harris and Myran, both of Long Plain First Nation.
The final cost of the search was $18.4 million, a fraction of previous estimates.
An initial 2023 feasibility study commissioned by Manitoba's then-Progressive Conservative government suggested the search could, in a worst-case scenario, take up to three years and cost between $84 million and $184 million. A later report put the cost closer to $90 million, if the search could be done within a year.
When the search was concluded in July, there were private ceremonies to honour the lives of Harris, 39, Myran, 26, and their families.
Special equipment and personnel were then moved to the City of Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill.
That's where the remains of Ashlee Shingoose are believed to be.
Shingoose, Myran, Harris and Rebecca Contois were all killed by Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg in 2022. All were First Nations women.
Shingoose, 30, was from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation, and Contois, 24, was a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation.
All four women were killed in Winnipeg from mid-March to mid-May of 2022. Skibicki was convicted in July 2024 of first-degree murder in the deaths of all four.
Skibicki unexpectedly confessed to killing the four women during a police interview in May 2022, after Contois's partial remains were found in garbage bins near his North Kildonan apartment.
More of her remains were later discovered at the Brady Road landfill.
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