Canada: Hopes are rising to find landfill where Aboriginal women's bodies are allegedly buried

Manitoba site put on hold, raising the possibility of finding Long Plains Aboriginal women's bodies.

A memorial to the three Indigenous women who were murdered in Manitoba. Police believe the remains of two victims are buried in the Prairie Green landfill.

Operations at a Canadian landfill where the bodies of at least two Indigenous victims of a suspected serial killer are believed to be buried have been halted after authorities did not do enough to recover the bodies.

Winnipeg police announced last week that Jeremy Skibicki, 35, was charged with killing a man from the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, reports The Guardian.

He is also accused of killing a fourth unidentified victim, known to the local Aboriginal community as the Buffalo Woman (Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe).

Earlier this week, police said they believed the remains of Harris and Mylan were buried at the Prairie Green landfill but ruled out recovering the bodies, saying the size of the site and lack of resources made the mission impossible.

Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson and Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham told reporters Thursday afternoon that the landfill had temporarily stopped accepting waste at the request of officials, adding to the increase. the possibility of a search being carried out.

Police Chief Danny Smyth said while Contois' body was recovered from another landfill, the size of the Prairie Green landfill would complicate any search efforts. He said nearly 10,000 truckloads of waste had been dumped since March when the remains were likely to go to the landfill, which had been compacted with 12 meters of heavy mud. Smith also said investigators had no clear starting point to search the sprawling facility.