Manager of Prairie Green landfill cooperating with WPS; offers condolences
Posted December 7, 2022 2:51 pm.
Last Updated December 7, 2022 6:51 pm.
The district manager of a private landfill north of Winnipeg says the company is co-operating fully with police and extending condolences to the families of two women believed to have been killed and taken there.
Barry Blue, of Waste Connections of Canada, says he cannot comment on the deaths of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, given the ongoing police investigation.
“The disappearance of these young women is an unspeakable tragedy and all of us are extremely upset by it,” said Blue.
He says, generally, the Prairie Green landfill is a place where things are being moved all the time, and that makes locating anything very challenging.
The company does not know all of the details of the police investigation as it’s ongoing, Blue added.
“We’re not able to really comment on the ability to locate or retrieve the victims at this time,” he said.
“I can tell you that the landfill is a dynamic, dangerous place with lots of moving pieces… and so that makes locating anything extremely challenging.”
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Winnipeg police believe the two women’s remains ended up in the landfill in the spring, and say they are not launching a search because the chances of finding remains are very low.
They cite the passage of time, the fact 10,000 truckloads of refuse were dumped in the area in the following months and the fact that trash at the landfill is compacted with heavy mud at a depth of about 12 metres.
Jeremy Skibicki has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of the two women as well as Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman that police and community leaders have named Buffalo Woman.
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