Feb 4 2023 by MOLLY HAYES
Police and grieving families believe two victims of an alleged serial killer are buried at Prairie Green Landfill. The Globe asked forensics experts, who saw hope that the right techniques could unearth answers
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''For months after police determined Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were likely buried at the Prairie Green Landfill, the garbage kept flowing in.
The families of the two women had no idea, even as they taped missing-person posters up around Winnipeg last summer and made desperate pleas for information on social media through the fall. Dumping continued at Prairie Green, located about a half-hour drive north of the city, and police did not search the site for the women’s remains.
It wasn’t until December that authorities revealed what they had concluded in early summer: that both victims had been killed by an alleged serial killer, who had targeted them and other Indigenous women. But the Winnipeg Police Service said it was too late to search the landfill, and that trying to do so would be too difficult and dangerous because of contaminants at the site, including asbestos.''
Cambria Harris, top, wants answers and accountability for the death of her mother, Morgan Harris. At bottom, the two smile together in an old family photo.MELISSA TAIT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL; COURTESY OF FAMILY/HANDOUT
For Cambria Harris, the crows at the landfill – a symbol of death – felt like a message from her mother. She is committed to find her again.
''For Ms. Harris’s daughter Cambria, confirmation of her mother’s death was a devastating blow. But what stung even more was that police could fathom leaving her remains in such a degrading resting place.
“The message you are sending to the greater Indigenous community, and the greater society of Canada, is that it’s okay to continuously murder our women, and it’s okay to continuously dump them like trash, because no one will look for them,” she said.''