Identified! Canada - Woman's body found at recycling depot, Winnipeg, 28 Sept 2018 - Mary Madeline Yellowback

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'Absolutely appalling': Homicide unit investigating after woman's body found at recycling depot | CBC News

Police tape could be seen outside of a recycling depot in the Omand's Creek industrial area Saturday morning. Police say a woman's body was found Friday night, and they are treating it as a suspicious death. (Travis Golby/CBC )

"Winnipeg police are investigating a gruesome discovery at a recycling depot Friday night in the Omand's Creek industrial area.

Police responded to a call at around 7:05 p.m. Friday, after the body of a middle-aged woman was found mixed in with recycling materials.

Const. Jay Murray said at a news conference on Saturday that workers were sorting through recycled material when the the woman's body was discovered. Investigators aren't ruling anything out, but Murray said it's believed she was picked up somewhere else in the city and ultimately transported to the depot. "

 

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'This is somebody’s daughter': Investigation after woman's body found at Winnipeg recycling depot
"It is believed that she had come in from a secondary location and investigators believe she may have been transported in a recycling bin to the facility."

“Workers were sorting through recycled material that had come in from within the city of Winnipeg and at that time they discovered her among other recyclable materials,” said Murray at a hastily-called media conference Saturday. “It is believed she was picked up somewhere else in the city and ultimately transported to this recycling depot.”

Police tape was set up around the perimeter of the facility and a police cruiser was parked outside of one of the depot’s loading dock doors on Saturday in an effort to lock down the area and preserve any evidence.

Efforts are underway to identify her and notify her next of kin. Limited information was available at this time as police await the results of an autopsy expected to be completed Sunday or Monday.

“Investigators are looking at all possibilities (at how she was transported to the depot) and they don’t want to rule anything out at this time,” said Murray.

This investigation is continuing by members of the Homicide Unit. Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477)."

 

[Al Ka]

Identified

Winnipeg police say the woman found in a recycling depot was Mary Madeline Yellowback (Ross), 33.

Police say the body of a middle-aged woman was found at the depot on Friday night. Police were called to the depot in the 100 block of Omands Creek Boulevard shortly after 7 p.m. for reports of “suspicious circumstances.”

The body of an adult woman was spotted among the recycled material.

Vigil to be held Tuesday after Winnipeg police identify woman found dead at recycling depot

 

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In a composed, quiet tone, a father conveyed his shock that his daughter, who he thought had gone missing, was found dead in a load of recycling in Winnipeg.

"I never realized it would be me … that would lose a daughter through this tragic event of being destroyed, her life being cut short," Rex Ross said.

Mary Madeline Yellowback, 33, from Gods River, Man., was found dead in a recycling depot in an industrial area in Winnipeg's northwest corner Friday evening, police confirmed on Tuesday.
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Winnipeg police do not yet know the cause of her death, nor how she was transported to the recycling depot in the Omand's Creek Industrial area. Officers are treating the investigation as a suspicious death, until the homicide unit determines how she died.

Her family says she was a happy-go-lucky woman who enjoyed working in home care. She was a married mother of six children, aged between three and 13.
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Yellowback, 33, was visiting Winnipeg for medical care, her relatives say.

Police believe she was picked up somewhere else in the city and was taken to the recycling depot.

Yellowback was last seen Thursday night at the hotel where she was staying.
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He remembers joining the search for his niece Sunshine Wood, who went missing in 2004 outside a hotel in downtown Winnipeg. She is one of the cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Manitoba that remains unsolved.

Ross is thankful his daughter was even found.

'I never realized it would be me': Father in shock after missing daughter found dead in recycling depot | CBC News

 

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It is very touching that the recycling workers also attended the vigil. Class!
Friends, family gather to pay respects at vigil

JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

Recycling workers greet family and friends of Mary Yellowback, whose body was found in a recycling depot over the weekend, outside Cascades Recovery at a vigil Tuesday evening.


THE glow of burning candles held in the hands of mourners filled the night as the last light was drained from the sky Tuesday during a vigil for Mary Madeline Yellowback, whose body was found in a recycling bin last week.

Hundreds gathered at the recycling depot, Cascades Recovery, in an industrial area in the northwest corner of Winnipeg, where Yellowback’s body was discovered by a dozen employees amongst recyclables last Friday.

The mourners Tuesday included those employees, still dressed in their work overalls, alongside Yellowback’s family, and local NDP MLAs Bernadette Smith (Point Douglas) and Nahanni Fontaine (St. Johns).

One-by-one, those in attendance lined up to hug and express their sorrow to Yellowback’s family, which included her father, siblings, and three of her six children, among other relatives.

 

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Winnipeg police identify mother of six found in recycling as Mary Madeline Yellowback - APTN News
"Police have released photos of Yellowback on the night of Sept. 27.
They believe she was in the downtown area the night before she was discovered".
Anyone with information is asked to call the Winnipeg Police Service at 204-986-6508.


A photo from what looks like security camera footage captured Yellowback wearing a grey hoodie with a red R on the front.

According to a statement released by the family, Yellowback had six children, aged three, four, six, nine and 13. She and her husband Clifford Yellowback had one child who died in a car collision in 2009 at the age of four.”

 

[meanmaryjean]

Tragic circumstances all the way around. Hopefully more CCTV will be found.