Manitoba landfill search: province, First Nations group start recruiting workers [Video]

WINNIPEG –

The Manitoba government and an advocacy group representing First Nations have started the process of hiring workers to help search a landfill for the remains of two victims of a serial killer.

The province says it is working with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs to recruit multiple full- and part-time technicians to help forensic anthropologists search for the Indigenous women’s remains in the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg.

The government says applicants are not expected to have extensive experience in the area.

It says family and community members are encouraged to apply and preference is to be given to Indigenous applicants.

The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to have been taken to the landfill in the spring of 2022.

Jeremy Skibicki was convicted of first-degree murder in their deaths — as well as in the killings of two other Indigenous women.

The government said in …