Morgan Harris's daughters say police told them her body is likely in Prairie Green Landfill north of Winnipeg
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
The daughters of Morgan Harris — one of four women police allege were killed by a Winnipeg man — say police told them their mother's remains are believed to be at a landfill north of the city, not the Brady Road landfill.
But at a Tuesday news conference, Winnipeg police said a number of factors impacted their decision not to search the Prairie Green Landfill for remains.
Kera and Cambria Harris say they were told by police on Monday that their mother's remains are believed to be at Prairie Green Landfill in Stony Mountain, Man., and officers gave a PowerPoint presentation to them, explaining why they won't search there.
"They say that they can't search because it's not feasible. Is human life not feasible?" Cambria said at a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday.
"Time and time again, our Indigenous women and brothers and sisters have to come here, and we have to shout and we have to raise our voices begging for change and begging for justice for our people, and that is wrong."
Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth confirmed on Tuesday that investigators believe the women's remains are at the Prairie Green Landfill, just north of Winnipeg.
"We're doing our best to be transparent, while understanding that the integrity of the prosecution is important. We don't want to inadvertently compromise the prosecution," he said at a news conference on Tuesday.
Cambria and her sister Kera travelled from Winnipeg to Ottawa with a number of First Nations advocacy organizations to demand help from the federal government to address the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.
Police said last week they believe Morgan, who was from Long Plain First Nation but living in Winnipeg, was killed by Jeremy Skibicki. Her remains haven't been found.
Skibicki was charged in May with first-degree murder in the death of Rebecca Contois, 24, another First Nations woman living in Winnipeg. Her partial remains were found at the Brady Road landfill.
On Thursday, police said he's also charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Morgan, Marcedes Myran, who was also from Long Plain, and an unidentified woman whom community members have named Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.
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Morgan's daughter Kera said police should do whatever it takes to find the remains of the women.
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