'We need her body': Grandmother of homicide victim urges police to search Winnipeg landfill for remains
CBC
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
The grandmother of Marcedes Myran — one of the four women police allege were killed by the same man — says she wants police to search a Winnipeg landfill for her granddaughter's remains.
"We have no idea how to have a funeral when she's not there," Donna Bartlett told CBC on Saturday.
"We need her body. We need to have complete closure."
Police said on Thursday they believe Myran, who was from Long Plain First Nation but living in Winnipeg, was killed by Jeremy Skibicki.
He was charged last May with first-degree murder in the death of another First Nations woman living in Winnipeg, 24-year-old Rebecca Contois.
On Thursday, police said he'd also been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Myran, 39-year-old Morgan Harris, who was also from Long Plain, and another woman who has yet to be identified.
Police have previously said they believe the three identified victims, including Myran, were all killed in May.
Bartlett says her granddaughter made contact with family for the last time on March 15. The 26-year-old mother started living on the streets after her children were put into foster care, said Bartlett.
"That's who I blame for her being on the street.… That broke her," she said.
The family hoped that Myran would reappear, she said, but contacted police and put out posters reporting her as missing on Sept. 27.
"I just wanted her to be alive," said Bartlett. "That's all I wanted — to know that she was still alive — and then the worst thing happened."
The family had never heard of the man now accused of killing Myran until police visited them on Thursday to break the news, said Bartlett.
"I had hope until Thursday," she said. "Thursday shattered me — shattered the family."
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