City of Winnipeg considers search of landfill that may contain remains of 2 women
CBC
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
The chair of Winnipeg's police board says officials are trying to find a way to conduct what he calls a meaningful search for the bodies of two First Nations women believed to be in a landfill north of the city.
The police board met on Thursday evening with police Chief Danny Smyth and senior police inspectors to discuss the calls to search the Prairie Green landfill in the rural municipality of Rosser.
"We're also going to consult with industry experts, whether it's forensic anthropologists, whether it's waste management experts, whether it's excavating experts," St. Norbert-Seine River Coun. Markus Chambers, the police board chair, told CBC News on Friday.
Any search of that landfill would be beyond the expertise of the Winnipeg Police Service because it would involve excavation, he said.
He added that a search would be "humanitarian," rather than to contribute to any evidence gathering for police.
Smyth said last week that he believes the remains of two women allegedly killed by Jeremy Skibicki are in the privately operated landfill north of the city, but that a search wouldn't be feasible at this point.
That ignited calls from First Nations advocacy groups and family members for Smyth to resign.
Smyth said in a statement on Friday that he won't resign.
"One of my duties as the chief of police is to ensure that thorough investigations are conducted that gather evidence to hold criminal offenders to account," Smyth said in a written statement.
"To that end, I have performed my duties to the best of my ability."
Smyth said he remains "committed to securing a criminal conviction for these heinous crimes."
"I will not be resigning," his statement concluded.
Read Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth's full statement here:
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