Winnipeg police found human remains in the Brady Road landfill during an investigation into the murder of Rebecca Contois.
Police searched part of the landfill after discovering some of Contois’s remains May 16 at North Kildonan.
The autopsy will determine if the remains found in the landfill are Contois, police said in a press release. The part of the landfill where the police were investigating remains closed.
After finding some of the 24-year-old’s body in a rubbish bin outside an apartment building on Edison Avenue, police believed some of her remains may have been taken to a landfill while receiving housing.
In May, police said there may be more victims linked to the investigation.
Rebecca Contois, 24, was a member of the Crane River First Nation and grew up in Winnipeg. (Submitted by Darryl Contois)
They contacted the landfill and stopped the dumping so that police could secure an area at the site, which is located just south of the Winnipeg ring road.
Bad weather and preparatory work delayed the start of investigations until June 2nd.
Jeremy Anthony Micheal Skibicki, 35, was charged with first-degree murder in Contois’s death.
Contois was a member of the Crane River First Nation and grew up in Winnipeg. She is one of three First Nations women killed in Winnipeg in two weeks last month.
Doris Trout, 25, was found dead in an apartment lobby on Kennedy Avenue in downtown Winnipeg on May 19, days after Condoa was found dead. Tessa Perry, a mother of four, was found seriously injured in a house in The Maples on May 28 and later died.
