A newly released document shows the head of the RCMP told Ottawa the national police force could offer guidance to the Winnipeg police on searching a landfill for the remains of two First Nations women.
As anger grew over the initial refusal by the Winnipeg police to search the site, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told federal deputy ministers about some of the ways the Mounties could help — including by sharing their experience searching the pig farm of serial killer Robert Pickton.
Police had said searching the landfill for the remains of Harris and Myran was not feasible and that the chances of finding them were low, citing the amount of time that had passed as one reason. The RCMP "compiled information from within the organization in order to be prepared to respond to potential calls for assistance," spokesperson Cpl. Kim Chamberland said in a statement Tuesday.
For more than a year, officers and experts scoured the property for women who disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, eventually finding the remains of several, after hundreds of thousands of DNA samples and exhibits were collected.
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