WINNIPEG — The successfully completed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for two victims of a convicted serial killer cost $18 million — less than one-tenth of the original worst-case estimate, Premier Wab Kinew revealed Wednesday.

A 2023 feasibility study estimated the effort to comb privately owned Prairie Green Landfill north of the city for the remains of the Indigenous women could take up to three years and cost up to $184 million.

“Most importantly, the landfill search was successful at returning Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris,” Kinew said outside his office at the legislature.

The search that began Dec. 2 turned up partial remains of both Indigenous women within a few months. Myran, 26, and Harris, 39, were murdered, along with two other Indigenous women between March and May 2

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