Landfill search for Ontario man proves it's possible, but Manitoba lacks political will: former police officer

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A former deputy police chief who led the successful hunt for a homicide victim’s partial remains after they were thrown into a dumpster says a similar search for two homicide victims at a Manitoba landfill can be done safely.

“It can be done. It’s just a matter of somebody having the political will to do it,” said Sean Sparling, who’s now CEO of Investigative Solutions Network Maskwa, an Indigenous-owned investigative firm in Ontario that contributed to a federally funded Manitoba landfill search feasibility study.

Police believe the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran — two of