Mother fasting as she demands search of Regina landfill for daughter's remains

Hannah Spray · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 3:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Michele Bear believes she knows wherever her daughter's remains are, and she can't recognize wherefore efforts aren't being made to find them.

Her girl Richele Bear was killed by Clayton Eichler, who is serving a beingness condemnation for the second-degree murders of Richele, 23, and Kelly Goforth, 21. They were some killed successful 2013.

While Goforth's assemblage was discovered successful a dumpster, Richele's remains were ne'er found. Michele, who's from Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, said she's been told Richele's assemblage apt was besides enactment successful a dumpster and ended up astatine the Regina landfill.

She has called for a hunt of the landfill before. On Tuesday, she began camping retired adjacent the entranceway and started a fast, which she said she'll proceed for "as agelong arsenic it takes."

"I privation the City of Regina to recognize that, you know, my girl is retired here," Michele said successful an interrogation connected Thursday, Day 3 of her fast.

Richele's relatives tried to get an reply from Eichler erstwhile helium pleaded blameworthy to the execution charge, backmost successful a Regina courtroom successful 2016, but helium said helium didn't cognize wherever the assemblage was.

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The Regina Police Service declined an interrogation request, but said successful a connection that they "will prosecute each leads and information" that mightiness assistance them find Richele.

"We privation to clarify that, astatine this time, we person nary grounds that would corroborate the determination of her remains," the connection said.

Police officers, including the manager of the unfortunate services program, person been gathering with Michele doubly regular — erstwhile during the time and erstwhile astatine nighttime — "to assistance guarantee her safety," constabulary said.

"The RPS has a long-standing narration with Ms. Bear and volition proceed to support lines of connection unfastened with her."

Other landfill searches

Searches for the remains of missing women successful landfills successful 2 different Prairie cities person been palmy successful caller years.

Last year, Saskatoon constabulary recovered the remains of Mackenzie Trottier aft a three-month hunt astatine the city's landfill. Police said the fishy died successful a cause overdose and a hunt of his telephone aft his decease showed online searches for garbage pickup schedules astatine the clip Trottier went missing.

Investigators were capable to usage GPS information from garbage trucks to find a peculiar determination astatine the landfill to search. The hunt took spot successful the summertime of 2024. Trottier had gone missing successful December 2020.

Earlier this year, the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were recovered astatine the Prairie Green landfill northbound of Winnipeg. They were among 4 Indigenous women who were the victims of a serial killer.

Police had video surveillance from May 2022 that showed the slayer putting their remains successful a garbage bin, which was past taken to the Prairie Green landfill.

Family members advocated for a landfill hunt and the contented was portion of Manitoba's 2023 provincial election, with the governing Progressive Conservatives campaigning connected their absorption to it and the NDP promising to transportation it out. The NDP won the predetermination and the hunt went ahead.

Michele Bear said she is disquieted that her girl mightiness not beryllium the lone loved 1 whose remains extremity up astatine the landfill.

"I'm lone acrophobic that, you know, these radical are going to recognize that the City of Regina's not going to look for the women successful the dumpsters, truthful we mightiness arsenic good conscionable support throwing them there," she said.

"That's my fear."