Trawling Winnipeg's rivers for bodies of unsolved murder cases

Winnipeg's Red River has long been considered the unofficial graveyard of the city's criminal underworld. But when the body of a 15-year-old First Nations girl, Tina Fontaine, was pulled from the river, wrapped in a trash bag, in August 2014, it shocked the city and the country as a whole. A group of volunteers decided to go into the water to do what they say the police won't do.

VICE integrated with the 'Drag the Red' ground search crew checking the river banks for fresh bodies and a boat crew using fishing hooks to search the river for bodies that might have sunk in the river. bottom. We also spoke with local police about why they refuse to dredge the river themselves and what's happening with the unsolved cases of missing and murdered indigenous women.

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