
Province plans to search Brady Road landfill for Tanya Nepinak, Kinew says
"The focus that we're working on is Ashley Shingoose, because we have the information about the cell where we believe she's located, but we are making plans to search for Tanya Nepinak as well," Kinew told reporters at a Wednesday news conference.
Tanya Nepinak has not been seen or heard from since Sept. 13, 2011, when she walked out of her Winnipeg home where she lived with her mom, and told her mom she was heading to a nearby restaurant to get pizza.
While Nepinak's remains have not been recovered in the more than 10 years she has been missing, police have told her family they believe she was a victim of convicted Winnipeg serial killer Sean Lamb, and said there is a good chance her remains are in the Brady Road landfill, located in Winnipeg's south end.
On Wednesday, Kinew gave details about an upcoming search at the Winnipeg landfill for Ashley Shingoose, one of four victims of Jeremy Skibicki, who is now serving four concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years after being convicted of killing four Indigenous women in Winnipeg in 2022.
The premier said they are still in the planning stage of the Shingoose search, but once that search is complete, the province also plans to search the landfill for Nepinak.
"We're going to be processing sequentially, meaning we will do the search for Ashley and then the search for Tanya, but we need to share a little more details with the family before we can talk about that stage of it publicly," Kinew said.
"I would say that the main thing is that Manitoba is a place where if someone goes missing, we go looking, and we just want them to know that we can't guarantee the outcome, but we're going to try."
A search of the privately-run Prairie Green landfill, located near Stony Mountain, for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, also victims of Skibicki, finished this summer after remains of both women were found.
Skibicki was also convicted in the death of Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were discovered in the Brady Road landfill by Winnipeg police in June 2022.

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