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CBC
5 days ago
- CBC
Province plans to search Brady Road landfill for Tanya Nepinak, Kinew says
Manitoba's premier announced Wednesday the province is planning to search the Brady Road Landfill for a missing Winnipeg woman who disappeared more than a decade ago. "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.
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
‘We're going to try': Manitoba premier details plans to search Winnipeg landfill for missing women
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has revealed more details about how the government plans to conduct a search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of two missing Indigenous women. Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, Kinew confirmed that workers have started excavating a section of Brady Road landfill where they plan to search for the remains of Ashley Shingoose. 'We just want to kind of go back to basic principles and make sure that we're choosing the right approach that's going to give the maximum chance of success while also being delivered in a fiscally responsible approach,' Kinew said. 'And so I can tell you that in addition to the excavation tests being underway this week, we've also done ground-penetrating radar testing, and then we're going to be using a few other sampling approaches to try and see whether they might bring anything else to the table.' Shingoose, along with Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris, were confirmed as victims of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in 2022. Shingoose was known as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, a name given to her by Indigenous grassroots community members during the investigation and trial, as she wasn't positively identified until March 2025. The remains of Contois were discovered in the Brady Road landfill, while the remains of Harris and Myran were both found in the Prairie Green Landfill near Stony Mountain in 2024. Kinew said the goal is to begin searching for Shingoose's remains later this year. During the news conference, Kinew also shared plans are underway to search for the remains of Tanya Nepinak. Nepinak disappeared in 2011, and her remains are believed to also be in the Brady Road landfill. Kinew said the government is still speaking with Nepanik's family about the plans to search the landfill and couldn't share much information publicly but said the search would happen after the search for Shingoose was complete. 'Manitoba is a place where if somebody goes missing, we go looking,' Kinew said. 'We just want them to know that we can't guarantee the outcome, but we're going to try.'
