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A search for the remains of Indigenous women at another Winnipeg landfill will begin Monday, CBC News has learned.
This week, the province trained personnel to prepare to search for remains at the Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg. Ashley Shingoose, one of the victims of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. He is currently serving four concurrent life sentences with no possibility of parole for 25 years after being convicted of killing four Indigenous women in Winnipeg in 2022.
Once that search is complete, the province previously announced it plans to search the same landfill for Nepinak asked: a woman who disappeared more than ten years ago.
The government declined to comment on Friday.
Nepinak had not been seen or heard from since Sept. 13, 2011, when she left her Winnipeg home where she lived with her mother and said she was heading to a nearby restaurant to get pizza.
Although Nepinak's remains were not found, police told her family they believed she was a victim of convicted Winnipeg serial killer Sean Lamb and said there was a strong possibility her remains were at the Brady Road landfill.
The province began a “test phase” of searching the landfill in August. It involved excavating the area to determine what the search process would look like, as well as conducting ground penetrating radar tests to narrow down the location.
A search of the Prairie Green private landfill, located near Stony Mountain, ended over the summer after the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, also Skibicki's victims, were found.
At Skibicki's trial, it was revealed that he targeted women from homeless shelters in Winnipeg and dumped their bodies in trash cans.
He was also found guilty in the death of Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were discovered at the Brady Road landfill by Winnipeg police in June 2022.
At the time of the trial, Shingus had not been identified and was referred to in court as Mashkode Bizhikiikwe, or Buffalo Woman, a name given to her by common First Nations people.
Months later, police announced that Skibitsky's post-trial interviews, as well as DNA evidence, allowed them to identify the unknown victim as Shyngusa. They said they believed her body was taken to a landfill.
