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A search will begin Monday at another Winnipeg landfill for the remains of First Nations women, CBC News has learned.
The province trained staff this week in preparation for the search of the Brady Road landfill, located on the south end of Winnipeg, for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose, one of the victims of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. he is He is now serving four concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years after being convicted of killing four First Nations women in Winnipeg in 2022.
Once the search is complete, the province has previously announced it plans to search the same landfill Tanya Nepinak, a woman who disappeared more than a decade ago.
The government declined to comment on Friday.
Nepinak has not been seen or heard from since Sept. 13, 2011, when he left his home in Winnipeg, where he lived with his mother, saying he was headed to a nearby restaurant to buy pizza.
While Nepinak’s remains have not been recovered, police told her family they believe she was a victim of convicted Winnipeg serial killer Shawn Lamb, and said it is highly likely her remains are at the Brady Road landfill.
The province began a “test phase” of searching the landfill in August. It included excavating an area to determine what the search process would look like, as well as conducting ground-penetrating radar testing to narrow down the location.
The search at the private Prairie Green landfill near Stony Mountain ended in the summer after the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, also Skibicki’s victims, were found.
Skibicki’s trial heard he attacked women at Winnipeg homeless shelters and dumped their bodies in trash bins.
He was also convicted 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, Shingoose had not been identified and was referred to in court as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, a name given to her by members of the indigenous community.
Months later, police announced that interviews with Skibicki after the trial, along with DNA testing, led them to identify the unknown victim as Shingoose. They said they believed his body was taken to the landfill.
