ManitobaThe province says it’s planning to search the Brady Road landfill for Tanya Nepinak, a missing Winnipeg woman who disappeared more than a decade ago.Missing Winnipeg woman disappeared back in 2011, believed to be in Brady landfillDave Baxter · CBC News · Posted: Aug 13, 2025 7:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours agoThe province announced this week there are plans to search the Brady Road landfill for Tanya Nepinak, who went missing in September of 2011. (CBC)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 mother, saying 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 First Nations 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. Nepinak’s aunt Sue Caribou, who has acted as a spokesperson for the family since she went missing, says the family has been fighting for 13 years for another search of the landfill. She said police conducted an approximately three-day search for her remains in 2012, and her and her family was very upset when police told them they were calling off a search after three days. Sue Caribou stands at the steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Saturday, July 19, 2025, calling on the government to search for her niece Tanya Nepinak, 31, who went missing more than a decade ago. (Travis Golby/CBC)”I was devastated,” Caribou said. “We were heartbroken.”I thought they were going to search and bring her home.”What followed that initial search was years of frustration for Caribou as she said her and others have continued to plead for another search. She said she has always held out hope that a landfill won’t be her niece’s final resting place, and that one day she can be properly laid to rest. “I continue to advocate so she’s not forgotten, she’s in a landfill in a pile of trash where no human being should be left, and I get angry when I talk about her being left on a pile of trash, like she’s trash.”Despite being gone for more than 10 years, Caribou said she now once again has some hope that Nepinak’s remains will be discovered and returned to her family. “I pray that we bring her home,” she said. “I just won’t give up, I can’t. I love her and miss her so much.”I just hope they keep their promises and don’t give up, and really bring her home this time.”ABOUT THE AUTHORDave Baxter is an award-winning reporter and editor currently working for CBC Manitoba. Born and raised in Winnipeg, he has also previously reported for the Winnipeg Sun and the Winnipeg Free Press, as well as several rural Manitoba publications.
Province plans to search Brady Road landfill for Tanya Nepinak, Manitoba premier says
