ManitobaThe mother of a man killed in a Manitoba First Nation is issuing a plea for information she hopes could help investigators learn more about how her son ended up dead in a wooded area two summers ago.Lyndon McIvor, 25, found dead in wooded area Aug. 26, 2023, after disappearing 5 days earlierCBC News · Posted: Aug 26, 2025 9:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 29 minutes agoLyndon McIvor, 25, was last seen in Lake Manitoba First Nation on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. (Submitted by Lundar RCMP)The mother of a man killed in a Manitoba First Nation is issuing a plea for information she hopes could help investigators learn more about how her son ended up dead in a wooded area two summers ago.Lyndon McIvor, 25, disappeared after a night out with friends in Lake Manitoba First Nation on Aug. 26, 2023. Searchers found the young father dead in a forested area in the community, about 160 kilometres north of Winnipeg. “My grandsons think he’s away,” McIvor’s mother, Cheryl Maytwayashing, said through tears in a video posted to the Manitoba RCMP YouTube account on Tuesday. “Some nights I don’t sleep. My grandsons won’t get their dad back. My sons won’t have their brother. We just need answers.”This is the second year in a row Maytwayashing has marked the anniversary of her son’s death with a public call for answers through RCMP.The day before he went missing in 2023, McIvor said he was going to a “bliss ball,” a recreational sport with similarities to baseball, Maytwayashing told RCMP.The body of Lyndon McIvor, 25, was found in a forested area of Lake Manitoba First Nation five days after he was last seen on Aug. 26, 2023. (Manitoba RCMP)His brother called her, concerned after he couldn’t reach McIvor, she said. By Aug. 27, the family learned where he had been dropped off, and which house he was at the night he disappeared.By mid-week the following week, community searchers found his body.RCMP previously said they believe his body was dumped there.”If it’s your child, your grandchild, niece, nephew, ask them to talk, because it’s affecting a lot of people,” Maytwayashing said in the RCMP video.”I am scared. What if these people go and do it to another family? And we don’t want that. Hopefully somebody has a heart to tell what really happened that night, because people do know what happened.”In September 2023, RCMP said Barry Leslie Swan, 36, from Lake Manitoba First Nation, had been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the homicide.Provincial court filings suggest that charge was stayed in court in Ashern on Sept. 11, 2024, a Manitoba Courts spokesperson said in an email to CBC News on Tuesday.An RCMP spokesperson confirmed Tuesday there was a stay of proceedings, and the case is no longer before the courts.RCMP said they are confident the person or people responsible for McIvor’s death are still in Lake Manitoba First Nation.Maytwayashing said McIvor was an outgoing sports fan who was proud of his two young sons.She said she can’t bring herself to bury his remains until she finds out what happened.”My son’s ashes are still in the house, and I won’t bury him until I know,” Maytwayashing told RCMP.Anyone with information is asked to contact RCMP at 431-489-8110.More from CBC Manitoba:With files from Bryce Hoye
Mother pleads for answers 2 years after son found dead in Lake Manitoba First Nation
