ManitobaThe search for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose has officially begun at Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg. Premier Wab Kinew says 1st truckload with landfill debris moved to search facility Monday morningListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Premier Wab Kinew says the search for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose at the Brady Road landfill has officially begun. The search for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose has officially begun at Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg, Premier Wab Kinew says.Around 8:45 a.m. on Monday, the first truckload with landfill debris drove down the hill to a search facility where workers will comb through it to search for the remains. “I hope we will be able to bring … her home soon,” Kinew told reporters at an unrelated news conference on Monday, after taking part in a ceremony with Shingoose’s parents and her sister at the landfill to mark the start of the search. Shingoose, originally from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation, was identified in March as the previously unknown victim of a serial killer also convicted in the deaths of Morgan Harris, 39, Marcedes Myran, 26 — both originally from Long Plain First Nation — and Rebecca Contois, 24, a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation.The 30-year-old was the first of four women killed by Jeremy Skibicki. It is believed she died in March 2022. Police previously said investigators believe her body was placed in a garbage bin behind a business on Henderson Highway, in Winnipeg’s North Kildonan area, before it was taken to the Brady landfill in March 2022. Her remains are still believed to be in the landfill. A file picture shows posters put up along the fence of the Brady Road landfill on Jan. 15, 2023. The remains of Ashlee Shingoose are believed to be at the facility, where crews have started a targeted search in hopes of finding them. (Travis Golby/CBC)The province has done tests to narrow the search area and pulled off and stored a layer of landfill debris, known as overburden. From there, crews began removing material from the targeted zone to a facility that was moved to Brady Road after it was used to find the remains of Harris and Myran at privately run Prairie Green landfill, in a search that started last December. “This is the same process that brought Morgan and Mercedes home. Now hopefully we’ll bring Ashley home,” Kinew said. “We’ve just done some tweaks and maybe some specific tailoring of what that process looks like given the Brady site.”The initial effort is expected to last six months, but the province is budgeting for the operation to continue, if needed, Kinew said.The search at Prairie Green, which ended in the summer, was “dramatically underbudget,” the premier said, and the remaining funds will be used for additional searches. The province previously announced plans to search the same landfill for Tanya Nepinak, who has not been seen or heard from since Sept. 13, 2011. Police did a six-day search for her remains at the Brady Road landfill in 2012 but didn’t find her.Shawn Lamb was previously charged with second-degree murder in Nepinak’s death. That charge was later dropped and Lamb was convicted of manslaughter in the 2012 killings of Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith.A search for Nepinak will be different because of how long it has been since she disappeared, and because it may target a different part of the landfill, Kinew said. ABOUT THE AUTHORSantiago Arias Orozco is a journalist with CBC Manitoba currently based in Winnipeg. He previously worked for CBC Toronto and the Toronto Star. You can reach him at santiago.arias.orozco@cbc.ca.With files from The Canadian Press
Search of Brady Road landfill for remains of Ashlee Shingoose begins, province says
