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Rare Hearing and Test-Phase Landfill Search Offer New Hope for Shingoose Family

Officials say the preliminary work will inform a full-scale search for her remains later this year

Albert Shingoose, father of Ashlee Shingoose, who was murdered by Jeremy Skibicki, is comforted outside the Manitoba Law Courts before they entered to present victim impact statements to the court in Winnipeg, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation Chief Raymond Flett speaks at a press conference confirming the identity of Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe also known as Buffalo Woman as Ashlee Christine Shingoose of St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation, at the Carol Shields Auditorium in the Millennium Library in Winnipeg Wednesday March 26, 2025. David Lipnowski / The Globe and Mail
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says a preliminary search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of a slain First Nations woman has begun. Activists for Indigenous rights blockade the main road into the Brady Road landfill, Monday, July 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski
A portrait of Ashlee Christine Shingoose sits on display at a ceremony and press conference in Winnipeg, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Officials confirmed the identity of Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, also known as Buffalo Woman, as Shingoose, 30, from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Overview

  • Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench held a unique post-conviction hearing on August 15 to let Ashlee Shingoose’s family and community deliver oral victim impact statements
  • At the hearing, Shingoose’s father, Albert, spoke of his enduring anger and held an eagle feather as he conveyed the depth of his family’s loss
  • Premier Wab Kinew announced that ground-penetrating radar tests and small excavations have begun at the Brady Road Landfill to pilot methods for locating Shingoose’s remains
  • Investigators are combining garbage-truck GPS data, DNA results and post-trial interviews with Jeremy Skibicki to guide the landfill search strategy
  • This work builds on earlier digs that recovered remains of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and parts of Rebecca Contois and underscores calls for repatriation and systemic reform