'I'm still not giving up': Third stage of landfill search begins in Manitoba
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It's been a long and emotional journey for Manitoba residential school survivor Susan Caribou. Her niece, Tanya Nepinak, has been missing since September 2011 and has never been found.
It’s been a long and emotional journey for Manitoba residential school survivor Susan Caribou. Her niece, Tanya Nepinak, has been missing since September 2011 and has never been found.
“I’m still not giving up on Tanya,” says Caribou. “She matters to me. Tanya is still loved. We want her home, we want to have a proper burial. Having no closure, you wonder every day if she’s alive or not.”
In October 2012, Winnipeg police started searching the Brady Road Landfill. Investigators believe Nepinak’s body was put in a West End dumpster a year after she vanished, but a search was unsuccessful.
“I really pray that they will search all the landfills, and a lot of families will have that closure.”
On Wednesday, the Manitoba government announced that search efforts are now underway at Manitoba’s Prairie Green Landfill to find the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, who were killed by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. Debris is now being moved as the province prepares to search for two slain Indigenous women.
“The search of the Prairie Green Landfill is moving ahead, and we have significant progress to show,” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.
The province implemented a five-stage approach to conducting the search. The Manitoba government has begun the third stage.
