Landfill search begins for remains of Ashlee Shingoose in Winnipeg

Manitoba has begun a search at a Winnipeg landfill to recover the remains of Ashlee Shingoose, one of four First Nations women murdered by a serial killer and the only victim authorities had been unable to identify until earlier this year.

For years, Ms. Shingoose, of St. Theresa Point First Nation, was referred to as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, meaning Buffalo Woman. It was a spirit name in Anishinaabemowin that Indigenous elders had given to her in 2022, when she was killed at the age of 30 by Jeremy Skibicki.