Family of Tanya Nepinak renewing calls for search of Brady Road Landfill in Winnipeg
Posted February 27, 2025 5:30 pm.
Last Updated February 27, 2025 8:06 pm.
The discovery of potential human remains at the Prairie Green Landfill has re-opened wounds for other people looking for closure or answers, like the family of Tanya Nepinak who have been pushing for a search to find her for over 10 years after she went missing.
“This gives me hope that the Brady Landfill will be searched,” Sue Caribou, Tanya Nepinak’s aunt.
“There’s remains at the Brady Landfill of my niece. And they did six days for her, and they didn’t go back to search, and they haven’t searched for my niece ever since then.”
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Nepinak went missing on September 13, 2011, when she left her home to go for pizza and never returned. Nine months later, Shawn Lamb was charged with second-degree murder.
To this day, Nepinak’s remains haven’t been found. Her aunt says the Winnipeg police searched the Brady Landfill for less than a week and stopped. Nothing was found. At the press conference Thursday, the family of Morgan Harris called to continue searching for Tanya and many others.
“We need to go back to Brady, where we know Tanya Nepinak is at. Again, I don’t know how anyone sleeps at night time knowing that she still lays there and we know she’s there. So why hasn’t the work begun over there as well,” said Melissa Robinson, Morgan Harris’ cousin.
Caribou adds, “I’m grateful for the Morgan warriors there out there every night doing search, you know? They actually do the search, they don’t just talk, they go and search. So I’m grateful for the morgan’s support.”
While the potential remains found at the Prairie Green Landfill give Caribou hope, she says more needs to be done to bring closure to her family and many others.
“I haven’t stopped praying for my niece to be brought home. So she can have dignity and respect … a proper burial. And to know, that she’s home now.”
