Were not garbage, grief-stricken father of serial killers victim says, pleading for start of landfill search Winnipeg Free Press [Video]

“We’re not garbage. Nobody is garbage.”

Anguished father Albert Shingoose, voice raised and fist in the air, called on police and politicians Thursday to move ahead quickly with a search of Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill for the remains of his daughter Ashlee, who was murdered by a serial killer in 2022.

Winnipeg Police Service investigators travelled 450 kilometres to St. Theresa Point First Nation Tuesday to deliver the heartbreaking news to Shingoose and his wife Theresa: convicted killer Jeremy Skibicki’s previously unidentified victim — who had been given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) by Indigenous elders — was 30-year-old Ashlee, last seen outside a downtown homeless shelter three years ago.

“I need your words. I need your voices — speak up,” Albert Shingoose told a news conference in Winnipeg hosted by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Thursday, issuing a public plea for support from the public for a search.

“The landfill is not a burial ground for anybody.”

Skibicki was convicted last July for …