CANADA Canada- Tanya Jane Nepinak, 31, Winnipeg, MB, 13 Sep 2011

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Canada's Missing | Case details

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Tanya Nepinak was last seen leaving her home in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 13, 2011 to go shopping and has not been seen or heard from since. Tanya has always been in contact with her family and this behaviour is out of character for her.

Aliases NEPINAK, Candice
NEPINAK, Vanessa

Missing since September 13, 2011
Year of birth 1979
Age at disappearance 31
Gender Female
Bio group Indigenous
Eye colour Brown
Hair Brown, Wavy, Long
Teeth Visible Missing
Height 160cm / 5ft 3in
Weight 42kg / 93lb
Build Slender/Thin
Complexion Other

Mark Forehead, Birthmark
Tattoo Left Hand, Letters "T A N Y A" on each finger
Tattoo Right Hand, Name

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/tanya-jane-nepinak

Tanya Nepinak, 31, was last seen on Sept. 13, 2011 leaving her Winnipeg home to walk to a pizza restaurant a few blocks away. She never returned. Nine months later, Shawn Lamb was charged with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths and disappearances of Nepinak, Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith. Lamb was convicted of manslaughter in Sinclair’s and Blacksmith’s cases, while the charge for Nepinak was stayed. Police have searched downtown Winnipeg and the city’s landfill for her body, but it has not been found. Nepinak’s aunt remembers Tanya’s love of singing and her fondness for her family.

<<The charge in Nepinak’s death was stayed. Manitoba Justice officials said there was not enough evidence for a conviction.

“He admitted to it, but now he’s denying it. It’s very hard to get any justice, especially when you don’t have a body,” said Caribou.>>

 

[Pennysmom1]

April 2, 2025

Manitoba chiefs call for search of Winnipeg landfill for Tanya Nepinak

First Nations leaders in Manitoba say the search of a landfill for the victim of a serial killer must include recovery efforts for another First Nations woman who vanished more than a decade ago. Tanya Nepinak was last seen in Winnipeg in September 2011 and police believe her body was dumped in...

www.pembinavalleyonline.com

May 8, 2025

Winnipeg landfill search

Aunt, partner of Tanya Nepinak push for search of Winnipeg landfill 14 years after she disappeared

www.aptnnews.ca

Tanya Nepinak, Missing from Winnipeg since 2011.

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Tribal Information: Tanya is a member of the Pine Creek First Nation who are formally recognized as Anishinaabe or "Plains Ojibwe." Their people originated in Ontario on Lake Superior.

 

[dotr]

July 20 2025

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7589461

Image | TANYA NEPINAK
Caption: CBC has learned the second-degree murder charge against Shawn Lamb in the death of Tanya Nepinak has been stayed. (CBC)

''The aunt of a woman missing for over a decade stood at the steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Saturday echoing her calls on the province to include Tanya Nepinak, 31, in a targeted search of Winnipeg's Brady Landfill.
Sue Caribou held up an optimistic letter she wrote to her missing niece after a meeting with Premier Wab Kinew this spring, while others held signs at the legislative building that read: "Search for Tanya Nepinak."
"When they did mention they were going to search the Brady Landfill, again, they didn't mention my niece," Nepinak said through tears. "Why do they keep throwing her under the rug? Doesn't she matter?"

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/missing-woman-indigenous-search-1.7608489

The focus that we're working on is Ashley Shingoose, because we have the information about the cell where we believe she's located, but we are making plans to search for Tanya Nepinak as well," Kinew told reporters at a Wednesday news conference.

Tanya Nepinak has not been seen or heard from since Sept. 13, 2011, when she walked out of her Winnipeg home where she lived with her mother, saying she was heading to a nearby restaurant to get pizza.



Good they are finally going to look for her