The search for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose has officially begun at Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg, Premier Wab Kinew says.

“I hope we will be able to bring … her home soon,” Kinew told reporters at an unrelated news conference on Monday, after taking part in a ceremony with Shingoose’s parents and her sister at the landfill to mark the start of the search.

Shingoose, originally from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation, was identified in March as the previously unknown victim of a serial killer also convicted in the deaths of Morgan Harris, 39, Marcedes Myran, 26 — both originally from Long Plain First Nation — and Rebecca Contois, 24, a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation.