Where Are Lilly And Jack? Questions Remain 6 Months After N.s. Kids Go Missing - Beritaja

For six months, a region successful Nova Scotia, the province, and the full state person wondered: what happened to Lilly and Jack Sullivan?

The six and five-year-old siblings were reported missing from their Lansdowne Station, N.S., location successful agrarian Pictou County connected May 2.

The children’s family has told media — and police, according to tribunal documents — that the relative and sister wandered distant that morning.

Here are immoderate cardinal updates successful the investigation:

Children reported missing

The family reported that six-year-old Lilly and then-four-year-old Jack had near their location connected Gairloch Road successful the early greeting hours of May 2.

The children’s stepfather, Daniel Martell, told BERITAJA that Lilly and Jack were location that greeting pinch him, his partner and their baby. When they noticed the children were missing, he said the family instantly ran extracurricular to look for them.

Police launched an extended hunt involving agencies from crossed the region — by ground, aerial and connected h2o — utilizing hunt and rescue volunteers, drones, constabulary dogs and helicopters. The hunt covered 4 quadrate kilometres of heavy-wooded agrarian terrain.

Six days in, RCMP said they were scaling backmost the hunt because the likelihood the children were live was “very low.”

“We’re not packing up and we’re not giving up,” Staff Sgt. Curtis MacKinnon, District Commander for Pictou County District RCMP, said connected May 7.

The provincial authorities has offered a reward of up to $150,000 for accusation that leads to the children being found. The disappearance has been added to the province’s Major Unsolved Crimes Program, which the state says is simply a “tool to thief constabulary successful awesome unsolved crime cases.”

Polygraphs and pieces of blanket

Police confirmed Lilly and Jack were last seen successful nationalist pinch family members connected May 1 based connected eyewitness accounts and video evidence.

Court documents released successful August included first impressions by constabulary of polygraphs fixed to Martell and the children’s mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray.

RCMP conducted astatine slightest 4 polygraphs during their investigation. Martell’s polygraph “indicated he was truthful.” The trial for Brooks-Murray recovered she was truthful erstwhile answering circumstantial questions, though the database of questions is redacted successful the document.

An unidentified investigator’s remark included astatine the extremity of a conception connected the results of some of those polygraphs says, “At this constituent successful the investigation Jack and Lilly’s disappearance is not believed to beryllium criminal successful nature.”

The documents besides confirmed that investigators found a 2nd portion of a pinkish broad that belonged to Lilly in the trash. The first portion was recovered a kilometre from the family location successful a character connected May 2.

On May 4, different portion of broad was seized by constabulary aft it was recovered wrong a trash container astatine the extremity of the driveway of the children’s home, according to police.

In a June update, RCMP said “all scenarios are being considered.”

There were 11 units moving connected the case, including the Behavioural Sciences Group and the Criminal Analysis Service, successful summation to the National Centre of Missing Persons and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.

“We’re committed to doing what is basal to find Lilly and Jack and beforehand the investigation, which whitethorn return longer than we each hoped,” said Cpl. Sandy Matharu, investigation lead pinch the Northeast Nova RCMP Major Crime Unit.

Cadaver dogs brought in

In September, 2 RCMP constabulary dogs specifically trained successful the discovery of quality remains were brought successful to hunt a 40-kilometre area adjacent the home.

It marked the first clip cadaver dogs were utilized successful the investigation.

Earlier this month, RCMP said those dogs did not find immoderate remains.

“The dogs are highly trained to observe and bespeak the scent of quality remains, therefore, if the dogs did not alert their handlers, it suggests the dogs were ne'er successful the beingness of quality remains odour,” said Staff Sgt. Stephen Pike pinch RCMP Police Dog Services.

“However, this doesn’t definitively norm retired the beingness of remains successful the areas that were searched. It intends either the odour is location and couldn’t beryllium detected aliases the odour isn’t there.”

RCMP said that their Northeast Nova Major Crime Unit is still pursuing up and assessing much than 860 tips, 8,060 video files and forensic testing.

Mother’s statement

Brooks-Murray told BERITAJA successful the days aft the children’s disappearance she was advised by constabulary not to speak to media.

A unpaid missing persons group, Please Bring Me Home, announced in mid-October it was joining the hunt for the siblings, and issued a connection connected behalf of Brooks-Murray.

In the statement, she writes, “I will ne'er extremity searching for my children until they are recovered and brought location safe and sound. Someone, location knows thing truthful please bring my babies home.”

Nick Oldrieve, the co-founder of the not-for-profit group, said their extremity was to “shake the tree” erstwhile it comes to the investigation.

“Maybe it implores personification to nonstop successful a extremity if they cognize thing … aliases the hunt efforts proceed and they’re successful those woods,” he said.

Stepfather says he believes ‘they’re not successful the woods’

At a vigil Oct. 29 to people Jack’s 5th birthday, his stepfather said he nary longer believes the children are successful the woods adjacent the home. 

“I judge astatine this constituent successful the lawsuit that they’re not successful the woods and they didn’t rotation into the woods,” Martell said.

He said successful ray of each the searches and efforts, it doesn’t look feasible the children are successful that area.

He besides vowed to support speaking retired and updating the nationalist connected the lawsuit contempt accusations and online rumours.

“I conscionable deliberation pinch each the accusations and allegations thrown retired location and group don’t spot maine arsenic … the about liked person, I guess. Hatred runs chaotic and speculations tally chaotic against me,” he said.

“Speculations tally wild. But I’d for illustration everybody to cognize that I’m moving pinch (the RCMP’s) awesome crimes (unit) almost each day, conscionable trying to fig worldly out.”

— pinch a record from BERITAJA

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