True Crime Society - The place are Lilly and Jack Sullivan?

Lilly (6) and Jack (4) Sullivan are Canadian siblings who’ve been lacking since Might 2, 2025.

Lilly and Jack lived with their mom Malehya Brooks-Murray and their stepfather Daniel Martell on the time of their disappearance. It’s believed that they’ve a child sister named Meadow – from what now we have learn she was round 16 months previous when the youngsters disappeared. The organic father of Lilly and Jack is alleged to haven’t any contact with them. His identify is Cody Sullivan.

The kids are members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation, the second largest Mi’kmaw neighborhood in Nova Scotia, in line with the tribe’s publish on Fb.

The household stay in a rural house on Gairloch Highway, in Lansdowne, Nova Scotia. To offer you an thought of what the world is like, the inhabitants of Lansdowne is 423.

Lansdowne is positioned in Pictou County which has a inhabitants of round 45k.

The world surrounding their house is alleged to have been surrounded by woods, steep banks and thick brush.

Daniel’s mom lived on the identical property because the household, in what has been described as a dilapidated camper.

The household had lived locally for 2 years. Lots of the individuals who stay there are associated and have lived there for dozens of years/generations.

We are going to begin with a confirmed timeline of what we all know within the case.

Tuesday April 29, 2025 was the final day that Lilly and Jack attended their faculty. They had been each enrolled at Salt Springs Elementary faculty. That faculty was round 18kms (11 miles) away from their house.

There was no faculty scheduled for the next day, April 30 because it was a growth day for the lecturers.

In response to Daniel, the youngsters didn’t attend faculty on Might 1 and a pair of as they had been each sick. Lilly was stated to have had a cough.

It’s believed that the day the youngsters had been final seen by anybody apart from Daniel and Malehya was Might 1.

Corporal Sandy Matharu, Northeast Nova RCMP Main Crime Unit, said in a later press launch “We’ve confirmed that Lilly and Jack had been noticed in public with relations on the afternoon of Might 1.”

On Friday Might 2, 2025, Daniel and Malehya stated that they had been each within the bed room with meadow within the morning. They stated Lilly got here out and in of the room a number of occasions and that they might hear Jack within the kitchen.

The 2 kids apparently went silent and that’s allegedly when their mother and father realised that one thing was fallacious.

Daniel has stated that he thought the youngsters opened the again sliding door and went exterior. Malehya has stated that each adults regarded for the youngsters, yelling their names.

At 10am, Malehya referred to as 911 to report them lacking. She stated that Lilly was sporting a pink sweater, pink pants and pink boots and that Jack had been sporting blue dinosaur boots after they had been final seen. She additionally stated that Lilly might have had a white backpack along with her.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) initiated a seek for the youngsters. At 12.25pm on Might 2, they issued a public assertion and requested anybody with data to return ahead. The idea at the moment was that the youngsters had wandered away from the house, into the woods. There was apparently no proof of abduction.

This was the preliminary assertion from the RCMP:

Since simply after 10 a.m. this morning, Might 2, a search has been underway for 2 kids who’re believed to have wandered from a house on Gairloch Rd. in Lansdowne Station, Pictou County.

There’s a multi-agency response at the moment on the bottom in Pictou County. It consists of sources from floor search and rescue groups from across the province who’re collaborating to make sure sources and groups can be found on an ongoing foundation. Different sources and groups embody the Civil Air Search and Rescue Affiliation (CASARA), Division of Pure Sources Air Providers, and several other RCMP items, together with RCMP Police Canine Providers, RCMP Remotely Piloted Plane Techniques (drones) operators, and others. Moreover, the RCMP issued a susceptible lacking particular person alert for Pictou County.

Police and others concerned within the search respect the continued neighborhood assist throughout the province associated to this lacking particular person investigation. We ask, nonetheless, that the general public keep away from the search space to permit skilled searchers to do their work. The kid’s household has been saved up to date on the search efforts.

On Might 3, Malehya spoke to CTV Information:

“We simply need them house as quickly as doable,” she stated.

She informed CTV Information when she awakened Friday, she heard them taking part in within the subsequent room and she or he drifted again to sleep. She stated they’re not usually the kind of children who would go exterior on their very own.

“We at all times guarantee that we’re on the market with them, watching them, and so they occur to only get out that sliding door, and we will’t hear it when it opens, and so they had been exterior taking part in, however we weren’t conscious of it on the time, and the following factor we knew it was quiet,” stated Malehya.

She additionally spoke about trying to find her kids.

“We stand up and look exterior. We’re wanting in all places, yelling for them, and I immediately simply referred to as 911. I simply had the intuition I wanted to name.”

She stated individuals “have searched each nook and cranny” and stated the 2 ought to have been discovered by now.

“Final evening was one of many worst nights as a result of I didn’t have them of their beds, and I don’t wish to go one other evening with out them,” stated Malehya.

“They’re each actually happy-go-lucky kids. They’re so candy. They speak to anybody. They’ll speak your ear off. They’ll converse to anybody in a retailer, everybody. They’re simply extraordinarily candy children,” stated Malehya.

“They do have doable autism, nevertheless it’s not excessive autism. It’s simply they’ve points with faculty and so they don’t meet up with the opposite children.”

She gave this data to The Globe and Mail:

“Lilly got here into the room a number of occasions. I seen her that morning and Jack was out taking part in within the kitchen, I’m guessing, and so they slid open the again sliding door. It’s virtually like silent to listen to it sliding. They slid it open – the boots had been proper beside the door and so they proceeded to, I’m guessing, taking part in exterior. They need to’ve acquired out by way of the again fence after which they had been gone. As quickly as I seen they had been gone, instantly jumped within the automobile and did all of the grime roads, all of the culverts, checked over the rivers and streams. As quickly as I acquired house 10 minutes later, I headed out on foot.”

A spokesperson from the RCMP additionally supplied an replace on that day:

“There’s an energetic search happening, and it has been since we acquired the decision yesterday morning,” stated RCMP Corporal Sally Rice.

“We’re maintaining all avenues open,” she stated. “It’s an enormous, wooded space with a number of potential and we’re guaranteeing we cowl the whole area with a really structured search.”

Searchers had been coping with difficult circumstances, together with tough terrain, thick brush, and fluctuating climate. Rain in a single day, in addition to ticks, solar and funky temperatures, have all affected the operation.

“Our members on the bottom are being cautious for their very own security,” stated Rice. “Many have labored nicely past their shifts to verify each space is roofed. Everybody right here desires the identical consequence—to seek out these kids protected.”

“There’s no data to counsel they had been kidnapped,” stated Rice. “Based mostly on what we all know, it seems they wandered off. The search will proceed till we obtain any new proof that modifications our route. Proper now, it’s nonetheless an energetic search.

On Might 3, round 100 volunteers looked for the youngsters. Authorities used canine, drones and helicopters of their search.

At one level early within the search, a toddler sized boot print was found close to a pipeline path, near Gairloch Highway – near the household house.

On Might 4, 160 volunteers arrived to seek for the youngsters.

Daniel stated that he needed authorities to observe borders and airports in case the youngsters had been kidnapped.

Daniel spoke to CBC on Might 6 and stated that Malehya had left their house to be along with her household in one other a part of Nova Scotia. He additionally stated that she had blocked him on social media.

There’s a reddit timeline of the case which now we have linked on the weblog and this excerpt is from that:

Mr. Martell stated Ms. Brooks-Murray leaves halfway by way of the replace to take a seat at the back of an ambulance. She departs along with her mom and Mr. Martell stated he hasn’t seen her since. She cuts off contact with him after this.

Malehya’s mom (the youngsters’s grandmother), Cyndy Murray, spoke to The Canadian Press over the cellphone. She stated that the household had been hoping and praying for the restoration of the youngsters. She additionally stated that police had suggested the household towards chatting with the media.

On Might 6, Daniel was taken to the Pictou County District RCMP detachment within the city of Stellarton, the place he was questioned for 4 hours. He stated he was requested to go over particulars and timelines to the minute, and draw on maps the place he thinks the youngsters might be. “They’re straightforward on me as a result of they know I’m telling the reality about every thing.”

On Might 7, the seek for the youngsters started to be scaled again. Authorities stated that the efforts had been scaled again resulting from “low” odds the youngsters had been nonetheless alive – and that they weren’t ruling out the opportunity of foul play.

Workers Sgt Curtis MacKinnon stated that dozens of searchers had been being ordered to face down and confirmed that the RCMP’s main crime unit had been concerned within the investigation since 3 Might.

Workers Sgt MacKinnon stated all lacking individuals recordsdata “are handled as suspicious till our investigation leads us to find out in any other case”.

He stated groups had been left with fewer areas to go looking after after combing by way of kilometres of unforgiving terrain. “We’re not packing up and we’re not giving up.”

Police additionally took Daniel’s cellphone for examination on today.

On Might 8, investigators once more questioned Daniel. “Principally at this level they simply wish to have a look at any tech that would assist match up any telephones that got here into the yard,” he stated.

That afternoon, a pal took him to the Youngsters’s Protecting Providers workplace in Stellarton, the place he requested to see Meadow. “As of now, I can’t be round Meadow,” he stated throughout an interview the next day. “With the youngsters going lacking, Youngsters’s Protecting Providers desires to maintain a good leash on every thing.”

Daniel spoke round that point about how he had been cooperating with the investigation.

“I gave them every thing from my cellphone. I requested for a lie detector check and drug checks. … I’m the one attempting to maneuver this ahead and provides any data that I’ve.” He provides that police are wanting on the wi-fi router within the house, to see who related to the web at what occasions.

On Might 22, Newsweek reported the next statements:

Pictou County District RCMP Workers Sergeant Curtis MacKinnon: “We lengthen our honest appreciation to the search and rescue volunteers who’ve selflessly given up over 10,000 hours of their time since this search started. Their tireless dedication in actually gruelling circumstances is appreciated by each the RCMP and the higher neighborhood.”

RCMP Public Info Officer Corporal Carly McCann, in a press release to Newsweek: “We ask that folks unfold the phrase by way of social media respectfully, about this investigation and all ongoing lacking particular person searches.”

On Might 28, Newsweek reported that greater than 355 ideas had been despatched concerning the siblings’ disappearance, and the police had “formally interviewed” over 50 individuals on the matter. Police additionally stated that extra interviews had been deliberate in coming days.

On Friday, Might 30, 2025, virtually a month after the youngsters disappeared, Daniel supplied one other assertion.

“Every single day once I get up, it looks like I’m reliving a nightmare.”

On June 12, 2025, the RCMP gave this replace:

On June 18, 2025, the paternal grandmother of the youngsters, Belynda Grey, spoke to CBC:

She spoke about when legislation enforcement got here to her house.

“They arrive inside. They solely stood within the kitchen. They needed me to wake Cody up and so they needed to know when was the final time he had seen the youngsters and that they had been simply ensuring that the youngsters weren’t right here. After which they left.”

She additionally spoke concerning the circumstances that led to the household breaking apart.

“I assumed they had been the picture-perfect household,” stated Belynda. “Then Malehya began to inform me that they had been having issues and she or he wasn’t blissful.”

Melahya determined to finish the connection, and Cody selected to stroll away from the youngsters. Their mom petitioned the court docket for sole custody, she stated.

“When she did that, he stated that he was performed. He simply didn’t need no a part of it,” stated Belynda. She stated that Cody (29) had been residing along with her for 9 months after he misplaced his job, house and automobile.

“He hasn’t seen the youngsters for 3 years.”

Belynda has stated that she did have occasional communication with the youngsters earlier than Malehya acquired with Daniel.

“Any time we needed to see the youngsters, she’d come by for a go to. She’d deliver them by on a regular basis,” Belynda stated.

By the point they disappeared, Belynda had not seen the youngsters for 2 years.

Belynda spoke about going to assist seek for the siblings. “I’m yelling for Lilly and Jack. We at all times referred to as Jack ‘Jackie boy.’ His heritage is Irish.” “I began to really feel that I can’t see them being within the woods.… There’s bushes in all places. You actually must climb over bushes, climb below bushes. It’s actually, actually thick.”

“You can see locations round the place they performed and you would see locations round the place you would possibly wish to discover as a child,” she stated.

“However past these exploration factors, there’s no cause for any youngster to wander deep into the woods.”

Belynda stated that she had been talking of the youngsters up to now tense as she believes they’re now not alive.

“My coronary heart tells me these infants are gone,” she stated. “I simply need them again.

“These are everyone’s grandchildren. They’re not simply mine now. It does look like the entire world cares.”

On Thursday June 19, it was reported by CBC that Daniel had taken a polygraph. He was requested if he had killed the youngsters.

“It’s like your stress degree is simply astronomically by way of the roof and your physique doesn’t know what to do as a result of it’s not every single day the best way you’re hooked as much as machines in an interrogation room the place somebody asks you questions like that.”

He stated all of the questions had been presumptive that the youngsters are now not alive, reminiscent of: “Are you an adjunct to the homicide of Lilly and Jack?”

Not one of the questions assumed the youngsters had been taken, he stated.

Daniel stated he was informed that he had handed the check. He stated the investigator informed him: “You probably did an excellent job. You handed.”

He stated a bit of blanket that was discovered within the early days of the search belonged to Lilly.

“There’s extra proof than what the general public is aware of, however I can’t elaborate on any of that,” he stated.

CBC additionally reported extra concerning the Might 1 sighting of the youngsters on today. In an interview with Daniel, he stated the footage was from a retailer close to Highland Sq. Mall in New Glasgow, N.S.

“The investigators don’t see me as a part of the disappearance,” he stated. “I do know I’ve nothing to do with any of it.”

On this CBC article, the RCMP additionally confirmed that that they had not but used cadaver canine within the searches. Why??

RCMP confirmed in a press release that cadaver canine haven’t been deployed as a part of the investigation.

“Any searches involving the canine will likely be primarily based on data gathered by way of the continued investigation,” the assertion stated.

Round this time The Globe and Mail reported that CPS had been concerned with the household previous to the youngsters disappearing.

The Nova Scotia Authorities is providing a reward of as much as $150,000 for details about Jack and Lilly’s disappearance.

Anybody who comes ahead with data below the rewards for unsolved main crimes packages should present their identify and phone data, and could also be referred to as to testify in court docket. The quantity to name is 1-888-710-9090.