CANADA Canada - Jack, 4 & Lilly Sullivan, 6, Vulnerable, wandered from home 10am, Gairloch Rd, Landsdowne Station, Pictou County, NS, 2 May 2025 #7

[Mauig’ma]

Hold onto your hats, a statement from Malehya has been released.

BBM

Volunteer group joins search for missing Nova Scotia siblings Lilly and Jack Sullivan | Globalnews.ca

A volunteer missing persons group is joining the search for Lilly and Jack Sullivan, a pair of siblings who disappeared from rural Nova Scotia more than five months ago.

globalnews.ca

Oldrieve says Please Bring Me Home has had success so far in getting more information out publicly and circulating a statement that they say is from Lilly and Jack’s mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray.

In the statement, she writes, “I will never stop searching for my children until they are found and brought home safe and sound. Someone, somewhere knows something so please bring my babies home.”

To me her statement seems like a pretty generic one. One that everyone who’s looking for a lost child says. Again moo

 

[su5ie]

From that link:

“This initiative is being organized separately from our investigation,” wrote Nova Scotia RCMP spokesperson, Allison Gerrard.
“Although Malehya Brooks-Murray has confirmed authorship of a written statement, we cannot verify the accuracy of the version currently circulating on social media.”

Well. That's helpful.

Thank you Mistywaters for posting, in the article it states that they want to make sure jack and lilly weren't under water when the searches were happening.

I thought water areas were throughly searched by the official searchers .

Initially when the case broke in May I thought the kids would be found in water , simply because I was suspicious of DM seemingly wading through water waist deep and had speculating prehaps he was covering up a drowning of the two kids . (Total speculating on my part )

Looking back at my posts my other fear was that the children had prehaps wandered to the recreational Centre just up from the property which contained water areas for fishing

But I felt afterwards that it was too simple of an explanation and officers within the rcmp would have had those first suspicious thoughts too and fully searched with divers easily accessible waterways

Having had full belief in the searchers having searched lakes ,ponds , I'm surprised to see that this group has doubts as to whether they have been searched properly and now my fears are creeping back in

 

[Megnut]

Call me skeptical but ... I would want some authentication she actually made that statement. It rings very boiler plate, like what every mother would say, the best outcome. When did she provide this statement and to whom?

It feels like the searchers are using it to bolster their mission, hearts in the right place.

It's just LE isn't asking for random searchers.

We all want them found. We all wish they'd be found safe...

But statistics don't lie.

Me, I'm watching what LE is and isn't doing.

JMO

 

[su5ie]

Think I will have a re read of thread one and look at the maps posters showed of the area , I seem to recall the start of a stream or small running waterway at the back of the property

 

[MistyWaters]

Call me skeptical but ... I would want some authentication she actually made that statement. It rings very boiler plate, like what every mother would say, the best outcome. When did she provide this statement and to whom?

It feels like the searchers are using it to bolster their mission, hearts in the right place.

It's just LE isn't asking for random searchers.

We all want them found. We all wish they'd be found safe...

But statistics don't lie.

Me, I'm watching what LE is and isn't doing.

JMO

That’s correct, LE is not asking for random searchers to volunteer to search areas of water and considering their resources there’s no reason to assume they neglected it. Another thing, will private land owners including the Martell family welcome a non-profit search organization onto their property at the beckon of the absentee biodad’s mother? I recall the media posting a photo of a ‘no trespassing’ sign some time ago.

That is a usual situation considering her son was investigated at one time as well.
JMO

 

[seasideForest]

Think I will have a re read of thread one and look at the maps posters showed of the area , I seem to recall the start of a stream or small running waterway at the back of the property

I thought there was something that looked like a body of water or maybe marsh on the left side of their property (when you're looking at their property from the road, in the photos). I haven't got round to looking through thread 1 for that though.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Yes I seen this hand written letter on the please bring me home fb page and was unsure of the validity, so I'm glad it's now been verified in msm that Maleyha did indeed make a statement through this volunteer organisation. And we can now discuss it

What stands out to me is the comment from the RCMP spokesperson Allison Gerrard:

“Although Malehya Brooks-Murray has confirmed authorship of a written statement, we cannot verify the accuracy of the version currently circulating on social media.”

It's curious to me that would even be said. If the lead agency investigating the disappearance of these kids can't even verify the accuracy of the statement, that says a lot.

 

[TMich6811]

What stands out to me is the comment from the RCMP spokesperson Allison Gerrard:

“Although Malehya Brooks-Murray has confirmed authorship of a written statement, we cannot verify the accuracy of the version currently circulating on social media.”

It's curious to me that would even be said. If the lead agency investigating the disappearance of these kids can't even verify the accuracy of the statement, that says a lot.

The one circulating has her name spelled wrong by missing a letter at the end so it was either rushed or not real.

I find it interesting that they even addressed the letter since they have addressed almost nothing related to the case

 

[Ontario Mom]

The one circulating has her name spelled wrong by missing a letter at the end so it was either rushed or not real.

I find it interesting that they even addressed the letter since they have addressed almost nothing related to the case

I don't follow cases on social media so I'll take your word for it.
It is interesting they mentioned the letter in the way they did.
Basically by saying, they can't vouch for it being real.

 

[TMich6811]

I also wonder if she did make a written statement and it’s not that written statement then what is

 

[Slebby]

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed> ... the searching in water right from the first moment they realized they were missing, this does not ring true for me. Myself, I wouldn’t panic with the first thought “drowned in water!” Rather I would go to different areas where they might go, calling their names. Then I’d go a bit further. When I started to feel really worried, I might wonder about water.
IMHO

 

[Sillybilly]

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed> ... the searching in water right from the first moment they realized they were missing, this does not ring true for me. Myself, I wouldn’t panic with the first thought “drowned in water!” Rather I would go to different areas where they might go, calling their names. Then I’d go a bit further. When I started to feel really worried, I might wonder about water.
IMHO

Given the children were thought to have autism, I wonder if they had perhaps read that autistic children are drawn to water and swimming and water safety re children with autism.

 

[su5ie]

I thought there was something that looked like a body of water or maybe marsh on the left side of their property (when you're looking at their property from the road, in the photos). I haven't got round to looking through thread 1 for that though.

Must be in thread 2 I scanned through thread one and can't find the photos

 

[teeby]

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed> ... the searching in water right from the first moment they realized they were missing, this does not ring true for me. Myself, I wouldn’t panic with the first thought “drowned in water!” Rather I would go to different areas where they might go, calling their names. Then I’d go a bit further. When I started to feel really worried, I might wonder about water.
IMHO

This makes sense to me actually. I have heard that if a child is missing you should search all immediately life threatening areas first, even before the places he's more likely to be. So for example if you have a pool with a locked fence and your toddler likes to hide in closets and doesn't like water, you still check the pool first when he goes missing. The reasoning is that if he's in the water you need to find him immediately, but if he's in the closet it doesn't really matter whether you find him now or ten minutes from now.

 

[Bigditch]

if Lilly and Jack are found on the property after all this time, in water, it'll be heartwrenching.

 

[hersay]

New article from CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lilly-jack-sullivan-missing-children-court-documents-car-vehicle-9.6943179

 

[Bigditch]

New article from CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lilly-jack-sullivan-missing-children-court-documents-car-vehicle-9.6943179

Interesting update.
Thanks for posting hersey, and welcome to WS!

 

[Slebby]

New article from CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lilly-jack-sullivan-missing-children-court-documents-car-vehicle-9.6943179

With not one but two separate individuals reporting about a vehicle coming and going in the night, I am personally convinced there was a vehicle that came and went in the night. Unless/until law enforcement explains it away, I also personally believe this is significant to the case.

IMHO

 

[Slebby]

Given the children were thought to have autism, I wonder if they had perhaps read that autistic children are drawn to water and swimming and water safety re children with autism.

I would be very surprised if DM’s reasons for searching water was due to the possibility that these as yet to be diagnosed autistic children were drawn to water.
IMHO

 

[Aurora90]

That is quite the update.

To be honest, I didn’t really think that they would be found alive and well given all the time that has passed, but now it’s looking like a much stronger possibility.

Smith said he was awake and on Facebook during the early hours of May 2. Around 1:30 a.m., he heard a car on Highway 289 turn around by the railroad tracks near the area of Gairloch Road and Lansdowne Station Road.

That intersection is near the home where the children went missing.

“It made noise then went quiet. The vehicle was quiet for about two minutes then drove towards Lairg Road,” the RCMP member wrote.

“[Justin Smith] later spoke with Brad Wong who informed him Daniel's vehicle came and went five or six times that night. Wong said the car Smith heard was Daniel.”