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

[BCSleuth]

It may not have been squirrels, but they have been known to use cloth materials when building nests:



google/wiki:
Yes, squirrels actively carry various materials like leaves, twigs, grass, moss, and shredded bark into trees to construct their nests, called dreys, which are woven into a spherical shape and lined with soft materials for warmth and protection. They build these nests in tree forks or hollows, using their mouths and paws to transport and arrange the materials, creating a secure, insulated den.

What they use

• Structural: Twigs, small branches, leaves, and bark.
• Lining: Soft materials like moss, dry grass, feathers, pine needles, and even human-made fibers like insulation or cloth.

Except this is no small piece of cloth. This is a section of Lilly's blanket that she used to sleep under. It is part of a bed-size blanket.

I think there is perhaps some confusion from the fact that it has been called "Lilly's LOL doll blanket." It was NOT a doll blanket. It was a full bed size blanket with LOL doll print on it.

 

[su5ie]

I think it's important to also understand journalistic editing. In his video interviews we don't know what question (and answer) came before, or why he mentioned this or that, or how the question was framed, etc. I've done interviews many times and what might have been a sit-down 30 minute time frame ends up being 60 seconds of comments (and not always in the order the conversation naturally or casually went), the interviewer's facial expression (and not always matched to the actual comment), weird camera angles and lighting tricks.

Print articles are the same but actually worse in a sense because none of the usual affect of tone of voice, body language or facial expression are present in those. Just some additional food for thought.

I totally get that

 

[su5ie]

Except this is no small piece of cloth. This is a section of Lilly's blanket that she used to sleep under. It is part of a bed-size blanket.

I think there is perhaps some confusion from the fact that it has been called "Lilly's LOL doll blanket." It was NOT a doll blanket. It was a full bed size blanket with LOL doll print on it.

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Yeah don't think squirrels or the wind managed to get that there

 

[ameliak]

Except this is no small piece of cloth. This is a section of Lilly's blanket that she used to sleep under. It is part of a bed-size blanket.

I think there is perhaps some confusion from the fact that it has been called "Lilly's LOL doll blanket." It was NOT a doll blanket. It was a full bed size blanket with LOL doll print on it.

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Is there a zoomed out view of the blanket up the tree, to get an idea how high up it was?

 

[Chimera]

yes I recall that someone said she took it with her everywhere or something along those lines

You're right, that was stated quite a while back in the thread.
Well that piece of blanket in that tree was not the one Lilly carried everywhere with her, imo.

Except this is no small piece of cloth. This is a section of Lilly's blanket that she used to sleep under. It is part of a bed-size blanket.

I think there is perhaps some confusion from the fact that it has been called "Lilly's LOL doll blanket." It was NOT a doll blanket. It was a full bed size blanket with LOL doll print on it.

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Thanks for the photo !
More questions regarding earlier statements, jmo.

 

[Bigditch]

Except this is no small piece of cloth. This is a section of Lilly's blanket that she used to sleep under. It is part of a bed-size blanket.

I think there is perhaps some confusion from the fact that it has been called "Lilly's LOL doll blanket." It was NOT a doll blanket. It was a full bed size blanket with LOL doll print on it.

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It looks like a scarf. jmo

 

[TMich6811]

It looks like a scarf. jmo

That picture sure does

 

[Slebby]

Re the blanket

Lilly and Jack Sullivan Documents - 1 — the Canadian Gothic

searcn and seizure application related to telephones belonging to Daniel and Malehya

thecanadiangothic.com

On page 26 of the 35 released court document pages, it names relatives who “came out of the woods to say they found a pink blanket in the woods”

If they found it in the woods, it is my opinion that there are far too many trees between the garbage can at the home and the tree in which the blanket was found for it to have been carried there by the wind (or squirrels for that matter)

On page 27, it says they (LE) walked about a KM from where the blanket was found with a scent dog who did not pick up any scent.

This is interesting that the scent of the children was not found near where the blanket was found.

How and why did this piece of blanket end up there?

IMO

 

[Ontario Mom]

Except this is no small piece of cloth. This is a section of Lilly's blanket that she used to sleep under. It is part of a bed-size blanket.

I think there is perhaps some confusion from the fact that it has been called "Lilly's LOL doll blanket." It was NOT a doll blanket. It was a full bed size blanket with LOL doll print on it.

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I'd never seen this image before. Can you share the link to where this came from?

 

[BCSleuth]

Re the blanket

Lilly and Jack Sullivan Documents - 1 — the Canadian Gothic

searcn and seizure application related to telephones belonging to Daniel and Malehya

thecanadiangothic.com

On page 26 of the 35 released court document pages, it names relatives who “came out of the woods to say they found a pink blanket in the woods”

If they found it in the woods, it is my opinion that there are far too many trees between the garbage can at the home and the tree in which the blanket was found for it to have been carried there by the wind (or squirrels for that matter)

On page 27, it says they (LE) walked about a KM from where the blanket was found with a scent dog who did not pick up any scent.

This is interesting that the scent of the children was not found near where the blanket was found.

How and why did this piece of blanket end up there?

IMO

The court documents also say, "Cst. Gagnon and Cst Mason drove [... the relatives ...] back to the location where they found the blanket."

So maybe they took a shortcut through the woods or something to get back to the house, but the blanket was definitely found by the side of the road.

Some reporting also mixes up which road. It was Lansdowne Rd. Not Lansdowne Station Rd.

 

[Bigditch]

I think the question is where in the heck did the picture of the pink blanket in the tree come from? Honestly, I can't say I've seen it before either.

 

[sunspun]

The court documents also say, "Cst. Gagnon and Cst Mason drove [... the relatives ...] back to the location where they found the blanket."

So maybe they took a shortcut through the woods or something to get back to the house, but the blanket was definitely found by the side of the road.

Some reporting also mixes up which road. It was Lansdowne Rd. Not Lansdowne Station Rd.

Well, isn't this near where Daniel's father lives?? I thought he lived on Landsdowne Rd. Thickening the plot even more if so!

 

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[LooksSusToMe]

The blanket looks staged imo. unless a bald eagle took the pieces up to its nest or a small tornado lol

If you zoom in on the windows of their trailer you can see pink “curtains.” Didn’t Daniel say he supposedly he used the pink blanket on a door? sus

 

[seasideForest]

The blanket looks staged imo. unless a bald eagle took the pieces up to its nest or a small tornado lol

If you zoom in on the windows of their trailer you can see pink “curtains.” Didn’t Daniel say he supposedly he used the pink blanket on a door? sus

I thought it had more of a 'draught excluder' function, so rolled up on the floor at the base of the door? I could well be wrong, haven't read about it for a while.

What strikes me as a little strange atm is the number of items of warming nature that seemed to have disappeared from a household with not the best income and probably not the best heating and insulation. Daniel's sweaters, Lilly's blanket. JMO

 

[MistyWaters]

I’m attempting to identify the location where the pink blanket was found. This is the best I can do.

BBM

Cadaver dogs fail to find remains in search for two missing Nova Scotia children

HALIFAX — Two tracking dogs trained to search for human remains have failed to find any trace of two children reported missing from their rural Nova Scotia home more than five months ago, the RCMP said Wednesday. The Mounties said that in late September, the two cadaver dogs and their handlers...

halifax.citynews.ca

In July, the Mounties said they were conducting forensic tests on the pink blanket, which was found during an earlier search of the heavily wooded areas near the children’s home. At the time, police said family members had confirmed the blanket belonged to Lilly.

In August, the Mounties released search warrant documents indicating that family members had found the blanket in a tree on Lansdowne Station Road on May 2, one kilometre from the family home.

Police later dispatched a tracking dog to the area where the blanket was found, but the animal was unable to pick up a scent, the documents say. On May 4, police found another piece of blanket inside a trash bag at the end of the driveway of the children’s home.

Google Map - Note: Lansdowne Station Road is just a very short connector road, not much distance to it at all. Okay, let’s see one km from family home (marked in red). I would assume the RCMP measured this distance by road. Strangely one kilometre arrives exactly right at the location of the old rail stop named “Landsdowne Station” but there’s nothing left now. Didn’t the RCMP set up their command post on Landsdowne Station Road as well? I’d be curious why family members (Maleyha, mother, cousin??? I forgot)) would’ve been searching there. ie Were the children familiar with walking down those roads? But all in all I’d say this is a usual location for a torn pink blanket to be found up in a tree along side of the road.

 

[Andreee]

Folks, we have plenty of squirrels and I have never seen anything in a tree. I have lived in very rural areas and seen nothing like this in a tree. And if you saw the piece of blanket, you would know a squirrel did not put it there as it is rather large. No squirrel was dragging it around, rest assured.

Are there any other types of birds or animals that could have done it, just to rule it out?

 

[Bigditch]

dbm

 

[Twistinginthewind]

I've got to wonder anew, following along with the discussion on this thread on the disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan, for the last 8 months...

The wee innocent ones at 6 and 4 years old living in rural NS, disappearing from their rural home one morning in May while their mother and stepfather said they and their toddler half sister were sleeping in bed after their mother called them in unable to attend school earlier that morning due to a cough, and one of their custodial parents saying they must have "escaped" silently through the back sliding door, and both of them telling LE they must have "gone out to play, and wandered into the woods..."

... Just what happened to them...

I'm soooo hopeful there might be some movement afoot in the direction of solving the case of their disappearance by the RCMP, which although they can't share any of the details publicly without compromising the integrity of their investigation, could allude to some sort of progress.

Recent MSM news articles posted upthread indicated, IIRC, that DM recently provided a new blood sample to RCMP as DNA evidence, as he said, IIRC, was perhaps to compare to DNA found on the blanket.

The blanket found up in the tree, or half of, or a portion of it, with another portion that was found in their trash can at the end of their driveway, which were parts of a blanket which her mother said was Lilly's / DM's young stepdaughter's "former" blanket.

I truly hope there is a legitimately innocent reason that Lilly's "former" favorite blanket was, according to her parents, no longer her favorite, and then "discarded" in such unexpected ways.

And Lilly's blanket was then supposedly, after she no longer used it, then used to block an air draft in their family home's/trailer's front door, then discarded before May before they disappeared because "it got warmer" but was still below freezing at night/early morning.

Then Lilly's "former" blanket was then torn asunder, somehow, with pieces found in their trash and elsewhere nearby high up in a tree.

I hate to even wonder/ponder whether perhaps someone was abusing Lilly and she was being defended by Jack, and that is why there was presumably friction between these children and some adults with black eyes on Jack and Lilly previously, with CPS involvement -- whether just to do with their "learning issues" or otherwise, which may never be divulged to the public.

It all makes no sense to me, Lilly and Jack's disappearance, with Lilly's "former" blanket and fragments thereof the only potential evidence that, unless there was another explanation for it, and/or there is other evidence as to why Lilly and her little brother Jack may have disappeared.

IMO, they did not "escape" per DM through the back sliding door, and did not "wander into the woods" either.

JMO

 

[seasideForest]

Are there any other types of birds or animals that could have done it, just to rule it out?

Largish birds of prey maybe?

I have read a number of times before that birds add all sorts of rubbish/garbage to their nest-building. Bird protection and environmental societies mention this because some birds are attracted by bright colours and pick up inappropriate material for their nests, especially plastic which doesn't provide the chicks with enough insulation and warmth so fewer chicks survive. A bit off-topic I realise, but that's the context I know of.

Whether any parts of Lilly's purported blanket would have fitted as nest-building material is not something I know.