How does harm look more likely to you, than them wandering and getting lost?
To me, either seem equally possible and I haven't seen anything in this case that causes me to lean one way or the other.
I suppose imo only , the investigation seems to be leaning into somebody having information that can solve the case .
I also understand that a child getting lost in the woods requires an investigation too as cctv , witness statements , and every thing else that goes with finding missing people and prehaps what somebody may have is cctv that has not been offered to the rcmp or a sighting on that morning that they did not report .
It's just when an officer says that he has never seen a case like this in all the years he has worked it sounds more than two children wandering.
I could opine that what's unusual is two small children going missing in the woods and remaining unfound is what the officer is meaning but he did not say that .
The children could have been kidnapped further afield if someone happened upon them
i must question why DM is being required to give a blood sample If the kids wandered ? Why was there never an appeal from both DM and mbm on day one . Yes they spoke separately but no matter how somebody deals with a child going missing privately or publicly. Both parents generally have a United front on day one . They didn't , was/is mbm also having doubtful thinking and suspicion on what exactly happened to her children
One could say that mbm was being abused by DM and that is why she didn't feel comfortable doing that but she did say in her statement he was very good to the children. So on day one something was afoot.
As time went on red flags appeared to some people and the more time that passes looking at documents and hearing officers speak , I feel doubts creeping as to this being solely two kids lost but I'm on WS so I'm bound to have a naturally suspicious mind

and I often bark up the wrong tree or back the wrong horse