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

[TMich6811]

TRANSCRIPT OF MOTHER'S INTERVIEW

3RD MAY

MUM - Just staying as hopeful as possible. I want them home, I wanna hold them and I want them home.

What happened was - we woke up, I heard them playing in the next room beside us, and I was drifting in and out of sleep, and they're not the type of kids... we tell them not to go outside on their own, we always make sure that we're out there with them, watching them, and they happen to just get out that sliding door, and we can't hear it when it opens, and they were outside playing, but we weren't aware of it at the time, and the next thing we knew the ro... like it was quiet and we get up, and I tell him, my partner, Daniel, I tell him, do you hear the kids? And he says, no and we get up instantly, we're looking outside, we're looking everywhere yelling for them and I instantly just call 911, I just had the instinct I needed to call.

They're both really go lucky children. They're so sweet, they talk to anyone, they'll talk your ear off. They um, they will speak to anyone in a store, everyone. They're just extremely sweet kids.

I appreciate the huge search effort going on right now, but we've been pushing for an Amber Alert, which hasn't been issued, not just that they could possibly be abducted, which it is a possibility, but they could have been, but just an alert to let everyone know that they are missing. We had people text me saying that they weren't aware, someone else let them know that they were missing, and it would just be nice if everyone could be alerted. We thought maybe that we found tracks, but it's still uncertain.

It's been raining and they're probably soaking wet, but with the sun today, I'm hopeful that they are feeling warm. We're all filled with pain and sorrow because we just want them found. We want them home. Everyone loves them. They are definitely verbal, and they do have possible autism, but it's not extreme autism; It's just... they have issues with school and they don't catch up with the other kids.

I'm just, I just want to remain hopeful, but there's always, in a mother's mind, you're always thinking the worst. Last night was one of the worst nights because I didn't have them in their beds and I don't want to go through another night without them.

Thank you. She doesn’t say lily came in like he does

 

[Seni]

Okay from looking online, here is a theory on the relationship thing. Apparently they have both deactivated their FB profiles, if I understand correctly. If one of them did so before the other, it would no longer show the other person's name and would instead simply say "in a relationship" because the other person would no longer have a profile able to be tagged. I hope that makes sense. It doesn't explain the fact that she seemingly moved out, but may explain the relationship-changing situation as far as social media is concerned.

Dont think the FB accounts have been published on here, so no means of checking

 

[realanastasia]

I wonder if they own or rent, and in whose name. I guess if they broke up and the trailer is in his name, her hand could be forced.

One of the MSM articles has him saying that the mother and Lily and Jack came to live with him, so I think it is likely his home (either leased or owned).

 

[realanastasia]

“[and] when I noticed they weren’t there, I jumped in my vehicle and surveyed every dirt road and culvert I could find.”

Stepfather of two children missing in rural N.S. worries they may have been abducted

LANSDOWNE STATION — As a search continued for a fourth day for two young children believed to have wandered from their rural home in northeastern Nova Scotia, the children’s stepfather said Monday he is worried they may have been abducted. Daniel Martell said he was in his home in Lansdowne...

halifax.citynews.ca

Something about the fact that he specifically mentioned looking in culverts makes me uneasy. Just IMO.

 

[whitelilac]

Something about the fact that he specifically mentioned looking in culverts makes me uneasy.Just IMO.

Unless the children were in the habit of hiding, or liked to explore culverts....any water in them?

 

[browneyes]

I’m having really bad feelings about this. Praying I am wrong.

 

[GypsySoulAL]

Had this happened in another case?

Yes, there have been many missing children cases throughout the years where we come to find out the child wasn't at school or daycare that day, that week, recently, etc - "out sick." A change in routine, basically. Or maybe they're not really sick but went missing and this was the rationale behind it, if that makes sense. We will have to wait and see in this case. These babies - my heart is hurting.

 

[CityKid]

From the moment I got the alert, I felt something was really off. It made no sense at the time (dates were off, little detail) and this add on is just bizzare.

Agreed. I've heard "I was/we were taking a nap and when we got up he/she/they were gone" enough.

 

[MistyWaters]

New and recent information in this report, surprisingly it’s not locked -

Two young Nova Scotia children still missing from remote wooded community in Pictou County

Siblings, aged 4 and 6, believe to have wandered away from family home on Friday morning

www.theglobeandmail.com

“The children’s maternal grandmother, Cyndy Murray, told The Globe and Mail that she is hoping and praying the children will be located safe.

“We’re staying positive, and our goal is to bring our babies home safely,” she said, adding that the family is appreciative of the support they’re receiving from people across the country.

Ms. Murray said she and her daughter are following advice from the police and staying out of the woods to allow the searchers to do their work…..

……Mr. Martell said he was home that day because he’s only getting one shift a week at a local sawmill and Ms. Brooks-Murray is an at-home mom.

On Monday, RCMP came and went from the home scattered with children’s toys and car parts on the side of a rural highway where Mr. Martell waited for news with his brother and mother, who also lives on the property in a trailer….

…….The children are part of Sipekne’katik First Nation, a Mi’kmaq community near Truro, N.S….”

 

[whitelilac]

^ First I hear that relatives live on the same property. Were they home when the children went missing?

 

[TMich6811]

^ First I hear that relatives live on the same property. Were they home when the children went missing?

Oh wow

 

[TMich6811]

Oh wow

And why isn’t the scene that they went and checked the other home?

 

[whitelilac]

"...with his brother and mother, who also lives on the property in a trailer…"
it's unclear, both brother and mother or just mother?

 

[whitelilac]

And why isn’t the scene that they went and checked the other home?

Right.
It was said the stepdad went to the back where the chickens were to look for the kids. Then got into his vehicle to drive around.
He didn't check the other trailer? Or talk to his mom, if she was home?

 

[caradana]

Kids on the societal edges vanish, and I am SO GLAD we rise up as a global society to say: wait. This doesn’t feel right. If perhaps, best case, two neurodivergent kids have wandered off and are findable - beautiful, wonderful, let’s find, let’s unleash a of experienced outdoorsmen and drones and let’s go as hard as we can. If two neurodivergent kids wandered toward water, scary, but that’s a whole new host of searchable information. If two kids are not neurodivergent, a whole host of new questions. If any investigator rationally believes something happened in a family home … I would be inclined to believe a case he’d make. Difficult, brutal, sad situation.

 

[Innana]

Regarding the breakup- as a clinical therapist, it is common during times of extreme family stress (such as having a child go through cancer) that couples often separate. That said, it’s strange they would take the time to update their Facebook status’s in the middle of all this. Curious. All behaviour makes sense. What would make a person want to ensure the world knows they are no longer together. You would think at this time, social media updates would be the furthest thing from the list of important things to accomplish. It’s not even been a week.

Personally, and I hate to say it, but something seems off about this story. I hope I am wrong and eating my words. I hate to wonder about a family experiencing a tragedy. But….one would think a boot or the back pack or something would have been found by now. Not impossible of course to have found nothing, but seems unlikely.
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[abanddb123]

They escaped a fenced backyard. I know it happens, police will know if everyone is telling the truth. Praying for these kids.

 

[Snoop Sister]

^ First I hear that relatives live on the same property. Were they home when the children went missing?

Link please.

 

[GypsySoulAL]

Link please.

Two young Nova Scotia children still missing from remote wooded community in Pictou County

 

[Snoop Sister]

They escaped a fenced backyard. I know it happens, police will know if everyone is telling the truth. Praying for these kids.

There are several different stories from the parents re the missing children. Nothing too major but I think they need to get their stories. Basically related to what they were doing when the children went missing. This can be read in previous linked