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

[MollyHarps]

If I was advising the stepfather at this stage I’d tell him to stop speaking to the media so much.

There comes a time when speaking too much can also raise alarm bells.
I don’t think it’s doing him any favours giving regular media interviews/statements

 

[Snoop Sister]

If I was advising the stepfather at this stage I’d tell him to stop speaking to the media so much.

There comes a time when speaking too much can also raise alarm bells.
I don’t think it’s doing him any favours giving regular media interviews/statements

Agreed! He is inserting himself way too much in the search imo.

 

[MistyWaters]

Well now, that's interesting and sadly a bit foreshadowing. I think everyone within 100 miles should be out looking for those wee ones, LE or not.

It’s not just LE who are searching, seems highly coordinated and not merely a foot search. It would be unhelpful if untrained volunteers were invited to assist considering the rough terrain, at risk of getting lost or injured themselves. 3.5 km is a radius of over 2 miles.

‘The house is just silent’: Stepdad speaks out as exhaustive search for missing N.S. children enters fifth day

The stepfather of two missing children in a rural area of Nova Scotia’s Pictou County is speaking out as the exhaustive search for the children enters its fifth day.

www.ctvnews.ca

“Crews focused their search on a 3.5-kilometre radius of a wooded area over the weekend. Police said the search zone was expanded Monday, with about 120 people looking on foot and from above with drones and helicopters.

Ribbons are being used to track the ground that has been covered.

Multiple agencies are taking part in the search, including ground search and rescue (GSAR) teams, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, the Department of Natural Resources’ Air Services, the Nova Scotia Guard and several RCMP units.

Searchers have dealt with challenging conditions, including rough terrain, thick brush and fluctuating weather, including rain and fog.

Four RCMP drone operators worked overnight Tuesday in Pictou County as part of the ongoing search.

Police say the drones are effective at night because they use infrared technology which can spot differences in temperature.”

 

[Bigditch]

If I was advising the stepfather at this stage I’d tell him to stop speaking to the media so much.

There comes a time when speaking too much can also raise alarm bells.
I don’t think it’s doing him any favours giving regular media interviews/statements

Hell No, if they were my children I'd tell everyone and anyone who would listen about their disappearance.

Let the step-dad talk, maybe he knows something or someone who might be involved.

Six degrees of seperation.

Maybe the kids are in or near one of those cabins, or any cabin. If alive they're probably frightened to death.

 

[Bigditch]

It’s not just LE who are searching, seems highly coordinated and not merely a foot search. It would be unhelpful if untrained volunteers were invited to assist considering the rough terrain, at risk of getting lost or injured themselves. 3.5 km is a radius of over 2 miles.

‘The house is just silent’: Stepdad speaks out as exhaustive search for missing N.S. children enters fifth day

The stepfather of two missing children in a rural area of Nova Scotia’s Pictou County is speaking out as the exhaustive search for the children enters its fifth day.

www.ctvnews.ca

“Crews focused their search on a 3.5-kilometre radius of a wooded area over the weekend. Police said the search zone was expanded Monday, with about 120 people looking on foot and from above with drones and helicopters.

Ribbons are being used to track the ground that has been covered.

Multiple agencies are taking part in the search, including ground search and rescue (GSAR) teams, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, the Department of Natural Resources’ Air Services, the Nova Scotia Guard and several RCMP units.

Searchers have dealt with challenging conditions, including rough terrain, thick brush and fluctuating weather, including rain and fog.

Four RCMP drone operators worked overnight Tuesday in Pictou County as part of the ongoing search.

Police say the drones are effective at night because they use infrared technology which can spot differences in temperature.”

I can appreciate what you are saying. However it takes time to orchestrate an effective search party ... precious time.

 

[otto]

Just catching up ...

No school on Wednesday. Children missed school on Thursday and Friday (links upthread).

Friday morning, mom, dad, baby were in bed. Daughter came into bedroom a couple of time, was told to be quiet so the 16 month old child could sleep. Son did not come into bedroom.

Twenty minutes after telling daughter to be quiet, children were too quiet so father checked on them. They were missing.

The yard does not look fenced. The property might be fenced with posts and wire, but that would not keep children from leaving.

If they went to the road, a passing vehicle would have seen them, so they went in the other direction.

If the parents did something to the children, they would not split up. They would remain together to ensure their stories matched. That means the children wandered away. Who else was on the property at the time? What were they doing at the time the children went silent?

CBC

Going out the back door means clearly visible from the grandmother's house.

Google Maps

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Daniel Martell made another plea this morning:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6749827

 

[TMich6811]

I’d really like more information on the additional people who lived on the property. This is so bizarre to me that it was in none of the parents “we went and looked” statements

 

[Loyaloil]

Such a strange turn of events tbh.

Hoping for a miracle!

 

[TristanP]

"We're just hoping and praying for the best — that's it — for our babies to come home," Cyndy Murray said in a brief phone interview, adding that police have advised the family against speaking with the public.

Murray is the grandmother of six-year-old Lily Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan, who were last seen Friday morning. Her daughter is the children's mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/grandmother-of-missing-kids-speaks-out-1.7527553

Daniel Martell has been dating the children’s mother for three years and they have an 18-month-old together.

Martell says Lily and Jack never go into the woods by themselves. He describes them as vulnerable and autistic.

“We never cross the road. We have cabins we built up in the woods, and that’s where, usually, as far as we take them,” he says.

Martell says he and Malehya Brooks-Murray asked Lily and Jack to quiet down on Friday morning to let the baby sleep.

He estimates it took up to 20 minutes to notice the two children were gone.
‘The house is just silent’: Stepdad speaks out as exhaustive search for missing N.S. children enters fifth day

Mom’s boyfriend just can’t seem to stop talking. This is good.

 

[otto]

I’d really like more information on the additional people who lived on the property. This is so bizarre to me that it was in none of the parents “we went and looked” statements

I'm curious about that too. The step-father, his brother and mother live on the property and share a driveway. Was anyone else on the property on Friday morning? Were the mother and brother home? Does anyone come to the property to buy car parts or for other reasons? Since four adults live on the property, the sound of a vehicle on the driveway would most likely be ignored.

I'm curious whether search dogs are involved and whether they have tracked a scent.

"Their stepfather Daniel Martell told The Globe that the children were playing in the next room while he dozed in the bedroom with their mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, and the couple’s 16-month-old when the children went missing. He said he surmised they opened the sliding glass back door, put on their rubber boots and went outside, escaping from the fenced-in backyard. He said Lily took a white backpack with strawberries on it. Jack would’ve been wearing a pull-up diaper, he added.
...

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."

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

 

[Allabouttrial]

BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH STEPDAD

6TH MAY

BOYFRIEND - I'm out here, still searching, still fighting to try to find em. That's all I can do.

REPORTER - The message is still, if anyone knows anything..

BOYFRIEND - If anybody knows anything, just come forward as soon as possible. Two little kids are still out there, want to, want to find them. So really all I can do, still searching every day, I'm waiting for information. I have to let them do a lot of their.. their stuff with the aircrafts and everything else and dogs and searchers. There's a lot of stuff that needs to be coordinated, I can't just go running through the woods, I want to but I just can't right now because the searchers are so far out.

 

[tarabull]

Car parts? Are there junky vehicles? If so, surely someone has looked in vehicle trunks????

 

[iveyguy]

I’d really like more information on the additional people who lived on the property. This is so bizarre to me that it was in none of the parents “we went and looked” statements

Also, today we learned that there are "cabins" on the property, and that's a place the kids usually visit. Seems odd that we are just learning about this today.

Note: Locally, a "cabin" usually means a small cottage, cabin, shack, or hut located off the normal road. They are sometimes used as a day shelter or overnight shelter for hunting, camping, etc. It would typically not be occupied or would likely not contain any supplies or worthwhile items.

 

[tlcya]

Also, today we learned that there are "cabins" on the property, and that's a place the kids usually visit. Seems odd that we are just learning about this today.

Note: Locally, a "cabin" usually means a small cottage, cabin, shack, or hut located off the normal road. They are sometimes used as a day shelter or overnight shelter for hunting, camping, etc. It would typically not be occupied or would likely not contain any supplies or worthwhile items.

thank you I was just wondering about these newly mentioned cabins. So they would be like a rough hunting type shack not meant for living or staying in over the long term but to shelter in on a temporary basis.

 

[Snoop Sister]

I would like to see the link where it states the stepdad’s mother and brother live on the site as well. Does anyone have a link?

 

[MistyWaters]

I can appreciate what you are saying. However it takes time to orchestrate an effective search party ... precious time.

I have to admit I’m beginning to wonder if a dual reason for this intensive search is to rule out the possibility the children wandered off into the forest on their own accord, so then LE can move on to investigating alternate avenues.

 

[MistyWaters]

I would like to see the link where it states the stepdad’s mother and brother live on the site as well. Does anyone have a link?

It was reported by the Globe and Mail. Unfortunately the link seems to be paylocked now but it was open for a while last night, the source of what you refer to.

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

 

[iveyguy]

I still have public access to this article - the exact quote is: "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."

 

[MollyHarps]

Like @MistyWaters said the link is now paylocked - it was there though as I saw it.

If other family members lived onsite - surely the first thing you’d do when you noticed the kids weren’t in the house would be to run to where the family members stay to check if they are there.. (none of that seems to be mentioned in statements to the media)