RCMP in Nova Scotia are searching for extra video footage of two younger kids who vanished practically 4 weeks in the past, and are actually confirming the siblings had been seen in public with relations the day earlier than being reported lacking.
Lilly and Jack Sullivan — aged six and 4 — had been reported lacking from their dwelling in Lansdowne Station, N.S. on Could 2.
In a Wednesday replace, RCMP mentioned they’ve confirmed the 2 had been “noticed in public with relations on the afternoon of Could 1” primarily based on particulars they’ve gathered.
4-year-old Jack Sullivan, left, and six-year-old Lilly Sullivan, proper, lacking from their dwelling in rural northeastern Nova Scotia, had been final seen Friday, Could 2, 2025, in the neighborhood of Lansdowne Station. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Nova Scotia Floor Search and Rescue Affiliation.
Police additionally mentioned investigators have collected hours of video from the areas surrounding Lansdowne Station.
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“We’re now asking anybody who has dashcam footage or video alongside Gairloch Rd. between 12 p.m. on April 28 and 12 p.m. on Could 2 to contact us,” mentioned Cpl. Sandy Matharu, Northeast Nova RCMP Main Crime Unit, in a information launch.
RCMP mentioned investigators have acquired — and are following up on — greater than 355 suggestions. They’ve additionally interviewed in extra of fifty individuals and have extra interviews deliberate “within the coming days.”
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“Investigators stay dedicated to exploring all prospects surrounding the kids’s disappearance,” RCMP famous within the launch.
‘We perceive individuals’s need for solutions’
The kids’s disappearance launched a multi-day search that concerned upwards of 160 individuals, together with volunteers and businesses from across the province.
The search concerned large-scale floor and air operations, in addition to using an underwater restoration staff.
The realm across the kids’s house is closely wooded, with terrain made tough by Hurricane Fiona injury.
RCMP introduced on Could 7 they had been scaling again their efforts, saying there was little probability they had been alive.
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Nonetheless, further searches came about on Could 8, 9, 17 and 18.
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“Any future searches might be decided primarily based on the course of the investigation,” RCMP mentioned Wednesday.
RCMP have maintained there is no such thing as a proof Lilly and Jack had been kidnapped. It’s a remark that prison professional Jim Hoskins advised International Information this week was an fascinating element within the case.
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“They gave a clue they usually mentioned no abduction. That’s a giant assertion to make at this early within the recreation,” mentioned Hoskins, a retired Halifax Regional Police officer and former Main Crimes employees sergeant, who is just not engaged on the Sullivan case.
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The disappearance has sparked rampant hypothesis on social media — a lot of it focusing on the kids’s stepfather, Daniel Martell, and the kids’s mom.
Martell calls all of it “nonsense.”
“It’s going to by no means be sufficient for individuals on-line. In every single place I’m going, individuals stare. That’s one thing I’ve to stay with till the reality makes its manner out — and the reality all the time makes its manner out,” he beforehand advised International Information.
When requested if he had something to do with the kids’s disappearance, he was adamant in his reply.
“I 100 per cent didn’t and I’ll maintain that to my final day on this planet,” he mentioned.
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“RCMP officers from varied groups are totally engaged find out what occurred to Lilly and Jack, and we’re utilizing all instruments and sources to find out the circumstances of their disappearance,” mentioned Cpl. Matharu within the launch.
“We perceive individuals’s need for solutions and updates. Nonetheless, as that is an energetic investigation, we’re unable to debate particulars of our ongoing work.”
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