Speaker 1: Hello, Frinds, Steve stalking here with you today we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about the vanishing in Lansdowne Station, the
Speaker 1: unsolved disappearance of Lily and Jack Sullivan. Join me, Let's
Speaker 1: take a walk and see now in the quiet rural
Speaker 1: expanse of Picto County, Nova, Scotia. The community of Lansdowne
Speaker 1: Station is defined by its dense forest, winding rivers, and
Speaker 1: the quiet lives of its residents. It's a place where
Speaker 1: tranquility is assumed, a backdrop ill suited for the stuff
Speaker 1: of nightmares. Yet on May two, twenty twenty five, this
Speaker 1: small community was thrust into the center of a baffling
Speaker 1: and heartbreaking mystery, the disappearance of six year old Lily
Speaker 1: and four year old Jack Sullivan. Months later, despite one
Speaker 1: of the largest search efforts in the province's recent history
Speaker 1: and a relentless investigation, a single agonizing question remains, where
Speaker 1: are Lily and Jack? In this video, we'll examine the
Speaker 1: known facts of the case, the timeline of the disappearance,
Speaker 1: the massive search and investigation that followed, the key individuals involved,
Speaker 1: and the corrosive effect of public speculation on a family
Speaker 1: and community consumed by unsutainty. Now, let's take a look
Speaker 1: at the day they disappeared. The official narrative of the
Speaker 1: children's disappearance begins on the morning of Friday, May two,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Lily and Jack Sullivan lived in a
Speaker 1: rural home on Garlock Road with their mother, Malaya Brooks Murray,
Speaker 1: their stepfather, Daniel Martel, and their baby sister. The property
Speaker 1: itself is isolated, surrounded by the challenging terrain that would
Speaker 1: soon become the focus of a desperate search, thick woods,
Speaker 1: steep banks, and marshy ground. According to the account provided
Speaker 1: by Brooks Murray and Martel, the morning was unremarkable until
Speaker 1: it wasn't. They told investigators they were in their bedroom
Speaker 1: with their baby when they realized the house had gone quiet. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're you know about those sudden quiet moments that
Speaker 1: you know you need to go check when they can
Speaker 1: no longer hear Lily and Jack, whom they said had
Speaker 1: been in the kitchen moments before. A subsequent search of
Speaker 1: the home and the immediate property yielded no sign of
Speaker 1: the children. At ten oh one am, Malaya Brooks Murray
Speaker 1: placed a frantic nine to one one call reporting her
Speaker 1: two eldest children missing, believed to have just wandered off.
Speaker 1: Lily was described as four feet tall, weighing sixty pounds,
Speaker 1: with light brown hair and hazel eyes. She was thought
Speaker 1: to be wearing a pink barbie top and pink rubber boots. Jack,
Speaker 1: who would turn five while still missing, was described as
Speaker 1: three and a half feet tall, forty pounds, with dark
Speaker 1: blonde hair and hazel eyes. He was believed to be
Speaker 1: wearing blue dinosaur print rubber boots. The Royal Canadian Mountain
Speaker 1: Police r CMP were on the scene by ten twenty
Speaker 1: seven am. What began as a missing person's report rapidly
Speaker 1: escalated into a massive multi agency search operation. Grounded in
Speaker 1: the terrifying assumption young children were lost in the unforgiving wilderness,
Speaker 1: so the search began in Earnest Now. The initial search
Speaker 1: was vast and desperate, operating on the hopeful theory that
Speaker 1: the children were alive but lost. Hundreds of trained Search
Speaker 1: and Rescue SAAR volunteers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
Speaker 1: and Prince Edward Island descended on Lansdowne Station. The operation
Speaker 1: was a high tech and exhaustive effort, covering a forbidding
Speaker 1: four square kilometer area of dense woods. The RCMP deployed
Speaker 1: every tilt their disposal. Helicopters and drones equipped with thermal
Speaker 1: imaging cameras scanned the canopy from above, while police canine
Speaker 1: units and ground searchers navigated the difficult terrain below. An
Speaker 1: underwater recovery team was brought into search nearby bodies of water.
Speaker 1: For days, the woods echoed with the sounds of the search,
Speaker 1: a frantic race against time and the harsh shelmans. But
Speaker 1: the woods, which investigators had hoped to woul yield to
Speaker 1: frightened children, offered only a confounding silence. The search shielded
Speaker 1: almost nothing. One of the few potential clues was the
Speaker 1: child's faint bootprint, but its relevance could not be confirmed.
Speaker 1: More ominously, a piece of a pink blanket belonging to
Speaker 1: Lily was discovered in a tree about a kilometer from
Speaker 1: the family home. Later court documents would reveal a second
Speaker 1: piece of the same blanket was found in a trash
Speaker 1: bag at the end of the homes driveway. After six
Speaker 1: days of relentless effort, the RCMP made the grim announcement
Speaker 1: that the likelihood of finding the children alive in the
Speaker 1: woods was now very low. On May seventh, the large
Speaker 1: scale SAAR operation was officially scaled back. Staff Sergeant Curtis McKinnon,
Speaker 1: District Commander for Pictoke County District RCMP, a sort of
Speaker 1: shaken public quote. We're not packing up and we're not
Speaker 1: giving up end quote. The case was transitioning from a
Speaker 1: rescue mission to a long term investigation, and in this
Speaker 1: investigation they tried to run through all scenarios. As the
Speaker 1: active search wound down, the police investigation, led by Northeast
Speaker 1: Nova RCMP Major Crime Unit, intensified. The case was officially
Speaker 1: added to the province's Major Unsolved Crimes program, and a
Speaker 1: reward of up to one hundred and fifty thousand was
Speaker 1: offered for information leading to the children's location. Investigators began
Speaker 1: the painstaking process of following leads, interviewing witnesses, and examining
Speaker 1: the family's account. Court documents released to the media months
Speaker 1: later provided a glimpse into the widening scope of the
Speaker 1: investigation and the questions investigators were asking. The Public's last
Speaker 1: confirmed sighting of Lily and Jack was not at their
Speaker 1: home on May second, but the day before, on the
Speaker 1: afternoon of May one, twenty twenty five, the children were
Speaker 1: seen with family members on video surveillance at a Dollar
Speaker 1: Rama store in the nearby town of New Glasgow. This
Speaker 1: established a critical, if incomplete timeline. The investigation has been
Speaker 1: an enormous undertaker. By November twenty twenty five, the RCMP
Speaker 1: confirmed they had assessed over eight hundred and sixty tips
Speaker 1: from the public, reviewed more than eight thousand video files
Speaker 1: from the surrounding area, and conducted numerous formal interviews. Both
Speaker 1: Malaya Brooksbury and Daniel Martel were administered polygraph tests, though
Speaker 1: the results in their implications have not been made public.
Speaker 1: In September, a new specialized search was conducted. Two RCMP
Speaker 1: police dogs specifically trained in the detection of human remains
Speaker 1: were brought in to search a forty kilometer area near
Speaker 1: their home. This development, while standard procedure in such cases,
Speaker 1: signaled a grim turn in the investigation's focus. According to
Speaker 1: The Global News, the cadaver dogs, however, did not find
Speaker 1: any remains. Now, the RCMP has been steadfast in its
Speaker 1: public messaging, maintaining that the case is officially a missing
Speaker 1: person's investigation and that quote all scenarios are being consumed.
Speaker 1: They have stated that there is no evidence to suggest
Speaker 1: the children reducted, but they have also not ruled out
Speaker 1: bowl play. This careful wording leaves every terrifying possibility on
Speaker 1: the table. Now, let's take a look at the family
Speaker 1: at the center of the storm. Understandably, for any family,
Speaker 1: the disappearance of a child is an unimaginable torment. For
Speaker 1: the Sullivan's parents, that private agony has been magnified by
Speaker 1: an intense and often vicious public spotlight. As the search
Speaker 1: shielded no answers, public speculation fueled by social media and
Speaker 1: true crime forms, rushed to fill the vacuum. Much of
Speaker 1: the speculation is focused on the children's mother and stepfather.
Speaker 1: Daniel Martel in particular, has been subject to intense online
Speaker 1: scrutiny for his public statements and demeanor. In a move
Speaker 1: that only served to fan the flames, Martel began publicly
Speaker 1: questioning the official wandered off theory that he and Brooks
Speaker 1: Murray had initially reported in over atdividual held to mark
Speaker 1: Jack Suvan's fifth birthday. Martell told reporters, quote, I believe
Speaker 1: at this point in the case that they're not in
Speaker 1: the woods, and they didn't wander into the woods end
Speaker 1: quote again, that's from the Global News. He argued that
Speaker 1: the exhaustive search, which found no trace of the children
Speaker 1: made it quote not feasible end quote, that they were
Speaker 1: simply lost. Now, while this statement reflects a conclusion many
Speaker 1: in the community have already reached, it opened a chasm
Speaker 1: of new, darker questions. If they didn't wander off, then
Speaker 1: what happened. Malaya Brooks Murray has been less public, but
Speaker 1: she issued a heart wrenching statement through the volunteer Missing
Speaker 1: Persons group Please Bring Me Home. In her plea, she
Speaker 1: described her life as a nightmare and the pure pain
Speaker 1: of not knowing her children's faith. Quote. The longing I
Speaker 1: have for them to come home back to me is
Speaker 1: a greater feeling that I could never imagine feeling or
Speaker 1: put into words end quote, she said, according to People Magazine.
Speaker 1: Adding another layer of complexity to the family dynamic is
Speaker 1: Belinda Gray, the children's paternal grandmother. Gray, who's been estrange
Speaker 1: from the children, has become a public advocate for them,
Speaker 1: relentlessly seeking answers and criticizing what she feels is a
Speaker 1: lack of transparency from both the family and the police.
Speaker 1: I'll never stop speaking out, Great told CTV News, I
Speaker 1: owe them that. Her public quest for accountability, which includes
Speaker 1: pursuing legal guardianship to access to children's school and child
Speaker 1: services records, highlights the fractioned relationships at the heart of
Speaker 1: the tragedy, and there's a community here that's in limbo.
Speaker 1: The disappearance of Lily and Jack Sullivan has left a
Speaker 1: permanent scar on Picto County. The case is a constant,
Speaker 1: painful presence, reminiscent of other tragic cases in the province,
Speaker 1: such as the twenty twenty disappearance of three year old
Speaker 1: Dylan Eller in Truro. These events shattered the foundational sense
Speaker 1: of secure that rural communities are built upon. The case
Speaker 1: has also become a cautionary tale about the role of
Speaker 1: social media in modern tragedy. As The Walrus magazine noted
Speaker 1: in an in depth article, the vacuum of official information
Speaker 1: was quickly filled by quote a frenzy of online speculation
Speaker 1: end quote. Armchair detectives on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and other
Speaker 1: forums have dissected every piece of available information, often generating
Speaker 1: baseless rumors and harassing the individuals involved this rumor mill.
Speaker 1: As one local politician called it has complicated the investigation
Speaker 1: and compounded the family's trauma. Robert Parker, the warden of
Speaker 1: the municipality of Picto County, lamented the public's rush to judgment,
Speaker 1: urging people to stick to the facts. But in a
Speaker 1: case with so few facts, speculation becomes a destructive force
Speaker 1: of its own. In conclusion, in the seven months after
Speaker 1: Lily and Jack vanished, the case is no closer to resolution.
Speaker 1: It seems it remains a mystery, defined not by evidence
Speaker 1: but by its stark absence. The woods that were supposed
Speaker 1: to be their playground have been searched and found empty.
Speaker 1: The family home, a place of supposed safety, is now
Speaker 1: the epicenter of a criminal investigation. The narrative has fraction.
Speaker 1: The two young children, wearing only rubber boots, managed to
Speaker 1: wander so far into the dense wilderness that they left
Speaker 1: no trace, eluding hundreds of trained searchers and trained dogs.
Speaker 1: Or does a more sinister explanation lie behind the closed
Speaker 1: doors of the house on Garlock Road. The police, bound
Speaker 1: by procedure, continue their methodical investigation, following every tip and
Speaker 1: re examining every statement. The family, splintered and grieving lives
Speaker 1: in a state of suspended animation if you will. Unable
Speaker 1: to properly mourn and unable to move forward, and the community,
Speaker 1: along with a watching nation and world, is left to wait,
Speaker 1: hoping for a breakthrough that will finally break the unbearable
Speaker 1: silence and answer the only question that matters. Where are
Speaker 1: Lily and Jack? If you have any information, no matter
Speaker 1: how small or insignificant it may seem, please contact the
Speaker 1: RCMP number on your screen. Well, friends, there you have it.
Speaker 1: What do you think of this sad case? As always,
Speaker 1: I'll look forward to your comments, but please keep it
Speaker 1: friendly and respectful. As for me, I'll see you a
Speaker 1: little further on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton and
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