The Ongoing Mystery of Jack and Lilly Sullivan
The story of Jack and Lilly Sullivan has gripped Nova Scotia and, in many ways, the entire country. These two young children—Lilly, just six years old, and her little brother Jack, only four—were first reported missing on May 2 of this year from their home in Lansdowne Station, a small rural community in northeastern Nova Scotia. Since then, nearly four months have passed, yet the mystery surrounding their disappearance remains unsolved, and new details from court documents are only deepening the questions.
The first call to police came from their mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, who said she believed the children had wandered away from home. Officers arrived quickly—within half an hour—but the search that began that morning has never really stopped. What is striking is how much effort has gone into finding them: helicopters, drones, sniffer dogs, and search teams combed through fields, woods, and waterways, yet no trace of Jack and Lilly was found in those first days.
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Court filings released this week show some of the extraordinary steps investigators have taken. They requested phone records, banking records, and even highway surveillance video of cars leaving Nova Scotia in the days around the disappearance. They also carried out polygraph examinations on multiple family members. Both the mother and stepfather, Daniel Martell, passed those tests. The children’s biological father, Cody Sullivan, also passed his. A stepgrandmother’s results were inconclusive. While polygraphs can’t be used in court, they are often a tool to help rule out certain suspicions. At one point, investigators even noted they did not have grounds to believe a criminal offence had occurred.
Still, some unsettling discoveries were made. Pieces of a pink blanket believed to belong to Lilly were found—one in a tree along the road about a kilometre from the family home, and another in a trash bag at the end of the driveway. Both were confirmed to be parts of the same blanket. Despite this, search dogs could not pick up a scent, leaving the find more puzzling than clarifying. Police also seized toothbrushes, a sock, and noted child-sized boot prints in nearby woods, all of which were examined.
Witnesses have come forward with possible sightings, including one woman who described seeing a young girl and boy walking together toward a waiting car, but nothing has been confirmed. Each tip is investigated, but so far none have led to the children’s location.
Perhaps most haunting is the timeline their mother shared. The children had been kept home from school on May 1 because of coughs. They spent the day running errands with the family, visited a Dollarama, and had dinner before bedtime. Malehya told police she tucked them in around 10 p.m. Jack with his dinosaur and Lilly with her backpack. By the next morning, they were gone.
What makes this case so difficult for the community is the complete absence of answers. There is no evidence of abduction, yet no signs the children simply wandered off into the woods. Nova Scotians continue to rally, holding onto hope and demanding answers. The RCMP stresses the investigation remains “very active and intensive,” with every scenario still being considered. For now, though, the mystery of Jack and Lilly Sullivan remains unresolved, and the heartbreak of their disappearance weighs heavily on everyone watching.
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