Just a couple of days ago, the RCMP issued a press release updating the public on the search for Lily and Jack and the investigation into what happened to them. Look, every update from the RCMP makes me feel that little bit sadder. From official channels, we’re not hearing anything different — anything new. And it sends me into a little pit of despair.

Every time we get an RCMP update saying how many interviews they’ve done and how many investigative leads they’ve followed, that’s great — fantastic. They’re still investigating. But for us, the great unwashed — the public — from what we hear officially, we’re no further forward than when we started.

Which is why I move on to the next best thing. And I do this with any investigation. The cops investigating a case like this can’t tell us everything they know. That’s a given and perfectly understandable. Some police forces are more transparent than others.

I think the RCMP, the Canadian authorities, are very much like what it’s like here in the UK — that you don’t hear a lot when investigations are going on. Some states in the U.S. are a little bit different. They’ll give details out. Some forces release body cam footage, they release 911 calls. The majority don’t, though, so we’re not in a very unusual position in that regard.

But the next best thing for me is listening to family members and trying to piece together some form of truth from what family members say. And I know some people think that it’s just rumor-spreading and gossip. It’s not, guys — it’s not. It’s the next best thing to hearing from the authorities, and we’re not hearing anything from the police. Family members have a lot of information. It just so happens in this case that everything we’re hearing from family members — well, not everything, but a lot — is difficult to piece together.

The timeline — I’m a timelines person. You know, if you’ve been on my channel for any length of time, if a timeline doesn’t make sense, I’ve got a problem. And I’ve had a bad feeling about this case right from the beginning — before much was known about it. I think since seeing Malaya’s interview and Daniel’s first interviews with the news, I had reservations about the truthfulness of what Malaya and Daniel were saying.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Just because something feels a little bit off doesn’t mean to say they’re being completely untruthful or deceptive, because people do act in unusual ways sometimes when they’re in a state of trauma — when they’re just completely shell-shocked, when their world has been turned upside down. So I give people the benefit of the doubt. I don’t instantly jump to: they’re being deceptive, they’re lying, or this or that. I don’t do that. But I have had a bad feeling.

Last night, on It’s a Crime and Shame, Belinda was on there. Now, Belinda has spoken to CBC News, done an interview with them. She’s been on It’s a Crime and Shame‘s channel several times now. Belinda, for those not completely following all of the people in this case, is Lily and Jack’s paternal grandmother. She is Cody’s mother — Cody being the biological father of Lily and Jack. Cody is not involved in their lives at all.

Belinda had a relationship with Lily and Jack up to around maybe 18 months ago, when Malaya stopped visiting. Malaya didn’t want Belinda to visit her. And it all coincides, kind of, with the birth of Meadow — the baby that Malaya and Daniel share together. It has been said by Janie, who is Daniel’s mother, and by Daniel himself, that Malaya, once Meadow was born, changed — that she didn’t really want Lily and Jack. She didn’t attend to them as well as she had been. Belinda has said that Malaya was a great mother when she had regular contact with her and Lily and Jack.

So, something changed when Meadow was born. And we’ve put it down to postpartum depression — which there may have been some of — but there’s another issue that I think we need to contemplate, based on what was said in this interview yesterday. So that’s what we’re going to discuss.

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All right. Without further ado, this show here came on the same day that Janie did her interview with CBC News. I played that yesterday in my video. So we know from Janie’s point of view what she says happened. It doesn’t quite tally with what we were told originally by Malaya and Daniel, but I guess because we don’t know what time these things happened, it’s possible for Malaya and Daniel’s point of view to be one thing, and then Janie only realizes what’s going on once they come out of the house. I guess it could fit.

This is the problem with not having a timeline — when you just say “sometime later,” “20 minutes went by” — well, what I can’t get my head around is when this 20 minutes started. So Janie said that her brother called at 8:48, and she does back off, and then sometime later, she heard Daniel shouting the kids. She went outside. Malaya was on the driveway. But when did this 20 minutes stop?

However, this is the least of our problems today, because what came out on It’s a Crime and Shame gives us another layer of despair at the dysfunction in this home that people maybe weren’t aware of — or those who were aware of it didn’t do anything about it.