TikTok sleuths have latched onto their latest mystery, filling the case of a missing brother and sister with speculation and conspiracy.  

Lily and Jack Sullivan, six and four, were reported missing from their home in Nova Scotia, Canada in a frantic phone call on Friday last week.

Their mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, said she was asleep with their stepfather Daniel Martell and their 16-month-old baby at the time.

There has been a large scale search in the thick forestry surrounding their home, but no trace of them has been found.

After six days of scouring area, police now believe it is not likely that the siblings are alive and the operation has been ‘scaled back’.

Staff Sgt Curtis MacKinnon told a news conference: ‘So rather than having the large presence here, the massive number of searchers on scene every day, searches will be based on information that comes in.

‘We are not packing up and we’re not giving up. Our investigation is broad and it won’t end until we know where Lily and Jack are and can bring them home.’

Police believe Jack and Lily wandered off into the woods together and got lost.

But TikTok is now awash with baseless claims of a kidnapping, implicating their stepfather Daniel.

In the days after the children’s disappearance, he himself speculated that they were abducted, but police insist there is no evidence of that.

Six-year-old Lily Sullivan
Sleuths online have weaponised his own theory against him, arguing that he ‘wants the heat off of him’.

Interviews with Daniel during press conferences have been meticulously pulled apart to find what some claim are ‘inconsistencies’ and ‘red flags’ in his body language.

The unfounded rumours have become so intense that he has agreed to a polygraph test to prove his innocence.

He said he willingly handed his phone over to police, adding that his home and ‘everything I own’ has been searched.

Daniel said: ‘They searched every rock, every root. Everything. I have been giving them every detail, everything from my bank account statements to all the information that came off my Google maps.’

Four-year-old Jack Sullivan
He added: ‘I just want to clear it up for everyone, not just the people online making crazy accusations and everything else.

‘I asked for that early on, and there are not many places that do that in Canada, so they are flying somebody in.’

Daniel and his partner Malehya have appealed to members of the public to help them find Lily and Jack as the search enters a second week.

Holding back tears, she told journalists: ‘I am staying as hopeful as possible. I just want them home and to hold them.’