Nova Scotia human remains ID? Lilly & Jack Sullivan no more searches & cop on RCMP’s BIG CLUE
Did they wander away? I really don’t know. It’s possible — of course it’s possible. Kids do the darnedest things. But the lack of scent — that really bothers me. It really bothers me.

Now, I’ve got loads of videos on this channel about dog searches across various cases, but I did one a few days ago on this case. So yes, there are reasons why there may not be a scent… but no. No. I don’t like it. Do not like it.

Abduction — a lot of people think that abduction is possible. And it is. Of course, it is.

But I don’t believe anybody would come into their backyard and abduct them from their backyard. If they went out to play in the backyard… there’s nobody who would walk past the trailer, with the RV right there where Daniel’s mother and brother live — even if they’re not in.

How would an abductor know that? How would an abductor know that Daniel and Malia were asleep? Too many risks.

And apparently, Daniel’s mother has a dog. I haven’t seen the dog. I don’t know what breed the dog is. I don’t know where the dog lives — in the RV or outside. I don’t know. But nah… I don’t think they were abducted from the yard.

Now, if Lily and Jack tried to go to school — if they went missing on the Friday morning — that’s another story. If Lily was coming into the room because she wanted to get ready for school… what if they set off for school? Went down the driveway? Waited for the bus?

Maybe they didn’t really know what time the bus came. Maybe they missed the bus. They waited a while, then started to walk, thinking they could walk to school.

Well, anything could have happened at that point. They could have been picked up on Gairloch Road. I think it’s a good possibility that they may have tried to go to school — so they’re not in the woods at all.

But I can’t shake — I just can’t shake — the possibility that some kind of foul play has happened here. I think there’s something more to this case that we don’t know about.

Anyway, the RCMP said — this is RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carly MacInnis, speaking on Tuesday:

“The work to find Lily and Jack remains very active with a full complement of resources, tools, and many investigators engaged to determine the circumstances of their disappearance.
There are no planned air and ground searches at this time. Any further searches will be determined based on the investigation.”

She wouldn’t comment on whether the force has used polygraphs as part of their interviews in the investigation:

“Any of the investigative techniques that are being applied and used aren’t going to be part of any information that we release to the public at this time,” she said.

So, they’re still remaining tight-lipped. It is a little bit heartbreaking that they’re not going to plan any more searches — certainly not in the near future.

I did get the feeling that the searches on the 17th and 18th of May were a final, last-ditch effort in favor of other investigative techniques. What? Collecting surveillance cameras? Yeah, great.

A property owned by Melissa Scott, a neighbor from three miles away… on May 20th, they finally went to get her trail cams — of which she’s got a 40-acre property and seven trail cams on the property.

I’m sorry — that’s not good enough.

I mean, look — they’ve probably collected the surveillance cameras and any trail cam footage from neighbors closer already. But the thing that gets me is: if they’ve not done a full sweep and a full analysis of the surveillance cameras in the area, how could they say right from the jump that there were no signs of an abduction?

How would they know that if they’d not even investigated the possibility? How would they know that the family were telling the truth about their whereabouts if they’d not looked at things like surveillance cameras — as many as are available?

I mean, look — it’s a very rural area. But how can you say there’s no abduction?

Now, look — a retired police detective has commented to Global News and said:

“This is a big statement.”

So, let’s listen to this news piece here:

“They gave you a clue when they said, ‘No abduction.’ That’s a big statement to make this early in the game.”

It’s been 24 days since Lily and Jack Sullivan were reported missing from their home in Lansdown Station. Family members have speculated the children were taken, but police have remained adamant they do not believe the siblings were abducted.

According to Nova Scotia’s recently updated policing standards, abduction is defined as when a person under 18 years of age, or a vulnerable person, is taken without the permission of their legal guardian.

Jim Hoskins, a retired HRP officer and former Major Crime Staff Sergeant — despite not working on the Sullivan case himself or being privy to any information regarding the RCMP’s ongoing investigation — said he can see only two remaining possibilities:

“What I see from the outside — there’s only two options here:

Criminal involvement.

Search failure — they haven’t found them yet.

I felt, okay, let’s give them a couple days to see if these kids just wandered off — because they’re only six and four.
So are they lost? They’ll find them.
Maybe.

If not? Let’s see how far it goes.
And I said — if it goes beyond 2 or 3 days… uh-oh. That was my reaction.”

That “uh-oh” — a feeling felt across the province — could be driving public obsession with this case.

In Canada in 2024, there were just over 30,000 cases of missing children. The vast majority of those cases involved runaways — they involved teens. Actually, about 90% of those cases are resolved within a one-week period.

Those are useful statistics, and they’re true across the board — most missing children cases are solved very quickly. Most are actually solved within a few hours. 90% within a week.

And most are solved quickly because they’re runaways — teenagers who voluntarily left their home. Like in the case of Sebastian Rogers from Tennessee — 15 years old when he disappeared. I believe he left his home voluntarily.

Very different, though, when it’s small children.

Yes, small children do wander away. Yes, they do wander further than you think — sometimes, they absolutely do.

So, could Lily and Jack have walked out of the search area? Yes. They may be out there somewhere — lying deceased — and have just been missed. Or, they’ve managed to get past the search area if they took a certain route that didn’t involve the densest areas of the woods.

Absolutely possible.

Like I said, though, I’ve had concerns from the beginning. And it seems that this retired detective is thinking along the same lines that I’ve been since the beginning as well.

The fact that two siblings are missing — that’s rare. But it has happened.

The Beaumont children from Australia. The Adelaide Oval abductions of a 4-year-old and 11-year-old friends. Abby and Libby — 13 and 14 — from Indiana. Abducted together, murdered together. Cousins Lyric and Elizabeth from 2012. I bet there’s more.

It does happen that two kids are abducted at the same time.

Stranger abductions are thankfully rare. But it happens.

Has it happened in this case, though? Again — the fact that the RCMP said there was no sign of an abduction from the jump… I’d be happy to go with that. I’d be happy to believe them — if I knew they had collected all the surveillance cameras from at least the immediate vicinity. Every camera they could get — especially along the road.

Because if it was an abduction — they’d be gone in a vehicle, wouldn’t they?

But I don’t know, you guys. Either it is a wandering-away scenario, or it’s foul play, in my opinion.