Secrets and lies: Lilly & Jack Sullivan, what’s really going on in the family? 
Good morning, everyone.
My name is Michelle. I hope you’re doing well.
Welcome to another video. It is Monday morning, the 2nd of June.
we’re continuing the coverage of missing six-year-old Lily and four-year-old Jack Sullivan from Landown Station in Nova Scotia.
After another weekend of searching, there has been no evidence found. Nothing.
So, we’re going to talk about that.

But the bulk of this video is going to talk about the family.
What on earth is going on with this family? Let’s discuss.

Okay, so these are some words from Amy Hansen, who is the lead for the searchers.
She’s kind of like the coordinator or manager.
She’s spoken to CTV after yesterday’s search revealed nothing.

Quick recap on the search efforts.
Lily and Jack were reported missing around 10:00 a.m. on May the 2nd.
As you all know, there was a large-scale search. I mean, they threw everything at it.
You can’t fault the RCMP and the search organizations for what they did in the first few days.

They believed Lily and Jack had wandered off into the woods, and they went all out to find them.
As much technology as they could throw at it.
They had drones, helicopters, live scent tracker dogs, and dive teams.

Then, in the press conference on May the 7th, they said they were scaling back the acute search.
But they did continue to search in more specific areas.

So, on May 8th and 9th, the RCMP dive team searched Landown Lake and other nearby waterways, and found nothing.
That was it for a while.

Then, on May 17th and 18th — two weekends ago — the searches resumed.
They did another two days of searching.
The first search covered 5.5 km, which is 3.4 miles.
We know that wasn’t a perfect circle — more like an egg shape — focusing on the gas pipe area to the west of the home, where a children’s bootprint was found.

They did send a dog out the day they found the bootprint, but that dog didn’t get a track.
We heard that from the dispatch audio, so we know that happened.
But they didn’t get a track.

The thing that gets me is that there are no tracks, no scent — and in a wooded area, you’d think there would be, if they’re in the right area.
That really concerns me.

They got scent from the property.
Daniel says it stopped at the road, but we’ve had no confirmation that cadaver dogs were ever used.
It was a question that was asked at the May 7th press conference — and they hadn’t at that point.
We don’t know whether they have now.

Anyway, on May 17th and 18th they covered a bit more ground.
So they went into the current search on Saturday having covered around 6 square kilometers.

It was a surprise that the searches resumed again this weekend — because RCMP seemed to have changed the way they were dealing with the investigation.
They were appealing for dash cam footage from Glaw Road from noon on April 28th to noon May 2nd.
Which implied they’re looking for activity in the days before the children went missing.

We know the children were seen in public on surveillance in New Glasgow with their family on the afternoon of May the 1st.
So, we know that they were alive and presumably well on May 1st — and reported missing at 10:00 a.m. on May 2nd.

Now, yesterday’s search revealed nothing.
I’ll read a little bit from an article.
If you want to read the full article, I’ll put the link in the description box.
I always put the links to my sources in the description box, so check down there if you want to go over anything I mention.

When the first search ended, RCMP said they didn’t expect to find the children alive in the surrounding woods.
But they said searching would resume if they received fresh information.

This is why there was a lot of speculation about whether they had received new information and were rechecking areas.
They often do that anyway, because in a dense area — when you’re literally looking for a needle in a haystack — and there’s no evidence, it’s easy to miss things.
So they go back and search previously searched areas. That’s good practice.

This weekend, they focused on the gas pipeline area because of that bootprint.

Anyway, Hansen said there would be a discussion with the RCMP after Sunday’s search efforts concluded, to decide if a third search is needed.
I think it would actually be a fourth search, wouldn’t it?

Anyway, I’m sure they’ll be calling us back in at some point.
But right now, once we suspend this evening, it’s a conversation that has to happen between Search and Rescue, RCMP, and investigators.

The search manager — that’s Amy Hansen — said,

“The work of the search and rescue teams, many of whom are volunteers, has been grueling.
What people are putting themselves through — the stress levels, the exhaustion, being in the woods, pushing through all that brush so close together so they can see everything — for hours on end.
The effort that’s going in is unreal.”

All credit to them. Amazing team.

Investigators confirmed that the RCMP’s Major Crimes Unit has been involved since May 3rd, which is routine in missing persons cases.
On May 13th, they said they had received over 180 tips from the public.
They had interviewed community and family members — about 50 interviews so far — and were still conducting more.
Just no answers yet, at least none we know about.

Now, the family have been speaking out periodically on social media.
We know the children’s mother, Malaya Brooks Murray, left on May 3rd — 24 hours after Lily and Jack were reported missing.
Originally, we were told this came from Daniel — that Malaya left after her family argued with his mother and were kicked off the property.

Now Daniel has said a bit more:
That she left after attending the briefing on May 3rd, sat in an ambulance, then left — and he hasn’t seen her since.

She blocked him on social media, took down all his photos, removed her Facebook, put it back up again — but all his photos were gone.

You have to ask yourself — why?
Why has she done that?
Because she said she couldn’t live without him. And then she did this — blaming him for having something to do with it?