Trail camera footage handed over to RCMP | Two missing Nova Scotia children update
CBC has posted a new article about the two missing children from Nova Scotia, Lily and Jack Sullivan. Lily is 6 years old, and Jack is 4 years old. This article is about how a neighbor has handed over trail cam footage from the days leading up to their disappearance.

What I suspect the RCMP is looking for is anything suspicious in the area. Was there anybody hanging around on that particular trail before the children disappeared? Is there anything in the footage that could possibly help figure out what happened?

Or perhaps, if they have footage from the day the children went missing, is this somewhere the kids walked past on their own?

As RCMP remains tight-lipped about the investigation, a resident who lives near the rural home says she has turned over trail camera footage at the request of police — spanning five days before the children were reported missing.

She stated she was visited on May 20th by two officers from the RCMP’s major crime unit. (Today is May 22nd, 2025, so that was two days ago.)

They inquired whether she had any trail cameras set up on her 16-hectare property in Glengarry Station, roughly 5 kilometers east of the children’s home as the crow flies. She told police she has several trail cameras in total. One points down her driveway, another is positioned near her house, and the rest are scattered throughout the woods. It takes about an hour to walk between them.

That’s good — if she’s got a lot of footage spaced out in the area, this could be really helpful. They could potentially see something on this footage.

She mentioned to investigators that she was very happy to see them and glad they were canvassing a little further and looking at trail cam footage. They reportedly responded by saying they “probably should have been around earlier.”

I thought that too as soon as I saw this article. Why didn’t they do that from the beginning? Like, see how far out people had cameras. If the kids wandered off, there’s no telling how far they might have gone. I mean, at least they’re doing it now — but “now” is 20 days later. Still, it’s better late than never.

She said she was given a USB drive to load the trail cam footage onto. She was initially asked to provide footage from May 1st to May 3rd, but the request was later expanded to include April 27th to May 3rd.

So they’re going back even further, before May 2nd. If the children did wander off into that area and were there on May 3rd, this is definitely a good sign. Perhaps they’re on that footage — if they did just wander into the woods.

She handed over hours of footage on Thursday afternoon. Her property is roughly an 8-kilometer drive from Lansdowne Station down dirt roads, but is also connected to it by train tracks and utility line clearings.

She also said she posted in a private community group on Facebook, asking if her neighbors had been visited by the RCMP. Two other people responded saying they had also been approached for footage.

So, it sounds like the RCMP is collecting a lot of footage from the area.

CBC News spoke to one neighbor — who did not want to be named — who confirmed they were also asked by investigators for trail cam or security footage. She said she was also asked to confirm information about her family’s vehicles, in order to rule out local traffic on the footage.

CBC News requested an interview with the RCMP and asked specific questions, including why they are seeking trail cam footage from before the children’s disappearance, and why they are identifying local vehicles.

I mean — to me, anyway — that seems pretty self-explanatory. They’re looking at footage from before the disappearance to see if anyone suspicious was hanging around. Maybe someone walking in the woods who looked out of place. Someone who isn’t from the area. Because if someone was captured on the footage, they could ask, “Do you recognize this person?” or “Is this person familiar to the area?”

That could be the breakthrough — identifying someone who shouldn’t be there.

The RCMP declined the interview request, and a spokesperson pointed to the most recent news release from May 18th (which was four days ago), which provided some details about the latest search effort.

So, RCMP isn’t saying much — but clearly, multiple people are handing over trail cam footage. And honestly, I can only think that that’s a good sign. I really hope there’s something on that footage — anything — that can help investigators find these two young children, who have now been missing for 20 days.