What began as a frantic search for six-year-old Lily and four-year-old Jack Sullivan has settled into a silence that grips Landown Station.

“It just blows my mind that there’s absolutely nothing.”

The RCMP are now offering new information to the public about the siblings’ movements before they went missing.

“Based on details gathered so far, we have confirmed that Lily and Jack were observed in public with family members on the afternoon of May 1st.”

On May 2nd, 2025, six-year-old Lily Sullivan and four-year-old Jack vanished from a Nova Scotia trailer. No footprints, no screams—just an open door and their boots gone: pink for Lily, dinosaurs for Jack.

For 28 days, Landown Station choked on silence. Then on May 30th, the RCMP dropped a cryptic bombshell. The kids were seen alive on May 1st, observed with family members. But their vague words hide more than they reveal.

A stepfather’s polygraph test, claimed to be taken, raises a chilling question: What is the RCMP keeping from them?

The RCMP’s secrecy is the key to this mystery. What aren’t they telling us?

Landown Station, Nova Scotia, is a forgotten road where secrets sink into the mud.

On May 2nd, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., a 911 call sparked panic. Lily Sullivan, six, and Jack, four—members of the Se’kneknekati First Nation—were gone.

Their trailer’s sliding door hung open. No signs of struggle. Just their boots, Lily’s pink sweater, and her white strawberry backpack missing. Jack’s brown shirt and pull-up diaper gone too.

The RCMP launched a massive search.

160 volunteers, K9 units, drones, and helicopters scoured 5.5 km of Fiona-ravaged woods. Trees crisscrossed, ticks clinging.

A child’s footprint near Landown Lake led nowhere.

By May 7th, Staff Sergeant Curtis McKinnon’s grim words hit hard: the kids were unlikely alive.

Over 180 tips and 35 interviews yielded zero confirmed sightings.

The RCMP’s early silence left a void that’s only grown darker.

Then, a sudden sighting changed everything.

On May 30th, 2025, the RCMP finally spoke. Lily and Jack were seen alive on May 1st at 3:17 p.m., observed in public with family members—slashing the disappearance window to 19 hours.

Corporal Sandy Matu’s words, “based on details gathered so far,” drip with caution.

Video evidence and eyewitness accounts confirm the sighting. But who saw them? A neighbor? A store clerk? The RCMP won’t say.

The phrase family members is deliberately vague, dodging names.

For weeks, the timeline rested on April 29th, when a school bus driver spotted the kids. Now, May 1st upends it all.

Timelines are the heart of missing persons cases. Why downplay this shift as a “technical update”?

The RCMP are begging for Gearlock Road dash cam footage from April 28th to May 2nd—but won’t reveal what hours of video they’ve already collected.

Neighbor Melissa Scott handed over five days of footage from her seven trail cameras on May 20th: one on her driveway, others in the woods. She saw nothing unusual.

But the major crime unit’s request suggests they’re chasing something specific. Are they sitting on unseen footage of the kids?

The RCMP’s vague language shields them from scrutiny—hinting they’re holding back critical evidence.

The community’s not buying it.

Sullivan children, aged six and four, were seen in public a day before they disappeared.

We reached Robert Parker—the warden of the Municipality of Pictou County. He is in Central West River.

Warden, good of you to join us. We won’t talk specifically about the case because I know that you’re not privy to information on this, but:

What do you think the sense will be in your community tonight when people hear even the slightest bit of new information from the RCMP? How is it received?

“I think any bit of new information is wanted and needed. One thing that’s short in this sad affair is good information. When good information isn’t available, false information—or whatever people decide on their own—gets spread around.

So any bit of information is good, but it doesn’t tell us a lot. It tells us that Lily and Jack were there the day before they disappeared, which is what was assumed all along, and what was told by the parents.

It sort of lends some credence to that and takes away some of the stories like ‘they hadn’t been around for a week.’ But there’s still a long way to go. I think the RCMP are struggling to find any little bit of lead they can, and they know the public is hungry for answers.

So they’re letting out whatever they can.

I don’t know if this information was available before and they just hadn’t let it out, or if it wasn’t available and whatever made it available now—I’m not sure of the facts.”

Pictou County Warden Robert Parker voices a town on edge.

The May 1st sighting is symbolically valuable, he told CBC, but it doesn’t tell us a lot.

It supports the parents’ claim that Lily and Jack were home until May 2nd.

But Parker’s skeptical.

Was this information sitting in RCMP files, or are they only now catching up?

After 28 days of silence, Landown Station’s trust is fraying.

Gearlock Road has maybe ten homes—some with trail cameras—but Fiona’s chaos, uprooted trees, now takes hours and has buried search hopes.

Parker noted the RCMP searched the woods thoroughly. Yet K9s found no scent, no trail.

Then, a stunning claim: The RCMP ruled out abduction on May 3rd—just day two.

Why dismiss it so fast? If not the woods, not an abduction—where are they looking?

Rumors ignite: nighttime SUVs, freshly cleaned ATVs near the trailer.

Parker’s fear runs deeper: “People are coming up with their own options.”

The RCMP’s refusal to address speculation only fuels distrust.

A retired cop sees through the fog.

“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.

Family members have speculated the children were taken, but police have remained adamant: they do not believe the siblings were abducted.

Nova Scotia’s updated policing standards define abduction as a person under 18 or a vulnerable person being taken without legal guardian permission.

Jim Hoskins, a retired HRP officer and former major crime staff sergeant, sees only two possibilities:

“What I see from the outside: only two options. They got lost in the woods, or it’s criminal.”

The RCMP’s early dismissal of abduction raised red flags.

Hoskins’s instinct? The RCMP pivoted from woods to trailer.

Why?

Searches on May 17th and 18th, led by Amy Hansen, focused heavily on the trailer.

115 volunteers scoured 1.2 km.

A pink boot under a couch. A giraffe doodle.

Did the RCMP overlook something—or are they protecting something bigger?

Stepfather Daniel Martell says he’s cooperated fully:

“I’m the only one keeping this alive,” he told reporters.

He claimed to have taken a polygraph test. Passed it.

CTV and Global News confirmed it.

But the RCMP remain silent.

Polygraphs aren’t admissible in Canadian courts but guide investigations.

Why no confirmation?

Did Daniel really pass? Or is the RCMP holding back because of what it revealed?

Daniel says he gave them everything: phone, bank statements, GPS logs.

Yet he’s not in the clear.

The parents’ story is cracking.

They said the kids were sick at home.

But May 1st dash cam footage shows Lily skipping, Jack trailing—healthy.

Daniel’s May 3rd CBC interview chilled listeners:

“They were best friends,” he said—past tense, just 24 hours after they vanished.

He listed missing items in uncanny detail—despite claiming he was asleep.

Malahya, the children’s mother, said autism kept them from wandering—but school staff denied it.

By May 3rd, she fled to Colchester, blocked Daniel, and declared herself single.

Her mother, Cindy Murray, confronted Daniel in public.

By May 8th, Malahya cut him off entirely.

Cindy’s voice was later silenced.

RCMP told her not to speak.

Why gag a grieving grandmother?

Community vigils continued—pink ribbons, prayers.

But the silence is unbearable.

On May 12th, 17 families gathered to demand answers.

Over 355 tips. 50 interviews. No resolution.

Justice Minister Becky Duhan warned against misinformation—but the RCMP’s silence is what breeds it.

Parker summed it up:

“We’re scared. The RCMP is giving us nothing.”

No abduction. No kids. What’s left?

Theories swirl: SUVs, ATVs, cover-ups.

Lily loved Sparkles. Jack loved his T-Rex.

A community clings to hope with stuffed animals and flowers.