RCMP forensics examining pink blanket found during search for missing N.S. children

Aly Thomson · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 16, 2025 10:02 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Nova Scotia RCMP accidental they are forensically examining items recovered during the hunt for 2 young children who went missing from a agrarian Nova Scotia assemblage 2½ months ago, arsenic units from aggregate provinces enactment to find retired what happened to the siblings.

Lilly Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were reported missing connected the greeting of May 2 when police received a 911 telephone saying they had wandered distant from their location successful Lansdowne Station, astir 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax.

The disappearance sparked days of extended searches of the spot and surrounding woods. Two boot prints were located connected the driveway of the spot and connected a adjacent pipeline trail, and a portion of a broad was besides recovered connected a adjacent road.

In a quality merchandise Wednesday, RCMP said the large transgression portion is starring the probe with assistance from units in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario, on with the National Centre of Missing Persons, Canadian Centre for Child Protection, and provincial and municipal constabulary agencies from different parts of the country.

The merchandise said a pinkish broad that was seized connected Lansdowne Road during the hunt is being forensically examined. The children's stepfather, Daniel Martell, antecedently told CBC News that the broad belongs to Lilly.

The Mounties said they are reviewing astir 5,000 video files obtained done a video canvass of Lansdowne Station and the surrounding areas, and are pursuing up connected much than 600 tips from the public.

They person formally interviewed much than 60 people, immoderate of whom were fixed polygraph tests. Martell has confirmed helium participated successful a polygraph trial past month, and that helium was told helium passed.

The Mounties are besides pursuing up connected much than 600 tips from the public, and are "submitting judicial authorizations to prehend and analyse materials and devices that whitethorn supply accusation utile to the investigation."

"Right now, determination are much than 800 tasks associated to this investigation," Staff Sgt. Rob McCamon, the acting serviceman successful complaint of large crimes and and behavioural sciences.

"A tremendous magnitude of careful, deliberate investigative enactment is underway by radical present astatine location and successful different parts of Canada. Our corporate efforts volition proceed each time until we find with certainty the circumstances surrounding Lilly and Jack's disappearance."