[Ammi]

…this isn’t a case that I was familiar with until just recently when I saw this (updated) article…



Police have polygraphed family members of the two toddler siblings who disappeared from their rural home in eastern Canada on May 1.
Jack Sullivan, 4, and his sister Lily, 6, were reported missing by their mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, a day later.
Over the four months they have been gone, the local police have received more than 760 tips from the public, none of which have gotten them any closer to finding the children.


Police have since polygraphed the mother, the stepfather, Daniel Martell, the children’s grandmother, Janie MacKenzie, and their biological father, Cody Sullivan.


Two pieces of a pink blanket belonging to the little girl have been found nearly a mile apart…

The revelation was made in Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) documents, which indicated that the children were reported missing to Nova Scotia law enforcement at 10:01 a.m. on May 2.
It is unclear when the mother became alarmed, but she initially thought the children had wandered away from their house, which is near a heavily wooded area.
Police arrived 26 minutes after Malehya’s call and discovered a pink piece of Lilly’s blanket less than a mile from their home. They deployed a sniffer dog, but with no results. They would later find another piece of the same blanket in a trash can closer to their home.




The grandmother’s polygraph test proved inconclusive…

Following tests on the mother and stepfather on May 12, documents seen by the local CTV outlet proclaimed that both had been honest and forthcoming in their initial accounts of Jack and Lilly’s disappearance.
Investigators then subjected grandmother Janie MacKenzie to the same treatment but determined that her results were inconclusive.
“[Mackenzie’s] physiology was not suitable for analysis and an opinion on the polygraph examination was not rendered,” the filings observed.


The estranged biological father was home on the day his children went missing…

Attention was also drawn to the children’s biological father, Cody Sullivan, after Malehya told police he might have collected them and taken them to New Brunswick, where he lived, which is over two hours away by ferry.
Another report backed this idea up when a suggestion bearing the same sentiment was phoned in to the police.
But after confronting the father on May 22, police learned that he was home on the day of his offspring’s disappearance, and while he paid maintenance for the children, he had not been in contact with them or the Malehya for three years.
“He was home on May 2, 2025, and never goes anywhere. He has not been anywhere other than his house recently and has had no contact with Malehya since the children went missing,” the document reported.



One tipster claims they saw a boy and a girl walking toward a woman who was waiting for them by a car…

One of the 760 tips received by the RCMP claimedthat a duo matching Jack and Lily’s description was seen walking hand-in-hand towards a woman nearby their home.
Said woman, described as being between the ages of 50 and 60, was waiting beside the open back door of a sedan.
The witness who submitted the tip, however, estimated that the children were between the ages of 9 and 10.
While police are still probing the claim, the report asserts that “none of the tips so far have led to Jack and Lilly’s location or has any information that has been corroborated by the investigation.”



The RCMP’s Corporal Charlene Jordan Curl from the Northeast Nova Scotia division has since noted that while numerous possibilities are being examined, she does not think Jack and Lilly’s disappearance is crime-related.
“I do not have reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence has occurred. Because Jack and Lilly are still missing, polygraph examinations were conducted with the intention of ruling out that possibility,” the document quoted her saying.

[Mystic Mock]

Sadly it doesn't sound good.

Hopefully I'm wrong though.

[Niamh.]

The one thing that stuck out to me reading that is why did it take them so long to report them missing? A day later?

[Ammi]

…I’m going to read more into the case and it’s one that seems to be gaining active/daily media attention again…I wasn’t familiar with it at all until this weekend…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I’m going to read more into the case and it’s one that seems to be gaining active/daily media attention again…I wasn’t familiar with it at all until this weekend…

Yeah I might do the same.

Those polygraphs as well I'd take with a pinch of salt

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

The one thing that stuck out to me reading that is why did it take them so long to report them missing? A day later?

Yeah, that struck me as odd too.

[Ammi]

…and the link blanket belonging to Lilly is another thing that stands out…one part of it found in a tree…(…how does a blanket get up into a tree…)…and another part of it found in a the trash bag/bin…/both bits have been confirmed as being part of the same blanket…

[Ammi]

…so if the police authorities are saying …

“I do not have reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence has occurred. Because Jack and Lilly are still missing, polygraph examinations were conducted with the intention of ruling out that possibility.”

…and also saying that the children’s genetic father’s polygraph has revealed that he didn’t take them and has no knowledge of where they are …?…then what do they believe has happened to the children…a tragic accident, is that what they’re saying…?…because other than that, surely a suspected criminal offence…?…

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…so if the police authorities are saying …

“I do not have reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence has occurred. Because Jack and Lilly are still missing, polygraph examinations were conducted with the intention of ruling out that possibility.”

…and also saying that the children’s genetic father’s polygraph has revealed that he didn’t take them and has no knowledge of where they are …?…then what do they believe has happened to the children…a tragic accident, is that what they’re saying…?…because other than that, surely a suspected criminal offence…?…

Yeah it’s a really confusing story.