{"id":167100,"date":"2025-08-22T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167100\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:11:15","slug":"n-s-missing-kids-court-documents-provide-details-on-lilly-and-jack-sullivan-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167100\/","title":{"rendered":"N.S. missing kids: Court documents provide details on Lilly and Jack Sullivan case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly released court documents are revealing previously unreported details of the investigation into the disappearance of two young children from their home<\/a> in rural northeastern\u00a0Nova\u00a0Scotia\u00a0more than three months ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Included in several documents are the initial impressions by police of polygraphs given to the parents of six-year-old Lilly<\/a> and four-year-old Jack Sullivan<\/a>, and confirmation that investigators found a second piece of a pink blanket they say belonged to Lilly<\/a>, in the trash.<\/p>\n

The information is contained in court applications filed by investigators for permission to conduct searches for phone records, banking records, and video related to the case. The documents include unproven statements made by police. Those documents were released to The Canadian Press and other news outlets. Many of them contain redactions.<\/p>\n

According to one document, sworn by Cpl. Charlene Jordan Curl of the RCMPs Northeast\u00a0Nova\u00a0Scotia\u00a0major crime unit, the children were first reported missing on 10:01 a.m. on May 2 from their home in rural Lansdowne Station, N.S., by their mother Malehya Brooks-Murray.<\/p>\n

Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n

Brooks-Murray told police she believed the two children had wandered away from home, but the exact time she said she thought they went missing was redacted. Police were on the scene at 10:27 a.m.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Click<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:50
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMissing Nova Scotia kids: Pink blanket belonging to Lilly Sullivan being examined, RCMP say\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The document says the last time the children were seen outside their home was on May 1, when they were captured by video surveillance at a local Dollarama store with Brooks-Murray and Daniel Martell, their stepfather.<\/p>\n

RCMP conducted at least four polygraphs during their investigation \u2014 the first two were on May 12 with the children\u2019s parents at the detachment at Bible Hill, N.S. Martell\u2019s polygraph \u201cindicated he was truthful,\u201d as did the test for Brooks-Murray that found she was truthful when answering specific questions, although the list of questions is redacted in the document.<\/p>\n

An unidentified investigator\u2019s comment included at the end of a section on the results of both of those polygraphs says, \u201cAt this point in the investigation Jack and Lilly\u2019s disappearance is not believed to be criminal in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"For<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n

For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n

Martell told The Canadian Press on May 28 that he had passed a polygraph test, but the RCMP declined at the time to confirm or deny his claim.<\/p>\n

Results from polygraphs, which measure fluctuations within a person\u2019s sympathetic nervous system as they answer questions, are not admissible in Canadian courts, but the machines are considered an investigative tool.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on June 10, the children\u2019s stepgrandmother, Janie MacKenzie, underwent a polygraph examination but another document notes that her \u201cphysiology was not suitable for analysis and an opinion on the polygraph examination was not rendered.\u201d The children\u2019s biological father, Cody Sullivan, underwent a polygraph on June 12, 2025, and passed the examination, with his answers found to be \u201ctruthful.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July, the Mounties said they were running forensic tests on a pink blanket found during the search of the heavily wooded areas near the children\u2019s home. Police said at the time that the family had confirmed the blanket belonged to Lilly, but investigators released few details.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Click<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:50
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCase of missing N.S. kids hits 2-month mark with no answers\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The newly released documents shed more light on that part of the investigation, saying three family members found the blanket in a tree on Lansdowne Station Road on May 2, exactly one kilometre from the family home. A photo was shown to the mother and stepfather who confirmed it was Lilly\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n

Later, police dispatched a sniffer dog to the area where the blanket was found, but the animal was unable to pick up a scent of Lilly or Jack, the documents say. On May 4, another piece of blanket was seized by police after it was found inside a trash bag at the end of the driveway of the children\u2019s home, according to police.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n