{"id":239319,"date":"2025-09-19T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:22:13","slug":"n-s-missing-kids-police-dogs-trained-in-detecting-human-remains-to-take-part-in-new-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239319\/","title":{"rendered":"N.S. missing kids: Police dogs trained in detecting human remains to take part in new searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Police dogs trained in detecting human remains will be taking part in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11290454\/ns-missing-kids-july-16-update-unsolved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">upcoming searches for Lilly and Jack Sullivan<\/a> \u2014 two young Nova Scotia siblings who went missing more than four months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It is the first time RCMP Police Dog services teams specifically trained in human remains detection will be used in this investigation. Past searches have used police dogs that have the ability to pick up human scent.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP confirmed Friday that searches will be taking place but would not provide details on dates, times or locations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Cindy Bayers said they were withholding that information \u201cin consideration of the investigation and officer safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added there is \u201cnothing definitive to support the children are deceased,\u201d but that other searches to date have not located the children.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeploying the human remains detection teams at this point aligns with the investigative efforts to date.\u00a0 All scenarios are being considered; it\u2019s critical for investigators to remain open to all possibilities to ensure our investigation is fully comprehensive,\u201d she wrote in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11435099\/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-trade-war-hoekstra\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298932_835_dbe6f6b7c01beeb7146b232b338c2a348b5804c3d4370a9014a7544ac310fda4.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada not \u2018constructive\u2019 in efforts to secure U.S. trade deal, envoy says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11434416\/jimmy-kimmel-comments-about-charlie-kirks-death\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what Jimmy Kimmel said about the Charlie Kirk shooting\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The siblings were reported missing on May 2 from their home in Lansdowne Station in Pictou County. At the time, Lilly was six years old and Jack was four.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s family has said the siblings wandered away that morning from the home, which is situated in a heavily wooded and rural area.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into their disappearance has included multiple searches by hundreds of volunteers and police from the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11237678\/missing-nova-scotia-kids-lilly-jack-polygraph-crime-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">also administered polygraph tests<\/a> and conducted forensic examination on items such as <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11345893\/nova-scotia-lilly-and-jack-sullivan-police-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pieces of a pink blanket believed to belong to Lilly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police dogs trained in detecting human remains will be taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,48422,95988,48423,48421,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-239319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-jack-sullivan","10":"tag-lilly-and-jack-sullivan","11":"tag-lilly-sullivan","12":"tag-missing-ns-kids","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115231886128297987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}