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The Case of Lily and Jack Sullivan. Case overview - part 2. Here is an important article, in its entirety, about the case of Lily and Jack Sullivan. It succinctly summarizes this baffling missing persons case, and brings to light many important factual details about the case and the ongoing investigation. “Months after Nova Scotia children vanished, a clearer picture emerges of their lives before their disappearance.” Article from the “In Depth” section of the “Globe and Mail” news website. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-nova-scotia-missing-kids-updates-jack-lilly-sullivan-parents-rcmp/ “A picture emerges of missing children’s lives, but not their fate. Months later, there are still few answers about what happened to Jack and Lilly Sullivan of Nova Scotia, but trauma and stigma have left their families and community farther apart.” Article by Lindsay Jones and Greg Mercer. Includes correction. For The Globe and Mail. Published August 8, 2025. Updated August 9, 2025. Edited for this program by Hector Vladimir 2025© The New Period Chat Radio presents: The Case Of https://www.youtube.com/@thenewperiod https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6upa16ru_CyayTLG3dEn1RWpaBhf6eCx https://www.youtube.com/@thenewperiodcr https://rumble.com/c/c-5025829 https://www.bitchute.com/channel/JtdWZsd7QnbP Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/hectorvladimir Substack page: https://hectorvladimir.substack.com/

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00:00here is an important article in its entirety about the case of lily and jack sullivan

00:12it succinctly summarizes this baffling missing persons case and brings to light many important

00:17factual details about the case and the ongoing investigation months after nova scotia children

00:24vanished a clearer picture emerges of their lives before their disappearance article from the in

00:30depth section of the globe and mail news website a picture emerges of missing children's lives but

00:36not their fate months later there are still few answers about what happened to jack and lily

00:42sullivan of nova scotia but trauma and stigma have left their families and community farther apart

00:47article by lindsay jones and greg mercer includes correction for the globe and mail published august

00:568th 2025. updated august 9th 2025. at her home in middle muskotoboit nova scotia lily and jack

01:06sullivan's paternal grandmother belinda gray keeps a photo of their first day of school in september 2024.

01:13the children were reported missing to police on the morning of may 2nd

01:17darren calabrese the globe and mail deep in the middle of nova scotia far from its quaint coastal

01:24towns sits lansdowne a hamlet of around 100 people in a cellular dead zone it's surrounded by endless

01:31spruce forests bushes like razor wire and bogs that breed swarms of black flies like many faded

01:37settlements across the maritimes lansdowne reached its peak more than a century ago about 150 kilometers

01:45northeast of halifax it was once a busy railway stop bustling with scottish immigrants who dug iron

01:51and copper mines deep into the hillsides today those mine shafts are abandoned one lone train a

01:57day cuts through the community with a melancholic blare most of the people here live a quiet rural

02:02existence in secluded homes scattered along back country roads that only the locals know where chickens

02:08and large dogs roam free and the rusted skeletons of old vehicles sit marooned in the dirt much like

02:14american appalachia this once prosperous corner of picto county is now economically stagnant one

02:21in five children live in poverty higher than most other counties in the province it's here where the

02:27lives of lily and jack sullivan were implanted two years ago to a rundown trailer set back from highway

02:33289 with their pregnant mother and stepfather they needed a place to live and their step-grandmother

02:39who owned the home welcomed them to live with her lily and jack sullivan lived at this house in

02:46lansdowne nova scotia in may daniel martel right waited there with brother justin for news of the

02:53search for the children chris donovan the globe and mail life for lily six and jack four inside the

03:00cluttered trailer in lansdowne was chaotic there were holes in the floor of the front stoop tarps

03:06protect the underside of the trailer from the elements and so much racket from the lively children

03:11that their step-grandmother soon retreated to a camper in the driveway their stepfather daniel martel

03:1834 with pale eyes and ropey arms worked at the local hardwood mill their mother malihia brooks murray

03:2427 a member of sipek and katak first nation with chin-length dark hair stayed home with their baby

03:30meadow inside the mobile home a large wood stove filled up most of the living room the kids artwork

03:37was pasted to the kitchen wall next to the sliding patio door that led to a yard where they spent hours

03:43playing next to the chicken coop lily chattered away to her dolls and stuffed animals jack turned over

03:49rocks and pieces of wood in search of bugs and worms outside the fenced backyard and up over a steep

03:55embankment the children sometimes played in a small fort nestled beneath boughs of spruce it was like their

04:02own little dream world lily and jack's family say they played regularly in this patch of woods near their

04:09home where children's toys were still strewn about in the early days of the search steve wadden the globe and

04:16mail inside the trailer in lansdowne jack and lily's art was tacked up in the kitchen steve wadden

04:25the globe and mail most days jack and lily hopped on the bus to attend salt springs elementary

04:31a rural school about a 20-minute ride from their home jack smaller than his peers was strapped in at

04:37the front of the bus next to his sister the morning the children were reported missing the big yellow

04:43school bus rolled past the mobile home without stopping for a second day in a row jack and lily

04:49were usually standing by the side of the road waiting to be picked up but earlier that morning

04:54of may 2nd their mother had marked them absent from school at about 6 15 a.m both parents have said it

05:00was because lily had a cough they say they heard the children playing in the next room while they dozed

05:05in the bedroom with their toddler daniel has said he saw lily pop in and out a few times

05:11at about 9 40 a.m the couple says they awoke and realized the kids were gone they were outside

05:16playing but we weren't aware of it at the time and the next thing we knew it was quiet she told ctv

05:22atlantic we get up and i tell my partner daniel do you hear the kids and he says no instantly we are

05:30looking outside we are looking everywhere yelling for them jack and lily's mysterious disappearance

05:36has baffled the country more than three months after they were reported missing after one of

05:41the largest searches in nova scotia's history and an intensive police investigation police still

05:47haven't confirmed the circumstances of how the young siblings went missing it's possible that there

05:52were clues even potential warning signs in their home life a closer look into the lives of jack and lily

05:58shows that all was not well in the trailer in lansdowne belinda gray at her kitchen table in middle

06:05muskotoboit has spent long hours in the woods looking for clues to lily and jack's whereabouts

06:12her son cody sullivan separated three years ago from the children's mother malihia brooks murray

06:18darren calabrese the globe and mail malihia is a member of sipek and katak first nation where her

06:27father henry brooks is among many waiting for news he remembers the last time he spoke with the

06:32children jack said he loved him ingrid bolmer the globe and mail daniel martel is on stress leave from

06:42his job at a hardwood mill he says people in the community sometimes give him dirty looks

06:47suspecting him of having something to do with the disappearance chris donovan the globe and mail

06:53that morning jack's blue dinosaur boots were gone so were lily's pink rubber boots and her white

06:59backpack with strawberries the only clue left behind according to the parents was one child-sized boot

07:06print in the dirt driveway a few meters from the home malihia called 911 at about 10 a.m daniel said he

07:14jumped in her white suv and left to check nearby dirt roads culverts and streams soon an army of search

07:20and rescue volunteers arrived wearing orange hunting vests they fanned out conducting a grid search in the

07:27swamp and thick woods around the home drones and a helicopter scoured overhead a police dog on a leash

07:34with a handler set about the yard police combed every inch of the property they rummaged through

07:40the mobile home reached inside a hamster cage tore apart a brush pile unzipped the suitcase lying in the

07:47middle of the yard they opened the top of the dryer at the end of the driveway and peered in the chicken

07:52hut they searched the camper van where daniel's mother jamie mackenzie lives three times malihia messaged

07:59the children's paternal grandmother belinda gray i never thought they would run off on me like that

08:05she wrote i'm so distraught hours later and still no sign of the children malihia floated the idea that

08:13jack and lily were abducted many are suspecting they were picked up by somebody she texted belinda

08:20because there is no trace of them or lily's backpack daniel meanwhile was tearing through the woods on foot

08:25and waiting in streams telling people he was moving faster than the police helicopters that day carloads

08:32of family members pulled up to help search in the mid-afternoon a non-encrypted radio channel crackled

08:38with voices of emergency responders families brought us to a location there not far away that there's a

08:45piece of a blanket which the mother says she believes belongs to her daughter radioed an official

08:50daniel says a child's boot print was found on the spot marked by this blue pipe a few meters from the

08:57camper where his mother lives lindsey jones the globe and mail emergency responders dispatched a

09:04canine unit to the site where they seized lily's pink blanket torn and wound around the lower branches

09:10of a spruce it was about a kilometer from the mobile home off the gravel lansdowne road where daniel's

09:16father and uncles live the road runs deep into the backcountry connecting with dirt roads that snake

09:23further into the wilderness to remote lakes backwoods dumps and clear-cut tracks of land when a police

09:29officer asked daniel about the pink blanket he said it wasn't lilies at first police began pounding on

09:35doors into the early hours of the next morning they came to the door of daniel's father earl martel

09:41a retired tire plant worker who lives atop a hill in a bungalow he built himself 40 years ago

09:47officers peered with flashlights into the corners of his living room jumbled with the craft supplies

09:53and hot wheels of daniel's two school-aged biological children who often visit on weekends earl guided

09:59police into the yard to old campers and a derelict log cabin filled with junk and to daniel's older

10:05model black sedan in need of repairs he couldn't afford police checked earl martel's property home

10:12to a cluttered cabin and old campers for jack and lily in the middle of the night on may 3rd lindsey

10:18jones the globe and mail police also banged on the door of the home of belinda in middle muskotoboit

10:25about half an hour from lansdowne they were looking to talk to her son who had been living there for the

10:31last nine months after losing his roofing job but cody sullivan hadn't seen jack and lily since he

10:37and malihia separated three years ago he'd cut ties after she filed for full custody of the children

10:43over the coming days police returned twice more to interrogate him and take photos of vehicles

10:49through the night search and rescue volunteers combed the woods and helicopters and drones that can

10:54detect body heat scanned overhead malihia was up to texting with belinda

10:59i have reason to believe they may have been taken by someone she wrote they should have found them by

11:05now if they were in the woods the next morning belinda set out to help search for her grandchildren

11:12as she drove toward the trailer on highway 289 past the trail of orange traffic cones it hit her where

11:18she was headed over the last two years malihia had distanced herself from belinda she stopped bringing

11:25the children to visit later explaining that daniel was jealous and didn't want her going there or

11:29giving out the address the grandmother said she had never been invited to the house until she showed

11:35up to help in the search belinda didn't know this was the home her grandchildren were living in

11:40a home that she'd noticed multiple times on her way while driving to halifax

11:45wow wow she says she thought as she stepped inside to speak to malihia

11:50everything she saw from the junk strewn yard to the cluttered kitchen was the total opposite of

11:56the neat and tidy woman she used to know even though she'd heard it once before she needed to

12:01hear it again what happened she asked malihia opened the low rumbling sliding patio door in the kitchen

12:08demonstrating how she assumed the children quietly left the home while she and daniel were sleeping

12:14well malihia belinda recalled saying you're the mom you know these kids better than anybody

12:20so where do you feel they'd go what would take their interest what direction would they go she had no

12:26idea lansdowne road about a kilometer from jack and lily's home is where police seized lily's pink

12:34blanket which has been sent for forensic testing the roads around the children's home wind past an array

12:40of rural properties train tracks a natural gas pipeline and a small lake steve wadden the globe and mail

12:48that day as search and rescue teams tramped through the woods rolling ankles and plucking ticks from

12:54their skin malihia stood on the side of the highway in front of a local television camera

12:59it's been raining and they're probably soaking wet but with the sun today i'm hopeful they're feeling

13:04warm she said swallowing back tears we're all filled with pain and sorrow because we just want them

13:10found we want them home everyone loves them she also took to facebook pleading for police to issue

13:17an amber alert a national public alert to help locate abducted children i want my babies home my

13:24children are not shy to strangers and will go with anyone they don't understand stranger danger

13:29she wrote on may 3rd daniel also pushed for such an alert telling the globe that abduction is a

13:35possibility something he said he tried to raise early on with police but he said they looked at

13:41him like he was crazy perhaps it's because the home is so remote where few travel or have reason to

13:47pass by also nova scotia police require specific criteria to activate an amber alert including a

13:54description of the child abductor or vehicle and reasonable grounds to believe an abduction has occurred

13:59in this case our cmp have repeatedly said they have no such evidence i asked them to go to every

14:06airport all the airports and intake for different provinces pi and new brunswick daniel said breaking

14:12down crying they will go with anybody because they're undiagnosed autistic they will go with anybody

14:19as long as you offer them food or water say i'll take you home to mom or dad and they'll immediately get

14:25with them while the search team continued their work from the space camp in lansdowne station

14:32malihia and daniel martell pressed police to issue an amber alert to look for tips from farther afield

14:38ron ward the canadian press it was late afternoon that saturday when daniel and malihia's relatives

14:45began to turn on each other in the dooryard of the trailer a discussion about meth use in the home

14:50led one of malihia's family members to hurl an accusation that daniel must have something to do

14:56with the children's disappearance the charge ignited a blaze of angry words eventually daniel's mother

15:03janie ordered some of malihia's family members off her property just up the road daniel and malihia

15:09waited at the search and rescue headquarters for an update from police it was around supper time when

15:15officers pointed out on maps where searchers had been suddenly malihia said she wasn't feeling well

15:22she walked out with meadow on her hip in the back of an ambulance malihia sobbed uncontrollably her

15:28mother registered nurse cindy murray at her side daniel pleaded with malihia to speak to her alone but

15:34her mother stepped in front of him cindy get the fuck out of here daniel recalled saying the women

15:41hustled to cindy's car strapped in meadow and sped off down the dirt road i love you daniel called out

15:48to his child through the rolled up back window it was the last time the couple was together after

15:54that malihia blocked daniel from contacting her and later changed her facebook status to single

16:01the searchers marked trees near the children's house with tape as they fanned out through the woods

16:06steve wadden the globe and mail belinda emerged from the woods just before dark it had been 36

16:13hours since the children had disappeared and she was considering sleeping in her car to begin searching

16:19again at first light but then she learned malihia had left lansdowne something that has troubled her

16:25ever since if she could leave belinda said her chin quivering in sorrow then it meant she knew her

16:31kids weren't coming back daniel was also upset that malihia left i've been the only one there for

16:38them he sobbed in an interview she can't control them only i can they act out whenever she's there

16:45she always gets me to calm them down or get them to stop fighting or feed them or get them up and put

16:50them to bed every night she was asking me to do everything it just breaks my heart not to ever see

16:56everybody the day before the children were reported missing the mounties say the children were observed

17:02in public with family members it was the last time they were seen by anyone outside the home

17:07daniel has said in an interview that the evening before the kids disappeared everyone was home he

17:14said he spent the evening working on the fence in the backyard it was a night just like any other for

17:19the young children he added though he couldn't remember what time they went to bed there is however at

17:24least one account of strange activity at the mobile home that night rcmp spokesperson corporal carly

17:30mccann confirmed that police received a tip on may 8th from someone who described hearing a vehicle

17:35come and go from the mobile home throughout the night before the children were reported missing

17:40investigators are continuing to review and assess more than 600 tips from the public and follow up on

17:46over 800 tasks she wrote in an email a neighbor who spoke to the globe said they reported this information

17:53on may 8th the neighbor said they were working on a vehicle in their own yard when they heard the

17:58same loud five-speed car come and go from the trailer about six times from midnight to 5 a.m after the

18:05children's disappearance the neighbor considered it important information and reported it to police

18:11the globe agreed not to name the neighbor because of concerns for their safety in the community

18:16dozens of people including some members of jack and lily's family attended a candlelight vigil for

18:23the children outside the stellerton detachment of the rcmp ingrid bolmer the globe and mail for

18:30the next five days search and rescue teams poured over the area on the sixth day of the children's

18:36disappearance police announced they were scaling back it was unlikely they said that the children were still

18:42alive in the following weeks searchers returned twice more they zeroed in around the home and the

18:49natural gas pipeline a clear-cut trail of land that runs through the countryside where a possible child

18:55sized boot print was found lily's blanket was also nearby police divers scoured lakes they drained the

19:03septic tank of the mobile home and inspected four abandoned mineshafts in lansdowne a search that's eerily

19:10familiar for locals in 2002 amateur mineral explorers discovered the remains of a man who

19:16had disappeared 19 years earlier in one of these old copper mines 39 year old alex penny's car was

19:23found abandoned on a dirt road in lansdowne months after his mysterious disappearance it's a chilling

19:30homicide that has never been solved one that rattles around in the collective memories of the people who

19:35live here police have said they plan to search more of these old mineshafts for the children

19:41a provincial database shows five within several kilometers of the mobile home

19:46dozens more pepper the backwoods and rural highways of picto county police have described the case as

19:52highly unusual most missing persons cases are resolved shortly after they're reported to police

19:59but the disappearance of jack and lily has become a complex and intensive major crime investigation

20:04involving a tremendous amount of careful deliberate investigative work said rcmp staff stt rob

20:11mccommon in an update last month the nova scotia government offered a 150 000 reward for information

20:20rcmp staff stt rob mccommon updated the news media in may he called jack and lily's case a complicated one

20:28requiring tremendous care ron ward the canadian press so far the mounties say they've drawn on units from

20:36other provinces interrogated dozens of people sought ten judicial authorizations to seize records or

20:43search warrants administered polygraph tests took possession of electronic devices viewed thousands of

20:49video files and are awaiting forensic tests on items found during the search including lily's pink

20:55blanket daniel initially told police and the globe on may 5th that the pink blanket found in the woods

21:01did not belong to lily but he later changed his story in a subsequent interview he suggested the

21:08blanket was planted taken from his weak old garbage he also claimed two of his sweaters mysteriously

21:14disappeared from his home after the kids went missing he declined to elaborate further behind the scenes

21:21people's concern for the children's welfare had already raised red flags a child protection supervisor

21:28in the nearby town of new glasgow rushed to prepare a memo for deputy minister craig beaton about jack and

21:33lily on the day the children disappeared according to redacted briefing notes obtained by the globe through

21:39freedom of information legislation two weeks later in mid-may another memo about the children was

21:46prepared for senior staff in the province's child welfare department

21:49opportunities and social development minister scott armstrong who also told the globe he asked for

21:56more information about his department's interaction with the children has so far declined to discuss

22:01how the government responded to concerns about jack and lily's well-being prior to their disappearance

22:07what is known about jack and lily's interaction with child welfare authorities is that a social worker

22:12came to the trailer over concerns raised by the school several months before their disappearance to

22:16assess their home life teachers and other professionals who work with children have a

22:21legal duty to report if they have reasonable grounds to suspect a child has may have is or is about to

22:27suffer abuse and home visits occur when there's reason to be concerned about a child's safety and care

22:33daniel however told the globe the visit was related to the kids learning difficulties at school

22:39he said the children were suspected of having autism and were scheduled to see a doctor the same month

22:44they vanished he declined to answer further questions about the involvement of child protection staff

22:50in the kids lives jack and lily attended salt springs elementary about a 20-minute bus ride from their

22:58home in lansdowne a child protection social worker contacted through the school paid a visit to the mobile

23:05home in the months before the disappearance steve wadden the globe and mail from the outside there were

23:12signs the children's home life was strained they were developmentally behind other children and arrived

23:18at school grubby and without appropriate winter clothing prompting staff to provide it for them

23:23according to a school board employee with direct knowledge the globe is not identifying the source

23:29because they're not authorized to disclose details about students last december jack came to school with a

23:36black eye according to a photo of him posted by his elementary school the photo of the class trip on

23:42december 13th 2024 five months before he and his sister disappeared shows him sitting next to other

23:48students in the forest with a green and purple bruise below his left eye another photo shows a possible

23:54black eye and bruising on jack's face in a photo taken in september 2024 an injury that daniel defended on

24:01social media saying it was caused by lily daniel did not respond to questions asking how jack received

24:07the black eye in december but in private facebook messages that were shared with the globe he

24:12acknowledged jack had many black eyes one time lily punched him in the face he wrote he also said lily

24:19had a black eye when the children went missing from an incident with a tonka truck that occurred

24:24on may 1st the day before the children disappeared she pushed down on the truck and it swung up and hit

24:30her in the face salt springs elementary shared a facebook photo of jack on a field trip last

24:37december 13th his stepfather said jack had many black eyes including one caused by his sister

24:44supplied the family was under pressure a confluence of financial woes left the couple turning to

24:50relatives for help like many lower tier workers at the mill daniel had been cut back to one shift a

24:56week during the spring fall because of an annual ban on heavy logging trucks on soggy local roads

25:02his car off the road because it needed repairs he couldn't afford wasn't drivable and he had to rely

25:08on his uncle who also worked at the mill to take him to work or malihia whose maternal grandmother had

25:13recently helped her buy a white nissan suv daniel's father earl said he bought the couple groceries and gas

25:20and provided firewood to heat their home daniel however denied having money problems and had

25:26claimed to friends that he was getting into investing and turning his life around after a divorce

25:32other means of cash flow had also been cut off in recent months child support payments from jack and

25:38lily's biological father had stopped after he lost his job malihia's monthly canada child benefit check

25:44or baby bonus which under federal guidelines would be about 1 900 per month was halted because daniel

25:51hadn't filed his taxes which were due by april 30th the struggles didn't end there malihia described

25:58daniel as controlling and said she had wanted out writing in a message to belinda on june 15th that

26:04i never wanted to stay there belinda wrote back saying she wished malihia would have reached out

26:10we would have done what we could to help i know malihia responded my mom is saying the same thing

26:17cindy malihia's mother declined to be interviewed after the children's disappearance malihia also

26:24confided in her paternal grandmother connie brooks a member of sipek and katek first nation

26:30she described how daniel would hold her down and take her phone he was having her i don't know what

26:36you call it scared she couldn't go anywhere do anything connie said that's what she told

26:43me and that's what i told the detectives when she asked her granddaughter about drug use in the home

26:48she said malihia told her that daniel concealed a drug addiction for nearly the first year of

26:53their relationship daniel did not respond to questions about these allegations but he has

26:58insisted in interviews with the globe that he's never struggled with drugs and does not have a drug

27:03problem despite that he has admitted to taking methamphetamines and pretty much everything he

27:10said he recently started attending narcotics anonymous three times a week and is taking online courses

27:16in anger management depression parenting child protection substance abuse suicide and violent

27:23behavior that are recognized by child protection officials i have to clear my name for cps

27:28he said it's best to do that connie brooks from sipek and katek first nation at home with son henry brooks

27:37says jack and lily's mother told her daniel would sometimes restrain her and take her phone

27:42she told police about this ingrid bulmer the globe and mail without answers theories abound for some maybe

27:51they're a way to hold out hope or to shift attention elsewhere there are those who believe the

27:55children are still alive taken or hidden somewhere one such rumor circulating in social media group

28:02chats is that lily and jack were taken by one of malihia's relatives and are being held on a reserve

28:08the rumor prompted sipek and katek chief michelle glasgow to respond on social media that whole dialogue

28:14was made up by a racist fool and anyone entertaining it is a racist fool she wrote in a text message that

28:20she posted to facebook on july 10th the vacuum of information about the missing kids has stoked a

28:26voracious demand for clues and conjecture on social media and in the online true crime community

28:33one of the most popular online sources in the true crime amateur community is

28:37it's a criming shame a vancouver-based youtube channel which has morphed into exclusively discussing

28:43the case live streams about jack and lily have been viewed half a million times

28:48for several hours multiple times a week host sunny austin invites guests on the show to discuss the

28:54case and rants provocatively calling out those who she disbelieves in the case of jack and lily

29:00daniel frequently pops up in her live chats like a whack-a-mole she says belinda has also called in as

29:07a guest most recently she presented text messages with malihia who when reached by phone refused to verify

29:14whether the text messages were hers malihia has also repeatedly declined to be interviewed by the globe

29:21saying police advised her not to speak to the media she said she has put her faith 100 in the

29:27authorities to find lily and jack on the ground the high-profile case has also conjured up other drama

29:34recently a local online content creator arrived at the home of malihia's mother cindy under the auspices

29:40of buying a horse trailer the man surreptitiously recorded a 45-minute interaction with her partner

29:47wade paris discussing the missing children and posted the video online

29:53daniel says he's frustrated with the accusations he faces from strangers about what happened to jack

29:58and lily chris donovan the globe and mail in interviews with the globe daniel has said he had

30:05nothing to do with the children's disappearance and he said he has passed a polygraph test with

30:09police to prove it he lamented the stigma the case carries over into his everyday life

30:16he's on stress leave from the mill people stare or give him dirty looks whenever he goes out in public

30:22recently at a used car dealership he said a salesman snatched a vehicle key from his hand and

30:27walked away when he realized he was talking to lily and jack's stepfather

30:31his facebook is filled with direct messages from strangers calling him a child killer

30:37where are the bodies he said they ask every day but then a profile that the globe has previously

30:42communicated with daniel on also appears in facebook chat groups frequently offering up

30:47riddles and conjecture that the children were taken by someone they know and are being held prisoner

30:53as long as i remain the target the sick person or persons that have the kids may relax and make a

30:57mistake rcmp better capitalize on that the user wrote this week his mother janie has said she also

31:05believes the children are still alive because she says they have never gone into the woods by themselves

31:10or wandered off a self-described hermit it took her more than two months to speak publicly doing an

31:17interview for cbc and releasing voice memos in a public social media chat she said she heard the children

31:23playing playing in the backyard from inside her camper on the morning they disappeared and she

31:27too believes someone took them in malihia's meek mac community of cypec and katik her father henry

31:34brooks is hopeful his grandchildren will be found he says the last time he spoke with the children jack

31:39told him he loved him it's weighing heavy on me he said really heavy at her home in middle muskotoboit

31:47belinda spends her days alternately tending her sprawling back garden and advocating for her missing

31:53grandchildren she appears on youtube live streams and in social media chats picking up breadcrumbs

31:59along the way that she hopes will lead to jack and lily in her blue and white kitchen where jack once

32:04crawled across the laminate floor and lily hammed it up in her gardening hats and old eyeglasses she is

32:10resigned to a grim reality i think somebody there must know what happened she said about the mobile home

32:16in lansdowne i don't believe my grandchildren are alive but to not get answers it's like no no

32:22there's answers out there two kids don't just disappear in the morning and nobody knows nothing

32:28so if they don't find answers outside that home then the answers are inside that home in hindsight

32:34she says she wishes she would have pushed harder to see the kids to see lily on her birthday in march

32:40looking at photos of the children from the past two years she noticed they looked thin possibly

32:45malnourished with dry cracked lips something she says she might have picked up on had she seen them in

32:50person and it makes her wonder about the other adults in their lives she recently learned others

32:56had concerns about the children's safety in the home she also wants to know what child protection

33:01social workers knew prior to jack and lily's disappearance whether they suspected the children

33:06were abused and what was being done about it i hate to say it but every one of us failed them belinda

33:12said we all failed these kids darren calabrese the globe and mail editor's note a previous version of

33:23this article incorrectly stated that lansdowne is northwest of halifax it is northeast of halifax

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