N.S. missing kids: Stepfather believes Jack, Lilly ‘didn’t wander’ into woods
Global News
A candlelit vigil was held in Stellarton, N.S., to mark Jack's fifth birthday. Lilly and Jack's stepfather says he now doubts the kids wandered into the woods as first believed.
The stepfather of two Nova Scotia kids who have been missing for close to six months says he doesn’t believe the siblings are in the woods near the family’s rural home.
Lilly, 6, and Jack, 5, Sullivan were reported missing on May 2 from their home in Lansdowne Station, N.S., in Pictou County. The children’s family has told media — and police, according to court documents — that the siblings wandered away that morning.
The two kids remain missing despite extensive searches by various agencies, the use of cadaver dogs, and RCMP combing through more than 860 tips, 8,060 video files and forensic testing.
“I believe at this point in the case that they’re not in the woods and they didn’t wander into the woods,” said Daniel Martell, who was in a relationship with the children’s mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, and lived at the home with the children.
“Speculations run wild. But I’d like everybody to know that I’m working with (the RCMP’s) major crimes (unit) almost every day, just trying to figure stuff out.”
In September, two RCMP police dogs specifically trained in human remains detection were brought in to search a 40-kilometre area near the home. Earlier this month, RCMP said those dogs did not find any remains.
Martell has previously told Global News that police administered a polygraph test with him, which he said he passed. RCMP have declined to confirm or deny this.
He said he remains outspoken on the case and some may view him as a “loose cannon,” but he wants to keep the public informed.
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