Where are Lilly and Jack? Questions remain 6 months after N.S. kids go missing

The six and five-year-old siblings were reported missing from their Lansdowne Station, N.S. home in rural Pictou County on May 2.

For six months, a county in Nova Scotia, the province, and the whole country have wondered: what happened to Lilly and Jack Sullivan?

The six and five-year-old siblings were reported missing from their Lansdowne Station, N.S., home in rural Pictou County on May 2.

The children’s family has told media — and police, according to court documents — that the brother and sister wandered away that morning.

Here are some key updates in the investigation:

The family reported that six-year-old Lilly and then-four-year-old Jack had left their home on Gairloch Road in the early morning hours of May 2.

The children’s stepfather, Daniel Martell, told Global News that Lilly and Jack were home that morning with him, his partner and their baby. When they noticed the children were missing, he said the family immediately ran outside to look for them.

Police launched an extensive search involving agencies from across the region — by ground, air and on water — using search and rescue volunteers, drones, police dogs and helicopters. The search covered four square kilometres of heavy-wooded rural terrain.

Six days in, RCMP said they were scaling back the search because the likelihood the children were alive was “very low.”