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RCMP to restart ground search around Gairloch Road four weeks after two children vanished

The operation will concentrate on areas near a pipeline trail boot print following analysis of more than 355 community tips

Overview

  • Lilly Sullivan, 6, and her brother Jack, 4, disappeared from their Gairloch Road home in Lansdowne Station on May 2 after reportedly wandering off and remain missing.
  • Ground crews are set to return this weekend to scour sections of dense woods and the pipeline trail where investigators previously found a boot print.
  • Police have collected over 355 tips, conducted more than 50 formal interviews and reviewed hours of surveillance footage in the ongoing investigation.
  • RCMP confirmed that video evidence and eyewitness accounts placed the siblings in public with family members on the afternoon of May 1.
  • Stepfather Daniel Martell, who says he passed a polygraph test, remains hopeful as the community grows increasingly anxious and frustrated.