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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

Community members have been placing stuffed animals and flowers outside the RCMP detachment in Stellarton.
Ground search and rescue members will be back in the woods Saturday lookin for clues about what happened to Lily and Jack Sullivan.
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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.