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Search Teams Find No New Clues in Weekend Effort for Missing Nova Scotia Siblings

Exhaustion has prompted a pause in field operations pending RCMP analysis of new leads

Amy Hansen, Search Manager speaks to reporters about the search for six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan, two children missing since May 2, in Lansdowne Station, N.S., Wednesday, May 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ron Ward
Search crews were out again over the weekend looking for two missing Pictou County children.
RCMP in Nova Scotia say they are resuming a search for two small children, Jack and Lilly Sullivan, seen in this handout photo, who went missing on May 2, 2025 in the community of Lansdowne Station, N.S. *

Overview

  • Six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished from their Lansdowne Station home on May 2 and remain missing.
  • Searchers spent the weekend of June 1–2 combing dense woods near Gairloch Road and along a pipeline trail without uncovering fresh evidence.
  • Volunteers from Colchester Ground Search and Rescue and regional teams reported physical and mental fatigue after gruelling grid searches through terrain littered with storm-damaged brush and downed trees.
  • The RCMP’s major crimes unit has collected more than 355 tips from the public and completed over 50 formal interviews while treating the siblings’ disappearance as suspicious.
  • A return to ground searches will depend on an upcoming review of gathered leads by RCMP investigators and search-and-rescue coordinators.