🚨 BREAKING: SHOCKING ALLEGATIONS ROCK THE LILLY & JACK SULLIVAN CASE – NEW SUSPECTS EMERGE FROM THE SHADOWS 😱

Six months of silence shattered: RCMP just hauled in TWO NEW PERSONS OF INTEREST in the vanishing of 6-year-old Lilly and 4-year-old Jack – a distant uncle and a family “friend” with ties to the mom’s bitter custody war.

Whispers from the volunteer search? A geocache log with the STEPdad’s name dated ONE DAY after they disappeared. Cadaver dogs en route. And now, explosive claims: Did someone in the family circle smuggle them across the border… or bury the truth in those endless Nova Scotia woods?

Mom’s story? Still crumbling under polygraph flags and 860+ tips. Bio dad’s alibi? Ironclad, but his relatives are sweating. This isn’t wandering anymore – it’s a web of betrayal that could crack wide open.

The clock’s ticking before winter seals the trails forever. Are the kids alive in hiding… or gone for good? You need to see the timeline that’s got everyone raging.

In a bombshell development that has reignited fury across Pictou County, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed late Wednesday that two new individuals – a distant uncle on the maternal side and a longtime family associate – have been identified as “persons of interest” in the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her 4-year-old brother Jack. The siblings vanished from their rural mobile home on Gairloch Road on the morning of May 2, 2025, in what remains one of Canada’s most perplexing missing-persons enigmas.

The announcement, delivered in a terse statement from the Northeast Nova RCMP Major Crime Unit, marks the first time authorities have publicly flagged additional figures beyond the children’s immediate family since the case exploded into the national spotlight. “These individuals have come to light through a combination of fresh tips, forensic analysis, and cross-border inquiries,” said Cpl. Sandy Matharu, the lead investigator, during a brief media availability outside the Stellarton detachment. “We are pursuing all leads aggressively, but at this juncture, no charges have been laid, and the investigation remains under the Missing Persons Act.”

Sources close to the probe, speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed to CBC News that the uncle – a 42-year-old truck driver from Moncton, N.B., identified only as “R.B.” in redacted documents – was flagged after toll-road camera footage from Cobequid Pass showed a vehicle registered in his name crossing into New Brunswick at 4:17 a.m. on May 2, roughly 90 minutes after neighbors reported hearing an engine revving near the Sullivan home around 3 a.m. The family associate, a 35-year-old woman from Truro described as a “close confidante” of the children’s mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, allegedly received a flurry of late-night texts from Brooks-Murray’s phone on May 1-2, including one reading: “Need a safe place tonight. Kids involved.”

Neither has been detained, but both were interviewed under caution on November 25, with R.B. reportedly providing a “shaky” alibi involving a “last-minute delivery run” that couldn’t be immediately corroborated. The associate, per court filings unsealed this week, invoked her right to counsel after RCMP requested access to her property – a remote cabin 15 kilometers from Lansdowne – for a consent search that yielded “items of interest” now undergoing forensic testing at the RCMP lab in Halifax.

The revelations come hard on the heels of a November 16 volunteer-led search organized by the Ontario-based Please Bring Me Home charity, which combed five kilometers along the Middle River of Pictou and uncovered several anomalies that, while dismissed by RCMP as “non-relevant,” have fueled speculation. Among the finds: a child’s T-shirt (unrecognized by family), a frayed blanket scrap, a rusted tricycle half-buried in mud, and – most eerily – a geocache box in the woods containing a log entry dated May 3, 2014, signed by stepfather Daniel Martell. Organizers, including co-founder Nick Oldrieve, noted the date’s proximity to the disappearance (May 2, 2025) as “too coincidental to ignore,” though police attributed it to an old entry unrelated to the case.

Paternal grandmother Belynda Gray, who joined the search and has become a vocal critic of the RCMP’s handling, seized on the news during a tearful Facebook Live from her Middle Musquodoboit home. “New suspects? Finally, someone besides Cody [the biological father] is under the microscope,” Gray said, clutching a faded photo of Lilly’s first day of school at Salt Springs Elementary. “We’ve begged for this – my grandbabies didn’t just evaporate. Someone knows, and it’s time the Mounties stop tiptoeing around the family web.” Gray, whose son Cody Sullivan passed a polygraph in May and hasn’t seen the children in three years amid a custody battle, has repeatedly called for a public inquiry, citing “systemic failures” in child protection and police response.

The case’s timeline, pieced together from court documents, witness statements, and over 860 public tips, paints a portrait of quiet domestic strife unraveling into nightmare. Lilly (born March 2019) and Jack (born October 2020) were last confirmed alive around 10 p.m. on May 1, when Brooks-Murray – a nurse at Colchester East Hants Health Centre – tucked them into bed after keeping them home sick from school. She reported them missing at 10 a.m. May 2, claiming she’d checked at 6:30 a.m. to find empty beds and the back door ajar, its latch broken. No signs of forced entry; Jack, still in pull-ups, was in Spider-Man pajamas; Lilly in pink unicorn ones, her white strawberry backpack absent.

Initial searches mobilized 150+ volunteers, helicopters with thermal imaging, and divers in Gairloch Brook, but yielded zilch – no footprints, no discarded clothes, despite early leads like a “potential child-sized print” spotted May 7. RCMP’s decision against an Amber Alert – deeming it a “wandering” scenario – drew immediate backlash, echoing critiques from the 2020 Portapique mass shooting. By August, unsealed warrants exposed intense scrutiny: Brooks-Murray’s polygraph flagged “deception” on timelines; Martell’s was “inconclusive”; bank records showed no unusual withdrawals, but phone pings placed her at home all night – contradicting a neighbor’s 3 a.m. SUV sighting.

Custody shadows loomed: Brooks-Murray and Sullivan’s 2022 split was acrimonious, with her seeking full custody; Martell, her partner since 2023, bonded with the kids but separated from her over summer amid the probe. A pink blanket shred – Lilly’s favorite – in household trash raised eyebrows, as did Brooks-Murray’s pre-disappearance Google searches for “disappearing with children in Canada,” per coworker tips. The new suspects tie into this: R.B., the uncle, shares Brooks-Murray’s surname and was named in her custody filings as a “support contact”; the associate’s cabin was floated in texts as a “backup spot” during family spats.

Experts are divided but alarmed. Former RCMP profiler Dr. Elena Vasquez told Global News: “Six months in rural terrain? Survival odds for wandering toddlers plummet after 48 hours. This screams concealment – familial networks exploiting isolation.” Maritime search veteran Kevin Hargrove added: “Pictou’s bogs and bears don’t forgive. If they’re hidden nearby, cadaver dogs next week could end this.” Premier Tim Houston, who upped the reward to $150,000 in October, reiterated: “Pictou prays for answers.”

Social media amplifies the storm: X threads from @MichAfterDark dissect “neglect theories” and “stepdad interference,” racking millions of views; Reddit’s r/TrueCrimeDiscussion timelines clock inconsistencies, with users decrying RCMP “incompetence.” True-crime YouTubers like Sunny Austin’s “It’s A Criming Shame” have spurred 800+ tips, blending hope with hysteria. Gray’s pleas – “Don’t let winter bury them again” – echo in school memorials, where Lilly’s desk bears “Come Home” scrawls.

Brooks-Murray and Martell, now estranged and lawyered up, issued a joint statement: “We support the investigation and pray for Lilly and Jack’s safe return. Speculation helps no one.” Sullivan, cleared early, told CBC: “New eyes on this? About time. My kids deserve truth.”

As cadaver dogs mobilize for next week’s targeted sweeps – including the uncle’s Moncton garage and the associate’s cabin – Lansdowne huddles against November gales. The Gairloch home, shuttered with wilted ribbons, stands sentinel. Two hundred eight days. Pajamas in the drawer, backpacks absent. Will these suspects unlock the silence? Or seal a tragedy in frost? RCMP tip line: 902-896-5060; Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-8477. For Pictou, the quest endures – raw, relentless, unraveling.