🚨 UPDATE: MISSING SIBLINGS LILY (6) & JACK (5), NOVA SCOTIA After this weekend’s search, Please Bring Me Home has confirmed that cadaver dogs will return to the area for expanded, targeted searches.

It is Monday morning, the 17th of November, and we’re going back to Nova Scotia today to talk about the case of missing siblings, 6-year-old Lily and now 5-year-old Jack Sullivan from Lanstown Station, who were reported missing at 10:01 a.m. on the 2nd of May by their mother, Malayaia Brooks Murray.

If you’ve been following the case, you will know that over the weekend, a volunteer search organization from Ontario went to Lanstown to do a search for Lily and Jack Sullivan. Last night, my time, CBC released some information about what had been found during the search. I did a video about this 12 hours ago as I record this. The purpose of this video is to directly follow on from that. So, let’s go.

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Okay, so Please Bring Me Home has put a message on their Facebook regarding a live stream that they’re going to be doing this Wednesday. Now, I don’t know where this live stream is going to be hosted. I don’t know whether they’re going to do it on Facebook or YouTube or somewhere else. If I find it, I’ll play it on this channel. Let’s just play that by ear. Don’t know what time or anything. Maybe they’ll put some more details on in the next couple of days.

So, it says here: “Good morning, everyone. Please Bring Me Home will be going live on Wednesday to discuss this weekend’s developments regarding the search for Jesse Morrisy,” who they searched for on Friday. As I keep saying every time I bring up Jesse’s name, I’m going to be covering Jesse’s case on my annual series — into its fourth year now — on my other channel, Michelle Walks, Cold Case Christmas. Look out for that once the series starts.

Cold Case Christmas is a different cold case or a case that needs more eyes on it to raise awareness. I do a video every day on a different cold case from the 1st of December up to and including the 24th of December — like opening an advent calendar.

So yeah, Please Bring Me Home were in Nova Scotia searching for Jesse on Friday and the Sullivan children on Saturday. “We want to take a moment to thank the many people who have stepped up to help. First and foremost, thank you to all the volunteers who sacrificed their day to be out in the cold searching for these two children. Your dedication means everything.”

“We also want to share that we have secured a cadaver dog team who will be continuing targeted searches around the area this week.” So that’s really good news. Don’t know where they’re going to be searching. Don’t know how many days they’re going to be searching. So it’s another one that we have to keep our eyes on.

“We ask for a little time as we make sure that all our information and timelines are in proper order. Our goal is to be as transparent as possible about everything that has taken place over the course of the weekend. Thank you for all your patience and support. Tune in on Wednesday, and we’ll walk you through the events of the weekend.”

So that’s very positive.

Now, on Saturday, Please Bring Me Home searched the Middle River of Pictou. They concentrated on the water search aspect of the case. It’s difficult to see this when the maps are on terrain view, but when you put it on default on Google Maps, you can see the river runs behind Landstone Road and then eventually goes to the coast.

Personally, I don’t think that Lily and Jack are in this river. Again, it’s difficult to see this on the terrain view, but there’s Lily and Jack’s house, and then you’ve got the river. You can kind of see it winding around there. There’s a lot of water in the area — there’s the lake and lots of ponds. I don’t know whether that is part of the river there or whether that’s just a separate creek, or it might not even have water in it anymore.

But look — the reason why I don’t think Lily and Jack fell into this river is because if they did wander off into the woods — let’s call it the misadventure theory — that they went out, got lost, and somehow died there, and they’re still out there in the woods. That’s what Please Bring Me Home have been working off. Now, Nick Oldrew, the director of Please Bring Me Home, says he’s thinking increasingly that they didn’t wander off. But let’s just assume that they did because RCMP have not got any evidence of foul play. They’ve not got evidence of an abduction. Doesn’t mean to say that those things didn’t happen; they just don’t have evidence for it.

And it’s not what you think; it’s not even what you know — it’s what you can prove, in law enforcement terms, isn’t it?

But let’s just assume that they did wander off. My gut feeling is they didn’t go this way. I think they went north and to the west — so, this direction. And I don’t think they went deep into the woods.

To go to this river, by the looks of things, you would have to cross the road, go down Landstone Road, or go through these wooded areas here. There’s the house. So if they’re walking this way, they’re not really going to climb through all of that, are they? Why would they, when they can walk along the road — unless they’re going somewhere very specific? And I think that’s quite a steep drop down there. And then you’ve got Lansdown Station Road, which of course they could have gone down.

That’s Lansdown Station Road. That’s where Brad Wong lives. So they’d have to go down there and then into the woods to get into the river.

The reason why I think they went in the opposite direction to the river — and they went north — is because what if, just what if, they decided to go out to go to school, and that’s why Lily kept coming into the room asking about school? They wouldn’t have known that Malaya had called them out of school.

So the school’s all the way up here, but the school bus goes down Landstown Road. So they go down to the end of the driveway, wait for the bus, they get impatient, they think the bus isn’t coming, so they start walking. And this could have been any time between 8:00 a.m. and 9:40. The bus has been and gone, so they walk.

Little kids don’t have much of a concept of distance, do they? So they probably didn’t realize that it was so far away. They thought, “Oh, well, we go down here and we’ll just keep walking.”

Let’s assume that the blanket was Lily’s. I honestly don’t think that the kids left the blanket there, but the blanket’s a puzzle to everybody. But then they carried on walking.

And then we’ve got the bootprints, which I think possibly could have been Lily’s — same size as Lily’s, same brand as Lily was wearing.

So why did they go down the pipeline trail? Well, maybe something interested them down there. Maybe they thought that they went in that direction when they went on the bus, but they just kept walking.

The reason why I believe that Lily and Jack — assuming that they did wander off — haven’t been found is because no one is searching far enough out. I think quite possibly they have got further than any of the search parties have investigated.

8.5 square kilometers is what the RCMP have done. And then when they brought in the cadaver dogs, they searched the same locations yet again — the property, the area around the blanket and the bootprints. So although they put a lot of footwork in, a lot of nose work in on behalf of the dogs, if they’re not searching far enough out, then they’re never going to find them.

I think they could have easily got out of the search area — whether they went down here, whether they doubled back and went back up here on Landstone Road — and they just kept walking. And they could have turned off onto any one of these little tracks.

So, I think what searchers need to be doing now is going further out and searching. I don’t think they’re deep in the woods, honestly. I think they’ve stuck to tracks. They’re only six and four. So you need to be searching off all of these tracks a little way. Take the cadaver dogs down all of these tracks.

How far out do you need to go? Well, let’s start with past here. Let’s start down here. This is what I would do: take my dog all down these tracks. Keep systematically searching each of these tracks. Let my dog have free rein around here and watch the dog very carefully because there are ways through these woods that don’t require them to be climbing over downed trees and in places where it would be almost impossible for a little kid to get.

Look at the tracks — the old logging trails, ATV trails, little roads. There are ways through these woods. And I think if Lily and Jack carried on walking, they could have been several miles away.

Look at this little guy from Arizona. This is a case that I talked about seven months ago. This is on Michelle Walks. And this was a toddler — a 2-year-old — in Arizona, who walked seven miles through the Arizona desert. Would have died — would have died of exposure and dehydration — if this rancher’s livestock guardian dog, who was patrolling his territory, hadn’t found this little guy and walked him to safety. Took him to the rancher, took him home, and the rancher then realized: this is a missing kid. Called the cops, and he was safe because of this hero dog who was just doing his job.

Unfortunately, these hero dogs are few and far between. Seven miles — two years old — seven miles through the desert. It’s astonishing, but it happens.

So Lily and Jack, six and four, could be seven miles away. Could be further.

Look, the same thing is happening half a world away in South Australia. Little 4-year-old Gus Lamont is still missing, and he’s been missing since the 27th of September from a sheep station a few miles south of the little town of Yuna.

Searchers have combed the area. In Gus’s case, there’s no suggestion of foul play or him being abducted from that area — it would be almost impossible for someone to have abducted him. So the only logical explanation for Gus Lamont not being found is that he’s walked further than the searchers have currently looked for him.

And I know they’ve used drones and aircraft, but once you’re covered in dust and maybe hidden by some of that brush, you would think you’d be spotted from the air — but no. Really difficult. A little guy like that curled up, maybe.

And this is Daily Mail Australia, and this is a private investigator who has done a little interview with Daily Mail. And I think this is important to work from:

“It’s unusual behavior for a child to just run off into the bush. It’s not normal.”

But if he did go and do that —

“When you say it’s not normal, a country kid who is used to being out and about — I actually think it is normal for a kid to go wandering if he’s used to being out there. Now, maybe he’s never walked that far before — because once they get lost, they get turned around, they start panicking, and they just carry on walking. They don’t kind of think logically, ‘Well, let me retrace my steps.’ They just carry on walking. So I think it is normal for country kids to go out there and play.”

“He could have gone in any direction, and he could have gone a significant distance,” he said.

I honestly think that in Gus’s case, he’s wandered further. I mean, yes, of course, as I say time and time again, people are found close to home in areas where searches have taken place. But when you’re talking about little kids, people seriously underestimate them. And I think possibly that’s happened in Gus’s case, and it could easily have happened in Jack and Lily’s case as well.

I know it’s not a popular opinion, but given that people are giving up their time to go searching and the cadaver dogs are back out again, let’s not go over the same areas. Let’s go further out. You know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Let’s do something different — and let’s search further out: those logging trails, ATV trails. Send the dogs down there. Use your mileage and your nose in those areas