Documents reveal new witness statements to RCMP about missing N.S. children

October 19, 2025

Documents reveal new witness statements to RCMP about missing N.S. children

The RCMP has agreed to release new information about the disappearance of two children from their home in rural Nova Scotia, including accounts from witnesses who said they heard a vehicle going back and forth nearby, a few hours before the kids were reported missing.

Malehya Brooks-Murray reported her children, six-year-old Lilly and four-year-old Jack Sullivan, were missing at 10 a.m. on May 2. They all lived in Lansdowne Station, N.S., a rural community in the province’s northeast. Brooks-Murray told police she believed the two children had wandered away from home.

The RCMP agreed to release the new information to The Canadian Press and other media outlets ahead of a scheduled court hearing to review whether the information could be made public. They shed new light on a mystery that has garnered attention across the country ever since the children disappeared, nearly six months ago.

The information appears in documents the Mounties filed in court earlier this year, to obtain search warrants for phone records, banking records and video, related to the case. Each document contains unproven statements made by police.

The documents say the last time the children were seen outside their home was on May 1, when they were captured by video surveillance at a local Dollarama store with their mother, Brooks-Murray, and Daniel Martell, their stepfather.

In August, the police force had released redacted versions of the documents that included other revelations of their investigation, including a timeline of what happened after the children disappeared and details of the early days of the police investigation. On Friday, The Canadian Press obtained new copies of the documents with fewer redactions.

Included among the newly released information are summaries of police conversations with two residents who live nearby and say they heard a vehicle shortly before the children disappeared.

The documents say one of those residents, Brad Wong, told police on May 9 that in the early hours of May 2 he heard a loud vehicle coming and going from the family’s home on Gairloch Road.