Vanished Without a Trace?! The HAUNTING Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished from their trailer home in rural Nova Scotia without a trace. No footprints. No scent. No sign of a struggle. For months, investigators searched the woods, the lakes, and the fields-- but found nothing. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down one of Canada’s most baffling missing-children cases, the clues left behind, and the haunting question still unanswered: how do two little kids simply disappear?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious.
0:09.9	What happened to Lily and Jack Sullivan? Two little kids, gone without a trace.
0:17.9	This is one of the most confounding mysteries that Canada has seen in many, many years.
0:26.2	Six-year-old Lily and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished from their home in rural Nova
0:31.6	Scotia in broad daylight, and there seems to be no explanation.
0:43.5	It's a mystery that is gripping millions of people who have followed this case since the beginning, every detail.
0:52.1	The story has investigators searching for logic where there is none because kids don't just vanish into thin air.
0:57.7	Lily and Jack weren't taken from a crowded mall or a busy playground.
1:05.5	They disappeared from their home, a small trailer on Garilock Road in Lansdowne Station, Nova Scotia. It's a quiet, rural stretch about 87 miles northeast of Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia on Canada's
1:13.9	east coast. Lily and Jack's home, a small trailer, is an area surrounded by woods and gravel
1:21.4	driveways and just a handful of other neighbors. They shared that trailer with their baby sister
1:27.4	and their mother,
1:29.2	Malaya Brooks Murray, as well as their stepfather, Daniel Martel. Just a few yards away on the
1:35.7	same property is a small trailer where Daniel's mother lives. Police say Lily and Jack might have
1:42.6	wandered off, but that theory doesn't seem to make sense.
1:46.3	Because there were no footprints, no scent trail, no clothes, no toys, and no sign that two little
1:55.3	kids ever went outside that trailer at all. And yet somehow, Lily and Jack Sullivan just vanished. To understand this
2:04.9	case, we have to go back to the beginning. It started quietly on Wednesday, April 30th,
2:11.1	2025. Lily and Jack had what's called in that area a pedagogical day. Basically, it's a day where kids stay home
2:19.9	from school so that teachers can get their administrative work done. Nothing unusual about that.
2:24.3	But the next morning, on Thursday, May 1st, at 6.18 a.m., the school got a message through the
2:31.6	attendance app, and it said both kids would be staying home
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