Exhaustion sets in as search for N.S. kids approaches 1 month

Vernon Ramesar · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 01, 2025 2:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Almost a period into the hunt for 2 missing Pictou County children, searchers are opening to deterioration retired mentally and physically.

Lilly Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were reported missing from their agrarian Lansdowne Station, N.S., location connected May 2.

About 80 searchers were retired again connected Sunday. They focused on a pipeline way wherever a footwear people was recovered during an earlier search.

Amy Hansen of Colchester Ground Search and Rescue, who is this weekend's hunt co-ordinator, said there were nary caller finds implicit the weekend. It's ne'er been established that the footwear people is related to the missing kids, but Hansen said earlier this play it was each the searchers had to spell on.

She said morale was reasonably bully among those who turned retired this weekend, but she conceded it has been hard connected others. There person been 2 weekends of searching connected apical of the archetypal search.

"There are radical that made the determination not to instrumentality to the hunt tract this play due to the fact that of either carnal exhaustion oregon burnout oregon intelligence exhaustion," Hansen said, noting the challenging terrain wherever searchers person worked.

She said that immoderate radical felt that they could not grip being successful the concern again for different weekend. 

Hansen expected the hunt to beryllium suspended connected Sunday evening, barring caller information.

Hansen said the determination to resume the hunt would beryllium connected the RCMP and their investigation. The payment of sending searchers backmost retired again would besides request to beryllium taken into account.

"It's getting to the constituent wherever possibly they request a small spot of clip to retrieve and woody with the accent and issues similar that, and walk time with their ain families that they're leaving down to beryllium retired here," she said.

Sunday's hunt besides progressive teams from Pictou, East Hants, Strait, Sheet Harbour, Eastern Shore, Halifax and Pugwash.

RCMP said they have received much than 355 tips and person formally interviewed much than 50 people, with much interviews planned.

The Mounties have said each missing persons cases "are treated arsenic suspicious until our probe leads america to find otherwise."

Members of the assemblage person been showing their enactment for Lilly and Jack by placing flowers and stuffed animals connected a station extracurricular of the RCMP detachment successful Stellarton.