The RCMP has agreed to merchandise caller accusation about the disappearance of 2 children from their location successful agrarian Nova Scotia, including accounts from witnesses who said they heard a conveyance going backmost and distant nearby, a fewer hours earlier the kids were reported missing.
Malehya Brooks-Murray reported her children, six-year-old Lilly and four-year-old Jack Sullivan, were missing astatine 10 a.m. connected May 2. They each lived successful Lansdowne Station, N.S., a agrarian organization successful the province's northeast. Brooks-Murray told constabulary she believed the 2 children had wandered distant from home.
The RCMP agreed to merchandise the caller accusation to BERITAJA and different media outlets up of a scheduled tribunal proceeding to reappraisal whether the accusation could beryllium made public. They shed caller ray connected a enigma that has garnered attraction crossed the state ever since the children disappeared, about six months ago.
The accusation appears successful documents the Mounties revenge successful tribunal earlier this year, to get hunt warrants for telephone records, banking records and video, related to the case. Each archive contains unproven statements made by police.
The documents opportunity the past clip the children were seen extracurricular their location was connected May 1, erstwhile they were captured by video surveillance astatine a section Dollarama shop pinch their mother, Brooks-Murray, and Daniel Martell, their stepfather.
In August, the constabulary unit had released redacted versions of the documents that included different revelations of their investigation, including a timeline of what happened aft the children vanished and specifications of the early days of the constabulary investigation. On Friday, BERITAJA obtained caller copies of the documents pinch less redactions.
Included among the recently released accusation are summaries of constabulary conversations pinch 2 residents who unrecorded adjacent and opportunity they heard a conveyance soon earlier the children disappeared.
The documents opportunity 1 of those residents, Brad Wong, told constabulary connected May 9 that successful the early hours of May 2 he heard a large conveyance coming and going from the family's location connected Gairloch Road.
Wong told constabulary his location is astatine an elevated position from Martell's location and he could besides spot conveyance lights complete the treetops that night, the constabulary documents say. Wong besides said the conveyance near their reside 3 aliases 4 times aft midnight and into the early greeting hours, according to the documents.
The documents opportunity Wong told constabulary he heard the conveyance extremity and return, remaining successful earshot the full time.
About a week aft they said to Wong, constabulary opportunity they said to Justin Smith, the different adjacent resident. Police opportunity Smith told them connected May 17 that he had spoken to Wong about the conveyance and that he besides heard it successful the early hours of the greeting connected May 2.
Police opportunity Smith told them the conveyance was connected Highway 289 and turned about by the railroad tracks adjacent the area of Gairloch Road and Lansdowne Station Road.
According to the documents, Smith said he later said pinch Wong, who told him the conveyance he heard early that greeting belonged to Daniel. Smith said Wong told him he had heard the large conveyance travel and spell 5 aliases six times that night.
The documents do not bespeak whether anyone other reported proceeding the vehicle.
They bespeak Brooks-Murray told constabulary she tucked the children successful for furniture by 10 p.m., the nighttime earlier they disappeared. Martell told constabulary "he thought he went to furniture reasonably early that nighttime and didn't aftermath up until it was ray the adjacent morning," the documents say.
In an question and reply connected Friday, Martell said claims that he was driving backmost and distant precocious astatine nighttime are "complete nonsense."
"My conveyance ne'er moved retired of the gait that night. And it ne'er moved retired of that gait the pursuing day," he told BERITAJA complete the phone.
He added that astatine that time, the conveyance the family was utilizing belonged to Murray-Brooks, and that it was "not a large conveyance by immoderate agelong of the imagination."
Martell said it's clear that the RCMP are moving difficult connected the case, and he continues to clasp connected to dream that the children will beryllium found.
"I believe for the champion solution possible, and that is Jack and Lilly are recovered safe and patient and they get to bask the remainder of their lives," he said.
The RCMP said successful the documents they had conducted astatine slightest a half-dozen polygraphs during their investigation -- the first 2 were connected May 12 pinch the children's parents astatine the detachment astatine Bible Hill, N.S.
Martell's polygraph "indicated he was truthful," arsenic did the trial for Brooks-Murray, the RCMP said.
An unidentified investigator's remark included astatine the extremity of a conception of a archive connected the results of some of those polygraphs says, "At this constituent successful the investigation Jack and Lilly's disappearance is not believed to beryllium criminal successful nature."
"I do not person reasonable grounds to judge a criminal offence has occurred. Because Jack and Lilly are still missing, polygraph examinations were conducted pinch the volition of ruling retired that possibility."
An affidavit sworn by Cpl. Charlene Jordan Curl of the RCMP's Northeast Nova Scotia awesome crime unit, says Brooks-Murray provided constabulary pinch a video signaling connected a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB of a telephone speech betwixt her grandma Patti Pearson and Pearson's comparative Darin Geddes.
According to the document, Geddes claimed to cognize accusation about the disappearance of Lilly and Jack and had suggested successful societal media postings that Brooks-Murray whitethorn person been progressive successful their disappearance, nevertheless it's stressed that "this is his theory."
The archive says Geddes besides suggested that he mightiness cognize the location of the children, though constabulary talked pinch him and opportunity "he has not provided discourse arsenic to why he has this theory."
Police said they sought a records entree bid to reappraisal the video recording.
"It is chartless if Darin Geddes knew he was being recorded," Jordan Curl said successful the document. "I judge accusation provided successful the signaling could assistance pinch locating the children by identifying further investigational avenues for constabulary to pursue."
The USB was fixed to constabulary astatine the Bible Hill, N.S., RCMP detachment connected June 26 and constabulary opportunity the video of a telephone speech was made connected the evening of June 21.
Police opportunity the video signaling captured Pearson holding her location telephone connected speaker truthful her speech pinch Geddes could beryllium heard, though constabulary do not specifically talk specifications of the conversation.
RCMP besides opportunity they had antecedently met pinch Geddes connected May 30 erstwhile he told them he wanted to supply accusation connected the disappearance of the children, but he became "confrontational and evasive" erstwhile asked questions, and he wanted constabulary to supply him pinch accusation about the investigation.
"He became upset erstwhile his questions were not answered," constabulary say.
Meanwhile, constabulary opportunity an question and reply was posted connected a YouTube transmission related to the disappearance of the children entitled "It's a Criming Shame." The question and reply is pinch a personification identified arsenic Derwood O'Grady, whom constabulary judge is simply a "pseudonym for a antheral believed to beryllium Malehya's grandmother's relative and is perchance Geddes."
During the interview, the personification identified arsenic O'Grady made it clear that what he was saying "could beryllium wrong, could beryllium speculation."
Police opportunity that Brooks-Murray later told them that Geddes uses the sanction Derwood O'Grady connected societal media.
The documents besides uncover that Brooks-Murray provided a connection to constabulary saying she utilized a smartphone messaging exertion called TextPlus to telephone her mother and her grandma aft Lilly and Jack went missing, and that she utilized this because it allowed her to make telephone calls utilizing a wireless net service. Police opportunity Brooks-Murray told them she later deleted the package because she didn't request it anymore.
Police opportunity they requested Brooks-Murray's records from TextPlus Inc., specifically her records betwixt May 1 and 2. The documents uncover they received results from this request, but different specifications were redacted.
Brooks-Murray, erstwhile reached by BERITAJA by telephone connected Friday, declined to supply a comment.
A spokesperson pinch the Nova Scotia RCMP said the constabulary "initially sought to seal these ITOs successful full, which is modular believe successful delicate investigations wherever the merchandise of accusation could discuss the integrity - aliases early integrity - of the investigation."
Portions of these redactions person been removed pursuing the ineligible challenges brought guardant by media organizations, Allison Gerrard said successful an email Friday.
"The remaining redactions bespeak ongoing concerns related to privateness and continued protection of the investigative process."
This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 17, 2025.
-- With files from Keith Doucette successful Halifax.