For months, Malehya Brooks-Murray remained largely silent as the disappearance of her two young children, Lily and Jack Sullivan, became one of Nova Scotia’s most closely watched missing-person cases.
Now, in an emotional interview with CBC News, their mother is speaking publicly about the morning they vanished — and what she says happened during those final hours.
Lily and Jack disappeared in May of last year. According to Malehya, the morning of May 2 began with something painfully ordinary.
She remembers hearing her children playing.
Then everything changed.
Malehya describes the hours and days that followed as a blur of panic, trauma, police activity, searching, and confusion. What had begun as a normal morning suddenly became a nightmare with no clear ending.
And despite the enormous investigation that followed, she says she is still waiting for the same thing as everyone else:
Answers.
Malehya expressed frustration with the pace of the RCMP investigation, saying that she frequently receives similar updates while continuing to push authorities for more information and action.
For a mother whose children remain missing, waiting has become its own form of torment.
But her silence also became controversial.
As months passed without Lily and Jack being found, online communities began dissecting the family’s behavior, relationships, interviews, and every publicly available detail.
Malehya says there was another reason she stayed quiet.
According to her, police had asked her not to speak publicly in ways that might jeopardize the investigation.
Now she believes remaining silent is no longer enough.
She wants Lily and Jack’s names to stay visible.
She wants people to continue looking.
And she does not want the case to quietly disappear from public attention.
Malehya also directly addressed accusations that have circulated online, maintaining that she had nothing to do with her children’s disappearance.
Public suspicion, however, has become another part of her daily reality.
She described facing negative attention and allegations from strangers while simultaneously trying to survive the loss of not knowing where her children are.
Behind closed doors, she says she relies on family, therapy, and creative outlets to cope.
But perhaps one of the most heartbreaking details involves the children’s belongings.
Malehya says she continues holding onto their possessions.
She even continues buying things for them.
Why?
Because she is still preparing for the possibility that Lily and Jack will come home.
That hope remains central to how she describes surviving each day.
She says she wants to believe the children are somewhere safe, that someone is looking after them, and that eventually they will be returned.
But the interview also leaves the public confronting the same unresolved timeline that has haunted this investigation from the beginning.
Malehya says she heard Lily and Jack playing that morning.
Then they disappeared.
What happened between those two moments?
Where did the children go?
Did they leave the property on their own?
Did someone encounter them?
And what evidence has the RCMP uncovered that still has not been made public?
Malehya’s interview does not solve those questions.
Her account is her description of what happened, not independent proof of the children’s final movements. Likewise, public interpretations of her emotions or behavior cannot establish guilt or innocence.
But after months of silence, the interview provides something the public has rarely heard directly:
the missing children’s mother describing the morning her life changed forever.
She insists she is still searching.
She insists she wants investigators to do more.
And she insists that she will continue waiting for Lily and Jack to return.
Yet one haunting question remains at the center of everything:
If Malehya heard Lily and Jack playing on the morning of May 2, who was the last person to independently see them — and what happened in the gap between that moment and the moment everyone realized they were gone?
