New searches for two young children who went missing in rural Nova Scotia more than four months ago are on the way, involving police dogs trained to look for human remains.

Jack and Lilly Sullivan, four and six years old at the time, reportedly wandered away from home on Gairloch Road in Pictou County May 2 – they have not been seen since.

In a news release Friday morning, RCMP say they will hold a media conference Friday afternoon to have experts answer questions about using police dogs to search for human remains.

The Mounties are not directly involved in the investigation.

Searches

The disappearance of Jack and Lilly touched not only the community of Pictou County, but the province and beyond.

There have been several searches since they vanished.

RCMP told us in an email, all 8,060 functioning videos of Landsdowne Station and surrounding areas have been reviewed.

In addition to that, over 819 tips have been received and more than 80 people interviewed: some with a polygraph, including those close to the children.

There have been 1,071 tasks assigned, and several items seized including a pink blanket.

$150,000

The province’s major crime unit is leading the investigation under the Missing Persons Act.

They are being assisted by RCMP units in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario along with other national, provincial and municipal police agencies.

It also part of the Nova Scotia’s major rewards program.

If you provide information on where Jack and Lilly are, you could receive up to $150,000 depending on how useful the information is to the case.

more to come…