Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[SouthAussie]

This pic is from today’s news, but not sure if the pic was taken today. The wording makes me think it is today though.

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Some of those vehicles look really dirty, as would be expected in the current conditions. Others look really clean.

I wonder if there are a couple of ways to reach that area - if that is a photo from today.

imo

 

[Marg944]

News reporter has said that Police today visited a shearing shed approx 30klms west of the property (Oak Park). In the video I’m pretty sure it is Bullyaninnie Station.

And @Kemug, you will be happy to know that the concrete that was laid in the toilet not long long after Gus went missing was also being looked at today!

Tomorrow’s focus will be on Oak Park Station.

 

[LadyL]

where are you little guy?

 

[SouthAussie]

News reporter has said that Police today visited a shearing shed approx 30klms west of the property (Oak Park). In the video I’m pretty sure it is Bullyaninnie Station.

And @Kemug, you will be happy to know that the concrete that was laid in the toilet not long long after Gus went missing was also being looked at today!

Tomorrow’s focus will be on Oak Park Station.

I wish we knew if their footage was from today. They have mixed footage there - because the flooding footage would be from the floods.
If the search footage was from today, it seems they had use of a cadaver dog again. (And reporters were able to get through on the roads.)
Maybe their pre-planned searches are revolving around the availability of a cadaver dog.

It also looks like an officer is pushing down on the floor in that outhouse. Using some kind of implement.

(I would probably have to go back to previous 9News footage and compare, to try to determine if this is new footage of the search and the dog.)

imo

 

[Marg944]

I wish we knew if their footage was from today. They have mixed footage there - because the flooding footage would be from the floods.
If the footage was from today, it seems they had use of a cadaver dog again.
Maybe their pre-planned searches are revolving around the availability of a cadaver dog.

It also looks like an officer is pushing down on the floor in that outhouse. Using some kind of implement.

(I would probably have to go back to previous 9News footage and compare, to try to determine if this is new footage of the search and the dog.)

imo

I tried to find the website of the photographer, Brett Hartwig for Newswire but couldn’t find his photos. I did find some great photos from the last search though…..

Newspix - News Corp Australia | Australian News Images and Licensing

www.newspix.com.au

 

[Raina_the_observer]

Charging Josie may have actually worked to leverage the investigation.

In a missing child case, a firearms charge may potentially accelerate the process rather than inflame it.

As the investigation develops, it is not unusual to build the case incrementally while pursuing available charges/offences.

The only thing that will accelerate the case is the body. Obviously they are thinking to have a good look at what the floods may have uncovered.

 

[Ellery84]

I wish we knew if their footage was from today. They have mixed footage there - because the flooding footage would be from the floods.
If the search footage was from today, it seems they had use of a cadaver dog again. (And reporters were able to get through on the roads.)
Maybe their pre-planned searches are revolving around the availability of a cadaver dog.

It also looks like an officer is pushing down on the floor in that outhouse. Using some kind of implement.

(I would probably have to go back to previous 9News footage and compare, to try to determine if this is new footage of the search and the dog.)

imo

I don’t think there was any footage from today. IMO.

SAPOL would have had to release it to the media, and they haven’t, I don’t think.

And as we know, no one is allowed at Oak Park apart from the police, or else!

 

[SouthAussie]

This pic is from today’s news, but not sure if the pic was taken today. The wording makes me think it is today though.

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Tiverton Station can be accessed via Sturt Vale Road

These two pictures are definitely not from today. I have found the EXACT same photo in an Advertiser article from November 26, 2025. (With photo credit to Brett Hartwig)

That would explain some vehicles being dirty and some not. It was well before the flooding rains.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/gus-lamont-mineshaft-search-enters-day-2-as-police-double-search-force/news-story/5c817f7937e98b11d9a1f35b94542ad2?amp

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031633314268983800

 

[Marg944]

These two pictures are definitely not from today. I have found the EXACT same photo in an Advertiser article from November 26, 2025. (With photo credit to Brett Hartwig)

That would explain some vehicles being dirty and some not. It was well before the flooding rains.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/gus-lamont-mineshaft-search-enters-day-2-as-police-double-search-force/news-story/5c817f7937e98b11d9a1f35b94542ad2?amp

Wow, they were sneaky in using that same pic today!! They simply changed the wording today to make it seem like it was actually taken today!

November 26, 2025

“Police have doubled their numbers for day two of the search. Picture: Brett Hartwig”



And today’s news pic…

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/gus-lamont-mineshaft-search-enters-day-2-as-police-double-search-force/news-story/5c817f7937e98b11d9a1f35b94542ad2

 

[Dotta]

"Detectives have returned to the area,
searching new wells
that have never been probed before."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031639866157797570

 

[SouthAussie]

Wow, they were sneaky in using that same pic today!! They simply changed the wording today to make it seem like it was actually taken today!

November 26, 2025

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“Police have doubled their numbers for day two of the search. Picture: Brett Hartwig”



And today’s news pic…

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https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/gus-lamont-mineshaft-search-enters-day-2-as-police-double-search-force/news-story/5c817f7937e98b11d9a1f35b94542ad2

I noticed that today's 9News video also cut off what DI Macrae was saying - so it gave the impression that the police were back there today due to the floods.

When in actuality DI Macrae went on to say that today's search was part of their pre-planned searches, and only that they were assessing if the floods may have given them opportunities for searching.

(DI Macrae is quoted in this article)

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/sa-police-have-returned-to-oak-park-station-in-a-fresh-search-for-evidence-into-the-disappearance-of-gus-lamont/news-story/3c7fd8b3093e27f458feafe66356e0e2?amp

 

[Serononin]

"Detectives have returned to the area, searching new wells that have never been probed before."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031639866157797570

That's interesting - I wonder if they've only just found out about these wells, or if they've known about them for a while, but they were low down on the priority list when Gus was still thought to have wandered off?

 

[AmoryK]

Good to hear they’re searching the wells. Trying to imagine a suspect’s thoughts, I think a well or mine or other shaft would be considered a good hiding place: no visible signs on the surface, wet or damp, and any body unlikely to be stumbled upon by accident. Of course, there’s also the possibility that a suspect could claim the deceased had fallen in by accident, but I think deep concealment would be the primary motivation.

 

[_sleuthdog_]

 

[cckp72]

So am I understanding correctly that there was another major crime at the same homestead in 2009? Does it involve anyone involved in Gus' case? That news clip only spoke briefly about a woman who was taken hostage there.

 

[AmoryK]

My mind sometimes returns to this DM story from October:

The spine-chilling find metres from where little Gus Lamont vanished

Searchers have once again begun to scour the harsh South Australian landscape in their search for Gus Lamont, who went missing at his family's Oak Park Station homestead.

www.dailymail.co.uk

“As the search resumed, Daily Mail made an eerie discovery just 400m from his grandparents Shannon and Josie Murray's house.
A meticulously maintained grave is partially hidden among a stand of scrub, behind a fence, with the cross-shaped headstone revealing a baby boy had previously perished in the area.”

I recently read a crime novel where a body was concealed in an old grave. Could this be a possibility? Would the cadaver dogs have found it? Are there other similar graves farther away from Oak Park that could have been used?

 

[CaitLion17]

So am I understanding correctly that there was another major crime at the same homestead in 2009? Does it involve anyone involved in Gus' case? That news clip only spoke briefly about a woman who was taken hostage there.

I cant find anything mentioning if the victim was related or connected to anyone in the case, I did find 2 news articles from 2009 that say she was an elderly woman (in her 70s) and that the suspect was someone who'd skipped parole but wasnt connected to her it seems?

This is the article from the Adelaide Advertiser from 2009 for reference (had more info in it than the abc one)

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/parolees-last-days-under-spotlight/news-story/de6f4513677c704840a73875a4cf3fb4

 

[CaitLion17]

Wow, they were sneaky in using that same pic today!! They simply changed the wording today to make it seem like it was actually taken today!

November 26, 2025

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“Police have doubled their numbers for day two of the search. Picture: Brett Hartwig”



And today’s news pic…

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https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/gus-lamont-mineshaft-search-enters-day-2-as-police-double-search-force/news-story/5c817f7937e98b11d9a1f35b94542ad2

Just want to note this isnt necessarily sneaky or anything, news organisations often (or at least in Australia maybe not in other countries where theres so many news outlets? Idk?) resuse older/other channels footage or photos to fill the overlay/photo content requirements that make up a news story, if they don't have enough of their own current content to use. I imagine it would be especially hard in any story on Gus given the amount of stories there have been in the last 6months, and with the family not allowing any media on their property now it would be even harder

 

[Megnut]

My mind sometimes returns to this DM story from October:

The spine-chilling find metres from where little Gus Lamont vanished

Searchers have once again begun to scour the harsh South Australian landscape in their search for Gus Lamont, who went missing at his family's Oak Park Station homestead.

www.dailymail.co.uk

“As the search resumed, Daily Mail made an eerie discovery just 400m from his grandparents Shannon and Josie Murray's house.
A meticulously maintained grave is partially hidden among a stand of scrub, behind a fence, with the cross-shaped headstone revealing a baby boy had previously perished in the area.”

I recently read a crime novel where a body was concealed in an old grave. Could this be a possibility? Would the cadaver dogs have found it? Are there other similar graves farther away from Oak Park that could have been used?

In the case of a concealed but accidental death, what better place to hide a body than in a prior grave?