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

[Kemug]

Sure is strange and annoying to hear nothing . Is it what happens in South Australia ? The Tricia Graf case is quiet too .

Hopefully LE know more than we do.

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

Hopefully LE know more than we do.

Yeah I hope so

 

[Monkey2]

It seems surprising that no local news outlet is reporting anything even if there's nothing new to report. Also, with the passage of time, I find it strange that there's been a suspect declared but nothing has followed. Can the suspect have this status indefinitely? Perhaps for years? Living under the cloud that LE suspects them of being involved but can't find enough evidence to charge them? Can anyone shed any light on this?
MOO.

The police have narrowed the suspect down basically to be one of two people, which to me is flying pretty close to the wind in terms of defamation if those two people are innocent.

This is what happened in another case when a policeman said they had their prime and only suspect and named him as Lloyd Rayney.
Rayney's wife, Corryn, was murdered in August 2007. In the following month, Rayney was publicly named by police as "the prime and only suspect", though he was not charged with the murder until December 2010, more than three years after the event
In 2017, he succeeded in a defamation action against the State of Western Australia over police behaviour and was awarded a record sum of $A2.62 million.

Lloyd Rayney gets $2.62m damages for being named suspect in wife's murder

Barrister awarded one of the largest defamation payouts in Australian history after being named in Corryn Rayney murder investigation

www.theguardian.com

In 2022 Lloyd Rayney won a $350,000 defamation payout, plus interest, for comments made by a forensic investigator which he claimed suggested he "murdered his wife and got away with it".

Lloyd Rayney awarded $350,000 for comments judge says 'bore the defamatory imputation he had murdered his wife'

Former Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney wins a $350,000 defamation payout, plus interest, for comments made by a forensic investigator which he claimed suggested he "murdered his wife and got away with it".

www.abc.net.au

No one has ever been found guilty of Mrs Rayney's murder and I have a feeling the same thing will happen in this case of poor little Gus. I suppose the only way for Shannon and Josie to prove their innocence is for Gus's remains to be found and it can be proved they had nothing to do with the matter. What does anyone else think about that?

 

[Hexe]

Note - I can’t find the article now because I presume it was corrected, but on the first day I read about Gus Josie was the one named as being back at the homestead. I’m saying that because someone above mentioned it. I don’t know if it was just a mistake or if it was originally the story, which was then changed

First articles referred to the person that was in the homestead with kids as a grandmother, without mentioning a name. Some people jumped to the conclusion it was Josie, BUT the media referred to her very consequently and from the beginning, as a grandparent, never grandmother.

MOO

 

[AmoryK]

I agree with you, but if that was the case, we don't know what time that would have been during the day, or for how long Josie was gone, but surely it would make Shannon complicit if she had contacted Josie to come and hide Gus's body.
Or is that just me jumping to conclusions a bit too far.

I think Shannon has always been the one that stayed home minding the children that day.

It would be interesting to know if Jess is still on speaking terms with either of her parents.

Yes, it would make Shannon complicit. I don’t know what happened but - MOO - I keep coming back to the idea that Gus suffered an avoidable accident and Josie was called back to deal with it.

Another possibility (JMO) is that Josie had to return to the farmstead for another reason, eg to get additional supplies, and it was during this time that something happened to Gus. That possibility would mean either or both Jodie and Shannon were involved.