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

[Old Soul]

It seems to be a similar area to the farm/station in the 2017 Tanja Ebert case:

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts/police-ses-search-for-young-mum-tanja-ebert-near-roseworthy-north-of-adelaide/news-story/1080077ca4a191332ddb5a4c8a72c5a2

There is a websleuths thread for Tanja Ebert but I don’t yet know how to link a different thread in my post.

I wonder if the grandmother or someone related to the missing child is from the same family?
Maybe that is why not much has been revealed about their names. Just speculating.

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972967688897982881

 

[ScottToorak]

I hope they have thoroughly checked the homestead and all shedding inside out. We do not want a repeat of the case in Geelong. link to geelong missing person caseGeelong Missing Person Case

 

[Hexe]

I've been scratching my head a bit. The terrain looks relatively flat, the vegetation sparse, so... How long was this kid alone that he managed to walk out of Granma's sight? That cobalt blue shirt should have made him visible from a lot of distance.

 

[TMich6811]

ok now I can picture it thank you
I wasn't sure if a sandpit was some naturally occurring phenomenon in the outbacks of Australia or just kid's play equipment in the backyard

I’m not sure what a sand pit means, I feel like that could mean a play box with sand or a naturally occurring pit. Hard to tell with that term. Was just a thought if it’s a natural sand pit

 

[Sazza]

The homestead looks to be @ Oak Flat.

 

[Megnut]

I've been scratching my head a bit. The terrain looks relatively flat, the vegetation sparse, so... How long was this kid alone that he managed to walk out of Granma's sight? That cobalt blue shirt should have made him visible from a lot of distance.

It's been described as "undulating" which is an odd word to describe flats but I think that's just it. Thinks waves on an ocean that looks calm from above.

He's little. The land isn't flat-flat. It rises and falls, for as far as the eye can see.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

LE seems to be treating this, straight up, as not foul play. He could have wandered off and continued wandering off, even as his family began to search for him. Invisible because of the "undulating" lay of the land, a sort of optical obstacle.

Beyond that, what are we looking at for wildlife? Land and sky birds of prey? Dingoes, for real? How far would an opportunistic animal conceivably take him?

The sand he was playing in, how deep? How stable?

Gus, where are you?????

 

[Itz_CrimsonYT]

Do we know if anyone was with him around the time he went missing? Or perhaps security camera footage?

According to 7NEWS, police are focusing on "A remote area which is home to only 60 people"
Assuming the remote area must be close to where the child was last seen, and how curious a kid of that age would be. He very well could have wandered to a nearby home or building. It seems likely that someone either saw a kid who matches the description, or one of the homes has security footage that could have caught a glimpse?