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

[TMich6811]

I understand they searched for 3 hours themselves. It's a huge property to search, many outbuildings, a large home, lots of nooks and crannies, let alone driving around trying to find him imo. AND the light had faded, so searching possibly with the torchlight would take hours imo.

Going by folk I've met in the outback, my impression is they are tough and self reliant. They'd exhausted all efforts themselves before calling LE.

I get it in explanation But like I said I can’t relate and struggle to wrap
My head around it because that’s so much time for such a mini man

 

[tedtink]

I get it in explanation But like I said I can’t relate and struggle to wrap
My head around it because that’s so much time for such a mini man

It does seem like a long time, but perhaps they thought because Gus had never wandered off before, they convinced themselves that he would be close by, so searched, then re-searched again and again. Like the OP has said, we don't know how many people searched either.

 

[Itz_CrimsonYT]

but perhaps they thought because Gus had never wandered off before, they convinced themselves that he would be close by

Makes it all the stranger that he might've wandered off...
Do we know for certain that foul play wasn't involved? As I've mentioned before, there was no word of footprints found nearby the homestead at the time the family found out he was gone, so we can't say for sure that he wandered off unless the footprints were covered in sand. Which I'd say is pretty likely considering the windspeed that afternoon (Which seemed to be about 9 mph)

 

[Dotta]

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