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

[HoneyBunOne]

Police said that they didn't have a direction and had to cover a 360-degree angle.

The road is only 300 metres from the house, which means Gus could have reached it on foot in just a few minutes. There were no reported signs of struggle or distress, so it’s possible he walked off voluntarily. Maybe he was drawn by an animal, a wandering sheep, a sudden noise, or someone or something familiar.

Then evening fell, and the house was lit up and the adults were out searching and calling his name for hours. If he was conscious, mobile, and still nearby, he should’ve seen the lights or heard the voices and come back or responded.

Yet Gus didn’t respond or return, because he couldn’t.

Wasn't that an internal road though? Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that there are 5 or so gates between the home and the public road, suggesting a large stretch of internal road first? (I also thought he could have strayed from the property when I first heard it was only 300 metres away)

 

[Rocket333]

Wasn't that an internal road though? Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that there are 5 or so gates between the home and the public road, suggesting a large stretch of internal road first? (I also thought he could have strayed from the property when I first heard it was only 300 metres away)

Yes you're right HB. I’ve just edited to reflect that. No strangers, strange vehicles, crocodiles or dingos.

Locals are more concerned about, “the mine shafts and wells dug more than a century ago by fortune seekers and graziers”. If poor Gus slipped into one of those, it wouldn’t be obvious.

 

[Scooby-Doo]

Being in a very remote area. If he wasn't detected by infrared (IR) or thermal cameras, it's a worry

 

[Marg944]

Saturday 4th October 2025

226K views · 1.3K reactions | Major Crime detectives have returned to the country homestead where four-year-old Gus Lamont tragically disappeared. Despite police calling off the search, investigations are continuing. #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide

Major Crime detectives have returned to the country homestead where four-year-old Gus Lamont tragically disappeared. Despite police calling off the search, investigations are continuing. #7NEWS.

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[Dotta]

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[MrJ]

Where are you, Gus?

 

[Sarahlou]

I tend to think this poor boy didn't wander off.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Heartbreaking admission as outback search for Gus enters seventh day

A local goat herder has a 'gut feeling' that Gus is still in area, as the desperate search becomes a recovery mission.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Police have cast doubt on the child's footprint found on Tuesday, 500m from the homestead.

'Now that we know that we can't find any other footprints around the place - that (footprint) could have been there a week,' Supt Syrus said.

 

[GenericUsername88]

I haven't seen anyone mention the barefoot right footprint to the left of Gus' footprint. Am I imagining it?

 

[Total_C]

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That Facebook rant was a perfect example of someone inserting themselves into a tragedy for attention. It offered no facts, just anger and swearing, and it turns the whole situation into a performance instead of helping.

It’s easy to accuse police of “giving up” from a distance, but the reality is they’ve already thrown everything they can at a search that produced zero evidence. People on the ground have worked themselves to exhaustion. Grandstanding online does nothing for Gus or the investigators still working the case.

 

[Dotta]

That Facebook rant was a perfect example of someone inserting themselves into a tragedy for attention. It offered no facts, just anger and swearing, and it turns the whole situation into a performance instead of helping.

It’s easy to accuse police of “giving up” from a distance, but the reality is they’ve already thrown everything they can at a search that produced zero evidence. People on the ground have worked themselves to exhaustion. Grandstanding online does nothing for Gus or the investigators still working the case.

I cannot opine.
I'm lost for words to be honest
I guess emotions run high.
The locals are genuinely worried no doubt.

By the way,
in my earlier link, Police suggested unused mineshafts and wells.

But it is a private property, right?

So...
I would assume that every inch of it was checked previously of such dangers.

That people living there, the owners, were/are aware of them and addressed these issues,
eliminating/securing them, right?

I mean
everyone wants their property to be safe,
especially if there are young kids on the premises.

JMO

 

[Someone8746]

I haven't seen anyone mention the barefoot right footprint to the left of Gus' footprint. Am I imagining it? View attachment 618163

The more I look at the photo, the more footprints and marks I see.. but none of them are solid if I scrutinise them.. one image isn’t enough to go off imo

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I cannot opine.
I'm lost for words to be honest
I guess emotions run high.
The locals are genuinely worried no doubt.

By the way,
in my earlier link, Police suggested unused mineshafts and wells.

But it is a private property, right?

So...
I would assume that every inch of it was checked previously of such dangers.

That people living there, the owners, were/are aware of them and addressed these issues,
eliminating/securing them, right?

I mean
everyone wants their property to be safe,
especially if there are young kids on the premises.

JMO

I'm sure their locations are many, varied and often unknown. Properties like these can be huge. I don't know the size of this particular one but they can easily be hundreds (maybe thousands, I'm not sure) of acres in size. It's just not feasible I don't think, to find and secure every last one.

 

[SouthAussie]

I'm sure their locations are many, varied and often unknown. Properties like these can be huge. I don't know the size of this particular one but they can easily be hundreds (maybe thousands, I'm not sure) of acres in size. It's just not feasible I don't think, to find and secure every last one.

The property is very large. 6,000 hectares (14,830 acres).


The desperate hunt for the boy at the family's sprawling 6,000-hectare sheep grazing property .....

Emergency services and community members continue search for 4yo boy

Police are continuing to search for a four-year-old boy who vanished while playing in sand at his family's isolated sheep grazing property near Yunta in a remote part of South Australia's north.

www.abc.net.au