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

[MelmothTheLost]

I would normally expect a relative or family friend to be speaking out but something seems off here.

We don't know how large the families are on both the mother's and father's sides. If both are only children, so there are no aunts or uncles, there may be nobody who could speak to the media - assuming the police have not asked them not to do so. We know there is one grandparent but the others may also be out of the picture for one reason or another.

As to friends, it may well be that friends are from a similar background and situation - geographically distant and not in a position to comment on an on-the-ground situation possibly hundreds of miles away.

 

[Marg944]

According to this report
both mother and grandparents were at the property when the boy went missing.

(The second part of a tweet "Police say further...")

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I can’t find where it is stated that the mother was at the property. Am I missing something?

 

[Dotta]

I can’t find where it is stated that the mother was at the property. Am I missing something?

Obviously, as the reporter says it clearly

 

[TootsieFootsie]

So far everything I've read has only mentioned the grandmother being at the property at the time Gus went missing.
So far there's been no mention of the mother being at the property when Gus went missing.
There has been no mention of anyone apart from the grandmother.

If there is a main stream media link that says the mother was there I'd like to read it.

 

[Dotta]

So far everything I've read has only mentioned the grandmother being at the property at the time Gus went missing.
So far there's been no mention of the mother being at the property when Gus went missing.
There has been no mention of anyone apart from the grandmother.

If there is a main stream media link that says the mother was there I'd like to read it.

Is "7 News" not MSM?



Oops,
I do not live in Australia.

 

[Alyce]

I can’t find where it is stated that the mother was at the property. Am I missing something?

It is stated clearly in the 7 News Adelaide report that both of Gus' grandparents and his mother were at the property when he disappeared.
Dotta's post 613,the second vid clip - 1.22 mins into the recording.

 

[Marg944]

I can’t find where it is stated that the mother was at the property. Am I missing something?

I gave up too early - I found that it was stated by the reporter in the 2nd video. I was looking at the written “report”. So this is news. First time that the mother has been mentioned.

 

[iamshadow21]

Is "7 News" not MSM?



Oops,
I do not live in Australia.

Seven is one of our major channels, yes.

 

[Dotta]

I gave up too early - I found that it was stated by the reporter in the 2nd video. I was looking at the written “report”. So this is news. First time that the mother has been mentioned.

But I especially mentioned
"2nd part of the tweet".

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Ah that may be why I missed it.
Weird that the short video was the only mention of it.

I haven't seen it repeated in any written article.

 

[Dotta]

Ah that may be why I missed it.
Weird that the short video was the only mention of it.

I haven't seen it repeated in any written article.

I don't think it is "weird" (quoting OP).
This is the local Adelaide branch of "7News"

And...
The more local MSM,
the better informed.

JMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I don't feel comfortable sleuthing the family.

 

[Dotta]

I don't feel comfortable sleuthing the family.

It is stating the fact who was present at the property when the boy vanished.
"Not sleuthing the family."

MSM reported it.

JMO

 

[Curiousobserver]

IMO - Personally, I find it absolutely staggering that bodies so often turn up in previously searched areas. How does this happen? What exactly are the searchers doing for it to so often appear that human beings searching for a body in any kind of rural area, are woefully inadequate. Is there anything that can be changed to make searches more successful? Why are human bodies so difficult to find, even when not purposefully hidden? My questions are merely my own musing but feel free to answer any of them. MOO

All I can tell you is it defies all of your common sense, but it is absolutely true. In a case near my home a woman with dementia went missing from her home and police setup a command center in a nearby parking lot where they walked back and forth to the search area- after 2 days they found her lying in the ditch that surrounded that same parking lot wearing a bright red sweater. She was never more than 100' from her front door and they were walking within feet of her for 2 days.

 

[Greenestdays]

IMO - Personally, I find it absolutely staggering that bodies so often turn up in previously searched areas. How does this happen? What exactly are the searchers doing for it to so often appear that human beings searching for a body in any kind of rural area, are woefully inadequate. Is there anything that can be changed to make searches more successful? Why are human bodies so difficult to find, even when not purposefully hidden? My questions are merely my own musing but feel free to answer any of them. MOO

Having volunteered in grid searches I can say that the searchers are doing their best, but they too are only human and a body, especially a small body, can be very easy to overlook. On the one hand you are supposed to check under every branch, look into every cranny, but on the other hand during initial searches at least there’s the silent pressure to cover ground more quickly, to find the person fast. Sometimes one section of the chain (of searchers) will have easier terrain to go over than another section so they advance more rapidly, which again creates pressure which might cause something to be overlooked or gaps may form before regrouping. When the chain is halted to inspect something more closely (or to adjust pace), people get distracted, they start chatting, looking around, and from my experience it takes them a few strides to get back on task, so to say. Two people walking side-by-side might both be looking in the wrong direction at the wrong time. People’s eyesight varies, their depth of vision varies, even the ability to “look” at a scene varies (think of the pink elephant video - our brain is very good at blocking out information it doesn’t deem important).
These are my observations from volunteering. I’m sure professional SAR units have been extensively trained and many of these issues are mitigated but again, they are only human and they don’t have xray vision.
I’ve been “lucky” in the sense that nothing has been later discovered in “my” sectors, but you are constantly thinking about was I thorough enough, did I miss anything… And what we’ve been told is that it’s normal and unfortunately something you have to learn to let go of, because sometimes stuff is missed and that’s the reality of these kinds of searches.