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

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Police drop bombshell after ending the search for little Gus after he vanished without a trace​


“Police will resume their search for missing four-year-old boy Gus at his family's remote Outback station tomorrow.

It is unclear what sparked the renewed search effort, though police said they have remained active in the days since the earlier search was suspended.

In the statement released today, police said there had been 'regular and close engagement' with Gus's family who were 'continuing to assist with the investigation.”

Timeline of Gus Lamont's disappearance​


SEPTEMBER 27: Gus last seen playing near his grandparent's homestead 40km south of Yarra about 5pm. Police initiate search that evening

SEPTEMBER 30: Police advise family Gus may not have survived due to the passage of time, his age, and the nature of the Outback terrain

OCTOBER 6: Police launch significant search after footprint found around a dam west of the property

OCTOBER 7: Police scale back search and hand investigations over to the Missing Persons Investigation Section

DAYS FOLLOWING: Police continue to engage with the Lamont family

OCTOBER 13: Police announce search efforts will resume the following day




www.dailymail.co.uk

Police drop bombshell after ending the search for little Gus

Police will launch a new search for missing four-year-old boy Gus at the family's Outback station tomorrow.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
 
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Marg944 said:
This report says the previous search area was 470sq km area.
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from the few videos I’ve watched, it doesn’t appear in those, that the workers place down anything to mark where they have walked & searched. Is this something they do? how do they visually confirm where has been searched as they go?
 
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whitelilac said:
I just checked the time in SA....3:21 pm, Monday. When they say the search will be resumed tomorrow...I take that to mean Tuesday.
(it's nearly 10 pm here Sunday...CA)
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Search will start Tuesday morning 14 October, in South Australia.
 
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katydid23 said:
I imagine he has to give much of his paycheck to his kids and their mom each month. I'm not surprised he has pretty low rent accommodations for himself.
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That's true. He looks like he's fallen on hard times. Imo
 
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www.9news.com.au

Search for missing Gus Lamont, 4, to resume again in remote SA

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Search for missing Gus Lamont, 4, to resume again in remote SA​

Police will resume a search for missing child Gus Lamont in remote South Australia, saying they'll expand the area of the hunt.
The search, involving police and members of the ADF, will start again tomorrow police said, as the child's disappearance remains a mystery.

Earlier this month the search was called off after no trace of Gus was found after six days, however police did later return to the site, Oak Park Station, on October 4.
They spent hours speaking with family and taking photos of the property.
 
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www.dailymail.co.uk

Missing boy Gus' grandparents break their silence: 'Clashes'

The little boy vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, 300km north of Adelaide.
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It is understood Josie Murray lives with Gus's grandmother Shannon Murray, and that the child's mother Jess is also on the property where Gus went missing.

Locals have told the Daily Mail that Jess and Gus's father Joshua Lamont also share a one-year-old son, Ronnie, who is also believed to live on the station.

However Mr Lamont himself lives two hours' drive away, 100km to the west in Belalie North, near Jamestown.

The Daily Mail has been told that Josh and Jess remain a couple but he does not live on the station because of clashes with Josie.

'Josh doesn't think it's safe for the kids to be out there, it's dangerous,' a family friend revealed.


But Gus's grandparent, Josie Murray - a transgender woman who locals say transitioned many years ago - told the Daily Mail the family had not lost hope.

'We're still looking for him,' she insisted, while declining any offers of assistance in the search effort.
 
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I can't find any direct release from SAPOL for this so my sourching comes from the following link:

Gus Lamont: Major development as police confirm search for missing SA 4yo to resume​


Early on police said the Lamont family were “cooperating fully.” Everything back then sounded like they saw this as a tragic accident, a little boy who wandered off and got lost. Now the wording has shifted to “the family continues to assist with the investigation.”

That might sound minor but it’s a big change in tone. “Cooperating” feels like everyone’s on the same page. “Assisting” sounds a lot more formal, like the conversations are still happening but they’re not warm or aligned anymore. It reads to me like police are staying polite but keeping a bit of professional distance.

The other line that jumped out was that the new search will be outside the zone already searched extensively. I’m no expert on search and rescue but I assume they used some sort of modelling early on to figure out how far a four year old could realistically walk based on the timeline the family gave police at the time. That timeline is what the whole original search would have been built around, when Gus was last seen, when they noticed he was missing and when police were called.

I’ve questioned that timeline before but this just seems to confirm that something doesn’t quite add up. If they’re now searching outside the original radius that means the parameters they were given, basically the information from the family, no longer make sense. In other words the “wandered off” theory doesn’t fit the evidence or the geography anymore.

Then there’s how everything’s being handled now. No media at the site, no police spokesperson there, updates only coming from Adelaide HQ. The family have asked media not to contact them. It all feels very controlled and careful with what gets out.

Putting all of that together:
  • The language about the family has shifted from cooperation to assistance.
  • The search area has moved beyond what would make sense based on the original timeline.
  • And the tone from police has gone from emotional to procedural.
I’ve said before that the timeline never sat right with me, and this only reinforces it. I reckon police have known for some time that the “wandered off” story isn’t what happened, they just haven’t been able to say it outright yet.
 
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SouthAussie said:
None of it really makes sense because the property is 6,000 hectares, which equals 60 sq km.


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

Convert 6,000 Hectares to Square Kilometers

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Nope the property size even seems to be getting missed reported. Here and I'm sure the police spokesperson at the station also said the property was 60,000hectare
 
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Not sure if it’s already been mentioned, but in regard to Gus’s parents living apart and the whereabouts of his mother when he went missing - it makes sense to me that his mother is working on her parents farm (hence why she lives away from her partner).
The property is obviously suffering severe drought conditions; and it’s not unheard of for women to run a property. They may not have other employees during hard times when they’re running fewer (if any) sheep.
Josie walks with a cane, so it makes sense she would be responsible for care of the children, while the other 2 work the farm.
 
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Police have combed more than 47,000ha of unforgiving country in one of the state’s largest search operations Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott said on Friday.

The family’s remote 60,000ha station rolls out in red dirt and bluebush beneath a vast sky – land that looks flat from afar but hides gullies, dry creek beds and twisting tracks that vanish into scrub.

That info is from The Advertiser behind paywall

 
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Dbm

Wrong info
 
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Juzlooking said:
Not sure if it’s already been mentioned, but in regard to Gus’s parents living apart and the whereabouts of his mother when he went missing - it makes sense to me that his mother is working on her parents farm (hence why she lives away from her partner).
The property is obviously suffering severe drought conditions; and it’s not unheard of for women to run a property. They may not have other employees during hard times when they’re running fewer (if any) sheep.
Josie walks with a cane, so it makes sense she would be responsible for care of the children, while the other 2 work the farm.
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But was that Josie with the cane?? We have 3 females living on that property. Also the lady seen speaking and walking around with police officers had no cane or nor didn't seem to struggle to walk.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974404267579719909
 
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spiritualdreaming said:
But was that Josie with the cane?? We have 3 females living on that property. Also the lady seen speaking and walking around with police officers had no cane or nor didn't seem to struggle to walk.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974404267579719909
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Yes - it was the person shown with the scarf in these videos that was walking with a cane (though they don’t appear to be using one in these videos).
I’ll try and find the photos when I have a moment. They were taken after the search was scaled back.
 
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Maybe a drone has picked up a flash of colour, ie possibly from the clothes or hat.
 
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I was incredibly worried about little Gus before, and I am now dreading what we might learn next.
 
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Must be some new evidence that has come on board.

Possibly, the drone footage they were waiting on has returned with some interest for further investigation
 
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Marg944 said:
The property is listed in m2…..


Land size:

43,651,807 m²



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1799 Oak Park Road going from SA government map viewer has that property on the otherside of Oak Park Station. It's what people on here have been calling the junk yard.

Also notice that realestate.com have 1799 listed as sold in 1999.

Lot 6 Oak Park Road on the same mapviewer seems to be in the location of Oak Park Station and Real Estate.com have that listed as sold in 2022.

1799 and lot 6 seem to have the exact same planparcel ID.

Location SA Viewer

location.sa.gov.au location.sa.gov.au

Real estate.com says there is only 6 properties on Oak Park Road. 2 other properties have the same ID'S which I believe are both Tiverton Station going by map locations.



I personally am not good at reading that sort of data lol So maybe someone more tech savvy with data and maps could have a look.
 
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