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

[statt#1]

Here's a critical little snippet....

"Police said all the evidence so far suggests the boy's disappearance is not suspicious."

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

www.9news.com.au

 

[Megnut]

Here's a critical little snippet....

"Police said all the evidence so far suggests the boy's disappearance is not suspicious."

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

www.9news.com.au

If the half hour he was missing was an estimate, maybe we can expand that to something greater than the half hour and less than an hour.

In less than an hour, he could have traveled nearly double the amount of ground they originally estimated... and if he kept moving while family and then LE searched, we could be looking at a very long beeline.

It will be Tragedy Enough if he did wander away and succumb, so much worse if someone caused his disappearance.

May this be the search that brings him home, along with answers.

JMO

 

[Dotta]

Police resume search for missing boy Gus in SA outback

SA Police and ADF personnel will resume their search for missing four-year-old Gus in South Australia's mid-north tomorrow.

www.abc.net.au

'The search for missing boy Gus will resume at his family's station south of Yunta,
police have revealed.

In a statement,
SA Police said they would resume search activity at the family's isolated and undulating sheep grazing station, about 43 kilometres south of Yunta.

'The search,
which will involve police and ADF personnel,
will concentrate on an expanded area outside of the zone already searched extensively following Gus's disappearance on Saturday,
September 27',
police said."

 

[Megnut]

Police resume search for missing boy Gus in SA outback

SA Police and ADF personnel will resume their search for missing four-year-old Gus in South Australia's mid-north tomorrow.

www.abc.net.au

'The search for missing boy Gus will resume at his family's station south of Yunta,
police have revealed.

In a statement,
SA Police said they would resume search activity at the family's isolated and undulating sheep grazing station, about 43 kilometres south of Yunta.

'The search,
which will involve police and ADF personnel,
will concentrate on an expanded area outside of the zone already searched extensively following Gus's disappearance on Saturday,
September 27',
police said."

:/

That doesn't sound like a data-driven search at all.

I wonder if the family assisted with a more accurate timeline, whereby Gus was missing longer and could have moved farther.

JMO

 

[drsleuth]

This video said the initial search covered a 3km radius & new analysis of evidence has prompted the police to extend that area ( Adelaide nine news )

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1186355346748825

This is the approx area a 3km radius would cover

Map Radius Calculator

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[packetgravy]

Looks like things are gearing up!

The original search radius would have been based on the timeline reported. It may seem minimal but it made sense for the timeframe, terrain, age of child etc.

I’d suspected there was something not quite measuring up. The lack of urgency being one factor and possibly a discrepancy between last sighting and discovering Gus missing (I.e instead of a 1700 - 1730 timeline it could look more like 1700 - 2230.)

But that doesn’t really impact the modelling for the initial search radius, in both cases he has been missing for 3ish hours at time of report.

What does challenge the original timeline is widening of the search radius, this makes me wonder if Gus was missing a lot longer than reported.

 

[tedtink]

This video said the initial search covered a 3km radius & new analysis of evidence has prompted the police to extend that area ( Adelaide nine news )

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1186355346748825

This is the approx area a 3km radius would cover

View attachment 619649

Map Radius Calculator

Draw a Radius around a map location. Draw a radius circle around a location in Google Maps to show a distance from that point in all directions.

www.calcmaps.com

Thanks for that.

Or 1.86 miles ( for us Brits)

Doesn't really seem that far, but glad they're going out again on the morrow.

 

[packetgravy]

DBM

(Double post sorry.)

 

[TMich6811]

:/

That doesn't sound like a data-driven search at all.

I wonder if the family assisted with a more accurate timeline, whereby Gus was missing longer and could have moved farther.

JMO

But he still could have only gone so far at this point so I don’t feel the original timeline matters or not (in this particulate relation) unless I’m considering it wrong. Accurate timeline, missing for less time or missing for more time - he still could have only traveled so far as a 4 year old without food and water and we are way beyond what that threshold is with any version of a timeline

 

[Lucy6226]

Looks like things are gearing up!

The original search radius would have been based on the timeline reported. It may seem minimal but it made sense for the timeframe, terrain, age of child etc.

I’d suspected there was something not quite measuring up. The lack of urgency being one factor and possibly a discrepancy between last sighting and discovering Gus missing (I.e instead of a 1700 - 1730 timeline it could look more like 1700 - 2230.)

But that doesn’t really impact the modelling for the initial search radius, in both cases he has been missing for 3ish hours at time of report.

What does challenge the original timeline is widening of the search radius, this makes me wonder if Gus was missing a lot longer than reported.

I suspect that's the case, it makes more sense in the timeline imo

 

[packetgravy]

But he still could have only gone so far at this point so I don’t feel the original timeline matters or not (in this particulate relation) unless I’m considering it wrong. Accurate timeline, missing for less time or missing for more time - he still could have only traveled so far as a 4 year old without food and water and we are way beyond what that threshold is with any version of a timeline

Quick reminder of the National Search and Rescue Manual (page 457) Children 4-7 shows that 95% are found within a 5.47 radius.

Looks like I forgot to charge my phone.

Source:

https://www.amsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/natsar-manual-february-2025-final-v2.pdf

 

[Megnut]

Quick reminder of the National Search and Rescue Manual (page 457) Children 4-7 shows that 95% are found within a 5.47 radius.

View attachment 619651

Looks like I forgot to charge my phone.

Source:

https://www.amsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/natsar-manual-february-2025-final-v2.pdf

Do we know his birthdate (I'll scramble back to the missing poster and check) -- is he on the 3 side of 4 or the 5 side?

 

[tedtink]

But he still could have only gone so far at this point so I don’t feel the original timeline matters or not (in this particulate relation) unless I’m considering it wrong. Accurate timeline, missing for less time or missing for more time - he still could have only traveled so far as a 4 year old without food and water and we are way beyond what that threshold is with any version of a timeline

If he'd disappeared earlier and the timeline was out slightly, he may have covered more ground before the sun went down.

 

[TMich6811]

If he'd disappeared earlier and the timeline was out slightly, he may have covered more ground before the sun went down.

I agree that it would’ve mattered in the first place, but we’re way past that. He could’ve only gone so far. His body would’ve maxed out at a certain point and being 3 1/2 weeks out or whatever we are, that maxed out time was a long time ago, so a couple hours doesn’t matter for the search at this point.

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/wildlife-new-theory-emerges-as-police-expand-search-for-gus/news-story/908354d9e17d1352dbb973d7c4c3502c

‘Wildlife’: New theory emerges as police expand search for Gus​

Former homicide squad detective Gary Jubelin believes “wildlife” could be a factor in the Gus Lamont case after police announced they would be resuming the search for the missing four-year-old on Monday

 

[Megnut]

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/wildlife-new-theory-emerges-as-police-expand-search-for-gus/news-story/908354d9e17d1352dbb973d7c4c3502c

‘Wildlife’: New theory emerges as police expand search for Gus​

Former homicide squad detective Gary Jubelin believes “wildlife” could be a factor in the Gus Lamont case after police announced they would be resuming the search for the missing four-year-old on Monday

Really little 4 year old, very big dingo?

Article goes on to say "this party involvement" of which I imagine wildlife is one (remote) possibility.

Where are you, Gus? And how did you get there?

JMnaggingO

 

[packetgravy]

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/wildlife-new-theory-emerges-as-police-expand-search-for-gus/news-story/908354d9e17d1352dbb973d7c4c3502c

‘Wildlife’: New theory emerges as police expand search for Gus​

Former homicide squad detective Gary Jubelin believes “wildlife” could be a factor in the Gus Lamont case after police announced they would be resuming the search for the missing four-year-old on Monday

I can’t get onboard with this theory, or the kidnapping theory.

 

[Ellery84]

Here's a critical little snippet....

"Police said all the evidence so far suggests the boy's disappearance is not suspicious."

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

www.9news.com.au

Maybe they have new information. That may have been their thoughts at that juncture.

 

[SouthAussie]

"The concern here, from an operational perspective is that, as earlier mentioned, it is likely, due to the expiration of the survivability period, SAR may call off a search at the very point when animal scavenger activity is becoming noticeable on the body.

Therefore, rather than being the stopping point or reducing SAR resources at day five, it may be justifiable to leave a small group of specially trained personnel in the field to look for opportunities to locate the remains by careful observation of animals, predators and scavengers, and therefore recover those remains for examination and ultimate return to family."

Birdwatching - for bodies (Observations of wildlife to locate human remains)
Valentine Smith - Senior Investigator Research/Investigator, Co-Founder/Owner at Footprints in the Wilderness (FITW), Greater Melbourne Area

 

[Scooby-Doo]

Massive development in search for missing 4yo Gus

It’s a bombshell call from investigators as police flag a new strategy to find a boy missing in the South Australian outback for weeks.

thenightly.com.au

On Tuesday, October 14, police will resume searching at Oak Park Station, 43km south of Yunta, for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont,” an SA police statement said on Monday.

The search, which will involve police and ADF personnel, will concentrate on an expanded area outside of the zone already searched extensively following Gus’ disappearance on Saturday, 27 September.

Authorities have already covered over 47,000ha in the biggest search of its kind in South Australian history.

Police said there will be no police spokesperson at the search site, and any updates on the case will now be provided from police headquarters in Adelaide.

A 50-year-old ex-SES volunteer said.
“He’s not on that property.”
Mr O’Connell, who is a wildlife carer, said the absence of birds of prey in the area was another troubling sign.
“If he was in a bad way or if he passed away, we’d listen for foxes, look for birds of prey,” he said.
“No birds of prey means he’s not there.
“I just don’t get how (Gus) vanished like that,” he said.