My adventurous son would’ve been capable of covering 6 kms when he was four
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Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025
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August is a common Germanic name.
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Wonder how far away you'd have to be to loose sight of the homestead?
Can imagine a 4 year old getting lost in a forest and not know the way back because they lose sight of their home due to trees...
But to walk ~200 meters, lose a bit of enthusiasm, and to look back and see your home because the landscape is flat and arid ... and yet to not go back?
Nobody knows the mind of a random 4yo, but at some point (and I'd suggest way earlier on than 2km away) he'd be having second thoughts.
Can imagine a 4 year old getting lost in a forest and not know the way back because they lose sight of their home due to trees...
But to walk ~200 meters, lose a bit of enthusiasm, and to look back and see your home because the landscape is flat and arid ... and yet to not go back?
Nobody knows the mind of a random 4yo, but at some point (and I'd suggest way earlier on than 2km away) he'd be having second thoughts.
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Hi, did you by any chance edit your original post and add the last sentence? I replied to your post and the last sentence didn’t show up in my reply and it appeared that I had edited your post but I just hit reply??Can’t wait to see what the police have to say on the news tonight. Hope they find him.
Seems more likely at this stage that Gus has wandered further than first thought <modsnip: Not victim friendly>
The chances of someone turning up at Oak Park Station in the middle of nowhere in the first 15 minutes after the grandmother went inside , taking Gus and driving off in time for the dust to settle are very slim. Especially if the sandpit and Gus were not visible from Oak Park Road.
Does anyone know if the sandpit can be seen from the road?
The family would have definitely been thoroughly questioned by now and there would be cracks if the families version of events for the day Gus went missing didn’t align or their stories changed slightly
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I’m a bit confused about who actually saw Gus last.
People who’ve read my earlier posts will know I like to look closely at the language police use, and this one really stands out.
In the press conference on October 3, Assistant Commissioner Parrott said Gus was last seen “by family” and that “a family member came out later to call him in.” He didn’t specify who that was.
Then a few days later, on October 7, the written SAPOL statement says “Gus was seen outside at 5pm on Saturday playing on a mound of dirt by his grandmother. At 5.30pm she has gone outside to call him in, only to find him missing.”
We also have at least one outlet referring to Josie as “grandmother.” So who actually saw him last? Was it Josie, or Shannon?
As if my doubts on this timeline weren’t already deep enough, I feel that even the person who saw him last hasn’t been clearly identified to the public.
People who’ve read my earlier posts will know I like to look closely at the language police use, and this one really stands out.
In the press conference on October 3, Assistant Commissioner Parrott said Gus was last seen “by family” and that “a family member came out later to call him in.” He didn’t specify who that was.
Then a few days later, on October 7, the written SAPOL statement says “Gus was seen outside at 5pm on Saturday playing on a mound of dirt by his grandmother. At 5.30pm she has gone outside to call him in, only to find him missing.”
We also have at least one outlet referring to Josie as “grandmother.” So who actually saw him last? Was it Josie, or Shannon?
As if my doubts on this timeline weren’t already deep enough, I feel that even the person who saw him last hasn’t been clearly identified to the public.
Yes I added the last sentenceHi, did you by any chance edit your original post and add the last sentence? I replied to your post and the last sentence didn’t show up in my reply and it appeared that I had edited your post but I just hit reply??
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Police expand search for missing boy Gus in outback SA after advice from ‘survival specialists’
“The South Australian police commissioner, Grant Stevens, said there was no evidence to suggest it was anything but a missing child case.
“This [renewed effort] is not based on new information. This is based on our search coordinator specialists, medical specialists and survivability specialists looking at every possibility, and this is us exhausting those possibilities,” Stevens said on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Stevens said the latest stage of the search would last up to two days, and police were considering the use of specialist drones. He said he was not hopeful they would obtain anything significant from thermal drone data currently being analysed.”
Police expand search for missing boy Gus in outback SA after advice from ‘survival specialists’
South Australian commissioner says police leaving ‘no stone unturned’ in effort to recover body of four-year-old who went missing in late September
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The Advertiser reported "Shannon" was the one who went out to call him in.
I've linked the article way back
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The elusive mother of missing Gus is pictured for the first time
The devastated mother and grandmother of missing boy Gus Lamont have been pictured for the first time - two and a half weeks after he vanished from his grandparents' remote Outback station.
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Can you quote the text? I dont have a subscription to the Tiser.
SA Police has announced the formation of Taskforce Horizon – a team dedicated to finding Gus Lamount as the search for the missing four-year-old continues in SA’s Mid North.
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, earlier today, answered questions relating to why the search has been resumed, who is partaking in the search, and why they’ve ruled out foul play.
Here is the Commissioner’s interview in full.
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, earlier today, answered questions relating to why the search has been resumed, who is partaking in the search, and why they’ve ruled out foul play.
Here is the Commissioner’s interview in full.
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Thanks. I was a bit confused how it disappeared from my repost. Mystery solved
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Left alone for just half an hour, he was gone by the time his grandmother, Shannon, returned about 5.30pm. The sun was sinking fast, slipping below the horizon at 6.16pm, and panic set in.
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If you look closely at the wording:
"Gus was last seen about 5pm on Saturday, playing in the sand outside his familys Oak Park Station homestead, 40km south of Yunta. Left alone for just half an hour, he was gone by the time his grandmother, Shannon, returned about 5.30pm."
It subtly implies Shannon was the last one to see him, but it never actually states it outright. The phrasing can just as easily be read as:
- Gus was seen around 5pm (by someone unspecified),
- then later, when Shannon returned, he was gone.
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South Australian police say the first day of the renewed search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has not brought any new evidence.
Police today resumed searching for the preschooler at a property located 43km south of Yunta. In a statement, they said:
"The first day of the continuing search for the missing boy has concluded with no evidence being located.
The coordinated search has progressed in zones outside of the original search area and will continue on Wednesday. Extreme heat forecast for Thursday is expected to restrict searching to the cooler morning period.
Resources used today include 18 police officers, 82 ADF members and 33 vehicles and SES resources including seven members, a drone and two utility terrain vehicles.
The search for Gus, who was last seen on Saturday 27 September, is being conducted as part of Task Force Horizon that was announced this morning by Police Commissioner Grant Stevens."
Source: Australia news live: Ley calls for parliament to investigate Thorpe over ‘incendiary behaviour’ at protest; two executives quit Affinity Education Group
Police today resumed searching for the preschooler at a property located 43km south of Yunta. In a statement, they said:
"The first day of the continuing search for the missing boy has concluded with no evidence being located.
The coordinated search has progressed in zones outside of the original search area and will continue on Wednesday. Extreme heat forecast for Thursday is expected to restrict searching to the cooler morning period.
Resources used today include 18 police officers, 82 ADF members and 33 vehicles and SES resources including seven members, a drone and two utility terrain vehicles.
The search for Gus, who was last seen on Saturday 27 September, is being conducted as part of Task Force Horizon that was announced this morning by Police Commissioner Grant Stevens."
Source: Australia news live: Ley calls for parliament to investigate Thorpe over ‘incendiary behaviour’ at protest; two executives quit Affinity Education Group
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