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

[wallyworld]

Some posters mentioned earlier cases of people trapped in chimneys and found after some years.
Joshua Maddux's mummified remains were discovered 7 years later

Also.....
The remains of Daniel O’Keeffe were found more than 4½ years after Daniel was last seen. The body was found in limestone soil at a cool part of his family’s Geelong property, and in a space which was extremely difficult to access. Dan was found in a tight space between a wall of the house and solid rock earth.

THE body of Daniel O’Keeffe — missing for several years — was discovered in a tight space at his family’s Geelong property.

 

[BreakingNews]

I don't take stoic to mean a person has no feelings.

I take it to mean like someone said to be brave no matter what may happen. To face it anyway.

And to accept what you may have to face without falling to pieces.

When I heard the word stoic, I thought they sounded just like most outback farmers. So many heartaches to deal with on proprieties. Droughts, fires, floods, money and personal tragedies.
In all of this, you have to get up every day and cope the best you can. Stoic covers all of this. No bereavement, sick or any other type of leave
You just get on with it.

 

[Lady-J]

Something that keeps coming back to me how sound travels in remote flat areas. I have spent time in similar locations and grew up in the country. We could hear the neighbours kids who lived 100s of meters away playing. In the outback with no road/ambient noise it is even easier to hear people. We were taught to koo-ee at a young age and to return a koo-ee if we heard one. Was Gus nonverbal or already incapacitated in the first few hours of being lost? I can’t shake the idea that he couldn’t have gotten out of a ‘koo-ee’ range during that first 30 minutes of being misplaced, and I find it hard to fathom that a potentially crying child couldn’t be heard in the vast stillness.

Sometimes little kids don’t answer .
If Gus did say something from a distance it may not have been loud enough to be heard.

 

[jessicalouise]

When I heard the word stoic, I thought they sounded just like most outback farmers. So many heartaches to deal with on proprieties. Droughts, fires, floods, money and personal tragedies.
In all of this, you have to get up every day and cope the best you can. Stoic covers all of this. No bereavement, sick or any other type of leave
You just get on with it.

All those things are things to kind of expect when you live rurally on the land. Hardship is a common experience. A missing child however ... I dont understand being stoic in the face of something like that.
We got a sense from the reporting even if it wasnt explicit reporting that Gus's dad was feeling frantic, maybe even angry, which sounds like a very understandable emotion given the circumstances. From the rest of the family ... nada. Zilch.

The reporting of this case hasnt made much sense to me, if im being perfectly honest. It feels like a lot is being held back. Or reporters dont have much to work with? I can't quite describe it. Because reporters can be a bit exploitative to get a story so human emotion ends up being milked to tug at heart strings of readers.

Maybe they aren't privy to much else, them delving into family history of who owned the property initially and how it got passed down which, to me, isn't particularly interesting just filler.

 

[BreakingNews]

Sometimes little kids don’t answer .
If Gus did say something from a distance it may not have been loud enough to be heard.

Coo-eee is the best way to communicate in Australia. Even the druggies use it at the Gold Coast when drug drops are made. OT, sorry.

 

[Lady-J]

Moo...a kangaroo could hurt Gus. I watched vid of Aussie pig dogs (owners put gps trackers on dogs) a big joey had dog in a choke hold. The dog owner literally had to get into fight with roo to get it to release dog !!

My friends dog chased a big red kangaroo into a river and the roo grabbed hold of the dog and held it under water. The owner of tbe dog had to intervene to save the dog from drowning .

 

[Dotta]

My friends dog chased a big red kangaroo into a river and the roo grabbed hold of the dog and held it under water. The owner of tbe dog had to intervene to save the dog from drowning .

It seems to me the kangaroo was provoked and reacted in defensive way, no?
To be chased by a dog is scary

 

[spiritualdreaming]

This is another case where the ladies body was completely missed in the initial 18km radius search. She was located less than 1.5kms from where her car had been found.

Family demands answers after farmer finds body despite intensive police search

Police deployed the Air Wing, drones and horses in the search for 58-year-old Colleen South, but it was a member of the public who found what is believed to be her body less than 1.5km from her car.

www.abc.net.au

 

[nao]

This is another case where the ladies body was completely missed in the initial 18km radius search. She was located less than 1.5kms from where her car had been found.

Family demands answers after farmer finds body despite intensive police search

Police deployed the Air Wing, drones and horses in the search for 58-year-old Colleen South, but it was a member of the public who found what is believed to be her body less than 1.5km from her car.

www.abc.net.au

Moo...yes, and Gus is little, probably only about 36-40 inch tall

 

[CredibleSauce]

Where exactly are the sheep ??

I haven't seen a SINGLE sheep
in all photos presenting the farm/station/property.

Respectfully, I don’t think you’re grasping the scale of these kinds of properties Dotta.

Sheep are prey animals and as such, are very responsive to “threats” - their hearing is far superior to ours, as is their sense of smell, so any unusual noise or sense that triggers their flight response has them off and running urgently.
Working with any livestock involves getting used to the animal’s “pressure zones” and “flight zones” and learning to notice the signs of each. This YouTube video shows a great example and this video from “The Livestock Collective” shows that knowledge used effectively in practice to count sheep - notice how the farmer moves just slightly to increase or decrease pressure on the mob controlling the speed they run and allowing her to count them.

Basically, sheep are going to run away when they hear people, vehicles etc. so it’s not unusual that you wouldn’t see them on any of the footage released so far. This includes helicopters, planes and drones (all of which are even used to muster sheep depending on the size and landscape of a property). Not to mention the fact that a property of 6000 hectares running 3000 sheep would technically provide space for 20,000 square metres per sheep. In practice they’ll be “mobbed up” or grazing nearby each other in particular paddocks, but you’re looking at a scale of essentially 16 Olympic sized swimming pools worth of space per sheep.

 

[butterstick]

Some posters mentioned earlier cases of people trapped in chimneys and found after some years.
Joshua Maddux's mummified remains were discovered 7 years later

Chimney discovery ends mystery over young man’s disappearance, but questions remain

Chimney discovery ends mystery over young man’s disappearance, but questions remain

www.denverpost.com

Sniffer dogs *might* have issues finding the deceased in a chimney bc soot and coal absorb odour.

Hopefully they could be more effective with Gus. I hope cadaver dogs are being used, even if others have said they are not available in SA.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

There was a case here where an older missing man's body was not seen for months though he was right next to a well travelled walk way.
It took one man walking past, with the wind in the right direction to recognise the odour.

Everyone had thought it was just a bundle of rags including the man who realised when the wind chamged direction and he turned around because in his job experiences he recognised the odour.

 

[bearbear]

i assume police would have spoken to any friends, visitors who may have been watching the football with the family that day, i wonder if any of them actually saw little gus, or if anyone apart from gm said they saw him that day?

 

[Marg944]

Renewed search for missing boy Gus in SA outback to be 'restricted' by extreme heat​

“The renewed search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has entered its second day, as Australian soldiers and police officers brace for sweltering outback heat to hamper efforts tomorrow.


Temperatures are forecast to reach tops of 36 degrees in the Yunta area tomorrow.

Eighteen police officers, 84 ADF personnel, 33 cars, SES resources, drones and utility terrain vehicles are being used are to scour the remote terrain in SA's mid-north.”

Renewed search for missing boy Gus to be 'restricted' by extreme heat

www.9news.com.au

 

[SouthAussie]

Moo..if Gus is out on the land, he will be covered in red sand by now. Also it is highish temperature , so dehydration of his tiny body. It he is under a bush or rock, the birds won't see him. It is very arid out there so not sure of population of carrion birds. If he is in a building and in an enclosed or higher up area, that would stop much of the scent also...moo

In my own experience, we would occassionally see one or two large carrion birds (wedgetailed eagles) feeding from the carcass of a cow that had been hit by a road train in rural SA.

There are not groups of carrion birds there. - just one or two of them. If they are not flying, no-one will see them. And when the big birds are there, the smaller birds are not.

imo

 

[SouthAussie]

i assume police would have spoken to any friends, visitors who may have been watching the football with the family that day, i wonder if any of them actually saw little gus, or if anyone apart from gm said they saw him that day?

We don't actually know if anyone was watching the grand final on TV. It is just speculation.

imo