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

[HaydenMackaa]

Looking back over the pictures of the homestead I can’t help but think there is so much interesting stuff for him to explore vs the vast barrenness of wandering away.

It’s proving difficult for me to identify when the first aerial photographs of the homestead were released and if they are taken on that date but this one Marg944 posted perhaps from day 5 doesn’t show signs of the emptying out of the sheds and buildings. Maybe they are extremely organised but some of us would have sheds and out buildings stacked with items creating the potential for a child to crawl into and get stuck or something to fall on them.

There are a few roads around the property.


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The family of a four-year-old boy missing in the state's outback have broken their silence over his disappearance, saying their hearts are aching. It is now four days since little Gus vanished near...

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[Ellery84]

some of us would have sheds and out buildings stacked with items creating the potential for a child to crawl into and get stuck or something to fall on them.

Yes, quite. I wonder if and when the inside search will commence. Or if an inside search is off the cards??

 

[Ruffy1976]

I took pics of the location. My take he's been abducted... I believe they would have found him if he wandered off. In guessing but this has nothing to do with family members. Are there prospectors also wandering around? It is a sheep station do they have Itinerant workers. Someone who has worked their recently decided to return?

 

[Ellery84]

I took pics of the location. My take he's been abducted... I believe they would have found him if he wandered off. In guessing but this has nothing to do with family members. Are there prospectors also wandering around? It is a sheep station do they have Itinerant workers. Someone who has worked their recently decided to return?

But there's 6 gates to travel through from the road to arrive at the homestead.

That is a lot of planning and effort for an abduction.

Who would have wanted to take Gus away from his family?

The dad was hours away asleep in bed when the cops caught up with him. It wasn't the dad. He was not there.

Imo

 

[Lady-J]

But there's 6 gates to travel through from the road to arrive at the homestead.

That is a lot of planning and effort for an abduction.

Who would have wanted to take Gus away from his family?

The dad was hours away asleep in bed when the cops caught up with him. It wasn't the dad. He was not there.

Imo

If Gus was taken it would not have been planned , it would have been a case of someone being in the right place at tbe right time .
Surely the road gets used occasionally by other people

 

[Kemug]

Who would have wanted to take Gus away from his family?

The dad was hours away asleep in bed when the cops caught up with him. It wasn't the dad. He was not there.

Imo

But can he prove it?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

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Extreme heat halts search for missing Gus​

The search for a missing four-year-old in remote South Australia has concluded early for the day due to extreme temperatures of 36C in the region.

The latest efforts to find Gus Lamont on a remote sheep station come 18 days since he was last seen, and searchers have been faced with arduous conditions.

SA Police confirmed on Thursday afternoon they had ended the day with no new evidence being found.

The search began at sunrise on Thursday and ended at midday due to the extreme conditions.

“It will resume on Friday 17 October when it is anticipated the searching of the remaining identified zones will be completed.”

 

[marv hucker]

The gates may have been left exactly as they were when mom went through them earlier which suggests that no one went through them. …

It would be quite a miracle if a stranger opened and closed all the gates and left them exactly as they were ... twice.

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By the same token my experience in the sticks is closing gates that you’ve opened is just the default, routine thing to do. Gates are important.

Like closing a front door, anywhere else.

 

[Ruffy1976]

This is a estimate. I myself believe he's been abducted. I believe they would have found him alive if he wandered off. I did a grid circle... it's about 500 meters to the dam that has been searched. Apparently it takes me 2 mins to walk to the dam. So a 4 year old could do it in 5 mins. So each circle I drew if he was to walk off in a straight line where would he end up in 1 hour. Also if you KNOW when you're in the out back no one goes in straight lines if you don't have a compass. People normally do circles strangely. Even more so a child. I hope he's returned safe.

 

[Lady-J]

I took pics of the location. My take he's been abducted... I believe they would have found him if he wandered off. In guessing but this has nothing to do with family members. Are there prospectors also wandering around? It is a sheep station do they have Itinerant workers. Someone who has worked there recently decided

Taken from the property by someone who is familiar with the area ?

 

[FromGermany1]

If Gus was taken it would not have been planned , it would have been a case of someone being in the right place at tbe right time .
Surely the road gets used occasionally by other people

bbm
I can imagine, that a person could have hidden themself on the property for some days, and when the opportunity was given, took little Gus from his playground and disappeared. To where they disappeared, Idk. And how and with which vehicle, I also don't know.

ETA: Maybe, the person isn't in their right mind?

 

[Dotta]

If Gus was taken it would not have been planned , it would have been a case of someone being in the right place at tbe right time .
Surely the road gets used occasionally by other people

There is also a possibility
that the wandering boy
might have been accidentally hit by a car by whoever was travelling there
- to or from the farm.
And then taken & hid somewhere.

JMO

 

[Lady-J]

bbm
I can imagine, that a person could have hidden themself on the property for some days, and when the opportunity was given, took little Gus from his playground and disappeared. To where they disappeared, Idk. And how and with which vehicle, I also don't know.

ETA: Maybe, the person isn't in their right mind?

There’s nowhere to hide - it’s barren. Police definitely would have found evidence if a person had been camping nearby

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Yes, quite. I wonder if and when the inside search will commence. Or if an inside search is off the cards??

Huh? A search of the station house and its surrounding buildings should have been included in the first stage of the search plan.

 

[Lady-J]

There is also a possibility
that the wandering boy
might have been hit by a car by whoever was travelling there - to or from the farm.
And then taken & hid somewhere.

JMO

That’s a possibility. Would there be evidence of that happening ?

 

[Lady-J]

Assuming that they were engaged in some type of relatively routine chore, they might have returned at the dinner hour, which would have brought them back around the time that Gus was discovered missing. But they must have some way for them to communicate between the homestead and the wider station, as needed.

Mobile phones. Or don’t they work out there?

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Mobile phones. Or don’t they work out there?

Coverage is likely to be pretty sporadic. In relatively flat terrain, a phone can connect to a mast or tower at surprising distances as that distance largely depends on whether things such as hills are in the way or not. That's why sometimes a phone at the top of a mountain can connect with a mast 30 or 50 miles away. I would expect masts to follow roads, so reasonable coverage along much of the Barrier Highway but not necessarily on Oak Park Road as far as the farmstead. On the other hand, it's likely that at some point stations are so isolated that Starlink becomes essential (and short wave radio/ham radio for the old timers).

 

[Scooby-Doo]

Gus has not been detected by infrared searches early on, or been detected by search dogs or cadaver dogs.

From the time he disappeared at 5 pm on Saturday, and even to the next day.

I find it hard to think he could have travelled so far in the dark on his own.

The initial search for Gus began immediately after he was reported missing, with police launching an extensive ground and air search

And they still couldn't find him.

I feel he has either been removed from the property or his body has been hidden somewhere on the property, so he's not located

With a station to operate fully, there have to be regular workers, and with workers going back and forth for various maintenance tasks. As well as household deliveries and produce deliveries

All these people should already be police background checked and interviewed, and a list of all recent or regular visitors to the property, including bordering properties. And anyone connected to the child

But there's no proof Gus was there either.










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[Serononin]

Do we know why cadaver dogs haven’t been utilized yet? TIA

My guess would be that they're hoping to find evidence that points them towards a specific area before they bring cadaver dogs in. The property would be way too big to have cadaver dogs search the whole place, so they need to narrow it down to a particular area or areas (the current thread for Lilly and Jack Sullivan has quite a bit of info on how cadaver dog searches work if you're curious)

 

[Warshawski]

No, there's 6 gates you need to go through to get to the homestead.

Has anyone been able to locate these 6 gates that have to be gone through to get to the homestead ?

From what I’ve deduced from the maps, it’s maybe 500 metres from the homestead to Oak Park Road ( a 4 year old would walk that in about 15 mins.)

I imagine there’s either a gate or grid at the property entrance; and I think I saw what might be a grid close to the house.

I think Oak Park Road is a public road as there are other properties along the way.

But maybe the public road is not fenced on either side, meaning it effectively passes through private land, so there could be gates crossing the road in order to contain the stock .
That would mean anyone using the road would be opening & shutting gates, making it no big deal for anyone familiar with that situation or the area.

Maybe Gus saw a vehicle he thought was the mail man and went down to meet him ( in those remote areas the Postie often brings groceries etc too )
Maybe he saw a vehicle that he thought was Dad.

I just wish they’d find something !