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

[SouthAussie]

I'm pretty sure he was woken by the police but haven't looked for a link to verify that.

Yes, but it has never been stated that it was in the early hours of the next day - as your post said. We don't know what time it was. AFAIK Just "hours after" or words to that effect.

Checking Gus' dad's place would have been high priority as the family hadn't reached him - and likely before they launched a police helicopter for the two-hour trip north.

imo

 

[FromGermany1]

I believe in most cases the Police guide the family on procedure, the police for what ever reason may have advised them not go the media yet. At this stage it is still believed he wander off, until that changes, there is no point in a public plea.

We dont know for sure what the Father has or is doing. He may have remained at the station after the first nights search.

For all, who had interest in the timespan, father JL was searching for little Gus:

A second unusual piece of the family jigsaw involves Gus’s father, Josh Lamont, who has spent much of the past fortnight searching the farm.

The mystery of angelic Gus, 4, who disappeared in the Outback

His grandmother says she saw him playing there at 5pm two Saturday evenings ago.Half an hour later, when Gus was called in for dinner, he had gone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[FromGermany1]

Late on September 27, the night Gus vanished, Josh was found asleep in his home by police.

By GUY ADAMS and KARLEIGH SMITH

Published: 22:01 BST, 10 October 2025 | Updated: 01:51 BST, 11 October 2025

The mystery of angelic Gus, 4, who disappeared in the Outback

His grandmother says she saw him playing there at 5pm two Saturday evenings ago.Half an hour later, when Gus was called in for dinner, he had gone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It’s unclear why Jess had not phoned to tell him their child was missing, but analysis of his movements that day are believed to have ruled out any involvement in the disappearance.

A former musician, Josh was once the hard-drinking frontman of a successful country rock ’n’ roll band called The Cut Snakes, who performed in the bars and pubs of rural South Australia and in 2019 won the ‘People’s Choice Country’ gong at the region’s prestigious Music Awards.

The band seems to have split up during Covid and there is little record of Josh performing since. He has earned money as a tradesman, who ‘helped build the Yunta community centre’, according to Fleur Tiver, whose family own the station next to Oak Park and have been neighbours of the Murrays for more than five generations.

Josh has family in Adelaide, where he was photographed this week, having taken a break from helping with the search. ‘It’s pretty much devastated him. It’s his little boy, and he’s pretty close to his son,’ said a friend.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Not the cable, I'm thinking of, say, a cistern with an opening of small diameter, where no one could conceive a child fitting.

In the same way no one would look for a missing child in a silverware drawer. Couldn't fit! Maybe he somehow fell into something that absolutely defies physics.

JMO

A propos of this, I've been relistening to the Casefile episode on Ray and Jennie Kehlet (294) where it is mentioned that the search of mine shafts in the area in which they went missing included dropping luminescent sticks down them to illuminate them. I would imagine that something similar will have been done in this case if there are any known mine shafts in the search area.

 

[mickey2942]

There is just so much open space. Have they tried using tracking dogs? SAR?

 

[Zedx]

There is just so much open space. Have they tried using tracking dogs? SAR?

Yes, they have used just about every thing you can think of and yet still no sign of the little fella.

 

[mickey2942]

Yes, they have used just about every thing you can think of and yet still no sign of the little fella.

That is very unusual. A good tracking dog can usually get a scent to start off a search in the right direction.

 

[kurtneverdied]

Well perhaps the DM have it wrong but the link is below and it says police arrived in the early hours of the morning.

The hidden detail about Gus Lamont's family

Before Gus Lamont disappeared, his father had been renovating a house, hoping his young family could soon move in together.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Dotta]

Well perhaps the DM have it wrong but the link is below and it says police arrived in the early hours of the morning.

The hidden detail about Gus Lamont's family

Before Gus Lamont disappeared, his father had been renovating a house, hoping his young family could soon move in together.

www.dailymail.co.uk

From the link above

This is so sad

"Joshua Lamont,
who lives about 200km from Yunta in the small South Australian town of Jamestown,
had spent years fixing up a modest two-bedroom cottage
so his partner Jess and their two boys could finally live together under one roof.

Friends say
the devoted dad was counting down the months until Gus began school,
eager to create a stable home life after years of living between two properties.

But that dream was shattered
when Gus vanished from his grandparents' remote property near Yunta.

A neighbour said
that Mr Lamont often travelled between Yunta and Jamestown
while slowly restoring the home.

'He is not a tradie, he just does odd jobs,'
the neighbour said,
adding he had recently started work on the bathroom
and was looking at schools for Gus nearby.

The neighbour added
that Mr Lamont had not returned to the property since Gus disappeared."

The hidden detail about Gus Lamont's family

Before Gus Lamont disappeared, his father had been renovating a house, hoping his young family could soon move in together.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[SouthAussie]

Well perhaps the DM have it wrong but the link is below and it says police arrived in the early hours of the morning.

The hidden detail about Gus Lamont's family

Before Gus Lamont disappeared, his father had been renovating a house, hoping his young family could soon move in together.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Just one week earlier (than your linked article) the DM wrote ... It is understood Mr Lamont only found out his child was missing when police woke him up at his Belalie North home, hours after Gus had vanished. Link

And the DM has said that mum Jess was the one who was at the homestead when Gus went missing (in the article I just linked), then the DM said it was the grandparent Josie who was at the homestead at that time (linked further back), when the local newspaper has stated multiple times that it was grandmother Shannon who was at the homestead at that time (links already provided).

 

[SouthAussie]

The neighbour added
that Mr Lamont had not returned to the property since Gus disappeared."

The hidden detail about Gus Lamont's family

Before Gus Lamont disappeared, his father had been renovating a house, hoping his young family could soon move in together.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I guess they mean that Mr Lamont had not returned to the property where he lived in Belalie North?
Because the DM also wrote ...


A second unusual piece of the family jigsaw involves Gus’s father, Josh Lamont, who has spent much of the past fortnight searching the farm.

The mystery of angelic Gus, 4, who disappeared in the Outback

His grandmother says she saw him playing there at 5pm two Saturday evenings ago.Half an hour later, when Gus was called in for dinner, he had gone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[HoneyBunOne]

Late on September 27, the night Gus vanished, Josh was found asleep in his home by police.

By GUY ADAMS and KARLEIGH SMITH

Published: 22:01 BST, 10 October 2025 | Updated: 01:51 BST, 11 October 2025

The mystery of angelic Gus, 4, who disappeared in the Outback

His grandmother says she saw him playing there at 5pm two Saturday evenings ago.Half an hour later, when Gus was called in for dinner, he had gone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It’s unclear why Jess had not phoned to tell him their child was missing, but analysis of his movements that day are believed to have ruled out any involvement in the disappearance.

A former musician, Josh was once the hard-drinking frontman of a successful country rock ’n’ roll band called The Cut Snakes, who performed in the bars and pubs of rural South Australia and in 2019 won the ‘People’s Choice Country’ gong at the region’s prestigious Music Awards.

The band seems to have split up during Covid and there is little record of Josh performing since. He has earned money as a tradesman, who ‘helped build the Yunta community centre’, according to Fleur Tiver, whose family own the station next to Oak Park and have been neighbours of the Murrays for more than five generations.

Josh has family in Adelaide, where he was photographed this week, having taken a break from helping with the search. ‘It’s pretty much devastated him. It’s his little boy, and he’s pretty close to his son,’ said a friend.

My thoughts were that he was probably asleep at the time and perhaps had his phone on "do not disturb", or there was reception issues at either his place or the farm, meaning a phone call was not answered. Therefore police were notified and did somewhat of a welfare check, finding him asleep. Why he was asleep at such an early hour is not the issue, there can be many reasons why. I can understand why a phone call to Josh was not placed at 5.30pm - the family fully expected to find Gus shortly, and at some point afterwards made the call to police, and I'm assuming attempts to contact Josh were made also.
All MOO of course, but I don't see any real issues with how this part played out.

 

[Chimera]

If dogs were used and they haven't found little Gus, then possibly a kidnapping ?
But the abductor would have to know that he was outside playing, and it sounds like all of the adults were careful in keeping an eye on him ?
This is sad and after the time that's passed, it doesn't sound like a good ending for this boy.
Hoping I'm wrong.
Imo.

 

[FromGermany1]

What happened to Gus Lamont?

Nearly a month has passed since “shy but adventurous” Gus Lamont was last seen playing on his family’s remote sheep station.

www.nowtolove.com.au

Nothing new, but a nice pic of the parents.

 

[Kemug]

Do you think the police would put a search helicopter up at 11:30pm without checking to make sure Gus wasn't with his father first? I would think that would have been the first thing they did, especially if Gus' mum hadn't been able to reach him yet.


Police helicopter flight timing – initial search for Gus Lamont

• Departed Adelaidvs we wase: around 11:30 PM, Saturday 27 Sept Link

Is it possible that LE asked who the household consisted of, and was told the 2 grandmas, Jess, Gus and Ronnie? Maybe it took them a while to realise that there was a dad.

 

[SouthAussie]

Is it possible that LE asked who the household consisted of, and was told the 2 grandmas, Jess, Gus and Ronnie? Maybe it took them a while to realise that there was a dad.

I think the police arrived at the property by 9:30pm. It is only the police helicopter that left Adelaide at 11:30pm, is how I understand it.

I think among the first police questions might be "where is his dad?". If they hadn't already been told that the family hadn't reached Gus' dad yet.

imo

 

[Ellery84]

Karleigh Smith and Wayne Flower have published this insightful podcast episode on the Gus Lamont case:

[The Trial: Australia] The Mystery of Gus Lamont #theTrialAustralia
The Trial: Australia - The Mystery of Gus Lamont via @PodcastAddict

They'll be back next week for another episode.

Karleigh is (or has been) on location at Yunta.

 

[spiritualdreaming]

New article with a few new details

Chilling theories emerge about missing boy Gus Lamont

Gus was playing in a mound of dirt at Oak Park station, under the care of his grandmother Shannon Murray as his mother Jessica and grandparent Josie were tending to their flock 10km away.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Chimera]

My thoughts were that he was probably asleep at the time and perhaps had his phone on "do not disturb", or there was reception issues at either his place or the farm, meaning a phone call was not answered. Therefore police were notified and did somewhat of a welfare check, finding him asleep. Why he was asleep at such an early hour is not the issue, there can be many reasons why. I can understand why a phone call to Josh was not placed at 5.30pm - the family fully expected to find Gus shortly, and at some point afterwards made the call to police, and I'm assuming attempts to contact Josh were made also.
All MOO of course, but I don't see any real issues with how this part played out.

Bbm.
Yes, that's true.
My close friend suffers from insomnia and tries to sleep when she can and it's often odd hours !

Hoping for news for the family, keep thinking they did use dogs and if he wandered he should have been found by now, alive or sadly ... deceased ?
It depends on how good the the dogs are, and there are other variables -- like weather -- and still cannot exclude the possibility of abduction.
Omo.

 

[Ellery84]

Karleigh Smith and Wayne Flower have published this insightful podcast episode on the Gus Lamont case:

[The Trial: Australia] The Mystery of Gus Lamont #theTrialAustralia
The Trial: Australia - The Mystery of Gus Lamont via @PodcastAddict

They'll be back next week for another episode.

Karleigh is (or has been) on location at Yunta.

Reporter Karleigh said that when she went up to the property and spoke to Josie, she was greeted by four cattle dogs on approach.

Karleigh was worried that they might be territorial (anyone who has an ACD will know why this is!) but she conveyed that the dogs didn't give her any trouble.

Source: The Trial: Australia] The Mystery of Gus Lamont #theTrialAustralia
The Trial: Australia - The Mystery of Gus Lamont via @PodcastAddic
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