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

[FromGermany1]

I get it, but I keep coming back to 8 hours!!
I do wonder if it has relevance - if this aspect took so long to happen, what else may have?

Maybe, Jess tried to call Josh, but without success. Maybe, she told police about it, and perhaps police arranged some surveillance of Josh's home, before they visited him, in case, he had something to do with the disappearance of his son. Who knows. MOO, speculation.

 

[SouthAussie]

I get that he wasn't annoyed at being woken up, he was upset about his child being missing and probably also that it took so long to be notified. I maybe didn't word it, nor this post, very well, but it's been a day.

No worries. I don't think we have a link that says the police visit was at 1:30am. Maybe it is social media rumour.

It is probably unlikely for the police to dispatch a helicopter from Adelaide at 11:30pm on a Saturday night to go to the Oak Park property if they hadn't already checked that Gus wasn't somehow with his dad.

This is the latest time for the police visit, from the DM ....

Joshua is not employed full time, but does 'odd jobs' around the state.
He was asleep when Gus vanished, and police woke him up to break the horrifying news several hours later.

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

 

[nao]

Moo..
Maybe the family knew Joshua would be very angry and just didn't want to deal with his emotions at that time. The family was probably in shock that they couldn't find Gus..moo

 

[statt#1]

Unfortunately, for me it's paywalled.

I copied the entire title of the paywalled article's title, pasted that in to google, sorted through the search results, and found the article

 

[Megnut]

Moo..
Maybe the family knew Joshua would be very angry and just didn't want to deal with his emotions at that time. The family was probably in shock that they couldn't find Gus..moo

That rings true for me. Knowing his concerns about Gus living there, perhaps there was a layer of desperation in not telling him, just yet. Find Gus first. Then tell him what happened, tempered by Gus' safe recovery.

It really underscores for me (again barring actual foul play) the family's combined belief that Gus was lost somewhere on the property and wasn't not there. Therefore, abduction, not a real concern, and as such, no thought of who might take/have him.

JMO

 

[TMich6811]

I really hate so greatly that if he was lost or stuck somewhere on the property then he was probably terrified as he passed.

 

[Ellery84]

BBM
I get that. I even get that it's possible Jess suspected Josh had something to do with it, and maybe didn't want to call him as a result. However, at some point police found out that Gus has a father who is not living at the property (even though there appears to be a romantic relationship between Jess & Josh and no ill feelings there - at least between the two of them) and then it should be up to police to make contact, whether he is a suspect or not. If he IS a suspect, the sooner the better for a variety of reasons. If he is NOT, then he still deserves to be told ASAP about his child being missing. 8 hours after Gus went missing is too long to be informed, in my opinion, given the location. Yes, perhaps phone reception was an issue, potentially his phone being on "do not disturb" meant he didn't hear a call, or police needed to travel a distance to get phone reception to try and call him - I get all that takes time. Even if Yunta police personally sent someone to go to Josh's house, 8 hours is too long. If a call was made to local police, 8 hours is still too long for me. It makes me wonder if right from the start, the investigation may not have been handled as well as it could/should be.
MOO

Oh my goodness, it took the police 8 hours to contact Josh?

As a parent this horrifies me.

 

[Ellery84]

It really underscores for me (again barring actual foul play) the family's combined belief that Gus was lost somewhere on the property and wasn't not there.

That's a good point. I feel like they either

(a) believed that he walked off and got lost or

(b) there is foul-play involved