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

[Dotta]

DBM

 

[Kittypoo]

Josie being arrested for something supposedly unrelated reminds me of Daniel Martell's situation.

Hope the police are getting closer and closer to the truth.

And from memory Patrick Orren Stevenson

 

[HoneyBunOne]

If there was a legitimate reason to have one then why not have a licence for it..

She could have had it for years, before licences were required to have one. For all we know there's a collection of guns and gun related items on the property and she may have forgotten she even had it if not used recently. Or perhaps the licencing costs and paperwork meant she chose not to bother.

 

[Dotta]

Well,
at least Police found a reason to arrest and charge hehehe
No lame excuses or bewildered looks.
Ooops!

"Do the crime
Do the time"

JMO

 

[washysmum]

I’m also wondering why it was Josie who was charged? I mean, both grandparents live on the property and I expect Shannon too should know how to use firearms considering her outback background? And maybe having some in her name? Why couldn’t she have been the one to be charged with illegal possession of the silencer?

And I was also wondering if they collect fingerprints at the station because of such charges? Could they have needed a pretext to collect Josie’s fingerprints, for example? I’m not familiar with Australian laws.

All moo and speculation.

In my experience, it’s most likely they were stored in her room and possibly she admitted to being the owner. When there’s multiple occupants in the house, it tends to come down to who was in closest proximity, in a shared room case, it may be known who is the person in question. My opinion only from my personal experiences

 

[essareem]

In my experience, it’s most likely they were stored in her room and possibly she admitted to being the owner. When there’s multiple occupants in the house, it tends to come down to who was in closest proximity, in a shared room case, it may be known who is the person in question. My opinion only from my personal experiences

In Australia, we have to store firearms, ammunition, and firearm parts such as moderators in special gun safes with strict requirements.

 

[washysmum]

Well,
at least Police found a reason to arrest and charge hehehe
No lame excuses or bewildered looks.
Ooops!

"Do the crime
Do the time"

In Australia, we have to store firearms, ammunition, and firearm parts such as moderators in special gun safes with strict requirements.

Yes I’m in Australia, ( and proud of our gun laws) but I’ve also been around the underbelly of Australia in my younger years, so I know how easy firearms can be illegally obtained and not stored correctly. ( and I’ve made many crime stoppers reports ) I’ve know legal owners who also don’t do the correct thing.. slightly off topic but a few years back I was using my sons nerf gun in the front yard and half hour later literally got jumped by cops with guns drawn, i wet my pants, my son got the toy guns out and showed them, we all laughed after but I’m glad it’s taken that serious here to

 

[essareem]

I do not understand why she would need a silencer living way out in the scrub.

I have been around guns for quite a while, both as shooter and observer on large properties in different states of Australia. I've never seen a shooter or a farmer use a silencer, but that's not to say it doesn't happen.

I can see the reason for it, if you're shooting at a mob of feral pests such as pigs, goats etc, a silencer might stop them from scattering immediately. You could eliminate more of them at once.

 

[washysmum]

Dbm

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

«The whole story is horrible, if what we believe is all true.»

This is a quote from a Volunteer Mr Aldrich cited in the article who was part of the team that was supposed to go out to a location in the national park right before the police announced their search.

This gives me chills, I don’t want to imagine what he means by that. That poor b

JMO, it is possible that they bought it and forgot it before a license was needed, or might even have been something that SM's father, Vincent, had purchased and stashed somewhere before he died. But according to the law linked earlier, an unknowing violation like that doesn't legally let you off the hook if you get caught with one.

Perhaps due to the remoteness it was considered by them unnecessary to have a license.

 

[linge]

Perhaps due to the remoteness it was considered by them unnecessary to have a license.

From a 'the police will never know' mindset, a 'this is my domain and I make my own rules' mindset, or were you thinking of other possibilities?

Edit to add: Forgot the small town favorite: 'We have one cop, I know him, and he doesn't care, so why bother?'

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

I really hope it’s true that Jason O’Connell has an independent search team ready to go and begins his own investigation (as Rob Parsons did in the Celine Cremer case).

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

From a 'the police will never know' mindset, a 'this is my domain and I make my own rules' mindset, or were you thinking of other possibilities?

From a police will never know mindset.

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

Dbm

 

[Dotta]

From a police will never know mindset.

Police Officer hearing this:

"I’ve heard it all before,
but this one is definitely in the top ten."



JMO

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

If you search Jason O’Connell on fb he has made a very interesting public statement.
I tried to attach the link but it didn’t work.
Maybe someone else can do that please.

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

If you search Jason O’Connell on fb he has made a very interesting public statement.
I tried to attach the link but it didn’t work.
Maybe someone else can do that please.

WS does not permit you to provide links to people's private FB pages

 

[Kemug]

Re the grandmothers - what do they care about the most, I wonder? Each other? Themselves? Their daughter? Their grandsons? Or is it the property maybe, beyond anything else?

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

I'm leaning towards 'self preservation'

 

[Ellery84]

Re the grandmothers - what do they care about the most, I wonder? Each other? Themselves? Their daughter? Their grandsons? Or is it the property maybe, beyond anything else?

Maybe money, self preservation, legacy, reputation. Not sure; just a guess. IMO