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

[Total_C]

These last few updates have felt like SAPOL pointing everyone in a direction without naming names. They’re not saying it outright, but they’re giving enough detail that any adult can work out what they mean. Someone knows something. Someone has stopped cooperating. This is now a major crime. That isn’t “lost in the scrub” language.

Now we get this statement from the parents, plus a new photo and that short video of Gus just riding his bike in the dirt. Absolute gut punch.

And read the wording.

“answers about what happened”
“we know someone out there may have information”
“we are pleading with that person”
“even the smallest detail”

To me that’s pressure. It’s a permission slip. Not for vigilante nonsense. But for serious, persistent questioning. This is exactly the kind of moment where the polite silence brigade needs to sit down.

Which brings me to Jonica Bray. She went out there to ask questions and half this forum acted like she was the problem. Turns out she was early, not wrong. Some of you owe her an apology.

So where is the media now. If this is what the parents and police are signalling, why aren’t journalists hammering the timeline, the inconsistencies, the lack of cooperation, every single day until someone breaks. If you want truth, pressure is part of how you get it.

 

[SouthAussie]

Media reports say Josie Murray was charged following a previous search - which could have been the search we have been informed of which was 14 & 15 January 2026.


February 5 2026

SA Police reveal suspect and declare disappearance of Gus a major crime​

“SA Police said a person living at Oak Park Station is now a suspect in the case of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont, who vanished from a remote station in the state’s Mid North in September last year.”




ARREST

February 17 2026

“As a result of a previous search at Oak Park Station, Task Force Horizon detectives have today arrested a 75-year-old from Grampus and charged them with firearm offences,” they said.”

Gus Lamont's grandmother arrested and charged amid search

Investigators searching for Gus Lamont have arrested and charged his grandmother Josie Murray with firearm offences.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

SA Police reveal suspect and declare disappearance of Gus a major crime - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

SA Police are set to give a major update on the search for a missing four-year-old, who vanished from a property in the state's Mid North.

www.indailysa.com.au

So IMO, the timeline could be…..


14 & 15 January 2026 - Police search Oak Park & several items seized.


5 February 2026 - Police declare they have a suspect and declare Gus’s disappearance as a major crime. Police declare that person has withdrawn their support for the Police and is no longer co-operating with them.


17 February 2026 - Josie Rachelle Murray is arrested and charged with possession of illegal gun silencer and bailed to appear in Peterborough court on 6 May, 2026.


IMO

The police also searched on 2nd February. They declared a major crime 3 days later.


On 2 February 2026 Task Force Horizon officers searched several locations around Oak Park Station for the remains of Gus.

https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/add-to-all-lsas/disappearance-of-gus-lamont-declared-a-major-crime

 

[Andreee]

I feel so relieved they have finally spoken out.
He looks like a tough little boy with those bare feet outside.

They spoke finally! Seems strange after all this time to see a different photo of Gus! What a beautiful photo of him but also very sad to know he isn't safe and with his parents anymore.

 

[SouthAussie]

IMO it looks like Shannon Murray is co-operating with the Taskforce officers during their search of Oak Park station on 17 February. The day that Josie Murray was charged with possessing a gun silencer and also the day that Police said they had a suspect who lived at Oak Park station who had now stopped co-operating with Police.

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In that clip, I think that Shannon is on her phone. When I first saw the clip, I wondered who she may have been communicating with while the police were there. Her lawyer? Josie? Someone else?

imo

 

[Bats]

These last few updates have felt like SAPOL pointing everyone in a direction without naming names. They’re not saying it outright, but they’re giving enough detail that any adult can work out what they mean. Someone knows something. Someone has stopped cooperating. This is now a major crime. That isn’t “lost in the scrub” language.

Now we get this statement from the parents, plus a new photo and that short video of Gus just riding his bike in the dirt. Absolute gut punch.

And read the wording.

“answers about what happened”
“we know someone out there may have information”
“we are pleading with that person”
“even the smallest detail”

To me that’s pressure. It’s a permission slip. Not for vigilante nonsense. But for serious, persistent questioning. This is exactly the kind of moment where the polite silence brigade needs to sit down.

Which brings me to Jonica Bray. She went out there to ask questions and half this forum acted like she was the problem. Turns out she was early, not wrong. Some of you owe her an apology.

So where is the media now. If this is what the parents and police are signalling, why aren’t journalists hammering the timeline, the inconsistencies, the lack of cooperation, every single day until someone breaks. If you want truth, pressure is part of how you get it.

IMO,
Yes, using the media can work well when used strategically by investigators.

No doubt today's news is strategic and hopefully will serve its purpose.

In this case, i suspect the police's use of the media has a target audience of one or two people. That's it. Quite simply, the news today hasn't come from journalists investigating a crime, it has been because they were approached and "asked" to publish a statement and photos. The so called "pressure" is being applied by investigators and the media is their tool.

That's the way I see it.
IMO