Gus is missing

[a_unique_person]

Sad story of a very young boy gone missing in outback South Australia.

One minute he's playing just near the house. They go to get him later and he's gone.

They police are called in but they can't find him.

This is wide open, flat, undulating featureless land. He's completely disappeared. He can't have gone far.

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/sa/2025/11/26/gus-lamont-search-mineshafts

 

[a_unique_person]

The family of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont are “stoic” but traumatised, police say, as they start a new and expanded stage of the recovery operation.

The blond, curly haired Gus – described by a family member as shy but adventurous – went missing from his family’s outback sheep station more than two weeks ago.

At 5pm on Saturday 27 September, Gus’s grandmother saw him playing on a mound of dirt at the homestead, which is near Yunta, about 300km from Adelaide.

When she went to call him in, 30 minutes later, he was gone.

Gus was wearing a blue T-shirt with a yellow Minion on the front, a grey sun hat, light-grey long pants and boots.

Police expand search for missing boy Gus in outback SA after advice from ‘survival specialists’

South Australian commissioner says police leaving ‘no stone unturned’ in effort to recover body of four-year-old who went missing in late September

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Every parent's nightmare.

We had a similar case In Canada recently.

Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan^WP

The search is still ongoing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/items-discovered-during-volunteer-search-for-missing-n-s-children-not-relevant-rcmp-9.6980852

No recovery, no bodies, no closure.



There is still hope for Gus.

 

[Pixel42]

There is still hope for Gus.

After two months?

The latest update I could find is not encouraging.

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/police-end-search-in-remote-mine-shaft-in-outback-sa-for-missing-4yo-gus-lamont/news-story/31f4bb5905becc36b3329395c4f6ba31

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

After two months?

The latest update I could find is not encouraging.

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/police-end-search-in-remote-mine-shaft-in-outback-sa-for-missing-4yo-gus-lamont/news-story/31f4bb5905becc36b3329395c4f6ba31

He may have been kidnapped and they'll find him alive. A better option than the one we are all thinking of. A quick Google shows this can happen even decades later,

 

[a_unique_person]

He may have been kidnapped and they'll find him alive. A better option than the one we are all thinking of. A quick Google shows this can happen even decades later,

In outback Australia?

 

[Trebuchet]

Dingoes?
Wasn't there a famous case where a mom was accused of murder but the kid had been taken by dingoes.

 

[lionking]

He may have been kidnapped and they'll find him alive. A better option than the one we are all thinking of. A quick Google shows this can happen even decades later,

Unlikely as it is, this is the only hope. The police are searching mineshafts up to 12 km away. An adult could struggle to cover that distance with no water in the heat, let alone a 4 year old.

The grandmother is obviously distraught. We regularly care for grandchildren. We never take our eyes off them, even the one year olds (who have absolutely no sense of danger) and gates are always secure, and we don’t live in the ever dangerous outback.

 

[rjh01]

Whoever is guilty of the crime it is probably a family member. That is if there was a crime.

 

[Orphia Nay]

I assume they're looking in any nearby dams. If there are many in outback SA.

My sister once went missing on our farm and was found with her feet in her gumboots which were stuck in the mud at the edge of a dam.

Another family we know had a child drown in a dam.

 

[novaphile]

A friend of mine, was a member of the CFS and SES, and participated in searches for lost children.

He mentioned to me that it was quite different from searching from adults, because children actively hide from searchers.
(The younger the child, the higher the risk of this happening.)

He was part of a search that found a missing child, up inside a hollow tree.

...

My fear, in a case like this, is that the youngster found an interesting place to explore or hide, somewhere in the immediate vicinity around the house, outbuildings and yard, fell asleep, and dehydrated there. (I believe that the police have already searched the dam.)

To go where a small child can go, you'd need a very small person, perhaps one with experience caving.

On old properties, there can even be places, like root cellars, that the owner doesn't know about.

A child, exploring under a porch or a building can find places that adults cannot.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Every parent's nightmare.

We had a similar case In Canada recently.

Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan^WP

The search is still ongoing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/items-discovered-during-volunteer-search-for-missing-n-s-children-not-relevant-rcmp-9.6980852

No recovery, no bodies, no closure.



There is still hope for Gus.

I've been following this one ... my BFF and her Mom live near there.

 

[lionking]

I assume they're looking in any nearby dams. If there are many in outback SA.

My sister once went missing on our farm and was found with her feet in her gumboots which were stuck in the mud at the edge of a dam.

Another family we know had a child drown in a dam.

The farm dam was drained quite early in the search.

 

[EHocking]

It was only this week that someone realised that their were abandoned mines/mineshafts in the area and the search was renewed.

 

[catsmate]

The search of mineshafts has been ended with no results.

 

[a_unique_person]

A young boy went missing some years ago. That was near a forest, close to a road that had light traffic and near other homes.

This place is extremely isolated and there is featureless low scrub. Every place that could be searched has been. The cops send out disapproving messages about speculation that the family did it and they say it's not likely.

 

[lionking]

A young boy went missing some years ago. That was near a forest, close to a road that had light traffic and near other homes.

This place is extremely isolated and there is featureless low scrub. Every place that could be searched has been. The cops send out disapproving messages about speculation that the family did it and they say it's not likely.

There is not a thing that makes me think the family was involved

 

[Pixel42]

I hope the family aren't being bothered by "psychics". This sort of case should be all the evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as a genuine one.

 

[catsmate]

Four-year-old Gus Lamont disappeared from his homestead into the Australian outback. Two months on, questions remain

Authorities have undertaken one of the largest and most intensive searches for a missing person in South Australia

www.theguardian.com

 

[novaphile]

Oh no.

I didn't know about the "mound of dirt" part.

Here's hoping that he wasn't digging a tunnel.

There's been a general issue, since the dawn of time, of people getting killed because they dig holes and tunnels on beaches.

It's not so far-fetched to imagine a similar problem if someone digs into the side of a dirt mound.