{"id":535089,"date":"2026-03-12T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:56:08","slug":"renewed-search-locates-no-new-evidence-in-gus-lamont-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535089\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed search locates no new evidence in Gus Lamont case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">South Australian police have concluded their latest search for evidence following the disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont, but have not ruled out returning to the remote station where he lived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-03-11\/gus-lamont-search-police-return-to-oak-park-station\/106440484\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106440484\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigators went back to Oak Park Station<\/a>, in SA&#8217;s Mid North, on Wednesday in a renewed hunt of clues in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Yesterday, Acting Officer in Charge of Major Crime Andrew Macrae said recent heavy rain in the region could offer new opportunities in the search efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The recent significant weather event with the rain up there is leading to assessing what other new opportunities might exist in relation to searching, but the current searching was planned,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Record rainfall totals were recently documented in parts of South Australia, including <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-03-01\/record-rain-in-eyre-peninsula-sa-west-coast\/106401748\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106401748\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">near the station at Yunta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Thursday, police said investigators searched several areas &#8220;but sadly did not locate any evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Task Force Horizon members have not ruled out further activity at Oak Park Station in coming weeks as the investigation continues,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian police have concluded their latest search for evidence following the disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,236263,265582,265579,265580,113890,118099,44,237060,10174,5326,265581,148256],"class_list":["post-535089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gus-lamont","tag-jess-lamont","tag-josh-lamont","tag-josie-murray","tag-mid-north","tag-missing-boy","tag-news","tag-oak-park-station","tag-sa-police","tag-sapol","tag-shannon-murray","tag-task-force-horizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}