{"id":694969,"date":"2026-05-26T04:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694969\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:58:15","slug":"sa-police-return-to-yunta-as-part-of-gus-lamont-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694969\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Police return to Yunta as part of Gus Lamont investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have returned to Yunta in South Australia’s far north as part of their investigation into the disappearance of four-year-old boy Gus Lamont.<\/p>\n

The boy went missing from his family’s Oak Park property in September last year.<\/p>\n

Task Force Horizon members will be searching numerous locations on the property for evidence in the next three days.<\/p>\n

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Detectives previously searched a water tank on a property owned by Gus Lamont’s family. (ABC News: Rachael Merritt)<\/p>\n

The search will be conducted by Major Crime detectives and specialist STAR Group officers, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The searching has resumed to take advantage of opportunities that may have arisen as a result of recent heavy rains on the property,” police said.<\/p>\n

Police conducted a renewed search in March following heavy rains<\/a>, but failed to find any new evidence at the time.<\/p>\n

Following that search, police said in a statement they had not ruled out returning to the station.<\/p>\n

Police have previously conducted several searches for Gus<\/a>, including of a water tank, an outhouse and mine shafts and said they would return to the family property “frequently”<\/a> as they continue their investigation into his disappearance.<\/p>\n

Task Force Horizon was established in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vanished: Six months searching for Gus Lamont<\/a><\/p>\n

Six months to the day since four-year-old Gus Lamont was reported missing from a vast outback station, many more questions than answers remain.<\/p>\n

Initially, police said they believed Gus had wandered off from the property, but on February 5 his disappearance was declared a major crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police previously said two of Gus’s family members were not cooperating with investigators, and indicated they had a suspect.<\/p>\n

They have repeatedly said Gus’s parents were not suspects.<\/p>\n

On February 6, Gus’s grandparents, Josie and Shannon Murray, issued a statement<\/a> saying the family had “cooperated fully with the investigation”.<\/p>\n

In March, an SA Police spokesperson confirmed “two family members were only communicating<\/a> [with police] via their legal representatives”.<\/p>\n

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens previously said investigators had “all but ruled out Gus having wandered off”.<\/p>\n

“There has not been one single piece of evidence that we have located during that searching exercise, the most extensive search, I think arguably in the history of South Australia, that has given us any indication that he did wander off,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have returned to Yunta in South Australia’s far north as part of their investigation into the disappearance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,236263,16872,44,10174,7452,118098],"class_list":["post-694969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gus-lamont","tag-missing-person","tag-news","tag-sa-police","tag-search","tag-yunta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694969","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=694969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694969\/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=694969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}