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Devastation hits a South Australian sheep station as investigators shift focus, suspecting foul play in the four-year-old’s disappearance.

Devastation hits a South Australian sheep station as investigators shift focus, suspecting foul play in the four-year-old’s disappearance.
The search for four-year-old Gus Lamont, the blonde-haired boy who vanished into the vast scrub of the South Australian outback, has taken a dark and definitive turn. South Australia Police (SAPOL) have officially declared his disappearance a "Major Crime," signaling that investigators no longer believe the toddler simply wandered off. They believe he was taken, or worse, and that the person responsible was right there on the Oak Park Station.
Gus went missing in September last year while playing outside his family’s homestead, a sprawling 60,000-hectare sheep station some 300km from Adelaide. For months, hope was pinned on the idea of a lost child surviving against the odds. Today, that hope was shattered. Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke addressed the media with a grim update: "We don't believe now that Gus is alive."
In a twist that has torn the family apart, police revealed that the primary suspect is a person who lived at the station at the time of the disappearance. While police explicitly ruled out Gus's parents, they noted that another individual "known to Gus" had withdrawn their cooperation after investigators found "inconsistencies and discrepancies" in their account. This revelation points the finger squarely at the close-knit circle on the isolated property.
The impact on the family has been catastrophic. Lawyers Andrew Ey and Casey Isaacs, representing Gus’s two grandmothers, Josie and Shannon Murray, released a statement expressing their clients' absolute devastation. "The family has cooperated fully with the investigation and want nothing more than to find Gus," the statement read. The grandmothers, who were at the station when Gus vanished, are now watching a tragedy morf into a criminal inquiry.
The case has gripped Australia, a nation familiar with the terror of the outback. But the realization that the danger came not from the land, but from a person, has added a layer of horror. As the investigation shifts from rescue to recovery, the question hangs heavy over the red dirt of Oak Park Station: Who betrayed Gus Lamont?
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