Major update almost a year since Gus Lamont disappeared
BREAKING: Parents release heart-breaking video in a major update in the almost year-long search for four-year-old Gus Lamont.
A $1 million reward has been offered to anyone with information that results in finding Gus Lamont, Premier Peter Malinauskas announced today.
The reward is for anyone who can “provide information that results in us finding Gus or learning more about Gus’s circumstances that leads to a finding of a body or resulting in a criminal conviction”, Malinauskas said.
“We put this in place because we spare no expense. Justice needs to be done here one way or another.”
Major Crime Investigation branch officer-in-charge Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke said the reward was in line with other rewards for missing children cases.
“Somebody knows something,” Fielke said.
“We urge, major crime Task Force Horizon urges, and investigators urge, anyone who has any information that can assist this investigation to come forward. A million dollars is a life-changing amount of money for someone. Now is the time to come forward and take advantage of that.”
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SA Police declared the disappearance of Gus Lamont a major crime in February this year.
Fielke said today that through aerial searching, the police had identified ” some anomalies” that were being further reviewed.
He confirmed that one of Gus’ grandparents remained a suspect, but he would not comment further on that aspect of inquiries.
Fielke said Gus’ parents were not suspects and were “desperate to know where their boy is”.
Gus’ parents filmed a video to be shared with media today, saying “our heartache only grows as time passes”.
“An entire year without any answers is upon us,” Gus’ mother Jessica Murray said.
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“One of the most heartbreaking things is that Gus and his little brother will not grow up and share their lives together.”
The young boy was last seen by his grandmother playing at Oak Park Station homestead, about 40 kilometres south of Yunta, on September 27, 2025.
In a May update, Fielke said that one of Gus’s grandparents remained the prime suspect.
He said that abduction was unlikely, but none of the theories surrounding Gus Lamont’s disappearance – that he wandered off, that he was abducted or that there was third-party involvement – had been ruled out.
Numerous searches of the property have been carried out by police including in May, the eleventh search at Oak Park Station, but that failed to produce any new evidence.
More than 30km of waterways and creeks were searched by Taskforce Horizon detectives and STAR Group officers over the three days, and it also involved examining several wells and bores in the area.
At the time, Fielke said Taskforce Horizon would continue searching for evidence with fresh aerial surveying to be conducted over a large area of the property.
“We have previously conducted aerial searching out to a 15km radius from the homestead, including the use of drones. All of the captured footage has been the subject of AI analysis,’’ he said.
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