Four-year-old toddler Gus Lamont disappeared from his family home in Australia last year, but police recently revealed they have a suspect and sadly do not think the child is alive
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Police shared updates about missing toddler Gus Lamont(Image: SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE/AFP via G)
The mum of a missing four-year-old boy has made a bold move after the little boy’s worrying disappearance.
Toddler Gus Lamont was last seen in his family home on September 27, 2025, but police on Thursday revealed they believed the boy could be dead. His mum, Jessica Murray, has made the desperate move to ditch her hideaway home and move again.
Police investigating the shocking mystery said they have ruled out the possibilities that the toddler was abducted or had wandered off from the huge sheep farm property in the Australian Outback where he lived. The mum, who is not a suspect in the case, fled the family home near Yunta, South Australia, after her son disappeared and has moved again.
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Gus’s mum Jessica Murray and dad Joshua Lamont(Image: Facebook)
Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke, on Thursday, said the police has identified a prime suspect within the boy’s family. The cop said: “A number of inconsistencies and discrepancies’ in statements given to police by family members had triggered the investigation now being considered a ‘major crime’.”
Murray had lived at the sheep farm home since she was a child, with her parents Shannon and Josie. Gus’ mum had been living at the home for a short while, after she broke-up with the toddler’s dad Joshua Lamont.
The mum then moved into a family-owned home in Adelaide, after her son’s disappearance last September, but she has reportedly recently left again to now live with a friend, according to the Daily Mail.
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Police recently raided the home where the boy was last seen(Image: South Australia Police)
On Monday a neighbour said: “She’s not there. My husband saw her pack up and leave a few days ago. She’s gone to stay with a friend.” Investigators returned to the sheep farm property in mid-January for a forensic search and took away electronics, a vehicle and a motorbike for forensic testing.
Detective Superintendent Fielke claimed a family member had stopped co-operating with police in the investigation after they were asked about supposed inconsistencies in their statements.
The cop said: “As a result of these inconsistencies, and investigations into them, a person who resides at Oak Park Station has withdrawn their support for police and is no longer cooperating with us. I can’t give you any more information about the suspect, or where the suspect is, or why that person is a suspect.”
Shannon and Josie Murray said they were “devastated” by the police update but claimed they were still cooperating – it is not suggested the couple committed a crime.
Superintendent Fielke added: “I anticipate there will be further searches at Oak Park Station and at several sites on an adjacent national park to locate Gus as new information and intelligence comes to hand.”