00:00A little boy vanished in South Australia's vast outback.
00:07Four months on, a shocking development.
00:10I'm also declaring the disappearance of Gus Lamont to be a major crime.
00:15Gus was last seen on September 27th on his family's remote Oak Park Sheep Station near Yunter,
00:22about 350 kilometres north of Adelaide.
00:26His grandmother told police she last saw him playing outside the homestead about 5pm,
00:32but by 5.30 he was gone.
00:34Police were alerted three hours later.
00:37The case sparked eight large-scale searches across difficult terrain involving police,
00:43emergency services, community volunteers and trackers.
00:46But this footprint's the only possible clue found in the search for the four-year-old.
00:52Despite all of the combined search efforts,
00:55we have found no evidence, physical or otherwise,
00:59to suggest that Gus has merely wandered off.
01:02Police also don't believe Gus was abducted,
01:05but they've identified a string of inconsistencies in the timelines provided by his family.
01:11A person who resides at Oak Park Station has withdrawn their support for the police
01:18and is no longer cooperating with us.
01:21The person who has withdrawn their cooperation is now considered a suspect in the disappearance of Gus.
01:28But police stress that person isn't one of Gus's parents.
01:32Officers from a specialist police task force set up to investigate Gus's disappearance returned to Oak Park Station last month,
01:40seizing a vehicle, motorcycle and electronic devices for forensic testing.
01:46We'll continue to thoroughly and meticulously investigate the disappearance of Gus until we get an outcome.
01:54A promise to leave no stone unturned to solve a case that shocked a small outback community and the nation.
02:01A promise to leave no stone unturned to solve a question.
02:03A promise to leave no stone unturned to solve a case that has been a Yahoo destination.
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