It is one of the biggest missing person events in Australia’s history, and rarely has a story captured the hearts of our nation like the mysterious disappearance of the little curly-haired boy.

Today marks day 18 since Gus Lamont went missing, and the grief has been there for the world to see. Family, friends, hardened police investigators, and even the army soldiers searching the outback are all feeling the pain.

The anguish faced by a family whose bouncing, bubbly four-year-old vanished, leaving hardly a trace after being last seen playing outside his grandparents’ Oak Park sheep station property around 5pm on September 27, is relatable — it hurts.

Saturday on a sandhill

On a regular Saturday evening in the South Australian outback, Josie Murray wandered out to call her grandson, fou

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