New details have emerged about the massive search and recovery efforts conducted in the South Australian outback for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont.

Saturday, September 27, will remain a day seared into the memories of the four-year-old’s grief-stricken family, but also for hundreds of emergency services workers, ADF personnel and SES volunteers.

On that fateful evening, Gus’s grandmother Josie Murray frantically began searching for her four-year-old grandson, who she assumed had wandered away from the homestead after she last saw him playing on a nearby sand hill.

The homestead happens to be in the middle of the massive 150,000-acre remote Oak Park sheep station near Yunta in SA, an unforgiving landscape for a missing child.

“Gus is a little four-year-old blond, curly-haired, smilin

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