Dozens of new tip-offs have reached Crime Stoppers following the announcement of a reward of up to $1 million for information about the disappearance of three-year-old August “Gus” Lamont in the South Australian outback.
South Australia Police said two emails and 34 calls had been received since the reward was announced on Wednesday. A further nine reports were made earlier in the week as attention returned to the case ahead of the first anniversary of Gus’s disappearance.
Investigators from Task Force Horizon are assessing the information and will pursue reports where appropriate.
Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke, the officer in charge of the Major Crime Investigation Branch, said: “Task Force Horizon investigators are pleased with the response we have received so far.”
“All these reports are currently being assessed and will be investigated further where appropriate,” he said.
Gus disappeared from his family’s Oak Park Station near Yunta on September 27, 2025. Despite extensive searches, investigators have not established what happened to him.
The case was declared a major crime investigation in February 2026 and remains unsolved. The reward will be paid for information leading to the conviction of the person or people responsible for Gus’s disappearance, and/or the recovery of his remains.
The $1 million offer matches South Australia’s highest-ever reward, made in the case of the Beaumont children, who disappeared in 1966.
Premier Peter Malinauskas said the disappearance had “shocked our nation”, while Police Minister Michael Brown said authorities remained convinced that “someone out there knows something”.
Gus’s parents, Jess Murray and Josh Lamont, have previously described their lives as having been “shattered” by their son’s disappearance.
“If someone knows what happened, we are pleading with that person — or anyone who may have seen or heard anything — to please come forward,” they said in a statement released through South Australia Police.
