Authorities are intensively scouring the remote region surrounding Yunta in South Australia’s Mid North, concentrating their efforts on the likelihood that the missing child may have simply wandered away.

“You can’t take your eyes off a three- or four-year-old, so it’s unusual for them to vanish like this,” he explained.

“In 90 percent of these cases, the child is eventually located. It’s the rare instances where answers are elusive that turn into mysteries,” he continued.

South Australian police remain open to all possibilities regarding the disappearance of the young boy.

“The environment significantly influences how the police are handling this situation,” Jubelin remarked, noting that “it’s challenging to shift towards a criminal investigation until the possibility that the child has wandered off has been fully explored.”

As the search progresses, Jubelin indicated that investigators might be keeping certain details from the public.

“Police might be aware of stuff that they are not speaking to the public about, which is understandable,” he said.

“There are certain things that they [have] got to withhold.”

Major crime detectives are maintaining close contact with Gus Lamont’s family as the investigation progresses, with police refusing to give up hope of finding the four-year-old. 

“I’m sure the police working on this case wake up every day and say ‘I’m going to solve this case, we will solve this case’,” Jubelin said.

“It’s not a case you [can] just walk away [from] and say ‘we don’t know what happened’.”