THE grandmother of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has broken her silence on suspicions from police that she buried him in her back garden.
The blond-haired little boy vanished from a remote south Australian sheep station in September last year.
Josie Murray, the grandmother of missing Gus Lamont, 4Credit: 7News
Gus Lamont, 4, who was reported missing in late September 2025 from his family’s farm at Oak Park Station near Yunta, in the outback north of AdelaideCredit: AFP
Murray broke her silence on police fears she ‘buried him’ in a bombshell first interviewCredit: 7News
Murray pictured during the search for GusCredit: 7NEWS Adelaide
His grandmother, Josie Murray, 75, was arrested after detectives searched at Oak Park Station in in the outback north of Adelaide.
She pleaded guilty to owning a gun silencer in June, but has not been charged in relation to Gus’ disappearance.
In a 𝓈𝒽𝓸𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 new interview, she slammed cops’ claims that she buried her grandson as “ludicrous”, and said police should investigate if the child was abducted instead.
Murray denied involvement in Gus’ dissappearance, telling Spotlight: “They’ve said that they don’t think I hurt him; they think that I buried him.
“That’s one of the theories they’re working on and, as I say, for so many reasons, it’s ludicrous. It just doesn’t make sense.”
Murray added: “We absolutely know we’re innocent.
“We know that we couldn’t and didn’t do anything and the hard part obviously is to convince other people of that.
“There’s no way of completely convincing people.”
Murray pictured during the search operationCredit: 7NEWS Adelaide
She slammed the police response, claiming the number of cars that arrived at the scene “horrified” her and harmed chances of tracking Gus.
Murray said: “My immediate thought was, ‘My God, they’ve destroyed any chance of tracking him.’”
“They should have actually got the tracker guy from Port Augusta while there was still a chance to find the tracks.
“He didn’t get there until two or three days after Gus went missing.”
No body has been found in the huge search for Gus.
Murray is convinced he was kidnapped, but police say this is unlikely given the sheep station’s remote location.
She said: “We have no idea quite where he is, but we feel that yes, he has been taken.”
“No one’s come up with any idea on that, no motive, nothing for any wrongdoing on our part.”
The search for Gus – no body has been foundCredit: Refer to source
Searchers scour the areaCredit: Refer to source
Gus was last seen in September last year, playing on a mound of dirt outside his grandparent’s home.
An extensive search operation followed. Authorities drained a dam in October, ruling out the possibility the boy had drowned.
In November, several uncovered and un-fenced mine shafts were located near the property, but they yielded no evidence.
The search effort – the largest in the state’s history – involved survival experts, SES crews, local trackers, mounted police and multiple air support units.
Despite those efforts, no trace of Gus has been found.
Police said in a statement that the investigation into the child’s disappearance was “one of the largest and most intensive undertaken by SA Police in connection with a missing person“.
They added: “It has involved an unprecedented level of ground and air searching across a very large search zone and utilised unlimited resources and the expertise of multiple other agencies and organisations.”
