Overview
- SA Police emptied the 4.5m-deep dam about 600m from the homestead on Friday, pumping roughly 3.2 million litres at about 15,000 litres per minute over three and a half hours.
- Divers thoroughly searched the emptied main dam and a holding dam, clearing weed beds, and reported nothing of significance.
- Authorities say the dam operation was undertaken to rule out the possibility the four-year-old drowned, and investigators report no evidence of foul play.
- Task Force Horizon continues multiple lines of inquiry, with staged aerial imaging out to 10km from the property ongoing and expected to take weeks.
- Gus’s family remains cooperative and supported by a victim contact officer as prior extensive ground and air searches covering hundreds of square kilometres yielded no clues.