After weeks of anguish, dead ends, and explosive theories surrounding the disappearance of little Gus Lamont, a new voice has emerged — calm, fearless, and intensely certain.
That voice belongs to Darren “Redback” Marlow, one of Australia’s most respected Aboriginal trackers, a man the police call only when hope is nearly gone.
And today, for the first time, he is speaking publicly.
What he says has stunned investigators, electrified the community, and set the internet on fire.
“He’s alive.
He’s out there.
And I will bring him home.”
A Tracker Who Sees What Others Can’t — And Says Police “Overlooked The First True Clue”
Marlow arrived on the Lamont family’s remote property nearly 40 hours after the 4-year-old disappeared.
By then, dozens of officers, SES volunteers, helicopters and drones had torn across the scrubland.
To Marlow, it was a disaster.
“Too much noise. Too many boots.
They walked right over the signs.”
He claims the first real clue — a subtle, half-moon indentation in the dirt — was ignored entirely.
“That mark wasn’t made by a child,” he insists.
“It was made by someone lifting him.”
A chilling implication: Gus didn’t wander off — he was taken.
“The Bush Talks To Us”: The Secret Tracking Skills That No Drone or Police Dog Can Replicate
Marlow revealed the ancient skills his people have used for tens of thousands of years — skills he says are more powerful than modern technology.
Among them:
• Heat shadows in disturbed soil
— “Even two days later, the earth remembers.”
• Bird silence
— “When the bush goes quiet, you follow where the quiet ends.”
• Grass memory
— “Blades that were parted will never stand the same.”
• Insect disruption
— “Ants change their pattern when something heavy passes.”
To outsiders, it sounds mystical.
To Marlow, it’s science older than any lab.
“The land is a witness.”
An Ominous Warning: “Someone Came Back… Twice.”
After days of examining the property, Marlow says he found something police still can’t explain:
A subtle shift in the soil that suggests someone returned to the area hours — and then days — after Gus vanished.
“Tracks were broken, then broken again,” he said.
“Someone came back, and they were checking something.”
And then he added the line that sent shivers down investigators’ spines:
“The boy was moved.”
The One Clue He Refuses to Describe — “It Changes Everything”
Marlow confirmed he found a third location connected to Gus — farther east, away from the original search zone.
He refuses to divulge details.
But his voice changed when reporters pressed him.
“It’s not a place a child could reach alone.
Not in the dark.
Not in that cold.”
Police have since quietly expanded their search radius.
Locals say unmarked vehicles arrived there before dawn.
Unshakable Confidence: “He’s Still Alive. I Can Feel It.”
While police have scaled back, Marlow has doubled down.
He walks the land from sunrise to sunset.
He studies wind shifts, dust scatter, plant tension — and claims he can read the outback like a book.
“A child that small leaves a different story in the soil.
His story isn’t finished.”
His final words to the press were delivered with a certainty that stunned even the most skeptical reporters:
“I’ve found lost people before.
I will find this boy.
The bush remembers him…
and so do I.”