UST DONE: Environmental workers cleaning debris along the riverbank have just found Gus’s favorite teddy bear washed ashore, partially soaked and tangled in reeds. The toy was identified immediately — it was the same brown bear with the stitched blue ribbon that Gus was last seen holding on the morning he disappeared.
But what truly stunned investigators wasn’t the bear itself — it was what was hidden inside it.
When officers carefully opened the torn seam along the back of the toy, they discovered a tiny tracking device wedged deep within the stuffing. The device was not part of the teddy bear’s original design, and according to early analysis, it appears to have been placed there intentionally by someone with technical knowledge.
Even more shocking, the device showed a short burst of location activity hours after Gus disappeared — in an area completely different from where the search had been focused.
Police say this discovery changes everything. It suggests:
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Gus may have been moved after the initial disappearance
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Someone monitored his location using the implanted tracker
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The teddy bear was discarded later, possibly to erase evidence
Investigators are now working urgently with digital forensic teams to recover the device’s full data history, including its manufacturer, activation time, and any paired devices.
Authorities have expanded the search radius based on the tracker’s last known ping and say this is “the most significant lead” they’ve received in weeks.