Victorian police reveal they ‘strongly believe’ fugitive Dezi Freeman is dead
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-02/renewed-search-for-dezi-freeman-porepunkah/106292790
Victorian police reveal they ‘strongly believe’ fugitive Dezi Freeman is dead
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-02/renewed-search-for-dezi-freeman-porepunkah/106292790
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Correct. He was killed not that long after. He was a ~~witness.~~ see edit.
Edit. Okay. I didn’t explain myself, the down votes are fair.
If I can beg an indulgence?
Freeman was a member of a hard right anti authority anti police anti government anti tax group.
They eschew integration with the local economy as such as they fear it. They make their money with weed and meth production.
Desi allowed his hatred to boil over and killed those two cops. Me using “witness” was incorrect.
He brought down far too much police effort into finding him which means the rest of his “movement” got pissed off. The meth labs and the plantations were at risk of being discovered.
And so they killed him for that.
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>… this is the number-one priority of Victoria police.”
> today’s search is based on information from a witness who heard a gunshot at 12.29pm on August 26, 2025.
>In December last year, police spent five days looking through thick bush and clearing caves in the area.
>Investigators have waited until February to continue the search due to concerns about heat and bushfires.
Oh God. Number one priority, ay.
Wow, that should cut down on pesky police work.
Even some of the sovcits stopped supporting him once they found out he was wanted on historic CSA charges.
What if he committed suicide in a river and his body has been washed kilometres away?
if he has killed himself, he truly is a coward for not facing the families of the men he killed
Of course they do when the alternative points to their own incompetence
If they block his Centrelink payments, he might resurface to protest.
He went into the bush during seriously cold weather, and has been out there during seriously hot weather, if he’s alive and alone etc. unless he had a serious cache of supplies then it’s incredibly unlikely he survived. And given his mental state, he’s dead.
If we find the corpse do we still get the $1 million reward. Weekend at Bernie’s him into the police station.
Id like to point out that plenty of media agencies fed into his delusional state by giving him airtime during Covid.
Maybe next time don’t give someone with complex mental health issues such a large platform.
The title doesnt match the article:
“The same three possibilities remain open to us — Freeman is either dead, being harboured, or has gotten out from the area and surviving alone,” Detective Inspector Adam Tilley said.
“At this time there is no intelligence to move us away from these possibilities or to make any one the more likely scenario, so we have to keep an open mind.”
I’m not saying he has, but escaping the region is not exactly difficult after this period of time. It’s not like there have been roadblocks and searches on every vehicle since then. If he’s not dead then he could be literally anywhere by now.
A problem with mainstream right wing politicians veering so far to the right is paranoid delusional stuff is harder to identify as mental ill health, and harder for any sort of public system to deal with. I really hope this sovcit stuff has peaked in Australia. Freeman probably needed to be sectioned decades ago
Back to the speed cameras boys
I’m not buying it. From all accounts the guy was extremely familiar with the area and had very good survival skills. That type of guy would have had a bug out pack, which probably had ample cash and possibly another phone. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is well gone and living low key elsewhere.
There have been very recent examples of fugitives living in the bush for years before being found. And probably still some that are at-large. So while it’s convenient to say he’s definitely dead, it’s not really a foregone conclusion
Good. Hope he’s been rotting away slowly
I saw it mentioned halfway through a random article a few days after the shooting that police had heard a gunshot a couple hours after the shooting from the bush Dezi had headed in to. Not sure why it was never made headline news – maybe because it removed some of the mystery/drama that draws clicks. Pretty sure police have been relatively confident this whole time that he’s been dead.
woohoo!