Porepunkah shooting
Dezi Freeman’s wife won’t be charged with obstructing police manhunt
Police sources say the decision not to charge Amalia Freeman has frustrated many officers involved in the investigation.
- Cameron Houston
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Innocent family sue police over raid, arrest in Dezi Freeman manhunt
A resident who says he had never met Freeman was ordered at gunpoint to lie facedown and restrained with zip ties, before he was told by officers he was under arrest for harbouring a fugitive.
- Cameron Houston
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No proof of life: Police reveal ‘strong belief’ suspected double killer Dezi Freeman is dead
A single gunshot heard after the murders of two police officers in Porepunkah last year is behind a renewed search of the Mount Buffalo National Park for the missing fugitive.
- Grant McArthur
Flash juries and Bible verses: How sovereign citizens clog up Australian courts
So-called “sovereign citizens” are causing growing delays to the justice system by using bizarre, aggressive tactics to contest minor offences without legal basis.
- Angus Delaney
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Months after that fateful day, Porepunkah remains a conspiracy-riddled mystery
Vision of heavily armed police combing Victoria’s High Country, following the murder of two officers, shocked Australia. But the scenes continue to this day as the whereabouts of Dezi Freeman remain a mystery.
- Grant McArthur
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The single reported gunshot that might lead police to Dezi Freeman
Reports a single shot was heard 20 minutes after two officers were killed on a Porepunkah property have led Victoria Police to undertake high-tech firearms acoustic testing in the latest effort to locate Dezi Freeman in dense bush.
- Grant McArthur
Stalled manhunt: Police admit public key to finding fugitive as new taskforce formed
Police say finding alleged police killer Dezi Freeman will now rely on a public tip-off after he vanished into bushland in late August.
- Angus Delaney
Plea deal for US man linked to Wieambilla shootings
An American conspiracy theorist linked to the Wieambilla shootings that left six people dead has pleaded guilty to a watered-down charge under a plea deal.
- Laine Clark
New footage of Dezi Freeman and wife Amalia has emerged
Alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman and his wife Amalia visit their extended family following the birth of Freeman's nephew.
Dezi Freeman in the snow near Mount Buffalo
Alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman in the snow with a pair of skis.