Porepunkah shooting: Two officers dead and another wounded after shooting at High Country property, Victoria, Australia #2

[Lucy.D]

Yay Lucy.D!! Fabulous catch!!!!

Nothing gets passed me Marg.
If Dezi makes a run for it, you can count on me to screenshot his getaway.

 

[Bats]

One posted online that he believed Freeman now was living among mountain tribespeople in Papua New Guinea.

Another believed he may have managed to paddle in a canoe across to New Zealand.

'Dezi made plans to paddle across the Tasman (to New Zealand) on the same day as the gunfight,' they said. 'It took him two weeks to make the journey.'

I think that's code for he's neither in Papua New Guinea or New Zealand and these people have no idea where he is.

JMO

 

[Kemug]

Well, I think one day Mali will join him, however long it takes.

 

[Marg944]

How cop killer Dezi Freeman was a prime suspect in the shocking double murders of two OTHER police officers - as the massive manhunt for him is now HALVED in size​

“Fugitive gunman Dezi Freeman, who has been on the run for five weeks after shooting dead two officers, was once a suspect in another double police murder.

In 1998, Melbourne detectives Gary Silk, 34, and Rodney Miller, 35, were executed while on a stakeout in Moorabbin and a dark blue Honda Civic was seen fleeing the scene.

Now Daily Mail can reveal Freeman owned the same make and model vehicle at the time and was repeatedly hauled in for questioning over his possible involvement.”

Dezi Freeman was a prime suspect in double murders of two other police

Melbourne detectives Gary Silk, 34, and Rodney Miller, 35, were executed while on a stakeout in Moorabbin and a dark blue Honda Civic was seen fleeing the scene.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[essareem]

How cop killer Dezi Freeman was a prime suspect in the shocking double murders of two OTHER police officers - as the massive manhunt for him is now HALVED in size​

“Fugitive gunman Dezi Freeman, who has been on the run for five weeks after shooting dead two officers, was once a suspect in another double police murder.

In 1998, Melbourne detectives Gary Silk, 34, and Rodney Miller, 35, were executed while on a stakeout in Moorabbin and a dark blue Honda Civic was seen fleeing the scene.

Now Daily Mail can reveal Freeman owned the same make and model vehicle at the time and was repeatedly hauled in for questioning over his possible involvement.”

Dezi Freeman was a prime suspect in double murders of two other police

Melbourne detectives Gary Silk, 34, and Rodney Miller, 35, were executed while on a stakeout in Moorabbin and a dark blue Honda Civic was seen fleeing the scene.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That's wild! Holy mackerel...

I wonder what this part means:

'He was a person of interest in that murder for a while and interviewed about it more than once,' an old friend told Daily Mail.

'And it eventually transpired that particular case was riddled with police corruption - which just pushed him deeper into his anti-authority conspiracies.'

Silk–Miller police murders - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The investigation ultimately led to the convictions of Bandali Debs (still serving life) and Jason Roberts (acquitted on retrial in 2022 after 20+ years in prison).

Silk, Miller families ‘devastated’ after Jason Roberts found not guilty of murdering police officers

Roberts has been freed from custody after being found not guilty of the shooting murders of police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller in Melbourne’s south-east in 1998.

www.theage.com.au

Roberts was granted a retrial when the Court of Appeal ruled police misconduct corrupted the fairness of his original trial. That ruling followed a probe by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission over allegations some officers who were with the dying Miller had their witness statements revised and backdated.

Jeremy King, a lawyer who specialises in police misconduct cases, said Roberts could have grounds to pursue a civil claim against Victoria Police, as the replacement of original witness statements was “tantamount to a manipulation of the evidence”.

That conduct is definitely misfeasance,” said King, who has no connection to the Roberts case.

Roberts’ lawyers in his retrial, led by David Hallowes, SC, argued “the stench of police misconduct” hovered over the case and made the police witnesses’ evidence unreliable.

 

[essareem]

How cop killer Dezi Freeman was a prime suspect in the shocking double murders of two OTHER police officers - as the massive manhunt for him is now HALVED in size​

“Fugitive gunman Dezi Freeman, who has been on the run for five weeks after shooting dead two officers, was once a suspect in another double police murder.

In 1998, Melbourne detectives Gary Silk, 34, and Rodney Miller, 35, were executed while on a stakeout in Moorabbin and a dark blue Honda Civic was seen fleeing the scene.

Now Daily Mail can reveal Freeman owned the same make and model vehicle at the time and was repeatedly hauled in for questioning over his possible involvement.”

Dezi Freeman was a prime suspect in double murders of two other police

Melbourne detectives Gary Silk, 34, and Rodney Miller, 35, were executed while on a stakeout in Moorabbin and a dark blue Honda Civic was seen fleeing the scene.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I'm just still sitting here shocked, thinking of all the possibilites. Like these 'coincidences' just don't happen to normal people.

But then, how did he manage to stay out of the courts from 1993 - 2018? That's 25 years

 

[Bats]

I'm just still sitting here shocked, thinking of all the possibilites. Like these 'coincidences' just don't happen to normal people.

But then, how did he manage to stay out of the courts from 1993 - 2018? That's 25 years

This news is very interesting isn't it!

The young Roberts and the young Filby have, in my opinion, a close likeness too!

One thing that has stuck in my mind with Filby is that he not only shoots and kills the officers in Porepunkah but he also collects their weapons. To me, the action of collecting their weapon goes well beyond just flipping out in anger. Its a really calculated action.

Now this news that he was a person of interest in the Silk, Miller murders is super intriguing!

 

[drsleuth]

Maybe they should look for Filby @ the end of the rainbow

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[essareem]

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Maybe they should look for Filby @ the end of the rainbow

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Wow! Beautiful catch drsleuth!

 

[Lucy.D]

Personally, I would have liked to have seen a much more intensive search of the bushland while the police had the numbers to do it. MOO

Why hundreds of police are leaving the search for Dezi Freeman

Police have been searching for Dezi Freeman for five weeks since the fatal shootings.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[BreakingNews]

Searching in Benella now, Channel 9 news

 

[essareem]

Searching in Benella now, Channel 9 news

Victoria Police search for fugitive Dezi Freeman near Benalla

Police are continuing the search for alleged gunman Dezi Freeman, deploying search teams to the area around Benalla in Victoria's north-east on Wednesday.

www.abc.net.au

The force said today's search around Benalla forms part of a "planned operation".

"There is no immediate risk to community safety and further information will be provided once operationally appropriate to do so," a police spokesperson said.

"This forms part of the ongoing investigation in the Porepunkah area in the search for Desmond Freeman, we will not be providing further comment on operational activities."

 

[Warshawski]

Well, I think one day Mali will join him, however long it takes.

Aaww - ain’t love grand

However, I doubt Dezi gives 2 hoots about Mali &/or the kids. … other than they were once his meal ticket.

Supposedly Dezi had lost his gun licence
He had built himself a rifle (was that the offending firearm ?)
Guns were found that were licensed to Mali ( whether of her own accord or otherwise )

Is it known what weapons he took with him ?
Did he keep a ready-packed ‘weapon cache’ beside the back exit in case of need ?
Was it planned that Mail & kids ‘escaped’ with him to give him initial cover, Or were they forced to go with him initially, Or did they just run too out of fear ?
How did his son manage to stand outside videoing the entire procedure ( how / why did police even allow that ! ) But he then managed to ‘escape’ with the family via the rear exit ?

Not that any of that really matters, it’s just my mind pondering ..

I seriously doubt that Desi is dead. . blokes like him don’t top themselves in this type of scenario, they thrive on it !

This is his big chance to feed his ego & to prove how ‘clever’ he is / how he can outwit & make fools of those who’s job it is to enforce the Laws of this Country - Laws which he says don’t apply to him since he’s a Sovereign Citizen ! which in turn meant he had no respect for Police. He’s demonstrated that time & again, but this time stooped to a new low that has forever marked him a cold blooded murderer !

It’s also an opportunity to put into practice all the survival skills he’s been honing over years of ‘free time’ spent frolicking & exploring, at one with nature - all the while being supported by the hardworking taxpayers of the country that he refuses to acknowledge, honour or respect ! Even now the disrespect continues as millions of $ that could go to crisis care, housing, health etc is being ‘wasted’ on him. …

Justice will always be served, be it in this life or the next. . and sometimes it makes sense to call off the dogs & wait.

All just my personal opinion.

 

[Lucy.D]

I think chance played a big part in it all.
Police took the chance they were working with a normal crim and they could simply barge into Dezi's private space by people who Dezi hated the most.
The whole family scattered and just by chance their exit wasn't covered by any of the remaining 7 police officers.
Mali was able to take two children to a place and just by chance nobody saw them or knew where they went.
And Dezi happened to find probably a pre-planned hiding place that by chance out of all the searches in the bush and likely buildings he found one that police are yet to discover.
I don't think the family had thought about what to do if police came knocking on the door.
If Dezi found himself one day in a whole heap of bother and had to disappear for a while, then he would surely have a great little hiding spot picked out and stocked with supplies so he could sit it out for a while.
But I wouldn't think he planned for anything as big as 450 people to come out looking for him.
If you're right @Warshawski and he's not dead, then IMO he will be pretty close to it.
I would say that the risk to officers looking for his hiding place, if he is in the bush, would be significantly less now after 4 weeks.
Instead of halving their crew, now would be a good time to use all those 450 officers and conduct a thorough search of bushland around Mt Buffalo, which will take a week or so. They only did one big search, with about 150 officers, on one day.
Potential hiding places would have to be entered only by skilled officers, dogs and special services army people would be best.
Police have been standing around at the airfield wasting time, those officers should now be involved in conducting a huge search instead of going home because now I think would be a very good time to find Dezi with a lower risk factor.
I would have thought police really had it in them to find Dezi and I very much doubt there will still be more than 200 officers still on the ground searching for him.
All the money spent on finding him so far has been wasted because they haven't found him and they are now scaling back their efforts without completing the job of searching bushland where he is most likely to be hiding.
Of course, if they find him in someone's shed in Goomalibee then that's my theory down the drain.
JMO

 

[essareem]

'Extreme and fanatical': Those who knew Dezi Freeman speak on why they stayed away

Luke Filby remembers looking up to his uncle Dezi, right up until the point he didn't. And he's not alone in having stepped away before the killing of two police officers.

www.abc.net.au

Another interview with Dezi's nephew Luke Filby + extra bits


Forensic psychiatrist Dr Andrew Aboud, who gave evidence at the inquest of the Wieambilla police shootings in Queensland, told 7.30 he doubts Mr Freeman's alleged actions were well thought through.

"When the police came to him that day, they came in numbers, they had a warrant, there were charges that I believe they did communicate to him, and that would've been very confronting for him, thinking about the implications," Dr Aboud said.

"So I think a heightened state of fear would have essentially enveloped him and that would have caused an acute anger.

"It's unlikely that he thought through his actions carefully."

...

Dr Aboud told 7.30 he does not believe that others are harbouring Mr Freeman.

"While that's possible, it's also probably unlikely," Dr Aboud said.

"His fundamental mistrust of others would not only include the government and police, but would also include neighbours, perhaps even people who he had frequented with.

"So I strongly suspect that he cuts a very lonely figure."

 

[essareem]

"He was like an older brother for me growing up … we were pretty close in my younger days," Mr Filby said. "I remember him being great, awesome, kind of like a larger-than-life character when I was younger. I looked up to him greatly."

...

"I can't explain it … and he never liked healthcare professionals to ever get a proper diagnosis or help with it. I could see that he was aware of it and tried his best at a younger age to manage his anger. He was right into karate and stuff and I think that was kind of an outlet to try and contain his anger, but he could never contain it. He always failed."

Earlier in his life, his uncle went by the name Desmond Filby, before he changed his last name to Freeman after falling out with his family.

"He changed his name then to start a new life. I guess he felt that the family abandoned him, the family did him wrong."

 

[Dotta]

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