Updated April 4, 2026 — 6:04pm, first published 3:22pm
Two associates of Dezi Freeman have been arrested as part of the investigation into how the police killer managed to evade capture for months.
Five days after Freeman was shot dead by heavily armed officers, a man and a woman were arrested at separate properties in north-east Victoria about 7am on Saturday.
Victoria Police issued a statement late Saturday afternoon that said the pair had been released without charge pending further inquiries.
Dezi Freeman was shot dead by police on Monday after months on the run. A Current Affair Police confirmed the pair were not family members of Freeman, with a spokeswoman instead describing them as his associates.
“The investigation remains ongoing and, as such, we are not in a position to provide further details at this immediate time,” the spokeswoman said in a statement.
Police would not confirm where in the state’s north-east the pair were arrested.
Freeman had been on the run since August 19 last year, when he killed Neal Thompson and Vadim de Waart-Hottart at a Porepunkah property when they arrived as part of a group of 10 officers to carry out a search warrant in relation to child sexual abuse allegations against him.
In February, police said they strongly believed Freeman was dead.
But it emerged on Monday that Freeman had been hi
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