Aerial images provide the closest look yet at Dezi Freeman's hideout

Thursday, 2 April 2026 15:00

Police last night left the Thologolong property where the double police killer died in a volley of gunfire on Monday.

Fresh pictures of Dezi Freeman's High Country hideout provide the closest look yet into the life the double police killer was living on the run.

Police last night left the Thologolong property where the double police killer died in a volley of gunfire on Monday.

Detectives and forensics had spent three days combing through the 35-hectare property in a bid to unearth clues about anyone who may have been helping the fugitive during his seven months on the run.

Fresh pictures of Dezi Freeman's high country hideout give new insight into the life the double police killer was living on the run.

The crime scene has now been cleaned and locked up, but fresh aerial images lay bare the extent of the squalor Freeman had been living amongst.

Two pairs of sunglasses, similar to those Freeman had been photographed in previously, were captured resting on a trestle table next to a portable stove and a dirty plate.

Bullet holes were peppered across a tinny boat behind the container, pointing to how Freeman's last stand may have ended.

Two large gas cylinders and a kitchen sink, featuring a drying rack with crockery and pots, suggest someone had been living in the shipping container, or intended to stay, for a prolonged period.

Also of interest to police were several chairs dotted across the front of the container, including two positioned side-by-side.

Police left behind fingerprint dustings from several items of interest, which will be tested in the hopes it will help detectives track down Freeman's associates.

It's unknown whether the set-up, or any of the items on the property were owned by Freeman, were transported there by an associate, or belonged to the owner of the property.

Those are questions police are hoping to get answers to when the property's owner, who has been living in Tasmania for several months, returns to Thologolong in the next few days.

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