Dezi Freeman’s secret trove of child abuse material was on the verge of being discovered when he fatally shot two officers, it’s been revealed.

Weeks on from Freeman’s death, questions remain over where he spent his more than 216 days on the run, how he was able to evade capture for so long, and if he had help.

Freeman was finally cornered at a property at Thologolong on the Victoria-NSW border, about 150km from where he was last seen.

Officers from Victoria Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) forced an armed Freeman outside the converted shipping container he had been hiding in. He was then fatally shot.

“We will track backwards from here to work out how long he’s been here, and who helped him to be here,” Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush said at the time.

“(It is) very important for us to understand how long he’s been here and who else was complicit in getting him here, and then caring for him or providing him with food and other things to this point.

“If anyone was complicit, they will be held to account.”

A man and a woman, both associates of Freeman and not family members, were taken into custody earlier this month and interviewed by detectives, but were released “pending further inquiries”, a police spokesperson said at the time.

The property at Porepunkah where Freeman murdered two police officers. Picture: NewsWire/Andrew Henshaw

The Thologolong shipping container where Freeman was found, and shot, by police.
Last week, an Australian content creator provided an inside look at the Thologolong property, which has been combed by police.

In a lengthy video uploaded to YouTube, the rural abode appeared to be littered with rubbish, and had bullet holes in a nearby boat and numerous coloured drums.

“Every one of these bullet holes is an exit bullet hole,” the YouTuber told his viewers, noting only one bullet hole was exempt.

The entrance to the shipping container is also captured – revealing a pair of glasses still intact from police investigations.

Shirts can be seen hanging from shelves as the YouTuber enters the container, which is strewn with rubbish.

He captures footage of food containers, a gas bottle, a number of multivitamins on a table, and an AM radio.

“I can’t breathe in here,” he is heard saying as he moves outside.

“The chemicals are so strong. Like … you just don’t know what Dezi’s or what’s not Dezi’s.”

A nearby trailer is seen piled with beer bottles.

A video from inside the shipping container, filmed by an Australian YouTuber, is now the subject of a police probe. Picture: YouTube
The video is now the subject of a police probe.

“Police are investigating a report of a trespass at a property on Murray River Rd in Thologolong on April 16,” a Victoria Police spokesperson told NewsWire.

More Coverage“Investigators are aware of a video posted online in relation to the trespass and are investigating the circumstances.

“The investigation remains ongoing.”

– with NewsWire