Victoria's Most Resource-Intensive Manhunt Enters Fourth Month

Victoria Police's hunt for Dezi Freeman, linked to March 2026 Porepunkah shootings, now ranks as the state's most demanding active manhunt. Investigators deploy surveillance, financial tracing, and informant networks to reconstruct Freeman's movements and circle. A record A$1 million reward reflects both case severity and stalled conventional leads. Two men arrested in May for pre-incident investigation suggest police are mapping Freeman's network rather than chasing his current location—standard practice when a subject vanishes into a support network.