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No proof of life: Police reveal ‘strong belief’ suspected double killer Dezi Freeman is dead

Grant McArthur - February 2, 2026

Police have revealed they have no proof that suspected double police killer Dezi Freeman is still alive, and have returned to Victoria’s High Country in a hunt for his body.

More than 100 officers have descended on an area of dense bushland in Mount Buffalo National Park for a five-day search, guided by evidence from a key witness who says they heard a single gunshot about two hours after the fatal ambush in August.

As revealed by The Age in November, police have carried out acoustic testing near the Buckland River to try to pinpoint where the shot may have been fired.

Detective Inspector Adam Tilley, of the summit taskforce, said investigators had confirmed that gunshot noise had echoed through the area at 12.29pm on August 26.

Tilley said the witness report had been “corroborated by other parts of the investigation”.

Based on that evidence, and the fact that there have been no confirmed sightings or proof of life of Freeman since, Tilley said the latest search was being undertaken to try to locate his body.

“We don’t believe that he is still in the area alive,” Tilley said.

“We have done extensive searching of the caves, the mines, the huts, the rivers. We are comfortable that we don’t believe he is here alive; however, we are keeping an open mind that that is a possibility.

“We do believe strongly that he is in this area, deceased.”

During an operation in November, taskforce summit officers stationed across properties near the Rayner Track used acoustic equipment to record test fires from different weapons to try to narrow down where the single shot might have come from.

While up to 30 shots using different calibre guns were fired during the controlled testing, Tilley on Monday said specialists had been unable to confirm which gun the noise came from on the day of the shootings.

Specialist units, air support and a cadaver dog will join the targeted search of an area – measuring 1.3 square kilometres – of terrain behind the Rayner Track property where Freeman was staying in August.

“It’s not going on a bushwalk … it is extremely challenging. It is steep, it is thick, dense bush,” Tilley said of the search conditions.

“At parts you don’t even know where you step in, you have to be extremely careful. We’ve got the state or the country’s best here helping us on this occasion.”

Tilley said he hoped the latest search would help bring answers and closure.

“We hope to find something, find him, find some [sign], maybe an item of clothing,” he said.

“We hope to have answers this week but, if we don’t, this is the No.1 priority for Victoria Police.

“We are dedicated. We are motivated. We’ve lost two colleagues and have a third member that’s seriously injured. We will not stop.”

In December, police spent five days combing nearly one square kilometre of dense bushland and caves, and this week’s search will move to adjoining terrain.

The investigation is being led by the homicide squad following the murders of Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, who were shot dead on August 26 while executing a search warrant at Freeman’s property.

A third officer was shot in the lower body and seriously injured, and continues to recover.

Detectives have examined more than 2000 pieces of intelligence, including tips from the public, in the hunt for Freeman, but police have been unable to locate him.

Tilley said although this week’s search was focused on finding Freeman’s body, investigators remained open to all possibilities.

“The second scenario that we’re exploring is he’s been able to escape the area and he’s being harboured by a person or people,” he said. “And the third scenario that we’re exploring [is] that he has left the area and he’s on the run, unassisted, and he just hasn’t been located.

“I urge anyone, if they do see Freeman, please do immediately contact Triple Zero. We currently have a million-dollar reward.”

Victoria Police confirmed they have spoken to Freeman’s wife, Mali Freeman, but would not reveal further details about how co-operative she had been.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/police-narrow-search-area-in-hunt-for-accused-gunman-dezi-freeman-20260202-p5nypy.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvH_k7OH8X4

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Jacinta Allan moves to fast-track hate speech laws

ANTHONY GALLOWAY - 2 February 2026

Victoria Police could be empowered within weeks to directly lay charges under the state’s new hate speech laws, as the Allan government seeks to create test cases around phrases such as “globalise the intifada”.

As the Victorian parliament returns for the first time in 2026, The Australian has been told the government will give notice on Tuesday that it intends to move amendments to the state’s anti-vilification scheme and list the bill as the first item for debate.

The changes would remove the requirement for police to seek approval from the Director of Public Prosecutions before initiating criminal vilification prosecutions, in what the government hopes will streamline the state’s hate speech laws.

The change represents the first step in Premier Jacinta Allan’s “Five Next Steps to Combat Antisemitism”, announced shortly before Christmas in response to the Bondi terror attack.

Rather than introducing fresh legislation, the government will amend the existing Justice Legislation Further Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill already before parliament, as it seeks to pressure the Coalition into supporting the measure and sideline the Greens.

Labor originally accepted the DPP approval requirement to secure the Greens’ support after the Victorian Coalition opposed the bill last year.

One of the new criminal offences covers conduct that could incite hatred, serious contempt or ridicule towards someone based on a protected attribute, while the other makes it illegal to threaten physical harm or damage to ­property.

The government believes removing the DPP sign-off requirement will streamline enforce­ment and increase the likelihood that contentious phrases such as “Globalise the intifada” are tested in court.

Ms Allan has previously said the phrase “globalise the intifada” could be sent for prosecution before the courts under the state’s existing anti-vilification laws.

Government sources have also cited the recent alleged ­racially motivated attack on a Melbourne imam and his wife as an example of where offenders could get more charges thrown against them.

Opposition legal affairs spokesman James Newbury said the government had now conceded its earlier mistake. “Jacinta Allan and her government got it wrong,” he said. “The Coalition said doing a grubby deal with the Greens would bastardise the law and block any real protection against antisemitism. Finally Labor has admitted they got their laws wrong and will amend them, which we welcome.”

The amendments will take ­effect once the bill receives royal assent, typically within weeks. If assent is delayed, commencement would be pushed back until November, which the Coalition will seek to address on Tuesday.

“We are now concerned that these changes might not be effected until November,” Mr Newbury said. “That’s too far away. How many times can this government stuff up protecting the Jewish community? Too many times, it seems.”

Under the changes, a new civil complaints regime to deal with serious hate speech – originally due to commence mid-year – will be brought forward to April.

A proposal to hold social media companies responsible for hate speech on their platforms was originally slated to form part of the government’s first tranche of antisemitism reforms. However, the government has since decided to pursue the measure at a national level. At a meeting on January 9, ­Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny secured agreement from her commonwealth, state and territory counterparts to convene senior officials to examine how technology companies could be made liable for anonymous hate speech. Under the proposal, if the owner of a social media account cannot be identified, the platform itself could be exposed to a civil claim.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/allan-moves-to-fasttrack-hate-speech-laws/news-story/61c6776027f92a15bcbd483ea71c0496

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NSW Premier Chris Minns’ ban on ‘globalise the intifada’ slogan faces opposition block

LACHLAN LEEMING - 2 February 2026

Chris Minns’ attempts to ban the slogan “globalise the intifada” from being chanted in public is at risk of failing before legislation is even formulated, with the Coalition and Greens set to oppose the new laws in a move which would block them being passed.

The NSW Premier threw down the gauntlet on Monday to critics of the move, saying they must decide whether they want to outlaw “a piece of hate speech on Sydney streets or not”.

The inquiry, which drew criticism from the opposition and minor parties over its closed-door hearings and swift time frame, recommended the government consider legislation to criminalise chanting “globalise the intifada”.

NSW opposition justice spokesman Damien Tudehope argued the Coalition would not necessarily rubber stamp the move ­despite being supportive of efforts to clamp down on antisemitism.

Mr Tudehope said a decision on whether to back legislation ­ banning the slogan would be made in a shadow cabinet meeting, but signalled Labor could not take support for granted.

Multiple members of the committee have said that laws already exist which could outlaw “globalise the intifada” if legal thresholds were changed.

Opposition Leader Kellie ­Sloane, asked if the Coalition would support the measure, said: “Let’s be clear, we never needed an inquiry, even one conducted so poorly, to know this slogan is ­unacceptable when it’s used to ­incite violence.”

“Inciting violence is already a crime in NSW, so banning this phrase doesn’t actually change the law,” she said.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip called on MPs to support the move, saying the committee had “made a clear and principled recommendation that will strengthen safety and social cohesion across our state if implemented”.

“A call for intifada, based on the historical meaning of the word, is effectively a call to murder Jews wherever you find them … the need to outlaw the phrase is particularly evident after the massacre of December 14, when the intifada was globalised and brought to Bondi Beach,” he said.

Mr Minns on Monday said criticism of the committee process now had to give way to whether the Coalition or crossbench would support measures to ban the phrase.

Without the support of the ­Coalition and the Greens, any laws related to slogans is unlikely to pass the NSW Upper House.

Despite speculation that Labor could bring forward legislation related to the inquiry as soon as this fortnight, The Australian understands it is more likely to be introduced when state parliament sits again next month.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/chris-minns-plan-to-ban-hate-speech-slogan-globalise-the-intifada-at-risk-of-being-blocked-as-coalition-and-greens-unite/news-story/e440fb2916ae7ace45e69a62b66934ea

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How Epstein used a private detective to dig dirt on Australian victim Virginia Giuffre

Jessica Gardner and Andrew Tillett - Feb 2, 2026

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Washington/London | Jeffrey Epstein’s private investigator advised the convicted sex offender to leverage his relationship with disgraced royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his likely sway with British intelligence agencies to dig dirt on his Australian victim, Virginia Giuffre.

Bill Riley, a Miami-based private investigator who worked with Epstein for at least a decade, wrote to his client in January 2015 with the audacious idea, according to new documents released by the US Department of Justice.

“I assume your legal team is in contact with Prince Andrew’s legal counsel,” he said in the email addressed to Epstein. “As such, his counsel or more realistically he and/or his family, should have great relations through their intelligence service with those in Australia.

“If they chose to use those services I am sure they could develop a great deal of information about [Giuffre] and her boyfriend/husband when and while they live/lived there. Hopefully, Andrew’s counsel would share that with your team as it would be in his best interest to get this case resolved quickly.”

Riley went on to say that those agencies, presumably MI5 or MI6, could access her phone records, names of associates and employers, and the names of her neighbours and extended family.

“With this information you could hire someone in Australia to (discreetly) make inquiries as to her reputation for truth and veracity – which to me in this case in paramount to almost the entire case,” Riley wrote.

Although the document has redacted the name of the victim, the email came one month after Giuffre alleged in a Florida court that Mountbatten-Windsor was one of several prominent figures she was forced to have sex with in 2001, when she was a minor, aged 17.

In 2022, Mountbatten-Windsor settled a separate case with Giuffre, in which he acknowledged her as “an established victim of abuse” but did not admit any guilt.

A new trove of 3 million documents released in the United States on Friday has shed new light on the powerful politicians and businessmen who came into his orbit and how the disgraced financier tried to keep them there.

The release came after US Congress in November signed into law The Epstein Transparency Act, following public outcry at the Trump administration’s attempts to sweep the sordid affair under the carpet.

Hundreds of documents that mention Riley also show how Epstein used the private investigator and a team of lawyers to intimidate his victims and dig into their private lives in a bid to stop them speaking to the press or investigators.

Epstein, who spent 13 months in jail after a 2008 conviction of soliciting a 14-year-old girl for prostitution and died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting new charges, ran a trafficking ring and flew powerful people to his private island, where underage women were paid to provide erotic massages and have sex.

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Giuffre’s torment

Giuffre became a dual Australian and US citizen after meeting her Australian husband on a trip to Thailand. The mother of three died by suicide in April last year while living in Perth.

Epstein forwarded the email from Riley to his co-conspirator in the sex- trafficking ring, Ghislaine Maxwell, that day, but there is no record of him responding or taking the suggested action.

Maxwell recruited Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago, the private resort owned by President Donald Trump, who said he had a falling out with Epstein and banned him from the club when he learned of the poaching of young employees from the spa.

Still, the hundreds of emails referencing the private investigator show Epstein often sought Riley’s advice and used his services. He charged $US125 an hour for “miscellaneous services” in 2010. Many of the emails were Riley chasing late payment on invoices.

In 2005, he made a house call to a “person of concern to Jeff”. “You have no right to be here,” she said, according to a transcript. “I moved. All that shit is behind in another world so get the f*ck out of here.”

Giuffre said that soon after she received a call from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2007 related to complaints about Epstein, she got a call from Riley. “And you know, he told me in the first five minutes that, you know, if I stay quiet, that ‘I’ll be looked after’,” she said, according to the transcript of a taped conversation that took place in 2011.

Epstein and Riley appeared close, with the private investigator often emailing to express solidarity after critical press articles or new lawsuits emerged.

In a 2011 email to Riley, Epstein said he needed to “totally discredit” Giuffre, and listed ideas of whom to search for, including her mother, her former boyfriend and a former pimp “who got busted for underage prostitution”.

Riley replies a day a week later to say he had identified a Ronald R Eppinger from criminal records who had been charged with prostitution in the late 90s, but had since died.

In her posthumous memoir, and in a conversation with lawyers released by the Department of Justice, Giuffre revealed she suffered early abuse at the hands of a family friend and found herself on the streets at the age of 13.

“I was picked up by a 67-year-old man, Ron Eppinger, who did exactly what Jeffrey did with me, abuse and violate my youthfulness,” she told the lawyers.

Riley has been contacted for comment.

https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/how-epstein-used-a-private-detective-to-dig-dirt-on-australian-victim-20260202-p5nyp8

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00867325.pdf

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Q Post #4923

Oct 21 2020 20:55:05 (EST)

https://twitter.com/VRSVirginia/status/1319071346282778624

Dearest Virginia -

We stand with you.

Now and always.

Find peace through prayer.

Never give up the good fight.

God bless you.

Q

https://qanon.pub/#4923

https://qanon.pub/#4568

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Q Post #1001

Apr 3 2018 20:11:01 (EST)

Where do roads lead?

Each prince is associated with a cardinal direction: north, south, east and west.

Sacrifice.

Collect.

[Classified]-1

[Classified]-2

Tunnels.

Table 29.

D-Room H

D-Room R

D-Room C

Pure EVIL.

'Conspiracy'

Q

https://qanon.pub/#1001

>Pure EVIL.

>'Conspiracy'