{"id":107083,"date":"2025-08-30T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107083\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:57:10","slug":"arrest-in-high-country-during-search-for-accused-killer-dezi-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107083\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest in high country during search for accused killer Dezi Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday\u2019s arrest of the 61-year-old came after police took Freeman\u2019s wife, Mali, 42, and their 15-year-old son into custody during an operation in Porepunkah on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The duo were interviewed \u201cspecifically in relation to the homicide\u201d and released, while Victoria Police\u2019s chief commissioner said charges could follow.<\/p>\n<p>More than 450 police officers have been deployed to Porepunkah as part of the search for Freeman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fallen officers Vadim De Waart (left) and Neal Thompson.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a020884dcb10c155ddb1724e59dc67fa15460966.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fallen officers Vadim De Waart (left) and Neal Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Get alerts on breaking news as it happens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56yl1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Breaking News Alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday\u2019s arrest of the 61-year-old came after police took Freeman\u2019s wife, Mali, 42, and their 15-year-old son into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-107083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}