Cassie Zervos

He was a man who was incredibly troubled and quite unwell.

I've since learnt from his associates that the day he carried out those shootings, he actually had an appointment for a mental health assessment.

So you can kind of see the fame of this person and just how dangerous he became over the course of the years.

Of course.

So there were allegations against Desi Freeman of a historical child abuse claim dating back to the past two years involving a victim under the age of 16.

So a victim presented to police and that's when they started investigating.

What officers did from there was...

gather enough evidence and apply for a search warrant, which we see officers do every single day for warrants, whether it's for all sorts of different cases.

Quite routine what they did that day in terms of the search itself or what they were trying to do.

What they wanted to do, the goal for them that day, was to go in and seize evidence from Desi Freeman's property.

For example, iPads, laptops, any sort of electronic devices, mobile phones, that kind of thing.

Obviously, with what had happened, that's been the focus of this investigation, but we can now reveal these bombshell allegations.

Police have been able to download the files from his computers and iPads.

using specialised technology, and there were hundreds and hundreds of child exploitation images found on Desi Freeman's laptop.

So police wanted to find and deliver justice to victim or victims involved in these allegations, and that's why they were there that day, which we can now reveal.

Yeah, so at the start, I thought he was alive.

And then as the weeks and months went on, and, you know, I'd speak to police quite regularly about it, and they would say, Cass, it's so hard to disappear in 2026.

Yes, we are talking about a very rural and remote area, but, you know, our mobile phones, they ping, they would connect to a telephone tower.

There's road cameras, there's CCTV.

You know, if you needed to get food or water, you're captured going into the stores and that kind of thing.