From the Archives, 2001: Hunt for Falconio’s killer in outback We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Philip Cornford Normal text size Aboriginal trackers join Territory’s hunt for gunman ALICE SPRINGS Northern Territory police have brought Aboriginal trackers into the search for a gunman who is believed to have shot dead a British tourist and terrorised his girlfriend on a lonely desert highway. They fear he is a homicidal maniac who will strike again. An undated photo, taken in Sydney, of English tourist Peter Falconio and his girlfriend Joanne Lees. “The nature of the crime is that the (gunman) is not thinking rationally and is not likely to act logically,” Southern Region Commander Bob Fields said. “It is not unusual that such an offender will soon be involved in another incident of a similar kind.”