The COP KILLER in the Hemsworth family: Inside story of Chris, Liam and Luke’s uncle Rod Ansell’s descent from a larrikin Aussie bushman – hailed as the real-life Crocodile Dundee – to a drug-crazed murderer

They embody the healthy, hard-working Aussie values ​​that make them home names, Luam and Luam, the Golden Family of Australia-Chris Hemsworth and their famous brothers.

The trio has long for a long time, by shaping its athletic lifestyles, love of fitness and humble perspectives, its robust outback childhood in the North Region has long for a long time.

Usually from walking naked feet to the public, Chris has constantly did something according to his own conditions and showed his unusual growth as the key to shaping his worldview.

When I was young, my family and I lived in a remote community in NT. Some of my oldest and happiest memories have been shared on social media.

However, behind the Hollywood smiles and global fame, a family history marked with tragedy lies-the shocking collapse of Chris’s uncle by marriage, NT folk hero-Cop killer rod Ansell.

Rod, who was married to Chris’s sister Leonie’s sister Joanne Van Os, was once a loved national figure.

A Bushman of the Bushman translated the folk hero, the tale of the extraordinary survival in 1977, Paul Hogan, a financially successful Australian film of all time, inspired Paul Hogan’s box office records.

But after 22 years, the same man would be embarrassed for something very different-a police officer decorated in NT died, and Ansell himself is a drug-fuel frenzy that resulted in the shooting of the police.

It was a shocking decline in the grace that left scars in the Hemsworth clan and in the nation.

This special Daily Mail Story examines how Australia’s three most popular celebrities go to the disgraceful police killer from the famous folk hero of the uncle’s uncle.

From the legend of Bush to the reluctant celebrity

In 1977, Rod Ansell hit the national fame, only 22 years old, 280km south of Darwin, 280km, the northern region of the Fitzmaurice River, which invaded crocodiles in the northern region, was stranded for almost two months.

A rifle, two puppies and food tin boxes with a little more armed, used sharp survival skills to live on land.

Finally, when his ordeal was spread, Ansell became a national sensation. His story was turned into a book and a documentary (to fight the wild nature) and lean, the charm of the Larrik made him a talc show favorite.

In 1981, Ansell agreed to interview by Michael Parkinson, a British Talk Show presenter in Sydney, and his unexpected story reached an even larger audience.

However, behind the Hollywood smiles and global fame, a family history marked with a tragedy, including the shocking collapse of Chris Hemsworth’s marriage uncle, lies, Rod Ansell

Ansell appeared barefoot for the interview, and Sebel Townhouse was sleeping on the floor of Parkinson while staying in the city.

This is what Hogan’s character did when he stayed at a New York hotel in Dundee, and as in the film, he was confused when Ansell was faced with a bidet.

In addition, Ansell, like Hogan’s character, was accepted by Arnhem Land’s domestic community and spoke fluently about Urapunga.

“When the Crocodile Dundee came out… People began to steal me and say that they saw all these similarities between my experience and the film, ” Ansell once remembered – although he suffered from the film’s producers because he did not receive credit or financial compensation.

The Crocodile Dundee, which has been launched in 1986 in 1986, lasted more than $ 300 million.

Hemsworth from marriage

In the rise of fame, Ansell met Joanne Van Os, a young radio operator working in a distant domestic community. The couple married in 1977 and had two sons together.

Through Joanne, Ansels connected to the Hemsworth family, Joanne’s sister Leonie then trained three children to leave a mark on Hollywood.

When Chris and his brothers were still a child, Ansell was already a legendary of Outback.

Married to Chris’s Aunt Joanne Van Os, Rod was once a popular national figure. Picture: with Joanne daughter Ali

A leanayak Bushman translated the folk hero of Ansell’s extraordinary survival in 1977, Paul Hogan’s box office records breaking Crocodile Dundee, the most successful Australian film of all time

However, while Hemsworth was growing happily and developing a passion for performance, Ansell’s own life was solved.

From time to time, the Hemsworth brothers talked about how Uncle Rod talked – but they never mentioned the tragic end.

Luke Hemsworth in 2017 HuffPost He is a source of inspiration for his uncle’s iconic Mick Dundee character.

I think there were many men who inspired this story. I was interested – my mother’s sister married a man named Rod Ansell, who was famous as one of the people who inspired this story, ” he said.

A painful fall

However, in the 1990s, Ansels’ life became turmoil. A bitter land dispute with the NT government saw that he had lost his cattle property.

His marriage collapsed in 1992 and gradually turned into more drugs.

While he was once known as a solid survival, he became a heavy marijuana smoking and later an amphetamine user – he noticed that those close to him deepened to the paranoia.

He was listed to kidnap the masons to kidnap their children, and he was convinced that the dark forces followed him.

Bushman, once embodied power and flexibility, was slowly consumed with addiction and illusion.

But after 22 years, the same man would be embarrassed for something very different – a drug -fuel frenzy that left a decorated police officer dead in the northern region and ended with Ansell’s shot

A tragic end

On August 2, 1999, he reached the tragic peak of Ansell origin.

With a rifle and hunting rifle, armed and opened fire on a caravan in the south of Darwin before ambushing a police barricade the next morning.

Sergeant Glen Huitson, a two -year -old reputable father, was killed.

His colleague, Senior Officer James O’Brien returned to the fire, and after a five -minute brutal weapon war, Ansell himself was killed. He was 44 years old.

People in Australia struggled to understand that Bushman, who was once known for his cheeky charm, could take such a shocking action-contradicting the nature that made his purely a national hero.

Ansell’s motive to seize the police instead of using shrub skills to escape from them remains uncertain.

A coronial investigation later announced that it was a paranoid psychotic state brought by the use of chronic amphetamine and did not think clearly.

The Australians shocked to find out that Bushman, who once fascinated a country, had become a crazy killer of drugs.

Chris’s Aunt Joanne later married again and was shot by a tragedy in 1999, when his 16 -year -old daughter Ali was killed in a freak accident in Phuket.

In 2018, Chris acted as if he was seeing a Crocodile Dundee restarting in a tourism NSW campaign. In interviews, despite the mysterious connection between Ansell and the world -famous character, he never mentioned his uncle

For Hemsworth brothers, Ansell’s death was both personal and public tragedy.

Rarely, when talking about it, his story continues to be a part of his family history – reminding that even in the most famous families of Australia, he has deep wound.

In 2018, Chris acted as if he was seeing a Crocodile Dundee restarting in a tourism NSW campaign.

It was a shocking decline in the grace that left scars on both the Hemworth clan and the nation.

In the accompanying interviews, Chris never mentioned his uncle despite the mysterious connection between Ansell and the world -famous character.

Chris, the closest to the public to talk about Ansell, in an 2011 interview with Frank Lovece, ‘I am the most lively [childhood] Memories in Bulman, with the Crocodiles and Manda, ‘ – Ansell’in referred to the place of death.

Chris, Liam and Luke continued to make extraordinary careers in Hollywood and are proud of their mother Leonie and Van OS family line.

However, in the shadow of his fame, the story of uncle Rod Ansell, who helped inspire the legend of Australia, lies, and only faces a dark and violent end.