Police fact sheet details case against Beau Lamarre-Condon for alleged murder of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
Police documents reveal chilling details about Jesse Baird and Luke Davies’ murders and the movements of alleged killer Beau Lamarre-Condon.
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The housemate of murdered TV presenter Jesse Baird prodded a surfboard bag containing his dead body at their eastern suburbs home and later told police it “felt lumpy, not like it had a surfboard inside.”
The woman, who made the discovery in the courtyard of their Paddington terrace, would later be told by the detectives of the bag’s horrifying contents.
In another surfboard bag next to the one containing Mr Baird’s body was the body of the former Channel 10 presenter’s boyfriend, 29-year-old Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies.
The woman noticed a pool of blood next to the bags that were covered by a blue tarp, but thought it was a beetroot stain left by her messy housemate.
The shocking revelation is included in the police case against Lamarre-Condon, who is accused of murdering the two men in a jealous rage on February 19.
The police documents also reveal it will be alleged that a triple-0 call was made from Mr Davies’ phone around the time of the alleged murder in which a male voice said “Get out, f**k off” before the line went dead.
The murder investigation surrounding the death of Mr Baird, 26 and Mr Davies has gripped Sydney since they went missing more than a week ago.
And for the first time the police fact sheet in the case reveals the extent of the case against Senior Constable Lamarre-Condon, the man accused of murdering the couple, who was once in a relationship with the former Studio 10 reporter.
The police set of facts in the case against the officer also reveals for the first time that a “routine audit” found that Lamarre-Condon’s gun was missing from a police gun safe a day after the murder, only for it to be returned two days later with ammunition missing.
It can also be revealed that police will allege that Mr Baird’s mother told police her son was being stalked by a man named Beau.
The police facts said investigators arrived at the Paddington house to find prearranged house cleaners mopping the crime scene before they found a bullet hole, the bullet and blood in the kitchen.
Mr Baird and Mr Davies were last seen on February 18 when they socialised with friends at the Beresford Hotel in Surry Hills and a nearby Thai restaurant.
Police will allege in court that the two men were murdered the next morning.
Lamarre-Condon, an officer with the NSW Youth Command, is accused of killing both men with his police issued Glock pistol inside Mr Baird’s Paddington terrace.
The 28-year-old cop had been in a relationship with Mr Baird and is accused of killing both men after the breakup.
According to the police fact sheet outlining the case against Lamarre-Condon, a neighbour on Brown St, Paddington, heard a gunshot plus a “faint, muffled … yell or a raised voice” about 9.40am on February 19.
Another neighbour reported hearing an “extremely loud and quick bang” one minute later that caused them to “freak out” before they heard two more about 10 minutes later.
Almost 15 minutes later, a call was made to triple-0 by Davies’ mobile phone where a male voice said “get out, f**k off” before cutting out, the document said police will allege in court.
The emergency operator made two attempts to call Davies’ phone but both were unanswered.
In the lead-up to the alleged murder, Mr Baird had not been getting on with his housemates.
Mr Baird was messy and they were poised to kick him out.
At 5.40pm, the housemates were exchanging text messages on the topic.
One of them spotted what looked like a beetroot stain in the courtyard next to two surfboard bags that were concealed by a blue tarpaulin, the document said.
They had no idea the bags contained the bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies and that the stain was their blood.
The housemate took a photo and sent it to the other housemate.
At 8pm, the housemate who received the text returned home to look at the mess.
“The housemate took three photographs of the surfboard bags … and prodded them with their finger,” the document said. “They stated that the bag felt lumpy, not like it had a surfboard inside.”
Sources familiar with the investigation said the housemate was stunned to learn the truth of what was in the bags.
“The housemates took photos on their phone to say ‘look at the mess here’, it wouldn’t even cross a person’s mind that they could really be looking at something so sinister,” the source said.
“There’s such an extreme improbability of a body being in a surf bag that it’s not even a rational thought when normal people would be confronted with such a site,” another said.
Police will allege the youth command cop shot the two men inside the terrace house with his service issued Glock pistol on February 19.
Lamarre-Condon is accused of then taking elaborate steps to cover up the double homicide.
On February 20 — about 24 hours after his death — a text message was sent from Mr Baird’s mobile to his housemates telling them he was moving out and heading to Western Australia.
“Hi both. I’ve hired Air Tasker to come and collect my things. I’ve just got to get someone with a van for my bed but everything else is clear,” the text said.
“I might be doing a road trip to Perth with mates on Thursday night, so should be flying back Sunday and will 100% have it out by then,” the text continued.
At 8.10pm, one of the housemates went to inspect the surfboard bags in the courtyard only to find they were gone.
What began as a missing persons search quickly turned into a murder investigation following a discovery outside Club Cronulla on February 21.
Inside a skip bin, a witness discovered Mr Baird and Mr Davies’ blood soaked belongings.
Five drawers from Mr Baird’s chest of drawers and bedside tables had been dumped in the bin, the documents said.
They included Mr Davies’ bank and ID cards plus his Tag Heuer watch.
There was also a heavily blood soaked doona and blood soaked clothing, a smashed mobile phone, car keys, plus a hi-vis vest inside a bag, which had a sticker on the front that read “Baird, Jesse”.
Police rushed back to the Brown St property.
There, at 11.30am, investigators found pre-hired cleaners, who had mopped half of Mr Baird’s bedroom floor, before being removed by detectives who began searching the scene, the documents said.
“Police made observations of apparent blood staining within the premises and the courtyard,” the police document said it will be alleged in court.
They also found the chest of drawers and the bedside tables, which also had blood stains on them.
The blood was tested and matched that of Mr Baird.
Police also found blood “underneath the floorboards in the kitchen” and blood in Mr Baird’s bedroom.
“A large blue bloodstained tarp was located beneath a trapdoor,” the document said.
Investigators then found a bullet hole in the kitchen floor. Underneath, police found the spent bullet and located a spent cartridge on top of a kitchen cupboard.
Ballistic comparison of the fired cartridge later matched for Lamarre-Condon’s police issued pistol, the document said.
Police were now on the hunt for answers as to why they would later allege Mr Baird was murdered.
They spoke to the TV presenters’ mother who is based in Victoria on February 22.
“She told police her son was being stalked by an ex-police officer known only as ‘Beau’,” the police document said.
“(Mr) Baird told (his mother) that Beau regularly turns up to his house unannounced,” the police document alleged. “She was of the belief, if something had happened to her son, that Beau would be responsible.”
Police got to work tracing Lamarre-Condon, starting with his Uber account.
Uber records showed the 28-year-old cop left Mr Baird’s house to Sydney Airport at 9.20pm on the night of the alleged murder.
There police will allege Lamarre-Condon hired the white Toyota HiAce van he is accused of using to dispose of the bodies and the material in the Cronulla skip bin.
Further evidence emerged on February 20 when a random audit of the firearms safe at the Youth Command unit showed Lamarre-Condon’s pistol “was not accounted for and was absent from its allocated ‘gun peg’,” the document said.
Lamarre-Condon called in sick on February 21 and 22 and told his bosses he had been “offered a position to undergo emergency elective surgery”, the document said.
But the gun had been returned to the station’s safe by February 22 at which point it was seized.
However, the document said the ammunition from the gun “has not been located at this time” leaving detectives unable to “confirm if any rounds are missing”.
By February 22, police were closing in on Lamarre-Condon and he knew it, police will allege.
That day he arrived in the white HiAce at a former police officer friend’s home at Lambton, near Newcastle, and stayed the night.
She later told police that: “Lamarre-Condon explained that the van was full of blood and needed to clean it out,” the document said.
He asked if she had seen the news.
She hadn’t but checked a news site and saw a story about a police officer being a suspect in a double murder.
“When Beau came back in, I said, ‘They f-king think it’s a police officer,’ the document said the woman told police. “Beau panicked again and said, ‘Show me the article’.
“Beau hadn’t wanted to see the articles earlier because he said he wasn’t sure what was a dream and what was real because he hadn’t slept,” police will allege the woman said.
The woman also told police that Lamarre-Condon allegedly said to her that he had driven to a rural location with another female before arriving at her Lambton home.
“Beau said ‘This morning I was floating in a dam’,” the woman told police. “I don’t know if Beau was picturing this, or (if) it was something that he had done.”
The woman told police she asked Lamarre-Condon what he meant.
“Beau said, ‘I drove two and half hours away with a girl to a farm or the countryside’,” the woman told police.
She asked if he meant near Goulburn.
“He said, ‘I don’t know. There was a dam. The body wouldn’t sink’,” police will allege the woman told police detectives.
The woman told police that Lamarre-Condon told her “The girl panicked and wanted to go home” and that he “told her that was fair and that she was never here or part of this”, the document said.
According to the woman’s version given to police, Lamarre-Condon told her that he “drove the girl back home two and a half hours and then I drove back to the dam.”
The woman told police the 28-year-old cop then said “I got it centre and I said to myself that I have to get this sorted and clean up my mess”, the document said.
“He said ‘I am me, but it’s not me’,” the document said the woman told police.
On February 23, police spoke to the other woman who allegedly accompanied Lamarre-Condon to a rural property in Goulburn.
The woman told police Lamarre-Condon instructed her to get out of the van and open a gate where she waited while he drove to a dam, the document said.
When he returned, the woman “noticed that a blue tarp that had been covering ‘things’ in the back of the van was now missing and the van was empty”, the document said.
On February 23, Lamarre-Condon surrendered himself at Bondi Police Station before he was charged with two counts of murder.
After initially refusing to talk to police, he later gave investigators information.
It led to them finding the bodies of the two men, still in the surfboard bags and covered in debris at a property near Bungonia, just outside of Goulburn on Tuesday.
Lamarre-Condon is currently at Silverwater prison and is next due to face court on April 23.
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