‘Police close to finding bodies’ of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies says Gary Jubelin

A former NSW Police homicide detective says police would be closing on finding the bodies of murdered Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

One of Australia’s most well-known former cops says investigators are close to retrieving the bodies of allegedly murdered Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

Former NSW Police homicide detective Gary Jubelin told Channel 9’s Today this morning: “I think we’re in a good position to recover the bodies.”

The bodies of Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, have still not been found, with police divers on Monday searching a farm with multiple dams in Bungonia in regional NSW.

Police allege one of its own, Beau Lamarre-Condon, made “partial admissions” to a friend about his involvement in the alleged shooting murders on February 19 and have charged him with two counts of murder.

He is refusing to speak to investigators on legal advice.

Former cop Gary Jubelin Picture: Sam Ruttyn

“(Police) certainly had to hold information back and release the information when they think it’s tactically the best time for that information to go out,” Mr Jubelin said.

“But I’ve got to say, like with all the things that are coming in – you can never say with certainty – but I think they’re very much on track to recovering.”

Police believe the celebrity blogger-turned-cop may have moved the bodies several times in the days before he handed himself in, fearing a woman who unwittingly helped him get access to the Bungonia property would alert police.

The woman, an acquaintance of Lamarre-Condon who has not been identified, accompanied him to the property, 200km southwest of Sydney, on Wednesday last week, apparently unaware the bodies of Mr Davies and Mr Baird were allegedly in the back of the rented Toyota HiAce.

Police say she is co-operating with them and is not a suspect.

Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird (right) and Brockenwood Winery in the Hunter Valley, posted February 7, 2024. Picture: Instagram

Along the way, police said the pair stopped at a Goulburn hardware store to buy an angle grinder and a padlock.

When they reached the property – which police believe Lamarre-Condon had previously visited through a former relationship – he allegedly used the angle grinder to cut the existing padlock on the gate and left the woman there while he continued on down to the dam.

When he returned half an hour later, police said Lamarre-Condon replaced the cut padlock with the new one and they drove back to Sydney in the van.

A dam where police searched on a farm near the Southern Tablelands village of Bungonia, looking for the bodies of couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Police at a roadblock on Hazelton Rd, Bungonia, where they were searching a nearby property and two dams for the bodies of couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Police allege the constable drove back to the property from Sydney later that night with torches borrowed from a friend, stopping at 11pm to buy weights from a department store.

At 4.30am on Thursday, he left Bungonia and spent time around Sydney before driving to New­castle, where he went to a friend’s home and asked for a hose to clean the van, police say.

Police said he stayed in Newcastle until 5am Friday, when he drove to Sydney and at 10.39am, he walked into Bondi police station.

Police have turned their attention to a Grays Points property, in southern Sydney, as part of a search for the couple. The property is Lamarre-Condon’s family home.

On Monday afternoon officers requested CCTV footage from residents in the area — particularly those along Dents Creek — taken on Wednesday and Thursday last week.

-with Heath Parkes-Hupton