Sent texts confuse cops
The man accused of committing a double homicide in Sydney’s inner east allegedly sent multiple text messages from the phone of one of his victims, suggesting he was moving to Perth, days after he was already dead.
Two text messages were allegedly sent from former Channel 10 reporter Jesse Baird’s phone by NSW police officer and accused killer, Beau Lamarre-Condon, telling the alleged murder victim’s housemates he was moving interstate, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The messages reportedly led police sources to believe Mr Baird was still alive. In the first message sent to Mr Baird’s housemates, Mr LamarreCondon allegedly said he intended to put furniture into storage as he was moving to Perth on Thursday.
In the second message he reportedly told the housemates to put the property, including a bed head, out onto the street.
The week before the text messages were sent, Mr Baird’s housemates had reportedly “kicked” him out due to the “messy state” he had left the Paddington property in and told the former entertainment reporter that cleaners would be coming to the property on Thursday.
The discovery of Mr Baird and his partner Luke Davies’ bloodied clothing and belongings in a Cronulla skip bin first alerted police to the couple’s suspicious disappearance on Wednesday.
Lamarre-Condon has since been charged with two counts of murder after he handed himself in to Bondi Police station on Friday morning.
A police source said the messages appeared to be “quite an amateur attempt at creating a story so people would not be suspicious when the victim never returned home,” according to The Daily Telegraph.
“They (the messages) made us think they were still alive,” another officer reportedly said.
Police will allege the celebrity blogger turned accused killer cop murdered the two men inside Mr Baird’s Paddington home sometime between 12am and 5.30am on Tuesday morning and used a hired Toyota HiAce to transport and dispose of the couple’s bodies. The pair’s bodies have not been located but police will allege Mr Lamarre’s police issued-pistol was used to commit the alleged murders.
Mr Lamarre-Condon was due to return to work on Tuesday but called in sick and failed to show up to work the next day.
The pistol, which was allegedly fired inside Mr Baird’s Paddington terrace, was checked back into a suburban police station on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old appeared before Waverley Local Court on Friday afternoon and did not apply for bail.
His case was adjourned to April 23.