Couple’s bodies found
Police uncover remains at second Bungonia property
The bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies have been found more than a week after they were allegedly killed by a serving police officer in Sydney.
The bodies were found at a second property in Bungonia, in NSW’s southern tablelands, on Tuesday. The families have been notified.
Police previously searched two dams at a separate property in the area, near Goulburn, but ceased search operations in the water there on Monday.
NSW police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon remains behind bars on remand after he was charged last week with two counts of murder.
Police allege the officer, who handed himself into Bondi police station, killed the couple in the early hours of February 19.
Police earlier on Tuesday canvassed areas of Grays Point, in the Sutherland Shire, where the Toyota HiAce van rented by the alleged killer was found.
A search was also launched at the Royal National Park after new information was obtained by investigators.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb confirmed on Tuesday that the search, which has stretched from Sydney’s inner west to Newcastle and Goulburn, had widened, telling Nine: “That’s an area of interest for us.”
“Our divers overnight have finished diving in a dam at Bungonia. However, police are still on site conducting line searches in and around the area. There’s still, we believe there’s still evidence in that area that might link the murders and the victims to that scene.”
In a wide-reaching press conference on Monday, NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson revealed officers were investigating whether the couple’s bodies had been relocated.
He also provided grisly new details about the alleged murder. He said there had been reports of gunshots in the area of Mr Baird’s Paddington home on Monday, February 19.
Constable Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have had a discussion with an acquaintance days later about the “death of two individuals” and had travelled to Bungonia with another acquaintance in a van rented from Sydney airport.
Once there, Constable Lamarre-Condon is alleged by Mr Hudson to have “disappeared” into the property with the van before returning some time later and travelling with the acquaintance, a woman, back to Sydney.
The woman is not accused of any wrongdoing.