\u201cGoodbyes don\u2019t necessarily mean forever, nor is it always the end. It can simply mean I\u2019ll miss you until we meet again.\u201d <\/p>\n
Beau Lamarre-Condon sent this quote to TV presenter Jesse Baird after the journalist broke things off with him for the first time in April 2023, as he was not ready for a long-term relationship.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate you being vulnerable and sharing your thoughts with me \u2026 Whether that means we are in each other\u2019s lives or not in the future, we need to trust in that \u2026 Goodbye Jesse,\u201d Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly wrote. <\/p>\n
Mr Baird could not have known at the time that the offhand comment about meeting again would lead to him being dragged through nearly a year of alleged stalking and break-ins before his eventual death. <\/p>\n
Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Baird and the man\u2019s new partner, Luke Davies, on February 19, 2024.<\/p>\n
He remained stony-faced in the dock as his behaviour in the lead up to the alleged killings was described as \u201cobsessive\u201d, \u201cjealous\u201d and \u201cweird\u201d by prosecutors and even some of his old friends and colleagues during the first two weeks of his murder trial before the NSW Supreme Court. <\/p>\n
\u2018Is this c**t serious\u2019<\/p>\n
Mr Lamarre-Condon told a series of people he had gone through Mr Baird\u2019s phone and blocked other men or deleted messages without his knowledge, the jury was told.<\/p>\n
The jury was shown two photographs of a hand holding Mr Baird\u2019s phone in April before his first break-up with Mr Lamarre-Condon, with the phone displaying a message the journalist had sent to a man explaining that things with Mr Lamarre-Condon were \u201cvery casual\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former officer allegedly sent the photo of Mr Baird\u2019s phone to his friend and fellow police officer Alexandra Scobie, quoting the words \u201cvery casual\u201d before asking \u201cis this c**t serious?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s downplaying it,\u201d Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly wrote.<\/p>\n
Hiding the bodies<\/p>\n
They broke up shortly afterwards, and it wasn\u2019t long before Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly told his friend Georgia Cook that he\u2019d been \u201cwatching\u201d Mr Baird, using his mother\u2019s car and wearing a black hoodie so Mr Baird wouldn\u2019t recognise him, the jury was told.<\/p>\n
Over a Thai dinner, Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly told her he watched Mr Baird have sex with other men and on one occasion broke into his house.<\/p>\n
The conversation shifted at some point, with Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly telling Ms Cook that if he killed somebody he would put their things in a dumpster and \u201ctake their bodies to bushland where nobody would ever find them\u201d.<\/p>\n
In August that year, he allegedly broke into Mr Baird\u2019s home with a key he stole, with Mr Baird waking to find someone standing next to his bed.<\/p>\n
Less than a year later, he disguised himself as an Uber eats rider before allegedly murdering Mr Baird and Mr Davies and dumping their bloodied belongings in a skip bin at Club Cronulla in Sydney\u2019s south and later dumping their bodies outside the fence line of a Greek monastery in Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands.<\/p>\n
By that stage, Mr Baird had not spoken with the former officer in months, having cut all contact with him in November 2023 after he discovered Mr Lamarre-Condon had been going through his phone.<\/p>\n
Mr Lamarre-Condon called Mr Baird a \u201cmanipulative player\u201d after this final break-up before claiming in texts to a man Mr Baird was casually dating that the journalist had led him on and \u201cgaslit\u201d him, the jury was told.<\/p>\n
The court was told he then tried to blame his behaviour on a fake cancer diagnosis in a message purportedly from his friend spanning more than 1600 words as \u201cone last try to win Jesse back\u201d.<\/p>\n
Within days of that message, he asked a friend if her ex-boyfriend could get him a gun, the jury was told.<\/p>\n
Cop\u2019s \u2018murder\u2019 chat before alleged killings<\/p>\n
The day before couple\u2019s deaths, Mr Lamarre-Condon is accused of telling a colleague that he thought \ufeffPaul Thijssen, who brutally murdered Lilie James with a hammer inside St Andrew\u2019s Cathedral School in Sydney\u2019s CBD in October 2023, was \u201cstupid\u201d for being caught carrying out the killing on CCTV.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Former police officer Ben Higginson told the jury he was speaking with Mr Lamarre-Condon about the 2023 murder during a shift on February 18, 2024, as he had worked on the investigation.<\/p>\n
They also spoke about what police look for in suspicious deaths in murders, but he didn\u2019t think the exchange was out of the ordinary at the time as officers often talk about work.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thought Paul was stupid for doing it on CCTV, and asked me if he hadn\u2019t murdered Lilie James and committed suicide, would he have got away with it,\u201d Mr Higginson said.<\/p>\n
Mr Higginson told the jury Mr Lamarre-Condon was \u201cpretty blase\u201d during the conversation, which he finds \u201cconcerning\u201d upon reflection.<\/p>\n
Bone fragment, bloodied shoe prints <\/p>\n
Hundreds of gruesome crime scene photos were shown in court, including some of a fragment of Mr Davies\u2019 bone found in the Cronulla bin along with the bloodied items two days after the couple\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n
The venue\u2019s greenkeeper made the grisly find, with the jury told shoe prints on a bloodied quilt were consistent with shoes found near the Greek monastery where Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly dumped the bodies.<\/p>\n
Bloodied AFL flags and a slew of AFL merchandise were also found in the bin, with the jury previously told Mr Baird was an AFL goal umpire.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s DNA was found on a series of the items, according to a forensic report.<\/p>\n
Cop\u2019s \u2018weird\u2019 questions<\/p>\n
Hundreds of photos of three key vehicles in the case were shown to the jury, with Mr Lamarre-Condon accused of swapping his Tesla at a staging point in Kensington for a Mazda hired under his mother\u2019s name on the morning of the couple\u2019s deaths. <\/p>\n
Forensic reports have revealed Mr Davies\u2019 blood was found in the Tesla, while both his and Mr Baird\u2019s DNA were found in the Mazda and a van he is accused of hiring to move the couple\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n
Ms Scobie told the jury how nearly a year before the alleged murders, Mr Lamarre-Condon asked her \u201cweird\u201d questions about whether hire cars can be tracked and if call charge records still show up if a phone is switched off. <\/p>\n
\u201cOh don\u2019t freak out, I\u2019m just asking \u2026 I promise I\u2019m not doing anything illegal,\u201d Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly told her.<\/p>\n
The following year, she was unknowingly tasked with gathering CCTV related to the investigation into the couple\u2019s disappearance, with Ms Scobie telling the court once she overheard that her then-friend was the suspect she removed herself from the probe to avoid a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
$1500 Bunnings shopping spree <\/p>\n
Receipts allegedly revealed Mr Lamarre-Condon spent nearly $1500 at Bunnings on bleach, disposable gloves, and concrete among other items in the days after the couple\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s alleged he stuffed the bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies in surfboard bags and tried to sink them in a dam at a farm near Goulburn in the NSW Southern Tablelands before dumping them near the monastery, having poured concrete mix into the bags along with weights.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Their bodies weren\u2019t found until nearly a week after their deaths, but the skip bin discovery led police to Mr Baird\u2019s home on February 21.<\/p>\n
CCTV played to the jury shows officers arriving to find cleaners at the home who had been hired by Mr Baird\u2019s flatmates, as he was due to move to a different sharehouse the day after his death.<\/p>\n
A detective asks the cleaners to \u201cstop\u201d, as the home was being declared a crime scene.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve just got information that there might be some information here, some evidence for us,\u201d the detective said.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege the crime scene at Mr Baird\u2019s home had \u201cchanged\u201d by the time investigators were able to examine it. <\/p>\n
\u2018Missed\u2019 bullet hole<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s DNA was allegedly found in blood samples taken from the home and subfloor, but a crucial piece of evidence was \u201cmissed\u201d in the 2024 investigation. <\/p>\n
The jury was told how a bullet hole from Mr Baird\u2019s bedroom door was only discovered in July of this year, as it had been covered by a hook, with prosecutors alleging Mr Lamarre-Condon bought a mounting hook from Kmart after he shot Mr Davies through the door as he tried to call triple-0. <\/p>\n
But Mr Lamarre-Condon\u2019s legal team allege he acted in self-defence, claiming that Mr Davies shot himself during a struggle after his gun earlier \u201cwent off\u201d twice and fatally wounded Mr Baird. <\/p>\n
NSW Police Senior Sergeant Bronwyn Lansley, the lead investigator who examined Mr Baird\u2019s home in 2024, agreed during cross-examination that no bullet, or mark indicating an impact from a bullet, was found in the bedroom. <\/p>\n
She also agreed that testing undertaken on Mr Lamarre-Condon\u2019s gun could not exclude Mr Davies as the \u201cmajor contributor\u201d to DNA found on the grip and trigger of the firearm.<\/p>\n
Mr Lamarre-Condon nodded in the dock as his barrister cross-examined Ms Lansley, at times making notes. <\/p>\n
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