Jesse Baird and Luke Davies: Eerie detail about shallow grave where murder-accused Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly dumped the bodies

• Jesse Baird and Luke Davies’ bodies were found on Tuesday 
• Their alleged killer stuffed them in surfboard bags
• Police unknowingly drove past shallow grave while searching nearby property
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The bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies lay hidden for days behind a mound of dirt on a quiet gravel track – with detectives likely passing the site several times as they investigated a nearby location during their week-long search for the two men.

Their remains were unearthed on Tuesday, more than a week after their alleged murder at the hands of Beau Lamarre-Condon – who finally decided to cooperate with police from behind bars after speaking with a lawyer.

Mr Lamarre-Condon – who was a senior constable with NSW Police at the time of the alleged double-murder but has since been stood down without pay – is accused of using his police-issued Glock pistol to shoot the couple in Baird’s rental terrace in Paddington, in Sydney’s inner suburbs, on February 19.

The two men’s bloody clothes were allegedly tossed in a skip bin in Cronulla, almost 30km away, before their bodies were hidden in surfboard bags.

Police allege Mr Lamarre-Condon then hired a white Toyota HiAce van from Sydney Airport and took the bodies about 180km south-west of Sydney to the small town of Bungonia, in the Southern Tablelands, and buried them in a shallow grave on a fence line on Jerrara Road.

Jesse Baird (left) and Luke Davies (right) were allegedly murdered on February 19

Their bodies were allegedly buried under a mound of dirt (pictured, right of the police officer) along a road in Bungonia. Police would have unknowingly driven past the bodies a number of times earlier in the week, during a search of another property about 20 minutes south

The temporary grave site was more of a gravel alcove next to the entrance to the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of Saint Fanourios church.

Police would have unknowingly driven past the bodies a number of times earlier in the week, during a search of another property about 20 minutes south.

A team of police officers spent Wednesday scouring bushland surrounding the site for evidence, with the assistance of a sniffer dog, picks and rakes.

Several items found near the bodies have now been collected as part of the investigation.

The heartbroken relatives of Mr Baird, who travelled to the area from interstate, visited the scene under police guard on Tuesday night.

Relatives spent about 15 minutes with Mr Baird’s body before driving away.

Beau Lamarre-Condon (pictured) is accused of gunning down TV presenter Jesse Baird and his flight attendant boyfriend Luke Davies

Meanwhile, the shattered friends of Mr Baird and Mr Davies gathered at Bronte Beach for a vigil.

The bodies were then taken to Lidcombe morgue, in Sydney’s west, while detectives remained on the scene in Bungonia.

Lamarre-Condon handed himself into Bondi Police Station on Thursday last week, before he was charged with two counts of murder on Friday.

Police found the remains by 1pm on Tuesday and contacted the families of Baird and Davies moments after that.

Lamarre-Condon’s matter is before the courts.

POLICE TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Monday, February 19

9.50am: Gunshots heard in Paddington, Sydney, but not reported to police

9.54am: Call to emergency services made from Jesse Baird’s phone but it disconnected

Lamarre-Condon rents a white van

Tuesday, February 20

Lamarre-Condon makes partial admissions about his role in the deaths of Mr Baird and Mr Davies to a former police officer

Wednesday, February 21

11am: Bloodied belongings of Mr Davies and Mr Baird found in skip bin in the south of Sydney

Around midday, Lamarre-Condon heads south of Sydney to Bungonia with a female acquaintance

He stops at a store and buys an angle grinder and a padlock. He then buys weights and torches

He leaves the acquaintance at the gate of a rural property while he drives off for about 30 minutes

Thursday, February 22

4.30am: Constable Lamarre-Condon leaves the Bungonia area and heads to Newcastle where he uses a hose to clean the rented van

Friday, February 23

5am: He leaves Newcastle and drives to the south of Sydney

10.39am: Lamarre-Condon hands himself into police

2pm: He is charged with two counts of murder and refuses to cooperate with police

Monday, February 26

Police divers search several dams at a remote property in Bungonia, 180km south-west of Sydney, without finding any trace of the missing men

Tuesday, February 27

Two more crime scenes are sealed off at Grays Point, in Sydney’s south, close to Lamarre-Condon’s childhood home and at a location in the Royal National Park

11am: Lamarre-Condon agrees to speak to detectives and assist them in the hunt for the bodies

1pm: Two bodies stuffed into surf bags and partially hidden by rocks and debris are located 20 minutes’ drive away from the Bungonia dams that were searched on Monday

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