Criminologist reveals what's next for police officer charged with the murders of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

A top criminologist has revealed the next step for investigators after the remains of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were discovered inside a shallow bush grave after they were allegedly murdered by a NSW police officer.

Xanthe Mallett told Sunrise police would now build a brief of evidence against Constable Beaumont Lamarre-Condon.

The 28-year-old has been charged with the murders of Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, and is currently behind bars in Silverwater jail in Sydney’s west while his matter remains before the courts.

The bodies of former TV reporter Jesse Baird (right), 26, and his flight attendant partner Luke Davies (left), 29, were discovered in surf bags buried on a property in Bungonia on Wednesday

Xanthe Mallett, a leading criminologist and forensic anthropologist, said police would now build a brief of evidence against Beaumont Lamarre-Condon

Police allege the celebrity-chaser-turned-cop shot the couple with his service weapon at the Paddington home Mr Baird was renting on Monday morning.

He allegedly then dumped the mens’ bodies on a rural property in Bungonia, in the Southern Tablelands, sometime between Wednesday morning and Thursday night.

‘Police have to build a strong set of evidence against Jesse, a brief of evidence will be compiled, that will be handed up to the defence and at that stage we may hear more about some of the information that has come to light,’ Dr Mallett said.

‘So we’re looking kind of months into the future when we may reach what we call a committal hearing when we get to hear about some of that evidence.’

Lamarre-Condon was arrested and charged on Friday after handing himself into Bondi police station following a highly publicised search for the missing couple.

At 11am on Wednesday, investigators visited Lamarre-Condon in jail where he allegedly told them where Bairds’ and Davies’ bodies were buried.

The bodies were later found in surf bags that were located close to a fence-line, partially hidden by rocks and debris.

They had the information to make the double murder charge very early on even without the body,’ the criminologist said.

Police are still at the Bungonia property where the painstaking task of collecting evidence continues.

‘Our focus today will be on continuing the search in the area,’ NSW Police commissioner Karen Webb said.

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, 124 miles 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’s drive away from the Bungonia dams that were searched on Monday

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