Image: NSW Police have located the bodies of two missing men near the Southern Highlands town of Bungonia. Dean Lewins, AAP
Human remains have been found at a property in rural NSW in the police search for the bodies of Sydney couple, Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
The remains were found at Bungonia near Goulburn, around 185 kilometres south of Sydney at around 1pm on Tuesday.
“We are very confident that we have located Luke and Jesse,” said Commissioner Karen Webb in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
“I’d like to pass on my condolences to the Davies and Baird families.”
Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said that “arrangements have been made for the family to travel down to the Goulburn area and we’ll provide that ongoing support as we need to”.
NSW Senior Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon, who was charged with the murders of Baird and Davies, pointed the investigation team to the location of their bodies.
The remains were found around 20 minutes away from the rural property in Bungonia that was originally the focus of police investigations on Sunday and Monday. The police said they located two surf bags, which were used to transport the bodies from Baird’s Paddington home, and it was covered with debris.
“Investigators established a crime scene at a second property at Bungonia, this afternoon,” a NSW Police spokesperson said in a statement earlier in the afternoon.
Accused Travelled In White Van To Rural NSW Property
Lamarre-Condon is accused of using his police handgun to shoot the couple at Baird’s Paddington home on February 19, 2024.
The next day Lamarre-Condon hired a white van from Sydney airport. He also allegedly made a “partial admission” to an acquaintance of having been involved in the death of two individuals.
NSW police launched its investigations after bloodied clothing and personal items were found in a skip bin in Cronulla.
Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have taken the help of a female acquaintance to buy an angle grinder and padlock from a local hardware store before driving to the rural property at Bungonia.
According to police, Lamarre-Condon and the female acquaintance left for Sydney and he later returned to the rural property in Bungonia, after having purchased two torches and weights.
Lamarre-Condon left the area around 4.30 am on February 22 and visited the Newcastle area before returning to Sydney and handing himself to police on Friday, February 23 morning.
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