Police said that a triple-zero call originated from Jesse Baird’s phone as divers left the dam site.
Police in Sydney have identified Beau Lamarre-Condon as the man responsible for the murder of Jesse Baird and his partner, Luke Davies.
A triple-zero call was made from Baird’s phone four minutes after Lamarre-Condon’s police-issued gun was fired, allegedly killing them.
The phone call disconnected before anything was said or heard, and gunshots were heard from the Paddington home.
Police divers spent this morning searching for the couple’s bodies in two dams at a Southern Tablelands property but have since left.
Operational support group officers are scouring about 180 acres of adjacent land and may continue into the evening and Tuesday morning.
Lamarre-Condon is believed to have hired a white van from Sydney Airport last Monday and made a partial admission to an acquaintance that he had been involved in the death of two people.
Police believe that on Wednesday, the same day Baird and Davies’ bloodied clothes were found in a skip bin in Cronulla, Lamarre-Condon drove to Bungonia, about 33 kilometers south of Goulburn, with a female friend in the white van, potentially transporting the couple’s bodies.
The pair bought an angle grinder and a new padlock at Bunnings in Goulburn sometime Wednesday evening before travelling to the Bungonia property, which police believe Lamarre-Condon was familiar with because of a prior relationship.
The woman has told police she was not aware of his alleged crimes or what he was doing on the property.
There is no suggestion the woman is involved in any wrongdoing, and police said she had cooperated fully with their investigation.
After using the angle grinder to cut the lock on the gate to the property, police believe Lamarre-Condon left the female friend at the gate while he went into the property for about half an hour.
The new padlock was then used to lock the gate after he returned.
The focus of Monday’s search was a property called “Cella Farm”, 33 kilometers south of Goulburn, where two dams are located.
Police are concerned that the bodies may have been moved from the Bungonia address and disposed of at a different location during a gap in the timeline.
Lamarre-Condon’s former relationship with Baird is a key part of the investigation into the deaths, which NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb described as an alleged “crime of passion.”
Police are investigating earlier incidents involving Lamarre-Condon at the Paddington home, including a time he allegedly entered the property to access Baird’s phone.
