Jesse Baird’s housemates unknowingly slept in the house next to the bodies of Baird and her boyfriend, Luke Davies, after the couple were allegedly murdered.
Suspected cop killer Beau Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering the couple at Mr Baird’s rental home in Paddington, Sydney, before dumping their bodies in a shallow grave on the southern tablelands of New South Wales.
The couple were allegedly shot dead in the $3 million terrace house at around 9.50am on February 19.
Police allege Lamarre-Condon later returned with a rented van to dispose of the bodies.
However, in the meantime, Mr Baird’s housemates returned to the house and found it in a disorganized state. 7News reported.
Jesse Baird (right) and Luke Davies (left) were allegedly murdered in Baird’s home on February 19.
Mr Baird’s roommates reportedly saw a red stain, which they assumed was beet juice, in the backyard on the night of the couple’s alleged murder (pictured, a forensics officer at the house).
They saw a red stain in the backyard, but supposedly came to the innocent assumption that Mr. Baird had simply spilled a can of beet juice.
It is believed that that red stain was blood seeping from a blue tarp that covered the couple’s bodies.
The housemates went to sleep that night with the bodies still in the backyard.
Lamarre-Condon allegedly later returned to the house and stuffed the bodies into surfboard bags before removing them.
New South Wales police claim that just two days before the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon bought just one surfboard bag from a shop in Miranda, southeast of Sydney.
However, he returned to buy a second surf bag after the alleged murders.
Police allege that this suggests that Lamarre-Condon only intended to kill Mr Baird, but her boyfriend, Mr Davies, was killed by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Their bodies were allegedly buried under a mound of earth (pictured, to the right of the police officer) along a road in Bungonia. Police had unknowingly walked past the bodies several times earlier in the week during a search at another property about 20 minutes south.
Beau Lamarre-Condon (pictured) is accused of shooting dead TV presenter Jesse Baird and her flight attendant boyfriend Luke Davies.
“We will firmly assert in our case that this murder was premeditated and that the second murder occurred due, unfortunately, to Luke’s appearance at the house,” Deputy Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald told Nine News on Wednesday.
Police are currently treating the alleged double murder as a domestic violence incident.
Mr Baird and Mr Davies the remains were unearthed on Tuesday after being found behind a mound of earth near Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands.
The two men’s bloodied clothes were allegedly thrown into a bin in Cronulla, almost 30 kilometers away, before their bodies were hidden in surfboard bags.
Police allege Lamarre-Condon then rented a white Toyota HiAce van from Sydney Airport and took the bodies about 180 kilometers southwest of Sydney, before burying them in a shallow grave in a fence on Jerrara Road.
The temporary tomb was more of a gravel niche next to the entrance to the church of the Holy Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Fanourios.
Police had unknowingly walked past the bodies several times earlier in the week during a search at another property about 20 minutes south.
A team of police spent Wednesday combing the bush surrounding the site looking for evidence, with the help of a sniffer dog, pickaxes and rakes.
As part of the investigation, several objects found near the bodies have been collected.
Mr. Baird’s heartbroken relatives, who traveled to the area from the interstate, visited the scene under police guard Tuesday night.
Relatives spent about 15 minutes with Mr. Baird’s body before leaving.
Meanwhile, Baird and Davies’ devastated friends gathered on Brontë Beach for a vigil.
The bodies were then taken to Lidcombe mortuary in western Sydney while detectives remained at the scene in Bungonia.
Lamarre-Condon handed himself in to Bondi police station on Thursday last week, before being charged with two counts of murder on Friday.
Police found the remains at 1pm on Tuesday and contacted the families of Baird and Davies moments later.
Lamarre-Condon’s The matter is before the courts.