Bodies Of Missing Jesse Baird, Boyfriend Found In Surf Bags After Policeman Ex Speaks Up
The bodies of TV presenter Jesse Baird and his flight attendant boyfriend Luke Davies, who went missing on Feb. 19, have been found by police.
On Tuesday, New South Wales (NSW) Police Commissioner Karen Webb announced in a press conference an update on the search for Baird and Davies after receiving reports that human remains had been found in the Goulburn region.
"We are very confident that we have located Luke and Jesse. This information did come with the assistance of the accused, for which we are very grateful, and I'm sure the families are grateful," Webb said.
Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty added that the missing bodies were discovered on a property in Bungonia. They were inside two surf bags covered in rock and debris.
The police believe that the surf bags were used to transport the bodies of the deceased couple in a white van from Baird's home in Paddington, where they were believed to be murdered, per the BBC.
This update comes after police officer Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, who once dated Baird, finally cooperated with the investigation and disclosed where the missing bodies were located.
Baird and Davies were last spotted attending pop icon Pink's "Summer Carnival" stadium tour in Sydney on Feb. 18, per the TV presenter's Instagram post.
A day after, gunshots were reportedly heard by Baird's neighbors at his Paddington home at around 9:50 a.m. Australia's main emergency service number, 000, also received a call from Baird's phone at 9:54 a.m., but it disconnected before anything was heard, according to 9News.
A used cartridge was discovered at Baird's home days later, and it was linked to a service pistol signed out by Lamarre-Condon from the Miranda Police Station.
On Feb. 20, the service pistol was returned to the police station, while Baird's police officer ex partially admitted to an acquaintance that he was involved in the deaths of two people.
On Feb. 21, the police launched a missing person investigation and notified the Homicide Squad after bloodied items of Baird and Davies were found in a skip bin in Cronulla.
On the same day, the crime scene was established at Baird's home after discovering a "significant" amount of blood in the premises.
Further investigation was conducted until the bodies were located in Bungonia on Tuesday.
The BBC reported that Baird and Davies' case appeared to be the first suspected murder carried out by a New South Wales police officer in decades.
This also reportedly prompted an independent review into the police officers' access to firearms outside their signed hours.