Former officer questioned phone and car tracking before February double homicide

Senior constable Beau Lamarre-Condon approached colleague Alexandra Scobie in late January to ask if a disabled phone could still yield records and whether hire-car movements could be monitored. He later told her he would not do anything illegal. Three weeks after that conversation, Lamarre-Condon is charged with the murders of Jesse Baird, his former partner, and Luke Davies, Baird's new partner, both shot with his police pistol in February 2024.

The bodies were left in surfboard bags in the courtyard of Baird's house, where a housemate later noticed red liquid leaking from the bags, assuming it was rusted water. The bags were removed the next morning and the remains were transported about 200 km away, concealed with sticks and rocks. The case is being tried before a NSW Supreme Court jury, with the defense claiming self-defence and panic-driven cleanup.