The chilling timeline
Real talk: the plot thickens in the trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon, the 31-year-old former police officer accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in February 2024. During a dinner in May 2023—nearly nine months before the crime—Lamarre-Condon allegedly laid out a disturbing hypothetical scenario to his close friend, Georgia Cook.
According to Cook's testimony in the NSW supreme court, Lamarre-Condon asked her what she would do if she killed someone and how she would dispose of the remains. When she couldn't answer, he allegedly said: “After I’d killed them I would take their stuff, I would put it in a dumpster, and I would take their bodies in bushland where nobody would ever find them.”
The grim reality
Cook told the jury that the interaction felt “very surreal” and left her genuinely scared, especially given that she knew he was a person of power in the police force. The prosecution contends that this wasn't just idle talk; they allege he followed through on that exact plan after shooting Baird and Davies at Baird’s Paddington home. Prosecutors say he dumped bloodied belongings in a skip bin in Cronulla, while the bodies were eventually discovered in remote bushland near a monastery in Bungonia.
The defense's stance
Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter. His defense team argues that the shootings occurred in self-defense, claiming he had disguised himself as an UberEats rider to enter the home. The crown, however, maintains that the officer had been monitoring Baird from outside his home and was actively planning the murders in early 2024.
Why it matters
This testimony strikes at the heart of the prosecution's case, suggesting premeditation rather than a heat-of-the-moment defensive act. It’s giving classic ‘premeditated villain’ energy, and for the jury, it’s a highkey critical piece of evidence regarding the defendant's state of mind long before the tragedy unfolded.
