In Sydney, a police officer surrendered himself to a station in Bondi and was charged the same day with the murders of two young men — a television presenter and a flight attendant — who had been missing since Monday. The accused, a senior constable, had once been in a relationship with one of the victims, and physical evidence linking him to the deaths was found scattered across the city's suburbs. The bodies have not yet been recovered, leaving families suspended in a grief that cannot fully begin. It is a story about the violence that can follow the end of intimacy, and about the particular
Sydney police officer charged with murdering ex-boyfriend and his new partner
Two men, Luke Davies (Qantas flight attendant) and Jesse Baird (Network 10 television presenter), are missing and presumed dead; families grieving without closure.
They are still grieving without answers
Mark
So a police officer walks into his own station and gets arrested—that's unusual, isn't it? Why would he do that?
Mimi
We don't know his reasoning. The reporting just says he walked in. What matters is that police had already been looking for the two missing men, and the evidence—the blood, the possessions in the bin—was already pointing somewhere.
Luke
Right, and we should be clear: the bodies haven't been found yet. So we have blood evidence, a matched bullet, possessions, and a white van. But the actual cause of death? Still unknown.
Mark
The detective said they need to find the bodies for answers. What answers are still missing?
Mimi
How they died, for one. Whether it was the gun or something else. And practically, the families need to know where their loved ones are. That's not a small thing.
Luke
The timeline is also tight—Monday is when the killings allegedly happened, Wednesday is when the possessions were found. That's a fast discovery. But we're now several days past that, and the bodies are still out there somewhere.
Mark
Multiple crime scenes, though. That suggests this wasn't contained to one place.
Mimi
At least two other locations beyond the Paddington home. The van was in Newcastle. The bin was in Cronulla. It's spread across the city.
Luke
Which also means the investigation is still very active. We don't have a full picture yet—just fragments that point to what happened.
The Pulse
- Two men vanished on a Monday, and for days their families had no answers — only silence where there should have been contact.
- Blood-stained possessions discovered in a beachside bin cracked the case open, leading investigators to a Paddington home where a bullet matched a gun from a police safe.
- A white van rented the night of the alleged killings was found 115 kilometres away in Newcastle, but the bodies it may have carried remain missing.
- The accused officer walked into Bondi police station on Friday morning and was arrested — a former partner of one of the victims now facing double murder charges.
- Police are searching multiple crime scenes across Sydney as detectives stress that finding the remains is essential — not only for evidence, but for the families waiting to grieve.
In Sydney, a police officer surrendered himself to a station in Bondi and was charged the same day with the murders of two young men — a television presenter and a flight attendant — who had been missing since Monday. The accused, a senior constable, had once been in a relationship with one of the victims, and physical evidence linking him to the deaths was found scattered across the city's suburbs. The bodies have not yet been recovered, leaving families suspended in a grief that cannot fully begin. It is a story about the violence that can follow the end of intimacy, and about the particular weight of loss when there is nothing yet to bury.
On a Friday morning in Bondi, a 28-year-old senior constable walked into a police station and was arrested. By the end of the day, he had been charged with two murders. The men he is accused of killing — Jesse Baird, a television presenter with Network 10, and Luke Davies, a Qantas flight attendant — had been missing since Monday. The officer had previously dated Baird.
The investigation began to take shape on Wednesday, when blood-stained possessions belonging to the two men were found in a large bin in Cronulla, a beachside suburb south of Sydney. That discovery led police to Davies's home in Paddington, where they found a single bullet and significant amounts of blood. The bullet matched a firearm registered to the accused officer, retrieved from a police safe.
Authorities believe the officer rented a white van on the night of the alleged killings — the same Monday the men disappeared. That van was located Friday morning in Newcastle, roughly 115 kilometres north of Sydney. The bodies, however, have not been found. Police are working across multiple crime scenes throughout the city.
Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty spoke plainly about what is at stake: locating the remains matters not only for establishing cause of death, but for the families, who are grieving without the ability to say goodbye. The search continues, and with it, the wait.
A Sydney police officer walked into a station in Bondi on Friday morning and was arrested. By day's end, he faced two murder charges. The men he is accused of killing—Luke Davies, a Qantas flight attendant, and Jesse Baird, a television presenter with Network 10—had been missing for days. Blood found at a home in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney, set the investigation in motion.
The senior constable, identified by media as Beau Lamarre and 28 years old, is alleged to have killed both men on Monday. Police say he then rented a white van that same evening to move the bodies. The specifics of how the two died remain unclear to investigators. What is known comes from physical evidence scattered across Sydney's geography: possessions belonging to the men, stained with blood, turned up Wednesday morning in a large bin in Cronulla, another beachside suburb several kilometers south. That discovery led police to Davies's home in Paddington, where they found a single bullet and substantial amounts of blood. The bullet matched a gun belonging to the officer, recovered from a police safe.
The white van, rented on the night of the alleged killings, was located Friday morning in Newcastle, roughly 115 kilometers north of Sydney. But the bodies themselves have not been found. Police have identified crime scenes at multiple locations across the city. Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty, speaking to reporters, underscored the urgency of locating the remains. "It's really important that we do locate the bodies, not only for the cause of death but the answers for the family, because they are still grieving," he said. The families are waiting—not only for answers about what happened, but for the ability to grieve with some measure of closure.
Beard, 28, worked as a television presenter. Davies was a flight attendant. They had been in a relationship. The officer accused of their deaths had dated Baird until some months before the alleged murders. The investigation now spans multiple suburbs and involves a missing van, missing bodies, and the question of how a police officer came to be accused of a double homicide. The search continues.
Notable Quotes
It's really important that we do locate the bodies, not only for the cause of death but the answers for the family, because they are still grieving.— Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty
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