Friend tells Beau Lamarre-Condon murder trial of Taylor Swift song in van

A woman who spent time with Beau Lamarre-Condon before the alleged killings' aftermath told the NSW Supreme Court that he played a Taylor Swift song while driving to Bungonia with two bodies in the back of his van. The woman, known to the court under the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy, gave evidence at the trial in which Lamarre-Condon, 31, is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, according to The Guardian.

The prosecution alleges that Lamarre-Condon, a former police officer, shot the two men with his police service weapon in Baird's home in Paddington, Sydney, on 19 February 2024. Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter, meaning unlawful entry into a property. His defence is that the men were killed in self-defence.

Kennedy told the court she believed she was going out for lunch when Lamarre-Condon picked her up in a white van at about 3pm on 21 February 2024, two days after the alleged murders. She said he chose the song "No Body, No Crime" and played it in the car, saying he knew it from Swift's album evermore. She also said she noticed a blue tarp in the back of the van and a lemony smell, as if it had just been cleaned.

Defence lawyer John Stratton SC suggested that Lamarre-Condon lifted a tarpaulin in the van and showed Kennedy Baird's head, and that Kennedy had remarked, "this is like a Taylor Swift song, No Body, No Crime." Kennedy denied both suggestions.

According to Kennedy, the drive of about 150 kilometres from Sydney to Goulburn and Bungonia took around two hours, with Lamarre-Condon repeatedly saying "50 more minutes." The van's windows were open and the air conditioning was on full blast. The car stopped at a Bunnings store in Goulburn, where a sales assistant said two customers claimed they were staying at a friend's farm in Bungonia and had locked themselves out, and suggested an angle grinder. Kennedy paid for the grinder and a padlock because Lamarre-Condon had no cash with him.

At Cella Farm in Bungonia, Lamarre-Condon put garbage bags over the van's number plates and cut the padlock off the gate, cutting himself in the process. He left Kennedy at the farm and drove out of sight behind the house to the larger dam, returning 30 to 40 minutes later.

The bodies of Baird and Davies were found near a monastery at Bungonia, south of Sydney, in surfboard bags eight days after the alleged murders, according to ABC News. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Lamarre-Condon had taken the bodies to the family farm of a man he had met on a dating app.

Another friend who testified said Lamarre-Condon was prepared to do "whatever it took" to get back with Jesse Baird, as 9News Sydney reported.

Lamarre-Condon's case first came before the court in 2025. In October of that year he pleaded not guilty to the murders and, during that appearance, accused NSW police of corruption in an outburst.