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‘Killer cop’ told friend ‘nobody would ever find’ body · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristen Amitt with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Bolimar Condon allegedly told a friend
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  Speaker 1: he'd disposed of a body in bushland and dumped their
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  Speaker 1: belongings in rubbish bins to evade capture. Georgia Cooke concluded
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  Speaker 1: her evidence to Lamar Condon's double murder trial on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: He's accused of disguising himself as an Uber Eats driver
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  Speaker 1: and allegedly murdering TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner,
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  Speaker 1: flight attendant Luke Davies, at Baird's Paddington home in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: He's pleaded not guilty to two counts of domestic violence-related
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  Speaker 1: murder and one count of aggravated break and enter. Cook
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  Speaker 1: previously told the court Lamar Condon asked her what she'd
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  Speaker 1: do if he told her he'd killed somebody after his
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  Speaker 1: brief relationship with Jessie Baird ended for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: A voice actor is reading the words spoken in court.
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  Speaker 2: One of the first things he said was, what would
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  Speaker 2: you do if I told you I'd killed somebody? And
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  Speaker 2: I just froze. He said, would you help me hide
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  Speaker 2: the body? And I had said, no, because I don't
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  Speaker 2: want their ghost to haunt me. And then he kind
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  Speaker 2: of laughed it off and was like, Cook.
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  Speaker 1: Also alleged Lamar Condon told her he'd taken a key
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  Speaker 1: to Jessie Baird's Paddington house and broken in, where he
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  Speaker 1: stole a Polaroid camera he'd given Baird as a gift.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, Cook told the jury Lamar Condon also detailed
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  Speaker 1: to her how he'd conceal a murder.
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  Speaker 2: Later in the dinner, he said to me, So if
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  Speaker 2: you did kill someone, what would you do with their bodies?
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  Speaker 2: And I was just like, I don't know. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea. And in response, he said, after I'd
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  Speaker 2: killed them, I would take their stuff, I would put
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  Speaker 2: it in a dumpster, and I would take their bodies
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  Speaker 2: to bushland where no one would ever find them.
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  Speaker 1: Cook told the jury she didn't tell anyone about the
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  Speaker 1: conversation because she was afraid revealing what Lamar Condon allegedly
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  Speaker 1: told her would put her in danger.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to think. Under cross-examination, Cook acknowledged
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  Speaker 2: she continued communicating with Bola Markondon, but said she remained fearful.
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  Speaker 1: She denied her police statement, which was only made four
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  Speaker 1: months after Lamar Condon was arrested and charged with murder,
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  Speaker 1: contained information she'd seen in media reporting.
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  Speaker 2: Of the alleged crimes. When someone says something that scary
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  Speaker 2: or shocking, it's not something that leaves your mind. I
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  Speaker 2: remember it like it was yesterday. After the news had
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  Speaker 2: come out, I was scared. I didn't know what to
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  Speaker 2: do with what I knew. I didn't know if I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be involved. I didn't know. If he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: put away, what would happen to me? That puts me
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  Speaker 2: in a scary position.
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  Speaker 1: More than 30,000 passengers were left stranded after dozens of
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  Speaker 1: transactions comes into effect on October 1, and some businesses
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