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Speaker 1: From The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey. We're hoping you're having

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Speaker 1: a great holiday break and today we're bringing you one

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Speaker 1: of our favorite episodes from the year. This episode originally

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Speaker 1: aired on February twenty six after former New South Wales

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Speaker 1: police officer bo Lamar Condon was charged with the murder

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Speaker 1: of TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner, flight attendant

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Speaker 1: Luke Davies. The matter has moved slowly through the courts

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Speaker 1: this year, and Lamar Condon has yet to enter a plea.

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Speaker 1: The Front will return with all new episodes on Monday,

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Speaker 1: January thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: When celebrities like American reality star Courtney Kardashian come to

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Speaker 2: places like Australia, their rental homes and hotels are surrounded

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Speaker 2: by two types of people working paparazzi photographers, some of

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Speaker 2: whom fly around the world stalking their prey, and celebrity fans.

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Speaker 3: I got the three they got street the street, you

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Speaker 2: The celebrity fans are ordinary people who work out where

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Speaker 2: celebrities will be staying, or dining or shopping. Once we

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Speaker 2: would have called them autograph hunters. Now they're looking for

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Speaker 2: one thing only, the most valuable commodity of all in

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Speaker 2: this social media age, a selfie. Courtney Kardashian was in

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Speaker 2: Sydney with her husband Travis Barker earlier this month, and

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Speaker 2: mobbing her along with the paps and the other celebrity fans,

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Speaker 2: was a darkheaded guy aged in his late twenties.

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Speaker 4: Work there love for It.

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Speaker 2: His name is bo Lamar Condon and he got a

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Speaker 2: selfie with Kardashian which he uploaded to his Instagram to

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Speaker 2: go with the shots of him with Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga,

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Speaker 2: Dua Lipa, lots of the world's biggest names. But the

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Speaker 2: thing that makes bau Lamar Condon different is that he's

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Speaker 2: a serving New South Wales police officer.

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Speaker 4: It was as if he was essentially hanging out quote

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Speaker 4: unquote backstage with them, but the reality of it all

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Speaker 4: was that he'd spent hours waiting outside her house and

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Speaker 4: followed her to take a quick three second selfie with her.

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Speaker 4: It really gives a fascinating insight into his mind.

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Speaker 2: Liam Mendez is a reporter with The Australian. He first

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Speaker 2: met bo Lamar around ten years ago for the first

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Speaker 2: time at a movie premiere where Liam was taking photograph.

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Speaker 4: Lamar Condon was in his late teens, quite skinny and scrawny,

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Speaker 4: which is obviously quite different to his appearance now. But

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Speaker 4: what really stood out to me was his pure obsession

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Speaker 4: with certain celebrities. He would spend hours at red carpets,

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Speaker 4: airports and hotels waiting to get photographs with these celebrities.

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Speaker 4: And the interesting thing is is that he built this

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Speaker 4: that he was hanging out with them. He also asked

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Speaker 4: me to photograph his twentieth birthday party to.

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Speaker 2: The media in Sydney. Bolamar Condon has seemed a bit

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Speaker 2: of a curiosity, this slightly eccentric, seeming young corp.

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Speaker 4: Another interesting part of him was his social media profiles,

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Speaker 4: where he had all of these photographs of him apparently

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Speaker 4: jet setting away on private jets and he was carrying

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Speaker 4: expensive designerags, but in reality he was driving around in

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Speaker 4: a twenty twelve model Gray Holden cruise. He really wanted

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Speaker 4: to paint a picture of himself online. It was a

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Speaker 2: A few years ago, a different kind of video of

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Speaker 2: The video showed Lamar Condon in Darlinghurst, inner City, Sydney,

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Speaker 2: in his police uniform, which in the New South Wales

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Speaker 2: Police includes a taser, capsicum spray and a semi automatic

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Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty. Lamar Condon is shouting, put your hands

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Speaker 2: is the taser as Lamar Condon fires it in close

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Speaker 2: proximity to the man, Chris Bradshaw, who has his hands

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Speaker 2: intimidation and resisting a rest. Lamar Condon gave evidence at

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Speaker 2: his trial and the police investigation cleared Lamar Condon of

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Speaker 2: any wrongdoing. And then just in the past few days,

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Speaker 2: Lamar Condon's name was suddenly making national news. He was

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Speaker 2: the person of interest in the disappearance of a Sydney couple.

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Speaker 2: TV presenter Jessebaird and his boyfriend Luke Davies.

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Speaker 1: Police have searched a home here on Wait Avenue in

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Speaker 5: Just twenty six Jessebaird had launched a promising television career backshape.

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Speaker 5: An alleged killer and a wanted man strolling barefoot through

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Speaker 5: a suburban street in grays Point. This is New South Wales,

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Speaker 5: cop Beau Lamar Condon and the net is tightening.

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Speaker 2: On Wednesday morning, a worker was putting some rubbish in

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Speaker 2: items as belonging to Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. That

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Speaker 2: led them to Bird's home in Paddington, close to the city,

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Speaker 2: where they found large amounts of blood. The afternoon, everyone,

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Speaker 2: this is Homicide Squad Commander Danny Doherty.

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Speaker 3: Detective Superintendent Danny Dorlity Commander Homicide Squad, State Crime Command.

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Speaker 3: This morning, just after ten thirty am, police arrested a

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Speaker 3: twenty eight year old man in relation to the suspicious

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Speaker 3: disappearance of two men from Paddington. He was arrested at Bondi,

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Speaker 3: taking the Waveley Police station place in custody. The update

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Speaker 2: Forensics officers searching the house found a spent cartridge from

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Speaker 2: a gun, not just any gun, a police issue glock.

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Speaker 3: One of the main line of the quis would be

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Speaker 2: It's important to note both of mar Condon has been

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Speaker 2: charged but hasn't yet entered a plea to the chargers,

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Speaker 2: and of course, until the matter reaches court, these are

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Speaker 2: unproven allegations. One of those police allegations will be that

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Speaker 2: Lamar Condon checked the glock out of the station where

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Speaker 2: he works in a youth command engaging with at risk

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Speaker 2: young people before committing the murders, then checking it back

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Speaker 2: in to another station. It'll also be alleged he was

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Speaker 2: previously in a relationship with Jessebaird. Coming up what happens

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Speaker 2: next and why this case is deeply sensitive for the

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Speaker 2: police and the victim's community. While I've got you, The

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Speaker 2: Australian has been breaking all the news on this story

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Speaker 2: back after this break. There have been big developments in

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Speaker 2: this case and you can check out the latest at

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Speaker 2: the Australian dot com dot au right now. But on Friday,

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Speaker 2: police said Bolomar Condon was refusing to reveal anything, so

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Speaker 3: A say, we believe we've got sufficient evidence the charge,

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Speaker 3: but in terms of information that we've received directly from

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Speaker 2: Danny Doherty said police weren't yet ready to declare a

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Speaker 2: cause of death. What police are alleging is that Lamar

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Speaker 2: Condon fired his weapon at the Paddington house and they're

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Speaker 2: alleging he killed both Davies and Bed and took their

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Speaker 2: from near Sydney Airport. There are allegations Lamar Condon then

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Speaker 2: sent messages from Jessebaird's phone telling Jesse's housemates he'd decided

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Speaker 2: message purporting to be from Jesse asked the housemates to

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Speaker 2: put the furniture out on the street. On Friday, Lamar

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Speaker 2: Condon turned himself into police and was arrested. Now he's

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Speaker 2: appearance in the notorious Metropolitan Remand and Reception Center in

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Speaker 2: Sydney's Silver Water Jail. When cops go to jail, they're

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Speaker 2: generally put in protective custody in a cell by themselves

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Speaker 2: All this is happening in a place and at a

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Speaker 2: time that's very meaningful for the LGBTQI community. Paddington, where

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Speaker 2: the murders allegedly happened, is right at the heart of

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Speaker 2: the gay community, and it's the spiritual home of the

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Speaker 2: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Marti Gras, a month long festival

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Speaker 2: that's happening right now. The famous Mardi Gras parade is

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Speaker 2: this Saturday March too. The parade's a celebration these days,

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Speaker 2: but for many years it was a protest against discrimination

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Speaker 2: and violence suffered by queer people, especially at the hands

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Speaker 2: of police. At the first march back in nineteen seventy eight,

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Speaker 4: Nope, they can't hear a word. You're sad, But I'll

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Speaker 4: tell you what the police marching that is coming up here.

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Speaker 4: Twelve and a half thousand reasons to smile.

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Speaker 2: The marches in Blue include both gay and lesbian liaison

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Speaker 2: officers who work directly with the community, and the most

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Speaker 2: senior police all the way up to Commissioner Karen Webb,

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Speaker 2: the first top cop ever to join the march. Web

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Speaker 2: community after a special inquiry found police were often indifferent, negligent, dismissive,

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Speaker 2: or even hostile to the families of queer people murdered

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Speaker 2: in hate crimes in decades past. Web will be marching

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Speaker 2: this Saturday too, with a community that hasn't forgotten the past,

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Speaker 2: and which is waiting for answers about the loss of

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Speaker 2: two much loved young men.

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