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The search for the bodies of dead Sydney couple Luke Davies and Jesse Baird has led police to a remote area location south of Goulburn.

Police have confirmed they are searching a property on Hazelton Road at Bungonia, two hours south-west of Sydney, where a new crime scene has been established.

Police divers have also been called in to help.

A composite image of murder victims Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird
Police have alleged Luke Davies (left) and his partner Jesse Baird were murdered.(Instagram)

Twenty-eight-year-old Police Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon has been charged with two counts of murder over the men’s deaths.

Mr Lamarre-Condon is a former partner of Mr Baird.

The search of the property was suspended overnight and will resume this morning.

The area under investigation is hundreds of kilometres away from the initial search locations in Sydney and Newcastle.

Police divers scoured a small waterway in suburban Newcastle on Saturday for evidence as a wider search continued for the bodies of the two men.

It is alleged Mr Baird and his partner Mr Davies were killed last Monday by Mr Lamarre-Condon in the home they shared in Paddington in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

A detective carries evidence bags out of Paddington house where an elleged double murder took palce

Detectives returned to the Paddington property early on Sunday morning.(ABC News)

Detectives have searched the property a number of times as they look for clues to the suspected murders of Mr Baird, a presenter at the Ten television network, and Mr Davies, a Qantas flight attendant

Detectives returned to Mr Baird’s Paddington home, where large amounts of blood were found last week, as part of their investigations on Sunday.

A number of floral tributes have been left outside the house.

Flowers left on a gate outside a house

Floral tributes have been left outside the Paddington home of Jesse Baird.(ABC News: Helena Burke)

Police Commissioner Karen Webb said investigators were “working around the clock” to resolve “many unanswered questions” relating to the case but could not comment further as the matter was before the courts.

Police have said they believe Mr Lamarre-Condon was in Newcastle on Thursday night prior to handing himself in to police station in Sydney on Friday morning.

They say their priority is to locate the bodies of the two men and establish a timeline of movement in relation to a white van that was hired from Mascot on Monday evening.

Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty from the Homicide Squad said a projectile and casing found in Mr Baird’s Paddington home was a ballistic match to a police-issued handgun and although no bodies have been found the men are believed to be dead.

Police allege the men were killed in the Paddington home and say a “strong” line of inquiry is that the police handgun was discharged at that property.

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