The court has adjourned for the day and is expected to resume at 10.30am on Tuesday.
Revealed: What Greg Lynn told police about his encounter with missing campers
Accused high country killer Greg Lynn told police he knew he was on their radar and felt like he was on The Truman Show after people took a "very unusual interest in me" as media interest in the missing campers case intensified.
Accused High Country killer Greg Lynn's police interview has been played to a jury for the first time.
The former airline pilot, 57, is standing trial in the Supreme Court for the murders of Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, who vanished during a camping trip to the Wonnangatta Valley in March 2020.
Now in the fourth week of evidence, Mr Lynn's interview with detectives from the Missing Persons Squad after his arrest in November 2021 was played to the jury for the first time on Monday.
Defence barrister Dermot Dann KC previously told the jury in his interview, which is known as a record of interview, his client told police Mr Hill and Mrs Clay were accidentally killed in separate struggles involving a shotgun and a knife.
But the jury has now heard Mr Lynn's account in his own words for the first time.
Recap our live coverage of today's evidence.
Updates
Court adjourns for the day
'I know I've been on the radar for a while': Lynn
Asked what he was thinking when a 60 Minutes program was aired about the missing campers, and of the recent media attention, Mr Lynn said: "Well, I know that I've been on the radar for a while".
He said that too many people had said too many odd things to him, like "I was on The Truman Show", the Jim Carrey film where his character is the centre of a TV program and doesn't know it.
Mr Lynn said an association president had taken a "very unusual interest in me", but police confirmed they hadn't spoken with the man until a week earlier.
"Maybe I'm just paranoid … maybe he's just friendly then," he said.
Speaking about another incident, he said: "My mind playing tricks on me? Quite possibly".
Asked if he felt better for telling the story, he replied, "I guess so … I just wish it had never happened, I just wanted it to go away … it has been stressful."
Mr Lynn claimed that as Mr Hill ran towards him with a knife, "he was screaming at me, 'She's dead'."
"And he might have muttered some other things, I can't recall," he said.
Mr Lynn said when he placed both Mr Hill and Mrs Clay's bodies in his trailer, "there was a lot of blood, yes".
He said he "covered them with branches" when he dumped them on Union Spur Track, and when he returned for the second time in November 2020 they were "decomposed … like there's nothing left".
Using "a little bit of kerosene but not that much", he confirmed he burned their remains and stayed overnight until the fire went out.
"There was just ashes left and I just used a dustpan to scoop it up and throw it around."
He said he hadn't told his wife ("she knows nothing about it, no") and he hadn't told anyone else either.
'Lots of blood': Mr Lynn describes 'confronting' scene
Mr Lynn said as he was wrestling with Mr Hill over the gun, Mrs Clay "was yelling at him, I can't recall what she said".
"She was behind (Mr Hill), I wasn't really looking at her," he said.
He showed police how he and Mr Hill wrestled over the gun as they were face-to-face, and that the older man told him to "f*** off".
"I yelled at him to give it to me," he said, as he claimed Mr Hill shot the gun three or so times into the air.
"I ducked down low against his driver's door … I tried to disarm him … grabbed the barrel with my right hand and pushed him onto the car."
"I pushed him with his back into the bullbar … wrestled around tried to get it off him" before the gun discharged.
Mr Lynn said the shot went through the middle of the mirror and hit a crouching Mrs Clay in the head, agreeing it was a "confronting" scene and that there was "lots" of blood on the ground and the car that he cleaned up.
He said he burned the area of the ground where blood was located.
"I shouldn't have wound him up with the music and I definitely shouldn't have had my car open like that, I should have had everything locked away."
He confirmed he took both their phones and the drone and "I took the credit cards out, I thought about making it look like a robbery but I realised that would be silly."
"I wanted to disguise the whole thing because I wanted to make it like I had nothing to do with it," he said.
Asked if he remembered the location where he dumped the couple's phones, he said he probably wouldn't recall even if he went there in person, despite it being "broad daylight" at the time.
"I was pretty stressed at the time," he said.
Mr Lynn didn't look at drone footage before burning device
The police have begun questioning the former pilot about parts of his story.
Mr Lynn was asked if when he and Mr Hill were fighting over the knife whether the older man had said anything to him.
"He was yelling at me, I couldn't tell you what he was yelling," he said.
Mr Lynn told the police that the elderly couple arrived at Bucks Camp on the Thursday, before he said they died on the Friday night.
"Did you know that?" he asked, about their arrival at the site.
The police said they weren't aware of that detail.
He confirmed he saw Mr Hill with his amateur radio strung up in a tree.
Mr Lynn said before he burnt Mr Hill's drone, he didn't look at the vision the retiree had recorded, and that he wouldn't have known how to use the device.
'Where do we go from here?': My Lynn offers to show officers location of campers' bodies
Mr Lynn asked the officers, "So where do we go from here?"
The police said they needed to "clarify" a few points of his story, including the location of the fire where he burned Mr Hill and Mrs Clay's bodies.
Mr Lynn offered to show the officers the location on an iPad before he was given a laptop and pulled up a map on Google Earth.
He confirmed that when he burned the bodies in November 2020, he remained at the site until the fire went out.
He said he didn't realise at the time but the location was "actually a tourist attraction".
The trial resumes
The jury has returned to the courtroom after the lunch break, with evidence about to resume.
Justice Michael Croucher tells the jury there's about 45 minutes left of this portion of the interview to play, and they would be finished for the day after it was played.
Court adjourns for lunch
The court has adjourned for lunch.
Evidence is expected to continue from 2.15pm.
As his record of interview was played to the court, Mr Lynn sat silently in the dock intently watching on.
The lights were dimmed as the recording was played to the court on a large screen above an area reserved for the media which faces opposite the jury box.
Mr Lynn's wife and son were seated upstairs in the public gallery, along with dozens of others.
Lynn says evidence against him is 'compelling'
The former pilot said he took the number plates off his trailer and sold it "as is" but did not know who the buyer was other than he was an Asian man.
When he returned to check on the bodies, Mr Lynn said he expected they would have been uncovered.
He said he tried to keep his "head down" and move on with his life but accepted it had "caught up" with him.
"It's caught up with me and the evidence you have is compelling but I think you'll find the evidence … ticks every one of those boxes (of my story)," he said.
Mr Lynn told police his career was "done, I accept that".
"I wish you had have come forward," one of the detectives said to him.
"I wish I had have come forward now too but I made a poor choice, I just wanted it to go away … whatever happened I was screwed," he said.
"In an attempt to hide it I thought I might be able to just move on, continue my life and my family, my career … even if I had have come to you with this evidence back in March 2020 it still would have been an absolute disaster, not as bad as it is now but an absolute disaster."
"That's why I tried that pathway, which was wrong, I know that, I'm not making excuses for it but that's what you've got."
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