The former airline pilot told police he had tried to cover up the accidental deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay because it would have been an “absolute disaster” for his family and career.
The defence for alleged double murderer Gregory Lynn has accused the prosecution of collaborating with a blood-spatter expert to introduce a new theory without warning.
Among the 2100 human remains were small clues that police had found Russell Hill and Carol Clay,but more than 1500 were so tiny they could not be identified.
Police mobile phone video footage taken at Bucks Camp in the Wonnangatta Valley on March 28,2020. Video shows the burnt campsite and Russell Hill's ute.
A ballistics expert has told a jury the shotgun police allege was used to murder camper Carol Clay would be difficult to fire accidentally.
A forensic pathologist said she could not say how Russell Hill,74,and Carol Clay,73,died after their bodies were burnt into thousands of bone fragments.
In the remote Wonnangatta Valley,crime scene examiners found a single piece of skull. That led them to more fragments in the search for Carol Clay and Russell Hill.
At the base of a fallen tree off a remote alpine track,forensic experts spent three days meticulously looking for answers to the disappearance of Russell Hill and Carol Clay.
Gregory Lynn was also snapped by a traffic camera at the same time as missing camper Russell Hill’s phone was traced to the same stretch of remote road,the Supreme Court was told.
Russell Hill’s wife packed a bag for her husband’s camping trip and never saw him again. She has told a jury about their marriage,his affair and the silence that led her to call in police.
A burnt campsite,an Esky full of food,a handbag on the passenger seat of a car. The first people to come across Russell Hill and Carol Clay’s campsite have described the scene to a jury.