Eerie images show former Jetstar pilot driving out of the wilderness hours after he dumped the bodies of secret lover campers – as jury see graphic images of their charred remains

The moment former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn left the remote wilderness where police say he killed two elderly campers has been shown to a jury.

Lynn, 57, has been acquitted in the Supreme Court of Victoria of the murders of secret lovers Mr Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, in the Wonnangatta Valley, in Victoria’s Alpine region, on March 20, 2020.

Footage captured by automatic number plate recognition cameras on Great Alpine Rd captured Lynn’s vehicle driving past the morning after police claimed he murdered the secret lovers.

The jury heard Lynn admitted disposing of the couple’s bodies in the bush after taking them in his caravan, which can also be seen in the photos.

Photos of what was left of those remains were shown to the jury on Thursday.

Image after image showed the charred fragments of Mr Hill and Ms Clay’s bones in a remote part of the bush where Lynn had attempted to destroy the remains of their bodies with fire.

Victoria Police Forensics Services Center expert George Xydias told the jury he believed Lynn had burned the bodies at another location before attempting to dump them at a second location.

Lynn claimed that the campers died after Mr. Hill stole his shotgun, leading to a fight that ended in the accidental deaths of both of them.

Mr Xydias told the jury that Lynn also likely set fire to the couple’s campsite where the fatal incident took place.

The fire expert said he concluded there were no accidental sources of ignition, indicating the fire started with a portable gas stove or direct ignition by a lighter, match or cigarette.

At the opening of the trial, Lynn’s barrister Dermot Dann QC told the court that Lynn’s burning of the bodies of Mr Hill and Ms Clay had ‘made him physically ill’.

Upon his arrest, Mr. Dann claimed that Lynn cooperated with detectives and told them where to find the campers’ bodies.

“As far as the defense goes, if he does all that, he’s completely honest,” Dann said.

“He is completely accurate, just as he was completely honest and accurate in the defense case when he told the police about the circumstances in which these two people died.”

On Wednesday the jury heard it took weeks for Victoria Police’s Missing Persons Unit to take on the case.

Detective Senior Constable Amy Frost was initially tasked with investigating the couple’s disappearance after they were reported missing on March 26.

As part of that initial investigation, she visited the homes of Mr. Hill and Mrs. Clay in the days after Mrs. Hill reported her husband missing.

She handed the investigation over to Detective Leading Senior Constable Abbey Justin of the Missing Persons Unit on April 20, initiating an investigation that would ultimately lead to Lynn’s arrest.

Detective Chief Constable Justin recounted the moment she first saw Lynn’s vehicle after tracking him down through CCTV and phone records linking him to the crime scene.

On July 14 that year, she attended Lynn’s address in Caroline Springs, where she noticed that his ‘blue-grey’ colored Nissan Patrol was now a brown colour.

Under cross-examination by Mr. Dann, the detective agreed that Lynn’s later story to police, in which he painted his car a “sandbar color” after his trip to the valley, matched her observations.

The accused killer of the elderly couple claims it was Mr Hill who caused the trouble that ended in tragedy.

The court heard that Hill and Lynn had had an argument about Lynn hunting deer so close to other campers.

Later that evening, Lynn decided to turn up the volume on his car radio in an attempt to irritate Mr Hill, the jury heard.

It was about 10 p.m. when Lynn noticed that Mr. Hill had gotten into his car and stolen his 12-gauge shotgun.

The jury heard that when Lynn tried to wrestle the firearm away from Mr Hill, the gun went off and Ms Clay was hit in the head.

When he saw what had happened, Mr. Hill dropped the gun and rushed to Ms. Clay’s body.

Mr Dann said Lynn picked up the gun and fired the remaining shots into the air before being attacked by an irate Mr Hill.

“The next thing is Mr. Hill comes up to him with a knife and yells at him, ‘She’s dead,'” Mr. Dann said.

‘There was a struggle over the knife. Mr. Lynn tries to defend himself – they are engaged in this struggle – and as part of that struggle the two men fall to the ground and the knife goes through Mr. Hill’s chest.”

The process continues.