Prince George, B.C.-  Conservation Officer Cameron Hill has testified at the Cody Legebokoff trial, that  during his 22 minute interview with  Legebokoff, the young man  seemed “extremely casual, almost bored.”

Hill had been called to the  roadside on highway 27 on the night of November 27, 2010  to  help officers investigate what  what suspected to be a poaching incident.

Indeed,  in an audio recording of the interview, Legebokoff  is heard telling Hill that  he was with a buddy  and they had  poached a deer.    The story wasn’t adding up to Hill,  who noted  Legebokoff was wearing shorts,  too light to be  hunting  at this time of year.

He told the court “I started to feel I was on to something bigger, and was anxious to put this behind me.”

An experienced tracker,  and  the only one with  an  unoccupied 4×4 (Legebokoff was in the back of Cst. Kehler’s  Police Pick Up) he agreed to  back track the  area where Constable  Kehler  had spotted  Legebokoff’s  truck enter the highway.

When he found the road,  he travelled about 3-400 metres where he came upon a gravel pit.  The vehicle tracks he was following had stopped. He could see where something had been dragged,  then he spotted a pair of naked legs, the torso partially hidden in the bush.  He could  find no sign of life.

The body would later be identified as that of Loren Donn Leslie.

That was when he got the radio call from Constable Kehler asking if  everything was ok. He replied, “It is worst case scenario.”

The trial resumes on Monday.