Dean Boucher repeatedly told police Robert Olson's death was an accident.

At the murder trial of Boucher and Mark Lange last Friday, a 12-member jury listened to taped interviews the RCMP conducted with Boucher after he went to the Whitehorse RCMP station on Dec. 27, 2004 about Olson's death.

As one of the tapes played in Yukon Supreme Court, when Boucher was taken to the site where Olson's body was found, he began crying, putting his head down on the table in his arms.

Boucher and Lange are charged with second-degree murder in the death.

In the first interview with Sgt. Bradley Wirachowsky shortly after he came into the detachment, Boucher repeatedly tells the officer at first that he was told by someone the death was an accident. He would not say who that was.

'I know in God's eyes, I should just tell on the bastard,' said Boucher.

He also said he came into the station to make sure officers knew he wasn't involved.

'I know the truth about myself, that I didn't do it,' said Boucher.

He went on to say he'd been drinking for about four weeks and had been drinking with Olson at the Caribou Hotel in Carcross on the evening of Olson's death. Olson was celebrating because he had sold the bar, said Boucher

He continued to insist he wasn't there when Olson died. After he left the bar on Dec. 23, he wandered around Carcross, he told police. The following day, he came into Whitehorse, he said.

After Wirachowsky left the room, another officer came into the room to question Boucher.

Boucher continued to say he wasn't at the bar very long and that the person who was involved should come forward and explain it was an accident.

Asked by the officer if there was any reason they would find Boucher's DNA in Olson's truck, Boucher said no, though he had used the truck years ago.

Wirachowsky returned for the third part of the interview, telling Boucher he had watched the interview and had no doubt Boucher was there when Olson died.

Not knowing what to do, Wirchowsky suggested, Boucher and the other person involved came into Whitehorse in the truck on Dec. 24.

Officers knew a body had been stashed, said Wirachowsky.

Boucher eventually said he was upstairs in the Caribou Hotel on Dec. 23 when a fight broke out downstairs. When he came down ,Olson was on his back choking.

Boucher said he then flipped him on his side and tried to resuscitate him and 'then that was it.

'I tried to revive him, and I did (revive him) for a bit,' he said.

When they couldn't revive him again, panic set in, said Boucher.

It was the other man's idea to put the body in the truck, but Boucher helped him.

'I was in shock,' he told police during the interview.

They drove to Whitehorse and dropped the body in Wolf Creek. After they drove, he said, the truck hit the ditch and they walked to McCrae.

While Boucher tried to explain the location of the body, police were initially unable to find it.

The next interview played in the courtroom during the trial happened when police asked Boucher to help them out in finding Olson's body.

Boucher agreed to join Wirachowsky in the vehicle along with two other officers to help find the body.

The audio tape began in the cells when Wirachowsky asks if Boucher will help them.

'I just don't remember this many roads,' said Boucher as they drove around the Pineridge subdivision.

Eventually, other officers in Wolf Creek located the body and Boucher was taken there.

As they drove to the site, Boucher told Wirachowsky he couldn't remember whether he grabbed Olson's feet or the upper part of the body when they dropped it in Wolf Creek.

When they reached the site, Boucher could be heard on the tape weeping. He began crying in the courtroom as well when that part of the tape was played. On the tape, he asked for Valium, saying he was losing his mind.

He told Wirachowsky that Olson was close to his family.

'You know the fó-ing nursing station is beside the bar,' he said, going on to tell police he saw Olson and the other man wrestling on the night of the death, then Olson banged his head or something.

'It was an accident,' said Boucher.

The fight had been over Olson's truck keys.

Boucher and the other man wanted to take the keys so they could get to Whitehorse, but Olson wouldn't let them, saying he was going to call the cops.

After Olson had been revived initially by Boucher, it appeared to Boucher that the owner of the Caribou had fallen asleep.

Figuring Olson would continue to sleep, Boucher and the other man took artwork off the walls and put it in the truck. They were going to go grab the keys and then sneak out, he said.

'He died just like that, man,' Boucher told police.

When they arrived back at the station and Boucher was taken to cells, he told Wirachowsky that he still felt 'fó-ed up.'

The trial continued in court today.

Justice Leigh Gower is presiding.