A JURY has been shown a Maryborough man's initial interview with the homicide squad in which he claims to know nothing about the disappearance of the man he is charged with killing.
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Bearded and mumbling throughout the interview at the Maryborough police station on October 31, 2013, Jesse Willis, 29, is told he is "the number one suspect" in relation to the murder of missing Deer Park man Ricky Lee Ganly.
"I haven't heard anything," Willis says after being asked about Mr Ganly's whereabouts.
"I don't know any more than what I've said ... you're making me nervous, you've taken a very serious tone all of a sudden."
Earlier in the interview, Willis told detective Sergeant Steve Trewavas he met Mr Ganly for the first time on Sunday, April 28, 2013, outside a drug dealer's home in Sunshine.
The jury heard Willis bought about $300 worth of ice from Mr Ganly before the pair began discussing the possibility of Willis getting a gun for Mr Ganly.
"I was trying to big note myself and impress Rick," Willis wrote in a statement at the conclusion of the interview.
"I thought I could get cheaper drugs in the future."
The jury heard Willis and Mr Ganly then drove in separate cars to Avoca, with Willis claiming he knew a man who could supply a shotgun.
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Willis told the detective he and Mr Ganly used drugs at a park in Avoca for about two hours, while he tried to call the man with the shotgun several times.
But Willis claimed Mr Ganly became increasingly "pissed off" with him after the attempts of getting the gun failed.
"He (Mr Ganly) said 'this is bull****' and he went home," Willis said in the interview.
Prosecutors allege Willis shot Mr Ganly once in the back of the head before disposing of his car and body, with the help of another man, at the Avoca lead dredge.
Mr Ganly, 48, had been missing for about eight months before his car, and body, was pulled from the flooded mine on January 19 last year.
The jury has heard police arrested Willis hours after divers pulled Mr Ganly's body from the flooded mine, with Willis telling police he'd shot Mr Ganly after being threatened.
Willis' legal counsel have told the jury Willis was acting in self-defence when he shot Mr Ganly.
The trial before Justice Robert Osborn continues.
