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While a frantic search was going on for missing six-year-old Lee Allan Bonneau, another boy went to his buddies with a chilling story about witnessing a murder.

The 10-year-old seemed scared, but excited, an inquest into Bonneau’s death heard Thursday. The boy, who can only be identified as L.T., told friends a “big guy” had hit a little boy three times with a stick, pushed him down an embankment, then hit him with a rock.

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Then his story changed – and L.T. admitted he had killed Bonneau. “Don’t tell on me,” he told his friends. He was afraid of going to jail, he said.

When L.T. talked to RCMP the next day, he again blamed “a big person” for the crime and even provided a name. L.T. told police he’d watched the man and asked him what he was doing.

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“I’m just killing a little boy,” L.T. said, purportedly quoting the man.

But RCMP Cpl. Donna Zawislak, the primary investigator, is convinced there was no “big guy” – just two troubled boys.