Damning evidence

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DELLEN MILLARD

KILLED FOR KICKS

THE CASE AGAINST DELLEN MILLARD AND MARK SMICH WAS OVERWHELMING. THEY’D PLANNED TIM BOSMA’S MURDER, BUT HADN’T PROPERLY WORKED OUT HOW TO COVER THEIR TRACKS

1 SECURITY FOOTAGE OF INCINERATION

Security footage of the Millardair hangar shows bright lights in the night. It is not dramatic in the video, but what was actually happening was Millard and Smich incinerating Tim Bosma’s body.

2 BONES AN INCINERATOR

Professor Tracy Rogers, the director of Forensic Science at the University of Toronto, examined The Eliminator incinerator. She collected 58 bone fragments and two bones of an “adult male, likely under the age of 40”.

3 MILLARD’S TRUCK

Dellen Millard’s GMC Yukon XL truck offered a huge amount of evidence. Investigators found a large keyring in the ignition, and one of the other keys was to Tim Bosma’s truck. Detectives also found a receipt for The Eliminator.

4 FINDING THE ELIMINATOR

Chaz Main had been riding a dirt bike on farmer’s land for years, so he knew it well. But one day in May 2013 he noticed “a big redneck smoker” in the woods. The next day the land was overtaken by officers and he told them about his discovery – one of the main clues in the case.

5 TIM BOSMA’S BLOOD

Two drops of blood in The Eliminator were matched with missing Tim Bosma. DNA experts said there was a “one-in-18 quadrillion chance” that the blood was not from Tim.

6 THE MISSING TRUCK

Hangar worker Arthur Jennings went to the hangar to clock-on. There he saw a Dodge 3500 like the one shown on TV news reports. It was stripped and had no number plates, but he photographed the Vehicle Information Number and called Crimestoppers to see if it was a match. He feared his son-in-law – a friend of Millard’s – had gotten into something so didn’t report it. The next day the truck was gone.

7 MILLARD’S FINGERPRINT

When Tim Bosma’s Dodge 3500 was found, police lifted a fingerprint from one of the mirrors. It was a match to Dellen Millard’s right thumb.

8 TIM BOSMA’S PHONE

A contractor was cutting the lawn outside an office complex when he found a phone. A colleague switched it on and dialled ‘home’ and it called Sharlene Bosma. When police studied its records they found it had been dialled by a number owned by a fictitious ‘Lucas Bate’. This was a Dellen Millard pseudonym.

9 SECURITY FOOTAGE OF TRAILER

Tim Bosma’s truck was found in a trailer in the driveway of Millard’s mother. Security footage from a neighbour shows the trailer being driven to that spot at 10.50pm on 9 May 2013.