The Horrifying Crimes of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich | Morbid: A True Crime Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Elena I'm Ash and this is morbid [Music] [Music] I am getting over a straight up laughing
attack I don't know if Elena has showed all of you but she I have not she just showed me a golden ticket is it Miss
Universe I think it's like Miss World or something or Miss Universe are those the
same thing I have no idea maybe they are but is the universe well the universe is
bigger than the world right yeah so I don't know which one it is I think it's Miss World okay one of those
competitions where everybody's involved hold on how can you even say that you're
Miss Universe when we don't know about life on other planets you're not Miss Universe you don't even know I'm you
know what you're all Miss Universe in my book one of you but either way there's this Tick Tock
going around and it's all the contestants they force the contestants to like scream their country name and
there's some of them that you can tell are just like not like Denmark is like Denmark like it's like get out of here
like they're not happy about it and it's hard to scream I just want to preface this it's hard to scream daintily
so but it gets to France and her scream it's like a [ __ ] goose she screams friends and it's like
but it's just it's like it's like a seagull like and it's so funny like I don't in here I am saying I
couldn't do better no I'd be like yeah freaking out it's hard to yell but holy [ __ ] is what
it's what makes I've ever heard in my life it's on Tick Tock I don't know you could you probably just type in France
at this point I'm sorry and I'm sure it'll come up but it'll it'll make you laugh
um and you need that and you need that we all need that I often scroll through Tick Tock and
think like what are they doing to me right now I often scroll through and I'm like what did I do to deserve this this
gift it's a gift that has been bestowed upon me I mean I go but I go I get that and I believe I literally screamed like
I screamed I screamed like France as soon as I saw it I won't know what after John was next to me and I just went ah
like I just freaked out I was like this is the greatest thing I've ever seen that I swipe and it's like Sinister Palm
by making me [ __ ] my pants laughing and then it's Drew Drew a foolo she kills me she wants to listen to her oh
it's the purest sound in the entire world it is I can't get it's I love her it's all the best I mean it's great it's
great my for you page just gets me it makes me smile it makes me laugh and it was it was so necessary
yeah she's dying I'm so sorry oh [ __ ] that was funny yeah there's no way to transition yeah but we got all the funny
out now because oh man it's about to get real yeah no we need it we need it needed to get it we needed
friends together it's just texting me restaurant names because it's like nine o'clock at night and none of none of us
have cooked dinner no he's literally just going Boston Market Chipotle Panera I'm like can you calm down
like I don't know it's just rapid fire like Cordoba you're like I don't know damn I'm working okay at least he gives
restaurant names and John will not pick a restaurant he's not giving anything that I'm like craving right now but I
don't you know when you're craving something you don't know what it is yeah all right well enough about me
um all right so yeah there's really no way to transition out of this but today's
case is a really really sad case it's one of those ones that starts and then it almost like the Lori valo case in the
way that like it started and then it just peeled back layer upon layer of just [ __ ] evil an evil onion an evil
onion to take it back taking it back and we're in a place of Canada in a place of Canada we're in a place of
Canada I love Canada I'd be oh yeah you've been and I love Canadians I love Canadians we got Johnny and Tyler yep
and Jordan we got Mikey Linds Linds isn't like full-blown Canadian but her family is Canadian so does that mean
that Mikey's not full of bullies he's Canadian in there I said flow flow you know low blown Canadian you know what
Canadians well everyone in this case is Canadian and today's case takes place in
Ancaster Ontario ooh sounds pretty yes and also just a quick quick side note okay it is raining oh so so
you're gonna get soothed by the sounds of raindrops in the background yeah it's late it is late
I like that laugh that's another one another good Tick Tock we're out of a place of tick tock it is all right so on
the evening of May 6 2013 Tim bosma left his Ancaster home with two men who simply wanted to test drive the truck
that he'd been advertising uh for sale online as Tim walked out the door he turned
around and told his wife Charlene he'd be right back but that was the last time that Charlene
or anybody else would see Tim alive that's [ __ ] up really [ __ ] up and a pretty short time frame the authorities
were able to apprehend dellen better known as Dell Millard and his henchman Mark smitch the men responsible for
bosma's death at first Tim's murder seemed pretty straightforward authorities felt like this was kind of
like a Thrill Kill but the deeper and deeper that they dug into Millard and smitch's relationship and separate
histories the more they realized that they weren't dealing with like an impulsive one-off murder instead they
realized that this case was rooted in a full-blown Sinister plan that began well
before Tim bosma's murder jeez and they would come to find out that it included more death and way more
destruction than they ever ever expected in the first place damn yeah like I said
it was just like peeling peeling peeling back the layers of onion yeah of an evil
onion but first let's head back to the beginning of this so in early May of 2013 Tim bosma's wife Charlene posted an
ad on I think it's Kijiji um.com on behalf of her husband who wanted to sell his truck his truck was a
black 2007 Dodge power ram 3 500 diesel pickup truck yep that and by the way um Kijiji I think it is
pretty much like the Canadian version of Craigslist oh okay but the truck had become a nuisance for the young family
it weighed over three tons and because of its size and requirement for diesel gas and like a [ __ ] ton of diesel gas it
was costing a lot of money to keep it running yeah that makes sense yeah and Charlene and Tim had a two-year-old
daughter they were newish homeowners so they thought instead of keeping the truck and having their finances
completely drained by that truck why not sell it and use the money to buy a smaller and more affordable car yeah
family first thinking makes sense so at first the ad that they put out didn't really get much attention so Charlene
ended up placing another ad on a separate website where it did end up getting some views but it didn't seem
like it was getting like actual interest and Tim was starting to get frustrated with this entire process and the lack of
Interest he was really just about to give up on selling his truck but then he got a message from somebody a seemingly
genuine interest me too this potential buyer didn't give much information in his message but he did
seem interested and he did say that he was willing to drive a very long distance
um about a hundred kilometers or 62 miles from Toronto to the bosma's home like I said in semi-rural Ancaster if
you're not familiar with this area Ancaster is an Ontario suburb which is like an hour outside of Toronto
just so you know I'm not familiar with the area either but I did look it up but I did look it up
so Tim and the prospective buyer agreed to meet on the evening of May 6th Tim really wanted to make sure that the
truck was in Tip-Top condition he was ready to sell this thing and he was really hoping that this would be his
chance yeah so to prep for the meeting he washed the truck he waxed it he deep cleaned the interior he vacuumed it out
like he went to town on this thing just to make it look as good as possible yeah
every time I read about this truck I can't help but get there's some of the mud truck out of my head I know what
that is it's like a country song oh yeah that's why I don't know any of the other
words there is something about it I think they end up saying something about a farmer's
time I think that makes sense I might have made that up though I either way I'm into it are you I'm Into You singing
it so kind yeah I'm trying friend on the morning of the sixth though Tim hadn't heard from the previously or seemingly
previously interested buyer and he was getting nervous about this sale falling through the cracks he's like Jesus
Christ like there's barely been any interest in that this is gonna fall through the cracks so he was like I'm
not gonna give up yet he sent a message to the guy saying good morning it's Tim I'm working in Hamilton today if you if
you want to meet or do you still want to meet at my house tonight for 7 pm morning came and went with no reply at
all so do the rest of the afternoon Tim was pretty much getting the idea that this guy wasn't gonna show up
um he pretty much called it didn't I know he pretty much called it quits when he still hadn't heard anything by dinner
time but then the potential buyer finally called or messaged a little before 7 30. I think he called to say
that he was on his way and he should be arriving to the household within the hour we love an uncommunicative prick oh
yeah we love it I hate when someone says they're going to be somewhere at a certain time and then they're not there
at a certain time that makes me [ __ ] crazy you got 10 minutes yeah 10 minutes honestly I get annoyed after like three
accurate yeah I can confirm I have a text message on my phone from last night but yeah hey when are you gonna be here
but I was pulling in the driveway wait when you said wait when you said why when you said that yeah it's true
um but the buyer ended up being a guy in his mid-20s and he did not arrive within
the hour that he said he was going to but he finally did arrive a little after 9 00 PM oh [ __ ] him and he had another
young man with him who was also in his mid-20s Tim's wife Charlene immediately thought it was strange that the two men
showed up on foot yeah they said they were willing this one of them said he was willing to make
this like really long drive but then showed up on foot yeah I don't like that Tim had told her that they were
traveling for more than an hour away so she was like obviously they didn't walk this entire way like where's the car
that dropped them off like what the [ __ ] going on here but at the same time she hadn't been on any of the text
exchanges with them so she figured there was some kind of good explanation and again they really wanted to sell this
truck like that's really their main interest here this hurts my heart so the three men made small talk for a few
minutes Tim gave them all the information on the truck and before leaving the house for a test drive he
turned around to his wife and he said I'll be right back and that was just a little before 9 30 pm
so Charlene his wife figured this would be a quick thing just like a short trip go down some local Roads Take It on the
highway see if it's making any noises you know the gist so when Tim didn't return after an hour she called his cell
phone but didn't end up getting an answer she was slightly concerned but she reminded herself that Tim was hardly a
small guy he was in really good shape so he could certainly take care of himself
if the situation where he needed to arised yeah and he also dealt with strangers daily because he owned and
operated his own HVAC business oh so he really had no problem being aggressive or not aggressive but assertive if if
the need came up yeah so she that kind of soothed her soul a little bit but then more and more time went by and she
called one more time and again got no more answer and as the evening went on she still had heard absolutely nothing
and she started to panic and she's got a two-year-old out oh I'd be losing it yeah so she eventually decides it's time
to call the police like I'm not being crazy here something clearly went absolutely
so the next day still no Tim and the Hamilton Police Service ended up releasing a statement to the Press at 8
AM that morning regarding Tim's disappearance the statement was brief it just said 32 year old bosma had gone
missing the night before they gave a brief uh description of his physical appearance uh they asked the public to
contact the Hamilton police with any information and that was really that the statement made no mention of the test
drive or the two men that Tim had left the house with the previous night but that was on purpose the police wanted to
keep that information close to the chest because they didn't want to alert these
two suspects that they knew anything about yeah that makes sense no need to have anybody do anything yeah that's
good that's good police work and the thing is in cases where adults disappear a lot of times the first assumption is
not that they've been kidnapped or taken for any kind of Nefarious purpose but usually for whatever reason you know
people think oh they've grown tired of their life they walked away they're running from something yeah especially
an adult male too yeah exactly you know but by all accounts Tim bosma was in neither of those positions he and
Charlene had married three years earlier a short time after that like I said Charlene gave birth to their daughter
their daughter was two years old when this happened they were so excited to be new parents they'd recently bought a new
house together and they were looking forward to their full journey together as a family like they loved having
people over they loved just being a family and if you look up pictures there's a picture of him like holding
his baby it will break your heart it's like gut-wrenching he was the he's like adorable and he looks like the sweetest
just like like a dad you know yeah and later I'll like tell you like his relationship with his family and he just
he was he was just a dad he comes off that way he was he just loved his family it's so sad but like I said earlier the
truck had become something of a financial burden so I think they were like well you know maybe there could be
something there but then at the same time Tim's HVAC business was doing pretty well and he and Charlene really
had no Financial concerns Beyond those of just like your typical young family yeah to put it simply Tim and Charlene
were in happy stable relationship and nobody could think of any reason that Tim would just run off without telling
anybody yeah and it's like they have to cross all that off the list but it seems
like it was pretty easy to cross off the list here exactly so in the afternoon of
May 7th two days after Tim has gone I'm missing or a day excuse me after he's gone missing news about his
disappearance started making its way among social media first it was family and friends but then word started
spreading among the larger Circle and in contrast with the police statement the posts on Facebook were
more detailed and of course included the fact that Tim had left the house with two young men
by that evening the posts on Facebook and Twitter had been shared thousands of times by everyone from friends and
family celebrities news personalities every Tom Dick and Harry was sharing this story
and unfortunately even though they had been widely shared the social media posts and requests for information no
credible tips came from that yeah if anything it really just disrupted them I was just gonna say that happens more
times than it doesn't happen oh yeah absolutely it's like because things get put out there that aren't true that are
just rumor or that are true but that the authorities are not wanting to let out that's the other thing it's like you
don't know why they're not saying what they're not saying it's like you kind of just have to trust the process yeah
that's the thing like look at the Idaho yes exactly I think I say later on in this set it up there's another piece of
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person Hamilton Police officially opened up a case into his disappearance and this case was led by staff sergeant Matt
Kavanaugh so Kavanaugh's first uh press briefing it was really short and simple he really just stuck to the facts of the
case he gave a description of Tim and the circumstances under which he disappeared and then he went on to
describe the men that he had left the house with that night saying the one who drove the truck was white in his mid-20s
six foot one or two 170 to 180 pounds he had light to medium short brown hair and
was unshaven he wore blue jeans a long-sleeved orange shirt and running shoes the second male the one who sat in the
back was also white in his early to mid-20s five foot nine or ten small to medium build he was wearing a rude
hooded sweatshirt with the hood up mostly covering his dark hair I never like when somebody approaches me
with their Hood up yeah immediately I'm like what are you trying to hide yeah why are you trying to hide your features
yeah it's true put your head put your hood down put your hood down get away with me
so during this press briefing the possibility actually of a third man being involved in bosma's disappearance
was introduced because remember they showed up on foot yeah that's [ __ ] weird Kavanaugh wouldn't really wouldn't
really say too much about this he would only confirm that the police were investigating two suspects described by
Charlene but users on social media had been speculating about a third man since it seemed pretty unlikely that these two
just walked there yeah Kavanaugh wasn't going to speculate on the suspects but he did tell reporters
that due to the quote unusual nature of The Disappearance the case was being assigned in the Hamilton Police homicide
unit and search and rescue team along with a canine unit that had already been deployed but had not yet turned up any
leads or evidence hmm now at the time of the first press briefing police believe
that the that the two Mystery Men had targeted Tim because they wanted the truck but while alerts had gone out to
all of the relevant agencies in the three days since his disappearance there was no sign of this vehicle at all
investigators had been able to get some data on Tim's cell phone in the hours after his disappearance but the
following day it seemed like the phone had been turned off oh oh God this is like I'm just thinking about how much
this would just kill me if I was oh my God it would destroy me I was thinking about her well she must be one of the
strongest people on planet Earth to go on after this because yeah this entire time all I could think of was was Drew
yeah that's awful so in the afternoon of May 9th Charlene Tim's wife went on television begging anybody with
information to come forward and urging the two suspects to please release her husband she said as you know I watched
my husband drive away just after nine o'clock on Monday night he smiled at me and said he'd be right back and I have
not seen him since you were all aware that I saw the two men who took my husband you've already provided us a
description of these two individuals I ask I ask you if you see anybody that closely matches the description of these
men to please call the police my husband Tim is a loving father to our beautiful
two-year two-year-old girl and she needs her Daddy back his parents need their little boy back even reading this makes
me want to cry no all our brothers and sisters want their brother back we look forward to being able to put our arms
around Tim and tell him how much we love him we hope and pray that today is the last day of this nightmare oh God
unfortunately it was not but Charlene was incredibly well composed for somebody in her circumstances but if
course when she mentioned her family especially the children involved she became upset she was asked how the
children were doing during like all of this and she relayed this heartbreaking story about one of the kids in her
family explaining that quote Uncle Timmy has been stolen oh my God some things seemed to ignite in her though after she
answered that question and she looked directly into the camera seemingly talking to the two suspects and told
them loudly it was just a truck it is just a truck you don't need him but I do and our daughter needs her Daddy back so
please please let him come home we need him to come home and may God have mercy on you I literally am covered in chills
right now wow I have read that several times over and this is the first time I've read it out loud and I am covered
in chills oh that just for that woman that wife that mother to be in that position because these two [ __ ]
just felt like doing this because that's what happened they just they just wanted
to do this I that makes me so angry they didn't care about the truck they didn't
care about his family just wanted to kill someone they just wanted to kill somebody for the thrill of it and they
wanted to steal a car oh my God but like dude just steal the car yeah take the car exactly I'm sure they would have
been much rather that absolutely like like she said it's just a truck it it was just a truck it is just a truck like
I need my husband is more than just my husband he is everybody's world and she know and it's what kills me is she had
to watch these men walk out the door of her home with her husband and now she has to know they were taking him and
it's like you and it's out there and made small talk with him I'm sure his daughter came up I'm sure there's a
possibility they even saw his daughter I don't know if that's true or not but you
don't know you just take her down by the way pictures of her exactly like you just take her away into him away from
his daughter and his wife and you don't think twice about that yeah you have to be a real [ __ ] monster narcissist
piece of [ __ ] dick bag of what you have to be later that day after she gave that press
conference everybody's hopes fell when police found out that Tim's cell phone or excuse me they found his cell phone
in an industrial area of West Brantford which was about 20 20 minutes away from the bosma's home according to Kavanaugh
the lead investigator Tim's Truck was spotted driving in downtown Brantford at 10 10 p.m on the night of the
disappearance Kavanaugh asked that all of the businesses in that area check any surveillance camera footage for any
additional sightings they might find or lead to and he was hoping that they could use that footage to trace the
route that the truck had taken through town something a bit more important though
than the truck sighting was that investigators had managed to follow up on the other cell phone that had been
used to exchange text messages and calls with Tim like whoever this prospective buyer was
most of the texts came like from that phone came from a location or multiple locations in
Etobicoke I hope I said that right I looked it up and I gave myself that little phonetic spelling the phone was
determined though to be a burner phone oh this phone was purchased for this yeah this exact reason and the owner
used a fake name when they set the phone up they used the name Lucas Bate even though that was pretty
disheartening the police were able to trace other calls that had been had been made from that phone and they actually
found that a call had been made to another man who happened to also be selling his truck just like Tim hmm
according to the man who placed the ad he got a message from somebody interested in the truck and they
arranged to meet with this prospective buyer the day before Tim went missing the situation was literally almost
identical to Tim bosma's experience and the man who was selling his truck was able to confirm that both men matched
the descriptions that have been given to the police damn so I don't know what happened in that scenario I don't know
if they just didn't have the balls to do what they planned to do or whatever it was yeah but the man even added on to it
saying that the taller men of the two had a tattoo on his wrist that said ambition and was framed by a box
said ambition hilarious because the owner of this tattoo had literally no ambition whatso [ __ ]
ever like dick Hickok yeah it's from the Clutter Family Matters we were talking about earlier very similar actually
because it ends up being two men yeah that are and it's like one kind of seems to follow the other which was similar
yeah like a henchman always a henchman but the man who at the tattoo had driven so this was a huge yeah a huge break so
while Kavanaugh and the Hamilton homicide unit conducted their official investigation in the open they were
providing the Press with regular updates and while they were doing this another investigation was taking in place taking
place online via websleuths okay it got real messy yeah Webster's can be a great
thing can be a [ __ ] terrible yeah because websites like web sluice claim to be friendly toward law enforcement
agencies and you know sometimes they even have a hand in solving cases that are helping to solve cases
but they can also be a damaging distraction especially in situations like this one we're keeping information
from the public was essential yeah it's that's the thing every case is so different and how it needs to be handled
right and we don't necessarily need citizen opinions on victims yeah and that's exactly what happened here
because in the case of Tim's disappearance journalist Anne brocklehurst discovered quote an ugly
strain of commentary for members who think they know more than anyone else and this included a good number of users
who just completely rejected the investigators theory that the suspects were only interested in the truck and
not Tim within days of Tim disappearing the websleuth's messaging boards were full of users just speculating that Tim
and Charlene weren't as innocent as they were being made out to be can you imagine you're dealing with the
fact that he's and while this was happening he had already died so I hope those people feel absolutely [ __ ]
well looks and it's like this woman is great this young mother of a young child is grieving right and missing her
husband has no idea what's happening in him and literally they're just like posting like I don't think they're as
innocent as they make them out to be and it's like I don't even care and then people like no it's like shut up Jesus
people were saying Tim had been so willing to accompany these quote unquote strangers on a late night test drive it
seems like it couldn't have been strangers in the first place he had to have known them nope he didn't no so
you're wrong they were also trying to say that he knew these people and suggesting that he was involved with
some kind of like crime organization or something nefarious like that started actually digging into the
couple's history for evidence of any wrongdoing and they were sharing any and all personal information and photographs
of this couple on these message boards what the [ __ ] yeah that's when like come
on literally everything anybody said negative about this couple was debunked but at the end of the day it sat there
and contributed to a rumor mill that completely obscured The public's knowledge of this crime and it did so at
the expense of a missing man's reputation as well as his wife yeah and this time like we were just saying it
was grueling enough for Tim's family and friends this was the last thing that they needed to be dealing with it's like
mind your [ __ ] business well that's it's like Jesus like that's the thing with these kind of like
areas on the internet they can there's like a there's a little ray of light where you're like this could be great
but we are humans and we can't handle this [ __ ] that's the thing we can't handle Gathering anonymously in an
online cyberspace and being anything but [ __ ] [ __ ] the truth it's unfortunate time and time and time again
it's like yeah there's little rays of sunlight for sure absolutely absolutely great things happen online great things
happen when people get together but unfortunately it can only last for so long and it can only happen in certain
instances because we as humans suck ass and we can't handle no we can't handle it it's just the truth it gets ugly it
gets disgusting it gets vicious it gets like way out of control and then it just
lives online right and even if it doesn't get to the the point where it's ugly and vicious and out of control it
can also just be completely unhelpful because the investigators most of the time know what they're doing of course
we've covered cases where they're they don't necessarily um or anything like that but we have to
have faith that they know what they're doing and we have to let them do that especially in the beginning of the case
it is the most crucial time in any case that's the thing so it's like if we're you know these cases that are years and
years out and nothing's moving and everyone's getting frustrated and it seems like there's like dead end dead
end dead end places like that where people are coming up with new information and giving out tips that's
when it's great that's when it can be really great of course there's ugly things there too but of course for the
most part it can be really great in the beginning stages of an investigation when a case is still wide open see what
the investigators can do zip and let it happen give them time and if and if [ __ ]
starts goes for years is that nothing's happening then you know sure pull your pants on and see if you can find
something cool but at the same time so detrimental that's the thing there is a difference between being investigated or
excuse me being interested in True Crime and completely derailing and investigating yeah like getting too
involved exactly yeah and the thing is to those people that actually knew him not random strangers
on the internet the idea that Tim bosma ever had anything to do with any kind of
criminal element at all was [ __ ] absurd yeah his friends and family remembered him as literally quote
unquote the jokester uncle and the one most likely to pull a prank he'd been born and raised in Ancaster and he was
part of a huge family who loved being together whenever they could he became one of the center points of his family
quote unquote always up for a barbecue and a get-together at the farm which was the one that he and Charlene had
recently purchased together like he was starting to make memories at his house and host his family
he was hard-working he was honest he never resembled anything like the suspicious character that he was being
made out to be by these members of websuits and it wouldn't be long before the assertions that he knew the suspects
would prove to be completely false yeah of course so I hope they pooped on those
words yeah so I just hope you I hope you pooped there you go so on Saturday May 11th
another press briefing was called at Hamilton Police Headquarters this time to announce that an arrest had finally
been made and The Disappearance of Tim bossman I don't even know why I said finally because it didn't really take
that long on the previous day Hamilton investigators had received tips from sources in both peel and uh Toronto that
a man named Dylan Millard was a match for the description of one of their Suspects right down to the ambition
tattoo on his wrist nice you [ __ ] loser seriously if you have that tattoo you are not a loser these guys are
because it was tattooed on him but he had literally none of it and he's a [ __ ] terrible piece of [ __ ] so on the
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according to superintendent Dan Casella I hope I said that right 27 year old 27 year old Toronto resident Dylan Millard
was pulled over in Mississauga by Ontario Provincial Police and quote uh detained without incident on the morning
of May 10th he had since been charged with forcible confinement and theft over five thousand dollars for stealing the
truck while detectives were really excited to announce that they had made an arrest
they were also still quick to remain excuse me to remind the press that their main priority was Finding Timber alive
and also Dylan Millard was just one of the suspects that they were seeking and the
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the second suspect and they reminded the public to be diligent and on the lookout
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Millard it seemed kind of strange and unusual that this young guy he's 27 years old
was involved in what a lot of people were starting to suspect was a homicide investigation
Dylan was the only child of Wayne Millard and he was the heir to Millard air which was a charter airline that was
started by his grandfather damn the airline mostly catered to wealthy clients in the greater Toronto area
uh in 1999 when he was just 14 years old Dylan actually made headlines like he could have had an incredible future he
set a record for being the youngest person to fly a helicopter and fixed Wing plane Solo in the same day she's at
14 years old like that's the potential that this kid had and just [ __ ] threw it all away Awesome by the time he'd
reached adult adulthood Miller dare didn't operate a charter business anymore instead they switched their
attention to actually building airplane hangars and flight technology wow um when Dylan's grandfather call Carl
died in 2006 his father Wayne took over Millard air until he actually died six years later in 2012. oh wow in the wake
of his father's death Dell took over Millard air and he was actually in the process of major layoffs and cutbacks at
the time of his arrest he was not doing a great I was just gonna say shocking that he wasn't doing great yeah things
were going to go to [ __ ] if he stayed in charge of this place as a child he'd been described as
precocious and a little spoiled quote with a tendency to get himself into trouble
characteristics that are like not even really cute when you're little but are way less Charming in adulthood yeah grow
up yeah and by most accounts he was bougie he loved showing off as well if he loved the attention he loved being in
the spotlight he was a pretentious [ __ ] he would constantly throw parties at one of the family's hangers
which really was just an excuse to show off expensive cars helicopters any marker of wealth he had he wanted to
show off and according to that journalist Anne brocklehurst when Dell got engaged to his girlfriend he
arranged for a photo shoot where they posed with classic planes helicopters and cars which was clearly orchestrated
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different outfits what the [ __ ] I wore two different outfits in my engagement shoots and I
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[Music] unfortunately it turned out that the fantasy portrayed in this photo shoot
after they had just gotten engaged was just that a fan I could see that coming not long after Dell proposed to her
Jennifer found out that he'd been cheating on her with an 18 year olds named Christina
for some reason I was gonna say Carissa even though it very much has Christina awesome so Jennifer broke off the
engagement and moved out of the house that they shared in Oakville yeah get the [ __ ] out of there Jennifer yeah she
was like I'm out of here uh Oakville is another suburb just outside of Toronto wow I was going to say four and then I
said so so four most of his early 20s Dell really just like floated through life he
never committed to any of the projects any of the careers he'd chosen he had made like pretty cool attempt like
pretty he had made attempts at getting pretty cool jobs but just never followed through yeah he had made attempts at 3D
game design culinary school special effects makeup Artistry and photography which are all things that I'm like how
can you not get into that yeah how can you not just like okay all of those and just devour it yeah you have and and
with the you have the privilege to have all of that at your fingertips being able to choose whatever you want to do
even your passion yeah something that you really care about you wanna you wanna be a painter go be a painter right
like do whatever you want you want to make [ __ ] vases like do whatever you want to
and that's all such cool [ __ ] that would be super fun and so worth investing your
time into but Dell just didn't give a [ __ ] by 2012 he really hadn't achieved much of anything other than spending his
dad's money uh failing to finish whatever he started that's pretty much it ambition but I'm getting a tattoo oh
it's ambitious he was like I really have a lot of ambition yeah I'm just like working it out I just have to find it
but still his father Wayne continued to support his son he really had a lot of faith in him and it's absolutely
heartbreaking Wayne hoped that Dell would eventually start taking over his role at Millard air and like take over
yeah you know he's getting older and he wants to leave this business to his son he wants to know that the business is in
good hands yeah exactly every time somebody would take steps to facilitate facilitate a more stable or Professional
Circle circumstance for Dell he would just pretty much undo whatever they had done either through laziness or
incompetence or just completely undermining what anybody had done in their first place he sounds like a real
[ __ ] Peach I just want to like punch him like I'm like you're such a piece of [ __ ] yeah
during the attempts to establish a working relationship with the Waterloo airport Dell actually botched the
airline certification process so badly on several different occasions awesome he failed to make the necessary
adjustments to the hangar uh he cut corners and actually caused structural damage to the building just in an effort
to save money that he didn't want to spend cool because he wanted it for himself
and another thing thwarting his dad's efforts to transform his son into this like CEO was the fact that Dell seemed
completely disinterested in taking the time to even learn the ropes of the industry or put effort into the business
at all yeah by the end of 2012 none of that really seemed important anymore though because Wayne Millard had died by
what the coroner originally believed was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his left eye
they believed that he committed suicide okay people accepted that for the truth and believed that his decision came from
the result of all the stress he was under at work and an increasingly problematic abuse of alcohol he was
really going through it yeah I don't know if it was suicide though just gonna say that yeah I don't know
about that so on May 12th Hamilton Police started searching the Holman property of Dell's mother Madeline uh
Madeline Burns in kleinberg yet another suburb about 45 minutes outside of Toronto lots of Canadian suburbs yeah
all of them they really found nothing inside of the home but they did impound a large trailer that was parked on the
street in front of the house and um do you want to guess what was inside that trailer what was inside Tim's pickup
truck are you [ __ ] kidding me nope right there just sitting right in in a large trailer parked in front of
the home yep wow initially they had taken the truck to a local garage to hold it there until other arrangements
could be made but the staff at the garage where it was being kept was taking pictures in front of it so the
police had to move it to a separate facility are you kidding me right now no if you are one of those people go
[ __ ] yourself go [ __ ] yourself like what is wrong with you the shame how do you
want like because obviously you're taking a picture because you know that that's Tim bossman's truck you know that
the story is circulating around Canada yeah so you sat there and you watched his wife plead for these people to bring
her husband home the father of her child home and you said yeah let me take a picture in front of that pickup truck
you're supposed to be Canadian exactly okay you are not you're supposed to be better than this you are so awesome yeah
shame that's like the Game of Thrones yeah we should do that to you yeah ring some Bells around you throw some food at
you give you a stupid haircut game that's terrible it's awful I just can't I just can't imagine doing that doing an
active investigation ever but let alone but especially it's like yeah they don't
even know where he is like Jesus Christ exactly exactly and you don't even know what happened in that truck get that
[ __ ] away from that too so while investigators searched uh Dell's mother's property in kleinberg a
second team was start uh was searching his farm which was in rural North Dumfries Township which is a small
community about 40 minutes from the bosma house in Ancaster so as they were searching this property they actually
were approached by a neighbor he came on over and informed them that on several occasions he had seen and this is a
quote a big redneck smoker in the woods and an excavator in the swamp on Millard's property
huh so he actually LED them to this wooded area behind the house and down an overgrown Farmer's Road and there it was
the neighbor had described it as a smoker but what they actually found was a mobile incinerator actually intended
for the use of cremating animals oh God on this guy's property the investigators approached the
incinerator cautiously fully expecting to find a body inside but they were surprised to find the inside was empty
aside from Ash so since they found nothing at the site of the incinerator detectives asked the
neighbor to take them to the site of the excavator on the way to go see the excavator which
was um in a swamp they stopped in their tracks in the middle of a cornfield on the way because they discovered two
large burn patches that looked as though they'd recently been cleaned up they could still smell some sort of
accelerant in the area this one just so I was gonna say when they arrived at the
swampy area behind the house it was exactly as the neighbor had described it there was a bobcat and a partially
buried excavator that also appeared to have been recently used this is not looking great nope so when
Kavanaugh directed The forensics team to the incinerator in the woods they ended
up taking a closer look inside and they did discover small pieces of bone in the
main chamber of this incinerator and also in a smaller chamber below the bone fragments were photographed and
the images were immediately sent to Tracy Rogers who was a forensic anthropologist at the University of
Toronto from what she could see in the photos she felt very strongly that these bones
were likely human but she didn't want to say that without examining them in person yeah so the next day she arrived
at the farm and she actually had a group of um forensic anthropology students with her and everybody examined the
incinerator and the surrounding area in addition to the Bone fragments in the incinerator they also found on the
property what appeared to be three partially burned seat belts and other random debris what and after a thorough
search of the property she and her team were only able to recover 58 of the 208 bones that make up the human body Jesus
that's all that was left the rest had been reduced to Ash obviously due to the extreme heat like this that's what that
generator so although no conclusive DNA match was able to be made because I mean how could
they yeah at this point um no identifying features had survived the fire either but she was able to
narrow down the sex and age of the victim to the point where she was reasonably confident and saying that
these bones were likely a match for Tim Bossman oh God uh that's evenly awful that's even worse
that they can't even like you don't have anything no like that's hard because this 27 year old
[ __ ] who had literally everything he had the world at his fingertips just wanted a thrill
jump out of a [ __ ] plane if you want a thrill and honestly to this guy jump out of a [ __ ] plane without your
parachute yeah that'll be a thrill for everybody go ahead do ya you want to see what it's like to experience what a
piece of go do it you [ __ ] this is awful so later that afternoon Hamilton police called a press conference to
announce their Discovery Chief Glenn declare told reporters quote it's with a heavy heart that the Hamilton Police
Service announces the death of Ancaster resident Tim bosma a number of searches have taken place and human remains have
been located we are convinced by the totality of the evidence that these are the remains of Tim bosma the evidence
indicates that the remains have been burned so immediately they were bombed with
questions from the Press including some who were probably still operating off of
the rumors from web sleuths wanted to know if bosma had a criminal record or if he had been known to the police at
all it's like um can we can we take a minute like you're essentially suggesting that his death was the result
of his own behavior rather than the random [ __ ] act that it was and we just announced this can you cool at
first take a second it's ridiculous both declare and lean investor Kavanaugh lead investigator
excuse me Kavanaugh firmly and unequivocally stated that Tim bosma had been targeted by these killers and he
had absolutely no connection to them or any other criminals and with that go [ __ ] yourself yeah stop
asking oh my God she's so annoying there's no evidence to it so stop it's that's literally a Blog on the internet
I'm sorry but like when we really break it down that's what that is it's what everything is on the internet exactly so
now that the search for Tim bosma had come to a conclusion the investigators were able to shift their focus to
investigating the homicide and as they did this Dell Millard and true dick hole fashion was refusing to cooperate with
police he literally would not talk cool his lawyers told the Press he's facing pretty serious charges and he's
executing his right to remain silent cool yeah that's because we found an incinerator on his property uh I don't
know what you would really have to say yeah what could you say and Ancaster Charlene made a statement to the Press
regarding the discovery of Tim's remains saying yesterday was the most horrifying
day of my life people tell me I've been so strong and all I know is that I have a beautiful two-year-old girl at home
who now needs her mommy more than ever oh my God but I am broken because a part of me is gone
I can't even fathom like I can't even fathom no I don't know I don't know how you could look at that
man's face on TV or like how you could get those memories out of your page I would feel that's the thing
I mean I good for her because she knows that she has a two-year-olds that like she just said needs her more than ever
now but like she is a strong woman I have to be able to to carry on to put that that way and say well I have to be
a mom so like she had no choice Jesus it's just awful so in addition to the evidence collected
at the various addresses uh that were searched after after Millard's arrest detectives also started looking into his
associates and they discovered 25 year old Mark smitch who met Charlene bosma's description of the man that had
accompanied her husband Tim and Dell Millard on the test drive so on the evening of May 13th lead
investigator Kavanaugh instructed the officers to surveil smitch and by May 22nd he felt like they had
enough information to Warrant an arrest and both smitch and his girlfriend Marlena were arrested while they were
out just taking a walk yeah just taking a walk after what he's done as he was being taken away in cups Mark smitch
repeatedly shouted to his girlfriend don't tell them anything babe don't tell them anything babe are you [ __ ]
kidding me because that makes you look [ __ ] innocent I'd be like wow you probably didn't know anything
don't tell them anything babe don't tell them anything babe I would be so [ __ ]
embarrassed to be his girlfriend but apparently she must have known some things yeah exactly you're an [ __ ]
you should be embarrassed so the arrest of Mark caught the press and public by surprise because as far as they knew
police had made no mention of having identified a second session yeah that's true which is why you should let the
police do their work exactly and brocklehurst my girl that journalist point my girl the uh the unexpected
arrest of smitch quote was a reminder to to both the mainstream media and social
media detectives that no matter how public an investigation is the police almost always have much more information
than even the most dedicated reporters and True Crime Fanatics that is very true
you know we've all learned this again and again again and again so Mark smitch had actually been known to police for
some time he had a record of petty crime he also matched the description of the second suspect he also owned a blue SUV
that matched the description of a second vehicle seen following Tim bosma's truck
in Brantford on the night of his disappearances so Smoking Gun yeah from the moment he was arrested people were
like insatiably curious about Mark smidge among other things he seemed like a really unlikely companion for Del
Miller the two of them just did not seem to go together at all they'd grown up completely differently while Dell was
all about being a rich Playboy heir to an airline Mark smitch was just a regular middle class guy with a pretty
unremarkable life he'd been born in Mississauga and lived there for several years with his mother and his two
sisters until the family actually had to relocate to Oakville because of Mark and
this was when he was in Middle School he was pretty much the reason that his entire family had to uproot their lives
and move in the first place because this entire move was basically in the hopes of quote sorting Mark out oh he had a
lot of issues unfortunately for his family though his behavior continued on a downward spiral Spiral when he entered
High School the move really didn't do much he was getting into trouble on a regular
basis and he actually ended up dropping out of high school his sophomore year okay couldn't keep it together
after that he kind of just drifted from like one job to another not really great
jobs just he didn't have a lot of it's actually I was gonna say exactly like the case we just did with you very much
like the Clutter family murders with dick Hickok and Perry Smith yeah just traveling from one menial job to the
next and he was starting to build a reputation with uh for himself with local law enforcement as a petty
criminal and a straight up nuisance I'm so sick of dealing with this yeah he was usually unemployed and by his
early 20s he had become a small-time drug dealer Who quote when he had no Supply was reduced to selling single
cigarettes to students at the local high school who found him to be creepy wow so like when he couldn't get his
hands on more drugs to sell he would buy a pack of cigarettes and sell one square
to high school students who found him Creek who found him creepy wow that's uh that's sad that's that's a choice that's
wild yeah that's inappropriate and very inappropriate that is a lot to it it's grosser it's gross can
you imagine you're just like outside a high school just like no I can't I don't want to imagine two dollars I I will not
on cigarette I will not imagine that what no what no thank you so Mark and Dell met in 2008 when Mark was doing
some temporary work at a friend's auto garage this garage was one of many that Dell loved to hang out around he just
you know with all his free time he just hung out at garages he just loved a garage just loves because he's buying
cars even though it's like just for the hell of it exactly yeah doing everything
for the hell of it apparently like he didn't all he had oh I'm just so angry at this guy I know I hate this guy for
the first few years that they knew of each other their relationship was really nothing more than the occasional drug
deal I think actually Mark became Dell's dealer but then he really wasn't a reliable dealer because he would run out
a lot yeah but by 2010 or 2011 they actually started hanging out and chatting with each other on a regular
basis they'd play video games together and get high real winners cool ambition right I was just gonna say ambition yeah
it's all about the ambition baby it was around 2011 that Dell and Mark's friends
started what Dell referred to as missions these missions were literally just spur
of the moment theft of random items including she can't talk today Corvette room rims trees they would just steal
trees stealing trees and also they once stole a concrete floor polisher from a restaurant
okay just because they could just because they could because they had literally nothing better to do ambitious
stealing to ambition there you go eventually these missions which is what Dell called them evolved from these like
impulsive acts to actually more planned out thefts and acts of vandalism which were all orchestrated by one Del Millard
he would literally pay his friends to help him commit these crimes he's so [ __ ] pathetic if you have to pay
people to hang out with you you're pathetic you're [ __ ] pathetic and those are not your friends no you're a
loser get a life in May of 2013 Mark was living between Dell's house and Oakville and his own
girlfriend's apartment he was kind of just like couch surfing yeah one day in early May Dell told the friend group
that he wanted to steal a truck and he'd been scoping out some classified websites and he'd even made some calls
to arrange test drives can you imagine just being like you know what I just I've really been looking to steal
someone else's property I don't it's just I'm really been looking to do this I'm the heir to an airline I have
endless amounts of money I have money to last me the rest of my life but I want to steal a truck yeah just I've you know
I've been looking to steal someone else's [ __ ] what you are such a loser such a in
every way ambition ambition most of the guys in the group were um very uninterested in going along with this
specific plan they were like listen I'll steal a floor polisher from a restaurant
any day of the week but not a truck but not this um Grand Theft Auto is a little bit
different so I do see that yeah um but Mark had developed this weird sense of loyalty when it came to Dell
and he agreed to accompany his friend on this particular Mission even calling this a mission makes me feel like a
dumbass truly by the time the two were ready to put their plan to action Dell had been planning this for months so on
May 4th they test drove a truck in Toronto uh and they were this was Igor tamanico I hope I said that right his
truck he had been the man that police contacted when they found the cell data from Dell Millard's burner phone
and it was him who had filed an agreed statement of facts with the Hamilton Police officially identifying Mark
smitch as the passenger who had accompanied Dell Millard on the test drive of his truck ooh Igor is a real
one Igor on May 24 2013 Dell Millard and Mark Smith made their first appearance in court
where they were being arranged for the first degree murder of Tim bosma and just as they were in their daily lives
the two were a very stark contrast from one another in the courtroom Dell was well dressed obviously he had the money
to be he came off as confident he spoke loudly quote clearly and forcefully when
responding to the judge made eye contact when he pleaded not guilty to all of the
charges mark smitch on the other hand appeared gaunt he showed up to the court wearing
a t-shirt jeans and sneakers cool he was also sporting a black eye oh he had a cut open on his cheek and he seemed
literally incapable of even speaking loud enough for the judge to hear his not guilty plea awesome yeah
both men were held without bail Mark smitch at the Niagara Regional Detention Center and Dell Millard at the Hamilton
Wentworth Detention Center so the discovery that Dell a wealthy and supposedly successful I don't really
know I don't really know about that the the discovery that he orchestrated the murder of Tim bosma was a complete shock
to the public but not really a shock to investigators who were starting to notice a little bit of a pattern of
tragedy in Dell's life oh six months before Tim bosma went missing Dell's father Wayne Millard supposedly took his
own life in late November everybody at Millard air was told that Wayne had died of a brain aneurysm actually when in
fact he had shot himself in the head or supposedly had the coroner ruled the death as suicide and Wayne's remains
were cremated at the request of his family oh Wayne Millard's death wasn't exactly
suspicious he was the CEO of a major company he was under a large deal of stress of course it's plausible and
fully within the realm of possibility but at the same time this wasn't the first unusual tragedy that Dell had
experienced six months before his father's death seems to be that he loves a six-month
increment his former girlfriend 23 year old Laura Babcock went missing in Toronto OH
like Wayne Millard's death Laura Babcock's disappearance received really little attention from the police or even
the Press at all when it happened in late June of 2012. Laura came from a stable middle class family she was
really well liked by her friends her co-workers and just one year before she was killed she had graduated with a
degree in English and drama from the University of Toronto she had everything going for her oh man one year after
graduation things had taken a downward turn for Laura I I don't know if she like got caught up in the wrong crowd or
what happened but she had a quote unquote mental health health crisis and she started mixing recreational drugs
with her psychiatric medication which is never a good idea no it was only exacerbating her symptoms to the point
where her parents unfortunately had to ask her to leave their home and find somewhere else to go
because of the circumstances the Toronto police just assumed that when she was reported missing that she'd simply run
away or wandered off somewhere and she'd eventually turn up you know little attention
in both cases police accepted the obvious and in my opinion the most convenient explanations yeah but others
weren't so quick to rule out a way more Sinister explanation at Millard air those who had been close to Wayne
Millard in the weeks before his death remembered him as being very happy very excited about new business ventures and
they said that he was eager to build the company back up so that he could leave his son with a successful business to
operate that breaks my heart to those people the death of somebody so future oriented came as a shock which that
can't happen I was gonna say it can absolutely happen but in this case they just had a gut feeling that something
was off well there's a lot more at play here and at the same time while it's true that Laura Babcock was struggling
emotionally at the time of her disappearance her ex-boyfriend Sean Lerner had a reason to believe that she
didn't just run away shortly after she disappeared he was very concerned and he actually managed
to get a hold of her cell phone bill and her cell phone bill showed that she had
exchanged a series of calls and texts with Dell Millard in the days before she had disappeared meaning he was the last
person to have any communication with her so Lerner her ex took this information
and took the bill to the Toronto police but they brushed him off and quote unquote accused him of playing CSI
like no like he's actually bringing an actual piece of evidence he had he literally has the information of the
last person she spoke with at least like that's that's pertinent at the very least and he's not posting it on the
internet no he's bringing it right to the station he's doing everything what you're supposed to do yeah like Jesus
you're damned if you do you're damned if you don't apparently that's not cool and
then to add insult to injury they informed him that because he wasn't family he didn't have the right to file
a missing person's report you know what like okay I didn't realize that would happen so when you realized
he wasn't gonna get anywhere with police he took things into his own hands and actually went to confront Del Millard
himself oh that's dangerous in Late July of 2012. Dell told him yeah I'd been talking to Laura but I don't know where
she is and I haven't seen her or heard from her since I spoke to her last and Lerner really couldn't do much I don't
believe him no so now in the wake of both arrests for the murder of Tim bosma investigators in
Toronto with assistance from Kavanaugh's team in Hamilton and the opp began to dig deeper into Dell's relationships
with his father and Laura Babcock uh first family and friends believed that Wayne was depressed and that his
work stress led him to commit this suicide the day after he died Del Millard told the press that his father
quote carried some great sadness with him throughout life that I never knew he never wanted to share that with me
but whatever sympathy he showed at the time appeared to have been an act when investigators interviewed employees
at Millard air they found out that Dell regularly and continuously run around talking [ __ ] about his father cool he
said his father was a failure he said his father was intent on squandering his fortune by trying to build an Empire to
leave his son who had no interest in running this company wow basically saying my dad put everything he could
into this company for me and I don't even want it what a [ __ ] idiot that's annoying your whole life has been set up
for you you are the idiot here yeah I hate this guy seriously on the night of Wayne Millard's death Dell told the
authorities that he had been at Mark's house and given that police had already accepted suicide as the cause of death
nobody doubted his Alibi or checked into it oh no however when the new detectives
who were now investigating him attempted to confirm this Alibi in June of 2013. cell phone records showed that yes he
had been at Mark's house that night but he had traveled to his father's house in the early morning hours and
interviews with his friends and acquaintances gave them even more to go off of detectives learned that in the
weeks before his father's death Dell illegally purchased a 32 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver from his friend
Matthew that was the exact caliber an exact model used in the quote unquote suicide
oh come on their suspicions of Dell's involvement were confirmed but they still went above and beyond and tested
the gun used in the shooting and discovered that Dell Millard's DNA was on the handle are you [ __ ] kidding me
he killed his father holy [ __ ] he shot his own father in the head my God uh-huh so police believed that he
murdered his father quote to protect his inheritance which was being used to fund
a new Aviation business and to keep him from having to inherit said business God he killed his father because he
didn't want to inherit the family business he killed his father because he's a lazy [ __ ] who has ambition
tattooed on his arm correct wow in the case of Laura Babcock investigators learned that she and several of her
other female friends had been engaging in escort services through an online escort site including Dell Millard's
then girlfriend Christina Dell and Laura had pre had briefly dated in 2008 and they remained friends after the breakup
so in the spring of 2012 after Laura had been kicked out of her parents house she
was actually temporarily staying with Dell and Christina but tensions arose when she began
spending alone time with Dell and that time eventually led to a sexual relationship with each other oh
not surprisingly Christina was [ __ ] pissed yeah and demanded that Dell and the relationship and cut off all contact
with Laura Della green and told Christina what he planned to do to Laura saying first I'm going to hurt her then
I'll make her leave I will remove her from our lives holy [ __ ] yup investigators made three
separate searches of the farm where they'd previously discovered Tim bosma's remains they did a more than thorough
search of this property each time but unfortunately they found no evidence of Laura's remains but when you know what
he did with Tim exactly and with his own father so instead they relied on interview testimony cell phone data text
messages and circumstantial evidence to build their case because they were not willing to let this go and they
theorized that Dell and Mark had spent months planning how to get rid of Laura Babcock excuse me and on July 3rd or 4th
investigators believed they killed her wrapped her body in a blue tarp and loaded it into Wayne Millard's minivan
Jesus Christ and drove it to the farm where they disposed of her remains in the commercial incinerator that Dell had
purchased on July 5th that is so [ __ ] up even though they didn't find Laura's physical remains they did find a photo
that Dell sent to mark on July 4th in which he's seen at the Millard air Hangar standing beside a quote
human-sized bundle wrapped in a blue tarp are you kidding me nope what the [ __ ] and he literally purchased
the incinerator for her my God so their trials began in February of 2016 and each man pled not guilty to the
charge of murdering Tim bosma almost three years had passed since they had been arrested and in that time
investigators had collected a huge amount of damning evidence of guilt including the remains found in the
incinerator the truck which was found at Dell's mother's house and a significant
number of texts and other Communications that pointed toward their being responsible for Laura's death
but of course both of their lawyers did the thing where they pinned the bulk of the responsibility on the other person
of course I think it's sometimes referred to as the Cutthroat defense ah they wanted to gain the jury sympathies
and receive a lesser sentence for their client by pinning the entire thing on the other client so Mark's lawyers were
pointing the finger at Dell's lawyer or Adele excuse me and Dell's lawyers were doing the same time yeah of course while
the authorities had spent the previous year chasing down every single lead in the case Dell and his defense team had
been not so subtly pleading their case through the media press interviews statements jailhouse interviews he did
several while in jail and made every attempt he could to minimize the spoiled rich kid image that was being so focused
on yeah but um it's really hard to do that when you are just a spoiled rich kid yeah definitely he told a reporter
from the London Community News quote I shop at Costco I don't buy expensive clothes I'm a bargain Hunter I have one
Hugo Boss suit how humble everyone loves Costco you [ __ ] everyone bow down to the humble
King like I only have one Hugo Boss suit I shop at Costco I'm a bargain hunter okay
um you're still a [ __ ] cold-blooded murderer [ __ ] and you'll never enjoy a Costco free sample again so how do you
like those apples so [ __ ] you how do you like those cut up corn dogs wow according to Dell any evidence of his
leading a lavish lifestyle was actually him just trying to live up to the image that people expected of him people
expected so much of him Elena and he just had to live up to that and he said if he was guilty of anything
it was for picking up Strays like Mark smitch the quote Petty criminal who dragged him into this tragedy
shut the [ __ ] up yeah you're equally responsible good try Mark's defense team like I just said was equally ready and
placed all the blame on Dell they claimed that he was the quote master manipulator which I believe and the
quote Psychopathic Rich friend which I also believed yeah I was gonna say and they said he had enticed Mark smitch
with empty promises and then ultimately took him quote on a test drive he never could have imagined
I do think that Dell was the master manipulator and I do think he was The Psychotic Rich friend yeah but I also
know that Mark smitch was an adult who was capable of making his own decisions and made the wrong [ __ ] Choice
exactly the Press could not resist The Sensational story of this Playboy Heir turned murderer and Mark smitch's
Narrative of a petty criminal turned accomplice in a homicide it was more so that they were interested
in Dell's story and a little bit less in March story because Dell story sold papers yeah Mark
spitch's story nobody really cared a lot Mark is a pending is a petty criminal so
it just kind of floats away but Dell is supposed to be this like air of this huge corporation there's an airline
criminal yeah it's wild so in one interview after another Dell had no trouble demonstrating his intelligence
and his sharpness when it came to speaking this did make him a potential asset to his own case unfortunately
especially if he was put on the witness stand and while Mark smitch couldn't compare
to him in terms of public speaking or self-confidence he'd actually undergone a pretty considerable physical
transformation during his three years in jail and his defense team I think they did this strategically and they were
hoping that it would work in his favor he wasn't the scrawny poorly dressed Meek drug dealer who had basically like
muttered his plea during the arraignment now Mark had grown out his hair to a more like conventional style he'd put on
weight and muscle in the years since his final or since his first court appearance he appeared more respectable
and his lawyers hoped more sympathetic and believable I think this was all like yeah like a Casey Anthony yeah you know
I tried to make her look like a sweet so yeah Mama they buttoned her all up they
brushed her hair back yeah and she was looking so believable yeah unfortunately that worked
foreign [Music] defense lawyer Thomas Dungy I believe is how you say it he worked really hard to
establish his client as the unwilling pawn and Dell's psychotic plan he aggressively questioned Dell's friends
and Associates to the point where the judge Justice Goodman interrupted to say I think Mr Dungy we can lower the tenor
with respect to the witnesses wow but this was all part of his strategy to demonstrate that whether it was through
his own wealth or his charm Dylan Millard had a way of dominating people and convincing them to engage in
behaviors or activities that they might not otherwise yeah it was a tactic and his tactic proved to be successful and
it really spoke to Dell Millard's character and then to speak even further to that character several law
enforcement officers were called to testify pretty much all of them said that Dell was a narcissist who used his
money and influence to get whatever he wanted oh we can all see that yeah well at the same time Del Millard's
defense lawyer Raven Palais had petitioned the court to exclude a considerable amount of evidence that
they said would bias the jury against the client and he was unfortunately successful in doing so the evidence
included a large number of communications between Dell and different friends that implicated him in
drug use which it's like we all know he did drugs he's a spoiled rich kid and just pretty much other things like that
pelay the defense attorney pretty much ignored the claims that his client was a psychotic narcissist and instead argued
that it made no sense for Dell to develop an elaborate plan to steal a truck he could have just gone out and
bought one and he also argued that it was Mark smitch who needed money and he intended to steal and sell the truck but
he said something unplanned happened and went wrong and Mark smitch produced the
gun that killed Tim vaspa he said it was all Mark yeah look at that he also suggested the large amount of evidence
collected by investigators from bone fragments browser history the truck at Dell's mother's property was actually
evidence of Dell's innocence after all he said wouldn't somebody who committed murder try to cover up their
involvement rather than leave it out in the open where anybody could find it that's a bold move
let's see if it works out for him what that's a bold move why like if I was on the jury I would
just literally sit there and like raise my hand and just say what like you can't
be serious my guy he was you can't be serious my guy yeah I'm on astounded he was so serious after four months oh
serious four months of testimony closing arguments began on May 31st 2016. each layer took nearly an entire day to make
their final case to the jury which I always I'm like don't do that to the jury I'm always just astounded by that
I'm like how do you talk for that one an entire day I feel like you're at that point going on like too long but you
know I'm like that's amazing to me I mean yeah it's absolutely like badass so the jury deliberated deliberated that's
always another hard word for me to say for four days and that they were actually sequestered at this point like
so they came from that to deliver their verdict both Dylan Millard and Mark smitch were
found guilty of the first degree murder of Tim bosma and because the sentence for first degree murder in Canada is an
automatic 25-year prison sentence both men requested to be sentenced immediately rather than wait for a
hearing of course neither Mark or Dell made a statement during the sentencing and Justice Goodman told both of them
despite their quote incomprehensible and unimaginable act Tim bosma's memory and
spirit cannot be taken away good and then he sentenced them both to a quote automatic mandatory term of life
imprisonment or at least until 2038 good sadly the verdict was bittersweet and left so many unanswered questions for so
many people involved the bosma family was pleased with the verdict but they felt that the pros and they felt that
the prosecution's theoretical explanation of Tim's Final hours did answer a lot of their questions that had
been lingering and they'd been struggling at this point for years and they said quote the weight just went off
of our shoulders the public on the other hand which like I'm not as concerned about as long as
his family's happy I'm happy but they were left to question what turned Dell Millard and Mark smitch to turn into
thrill Killers especially where both of them maintained their innocence yeah which clearly they were not yeah an
incinerator was found yeah exactly now in February of 27 the disastrous Duo went on trial again for the murder of
Laura Babcock both represented by their same lawyers that they had been in the Tim bosma case
like I said without a body it was going to be tough but the crown base their entire case on circumstantial evidence
and then also witness testimony they also had found Laura's belongings in Del Millard's possession and photo shared
between Mark and Dell were used and there are good okay the defense argued that for all anybody knew Laura Babcock
was still alive and any suggestion of violence having been committed against her was nothing more than the boasting
of adolescent drug users wow like she could still be alive my client just said he killed her yeah to boast
like come on in the end the jury thankfully sided with the prosecution and found both men guilty of the murder
of Laura Babcock wow without a body holy [ __ ] that's hard yeah I think the text
messages yeah really spoke for themselves they have a photo I think the photos spoke for itself the fact that a
lot of her stuff was still in this possession I think all of that was [ __ ] up justice Michael code who was
the one to preside over the trial called Del Millard quote profoundly immoral and
dangerous and he said his accomplice quote enthusiastically participate in the participated in the murder of their
supposed friend the courtroom literally erupted in cheers when the Justice sentenced both
to life in prison good with the eligibility for parole in 50 years oh my God in the fall of 2017 Dell went on
trial again this time alone and for the murder of his father oh [ __ ] Wayne Millard in September of that year he was
convicted of first-degree murder good Justice Maureen uh forstell I want to say presided over the case and handed
down Millard's third consecutive life sentence meaning any chance at parole was just not gonna happen for at least
75 years so he would be godspeed I don't even know like seven three he'd be like
100. it's not happening before handing down his sentence for forrestelle addressed the court saying Dylan Millard
has repeatedly committed the most serious offense known to our law he has done so with considerable planning and
premeditation in the murder of his father he took advantage of the vulnerability of his father and betrayed
his father's trust in him Millard's lawyer yeah Millard's lawyer called the sentence unduly harsh
okay like he killed someone and Dell said that it was unreasonable and unconstitutional
can you explain how sir the judge disagreed thank you but in May of 2022 the Supreme Court in Canada overturned
the 2011 provision which allowed justices the power to sentence individuals to consecutive sentences
come on I know which meant that both Millard and smitch would actually get the potential opportunity for parole way
earlier than anybody expected that's [ __ ] and people were [ __ ] pissed Charlene bosma told reporters quote our
government took away one of the very few things we as victims had to hold on to my daughter was two and a half when her
father was murdered now because of this ruling when my daughter is 27 she will be asked to carry on the fight I thought
I already fought for her that's [ __ ] up that's really [ __ ] up and it's smart for her to put it that way yeah
because that'll make people really see and think about it think twice the Toronto police also caught flock for not
diligently investigating Wayne Millard's death or The Disappearance of Laura Babcock and a lot of people pointed out
Tim bosma could still be alive if they had actually done due diligence in both of those cases it's true but
unfortunately no member of the Toronto police service has ever been held accountable for those failures damn
um and that is the case of Dell Millard and Mark Smith two of the world [ __ ] just stains I was literally just gonna
say stains on the world like cross out your ambition tattoosing things on the world
how the Tim bosma space just destroys me so senseless and the thing is none of us
will ever know what happened in that truck and why they ended his life because they won't say and because
they're even bigger pieces of [ __ ] exactly originally thought to let his wife and his daughter continue living
their lives having no idea what happened to their husband and father and all your
mind is gonna do is come up with your own the worst thing exactly yeah and to leave them in that position makes these
two men even more [ __ ] sufferable than they already were and it was like a 42 on the Richter Scale that's horrible
it's so [ __ ] senseless I hate them I hate them so much truly this case infuriated me oh that's awful awful
damn I know this was a heavy one yeah it really is but with that being said we hope that
you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird so weird that you yelled there you
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Dellen Millard and Mark Smich are two of the world's biggest fuck boys, and unfortunately cold-blooded killers. Dellen, better known as "Dell", had everything in his life served to him on a silver platter and never bothered to finish much of anything. Mark Smich lived a life carrying out petty thefts and selling single cigarettes outside of a high school he no longer went to. The two of these assholes crossed paths due to some catastrophe in the stars and decided that they wanted to steal a truck. Their plan of doing so would lead to murder and an investigation that would uncover several other mysterious deaths.

Thank you to the vivacious David White for research assistance

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Brief Summary

Tim Bosma was murdered in 2013 during a truck sale; Dylan Millard and Mark Smitch were convicted for his murder after a complex investigation.

Key points

The Disappearance of Tim Bosma. Tim Bosma goes missing after a test drive with two men, leading to a chilling investigation.
The Sinister Plan Unfolds. Authorities discover that Tim's murder was part of a deeper, sinister plan.
Social Media's Impact. Tim's disappearance goes viral on social media, but it complicates the investigation.
Charlene's Heartfelt Plea. Tim's wife urges the suspects to return her husband, emphasizing the emotional toll on their family.
Investigation Update. Police announce an arrest in Tim's case, identifying Dylan Millard as a suspect with a matching tattoo.
Jennifer Ends Engagement. After discovering Dell's infidelity, Jennifer breaks off their engagement and moves out.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It's like peeling peeling peeling back the layers of onion, yeah of an evil onion.

Describing the unfolding details of the case.

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