BOSMA MURDER TRIAL: Trial Media/Doc Thread - ** No Discussion **

[Kamille]

Computers held wealth of evidence in Bosma trial

Photos of guns and online searches for used pickup trucks were found on computer devices seized from the two men accused in the slaying of Ancaster dad Tim Bosma.

James Falconer, a retired police officer from the OPP’s technical crime unit, presented a mass of digital evidence to the jury Wednesday at the first-degree murder trial of Dellen Millard, 30, and his friend Mark Smich, 28 — the pair co-accused in Bosma’s death.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...-smich-home-tim-bosma-murder-trial-hears.html

 

[Kamille]

Clairmont: A mind boggling tour of digital evidence at Bosma trial

It may be the exact moment when the lives of Tim Bosma and his killers collided.

May 3, 2013, 8:28 p.m.

At that instant, someone accessed the ad Tim posted on AutoTrader to sell his diesel Dodge Ram pickup.

Tim would have been oblivious to this, of course. Completely, absolutely unaware that his truck was luring his killers close.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...ling-tour-of-digital-evidence-at-bosma-trial/

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Defence lawyers spar over shell casing found in truck

The lawyers representing the two men accused of killing Hamilton man Tim Bosma spent most of Thursday arguing with each other in court, as the location of a key piece of evidence in the case — a bullet casing found in Bosma's truck — showed a sharp divide between them.

Retired Ontario Provincial Police identification officer David Banks returned to the witness box to continue his testimony — but it was through cross-examination that the jury saw the defence teams are not presenting a united front.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...ar-over-shell-casing-found-in-truck-1.3474343

 

[Kamille]

CLAIRMONT: Blood patterns on that pickup truck may tell a grim story

It's simpler to think about blood patterns in terms of chemistry and physics and calculus than to dwell on the humanity of it.

When it's all Kastle-Meyer presumptive testing and spatter and angles and tangents, terminal velocity and directionality it is, somehow, clean. Clinical. Fascinating.

That's how I remember it from a day I once spent at the Hamilton Police blood spatter room at the east end station. Their blood pattern analyst flung a vial of blood across white walls, letting it pool on the floor, and then he taught me how to use math and science to calculate where its source was, how it moved and why.

But then take that further. Make it real.

A violent crime scene. A person wounded or dead at the hands of another.

Now make it Tim Bosma's blood. And put the people who love him in a courtroom as photo after photo is shown of his blood smeared, spattered, dropped, wiped — there are many categories of blood patterns and each tells a different story — on that damned pickup truck he was trying to sell.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...-may-tell-a-grim-story/#.VtsB6L3Ked0.facebook

 

[swedie]

Crowns Witness list to date March 7, 2016 (64)
Note: Not in any particular order.

Sharlene Bosma - TB's wife
Wayne De Boer - downstairs tenant of Bosmas. Outside with TB and SB when perps walked up driveway.
Jesse Kancer - TB's friend who was at TB's house the evening of May 6th, helped TB spruce up truck, picked up snowmobiles. Left before perps arrived.
Clark Kingswood - Owner of Kingswood Industrial Services found TB's cell phone cutting grass at Kemir.
Elizabeth Roswell - Employee with Kemira who cleaned and turned TB's cell phone on, called TB's home. Turn phone over to LE.
Det. Sgt. Greg Jackson - Took statement from IT. Tried to get finger/footprints from his truck. Also gave cell phone evidence.
Igor Tumanenko - Took DM and MS for a test drive in his Dodge May 5, 2013. He had it listed on-line. IDed DM's "ambition" tattoo and mentioned DM having a man purse.
Det. Randy Kovacsik - Retired Homicide Detective. Went to Kemira to retrieve TB's cell phone.
Dennis Araujo - Listed Dodge for sale on Autotrader. Call "Bate's" cell phone back and didn't get an answer.
Omar Palmili - Listed Dodge truck on Autotrader - was contacted by "Bate's" cell phone but slept in and missed call back.
Arthur Jennings - Employee of MA (approx. six months), SS's FIL. Took photos of TB's stolen truck and VIN in MA hangar, called CS Thursday, but did not reveal where TB's truck was until Friday, the day DM told him to get his stuff and leave the hangar.
Tony Diciano - Body shop owner DM called Wed. May 8, 2013, to have TB's truck painted from black to red and then DM cancelled next day.
Det. Sgt. Paul Hamilton - Went to MA to talk to DM May 10, 2013. ID tattoo.
Det. John Hamilton - Hamilton Police. Technological Crimes Unit accompanied Det. Paul Hamilton to the hangar. Noticed DM putting on satchel bag over his shoulder.
Officer Don Sauve - Hamilton Police. Handcuffed and arrested DM. Found $350 and three gloves in front pant pocket.
Const. Cory Weick - Officer who responded to a call in Kleinburg "suspicious trailer" in MB's driveway. Entered the trailer to check for TB and get VIN.
Const. Mark Levangi - York regional police. Also responded to a call in Kleinburg "suspicious trailer."
Officer Jennifer Granatier - Followed CN and retrieve drinking straw "cast off" evidence.
Officer Steve Lassalin - Attempted to get video surveillance footage from Mobile Tech store in Etobicoke from when phone was sold to "Lucas Bate." No video going back that far for the police to obtain.
Sal Iaccio - Senior Corporate Security Analyst with Wind Mobile. Receiving requests from Hamilton police for phone records.
Danielle Fortier - Rogers Communications employee testified, gave cell phone towers/pings evidence.
Phillip Wilkerson - OPP operational intelligence analyst gave testimony about cell phones, pings/towers.
Rick Bullman - neighbor of Bosmas. Walking his dog and saw two vehicles pull out of field May 6, 2013, around 9pm.
Det. Randy Kovacsik - Retired Hamilton Police retrieved TB's phone from Elizabeth Roswell at Kemira.
Frank Cianfarani - MB neighour. Reporter came to his home on May 11, 2013, showing him photo of MB's house. Both knew DM was arrested and knew MB was DM's mother. After reporter left, FC called LE about DM's trailer in MB's driveway.
Gian Luca Consiglio - MB's neighbour. Late Thurs. night/early Fri. morning saw "bright headlights" in his bedroom while trying to sleep. Lights coming from truck, coming or going from MB's driveway.
Det. Brent Gibson - Hamilton Police vice and drug unit assisted homicide branch. Put padlock and seal on DM's trailer before it left Kleinburg. Canvassed neighbourhood in search of video evidence. Watched video in neighbour's basement then and there.
Officer Erik Lauridsen - seized video from resident in the Kleinsburg. Video shows trailer being towed by truck, with lights on top of cab.
Det. Constable Laura McLellan - Halton Police. Identification officer. Took 666 evidence photos of TB's truck and DM's trailer.
Det. Rob Felski - Halton Police. Fingerprint Expert. Took DM's thumbprint from rear view mirror of TB's truck.
Officer Andrew Gordon - Niagara Regional Police search DM's Yukon. Found TB's truck key on DM's key ring.
Colleen O’Rourke - Halton Police. Fingerprint Expert who retrieve DM's fingerprint from driver's side door of TB's truck.
Chaz Main - Dirt bike rider. Main's friend's father owned property next to DM's farmland property.
Sgt. Ben Adam - Hamilton police. Came upon Main dirt biking and asked if unusual activity in the area. Main mentioned incinerator to Sgt. Adam. Sgt. Adam took Main in car to area of incinerator.
Sgt. Philip Peckford - Helped with the investigation on the Ayr farm.
Sgt. Annette Huys - Forensics officer who was at the Ayr farm. Looked into incinerator and saw remains, called Dr. Rogers, anthropologist.
Dr. Tracy Rogers - Forensic Anthropologist. Worked days retrieving remains from incinerator. She also worked on Picton case 2002/03.
Evan Snider - Leased farmland in Ayr, from DM. Noticed incinerator May 13, 2013.
Armin Seibert - Land owner next to the Millard farm. Tues. 7th, or Wed. 8th, week of May 11, 2013, saw flashlights bouncing off of silos around 11/11:30pm, while bringing in his horses.
Steven Henhoeffer - May 7th or 8th, While milking cows he saw smoke coming from the Millard farm about 6am.
Jason McGrath - friend of Snider's son hunted on the property. Arrangement with Evan Snider to go on the property. Hunted on farmland May 4, 2013.
Brian Franklin - Cousin to Jason McGarth, friend of Snider's son, also hunted on farmland.
Darryl Denny - Chief Building Official May 2013, building application submitted for shop to be built on DM's farmland. Signature on application was M. Burns.
William Penner - Worked for Tri-Star in Manitoba. Sold SS "The Eliminator" for MA June 13, 2012, for $15,424.50.
Tim Cook - operates a company Eco Concepts (Georgia) building incinerators for the agriculture industry.
Officer Ryan Walker - Hamilton police. Took photos and TB's toothbrush from Bosma's home.
Dr. William Barlow - Forensic Dentistry. Tried to extract DNA from single tooth found in incinerator, N/A due to extensive heat.
Det. Const. Andrew Gordon - Niagara Regional Police. Exam and collected evidence from DM's Yukon: keys, debit/credit cards, duffel bag with file folder containing incinerator invoice and glove.
Officer Lauren Troubridge - Hamilton Police. Followed the DM's trailer with TB's truck from Hamilton to an OPP forensics lab in Tillsonburg on May 14, 2013. Trailer doors opened and box flew out, later retrieved.
Const. Ryan Tocher - Hamilton Police homicide unit. Took TB's truck key to Tillsonburg, pushed remote, door unlocked, broke seal driver's side door.
Dr. John Fernandes - Expert forensic pathology. Has done over 100 homicide autopsies. Total weigh of TB's remains 503 grams.
Det. Const. Mark Wilson - Hamilton police. Sent to retrieve DVR from CN's house.
Det. Barry Stoltz - Retrieved video from Super Sucker Inc. in Ancaster.
James Stieva - Director of Marketing and Communications for Super Sucker.
Graham Dykeman - Outside sales rep, testified that he had swung by the MA's hangar on May 7, 2013, a “cold call” but the door was locked and nobody was there. He left.
Jason Agnew - Napa Auto Parts employee. SS ordered windshield removal kit May 8th and "roll off discs" May 9th, 2013.
Sgt. Stuart Oxley - Hamilton police officer. Surveilled DM. Walked up to driver's side with gun drawn on DM. Also surveilled Smich for 5 or 6 days in May. Took photographs, collect cigarette butt tossed by MS. Arrested MS May 22, 2013, will walking with his girlfriend MM.
Lisa Williams - Self taught bookkeeper for MA.
James Sloots - Forensic Biologist with CFScience. Wrote reports on DNA evidence, examined TB's truck, Eliminator and gloves.
Det. George Higgins - Hamilton police. Surveilled Millard driving in his Yukon. Also serveilled MS, took photos.
Officer Mario Rizzo - Hamilton police assigned to the guns and weapons enforcement unit. Searched MS's bedroom.
Jim Falconer - Retired OPP Technical Crime Unit. Qualified expert in computer forensics and data recovery. Retrieved information from computers found in DM's house.
David Banks - Retired OPP Identification Officer. Examined TB's Dodge. Blood and GSR collected. Sachak: "excited to return to Hamilton from Florida?" Banks: "It had to be done." Took notes and worked with Det. Constable Laura McLellan.
Sgt. Robert Jones - Waterloo police. Expert in blood spatter. Blood on inside and outside including undercarriage of TB's truck. Evidence of cleaning.

 

[Coldpizza]

Tim Bosma trial: 'Bloodletting event' happened inside truck, expert says
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Mar 07, 2016

Many bloodstains suggest attempt to clean them up using hose or power washer, court hears

Blood spatter expert Sgt. Robert Jones of Waterloo police told the jury that some of the stains on the truck suggest an attempt to wash them away with spray from a hose or a pressure washer. (Court exhibit)

The evidence from a "bloodletting event" inside Tim Bosma's truck all points to someone being shot while in the passenger seat of the truck, a blood spatter expert told a Hamilton court Monday.

Testifying at the trial of the two men accused of killing the Hamilton man, Sgt. Robert Jones of Waterloo police told the jury that blood spatter found on the inside dash of Bosma's truck came from the passenger side area.

[...]

Efforts made to clean up truck

Monday's testimony was dominated by the blood spatter evidence in the truck, and once again, the contentious location of a spent .380-calibre shell casing found inside the truck.

Jones told the jury Monday that many of the stains on the inside and outside of the truck appeared to be "altered," possibly the result of trying to clean them up with a hose or pressure washer.

[...]

Parts of truck stripped

"Five splatter bloodstains inside the vehicle indicate that a bloodletting event happened inside the vehicle. I'm missing too much inside the vehicle to say how big the event was," Jones said.

In cross-examination, Millard's lawyer Ravin Pillay said that Jones couldn't concretely say what caused the blood to spatter where it did in the truck.

[...]

Lawyers wrangle over shell casing again

Once again, the defence lawyers argued over the location of a shell casing found inside the truck. Smich's lawyer Thomas Dungey took Jones to task for not writing down anything about the shell in his notebook at the time of the initial examination.

"We've got a casing here and you're the stain guy, and you're telling us you're not going to note it in your book?" Dungey said.

 

[Coldpizza]

‘Bloodletting event’ occurred in Tim Bosma’s truck
Hamilton Spectator
By Molly Hayes

Evidence consistent with someone having been shot in the front passenger seat, expert says

There was a "bloodletting event" inside Tim Bosma's truck, a blood spatter expert who examined the truck concluded.

But because the truck's front seats and carpeting had been ripped up, Sgt. Robert Jones, a bloodstain pattern expert with Waterloo Regional Police, testified Monday that too much was missing for him to determine how big that event was — or exactly what caused it.

"I'm suspecting that there was probably information that might have helped me out on those items, and that's why they're missing," Jones said.

But everything he saw was consistent with someone having been shot in the front passenger seat, he agreed with assistant Crown attorney Tony Leitch.

[...]

When Smich's lawyer Thomas Dungey was up, he narrowed in not only on Jones's bloodstain analysis, but on his discovery of a .380 calibre bullet casing under the back seat of the pickup during his examination.

Dungey grilled him about why he didn't make a note about such a discovery.

Jones (who said he noticed the casing after leaning his arm on the seat to peer inside the truck looking for bloodstains) argued his job was strictly to analyze blood — for anything else he came across, he alerted the other investigators on scene.

"Which is what happened that day," he said. "I stuck specifically with bloodstains."

 

[Coldpizza]

Tim Bosma trial: Gun likely fired inside truck
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Mar 08, 2016

This photo of a gun, the Crown alleges, was sent via iMessage from Dellen Millard to his girlfriend, Christina Noudga. It has not officially been linked in court to the death of Tim Bosma. (Court exhibit)


Robert Gerard, a forensic scientist in the chemistry section of the Centre for Forensic Sciences, told the jury he believes some sort of gun was discharged.

"I've never seen that many [gunshot residue particles] inside a vehicle," Gerard said. "To get that many spread out over such an area in the vehicle speaks to me that a firearm was discharged in the vehicle."

[...]

Gunshot residue found in multiple locations

On Tuesday, court saw a diagram that showed 26 gunshot residue particles were found near the driver's seat of the truck on the roof liner, while 35 particles were found near the passenger's seat on the roof liner.

[...]

Defence questions residue distribution

In cross-examination, Millard's lawyer Ravin Pillay asked if activity inside the truck after a shot was fired could affect the distribution of the microscopic gunshot residue particles.

[...]

Millard's fingerprint matched with photo holding gun

Fingerprinting expert Christianne Lys also testified about a photo of a gun that was found on a computer in Millard's home.

She compared the finger seen in the photo with prints police had on file for Millard and found that they matched.

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Flames seen at MillardAir hangar hours after Tim Bosma disappeared

A flame shooting out from a trailer illuminated the outside of the MillardAir hangar just hours after slain Hamilton man Tim Bosma disappeared, court heard Wednesday at the trial of two men accused of first-degree murder in his death.

That was just one of the images the jury saw as forensic video analyst Michael Plaxton returned to the witness box and showed security camera footage detailing key moments in the Crown's case — starting with the early morning hours of May 7, 2013, in and around the hangar.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...r-hours-after-tim-bosma-disappeared-1.3483358

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2754340/Bosma-Security-Camera-Presentation.pdf

 

[Kamille]

CLAIRMONT: No love lost between Millard and his uncle

ROBERT BURNS
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Robert Burns, Dellen Millard's veterinarian uncle, testified at the Tim Bosma trial on Thursday.

It is abundantly clear that Dellen Millard's uncle despises him.

Though his words from the witness stand were careful, Robert Burns' tone left no doubt he does not love his sister's son. And that the relationship was strained even before Millard was arrested for first-degree murder.

Though more than 70 witnesses have testified at the Tim Bosma murder trial so far, Burns was the first to show open hostility toward Millard. Even Sharlene Bosma, Tim's widow, exhibited no obvious hatred when she took the stand on the trial's opening day six weeks ago.

Other witnesses seem to have fallen under Millard's spell. His bookkeeper, for instance, visited him in jail and continues to do work for what is left of Millardair, his failed aviation hangar.

It will be a cold day in hell I think before Burns would ever voluntarily be in the same room as his nephew again.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6386281-clairmont-no-love-lost-between-millard-and-his-uncle/

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Dellen Millard's uncle 'blown away' by pet cremation suggestion

Veterinarian Robert Burns, who is Dellen Millard's uncle, testified Thursday at the trial of his nephew and Mark Smich, who are accused of killing Hamilton man Tim Bosma. (Yelp.com)

Dellen Millard's uncle, Robert Burns, denied any intention of getting into the pet cremation business with his nephew when asked by the Crown prosecutor in a Hamilton court Thursday.

Burns was the first member of the Millard family to testify at the trial of Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville, Ont., who are accused of killing Tim Bosma, 32, who lived in the suburban Ancaster area of Hamilton. Both have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Uncle describes 'distant' relationship

Millard's father, Wayne Millard, and his mother, Madeleine Burns, separated for a time, Burns testified, saying that for "altruistic reasons" he took care of the man now accused of murder "sporadically" from ages 15 to 17.

He classified their current relationship as "distant." Burns's testimony was interrupted on multiple occasions by defence objections, and the jury had to be excused for legal arguments twice.

Burns said he was "absolutely blown away" when he heard about a suggestion that he might have been planning a pet cremation business venture with his nephew.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...wn-away-by-pet-cremation-suggestion-1.3485222

 

[Coldpizza]

Tim Bosma trial: Dellen Millard's texts about missing man revealed
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Mar 21, 2016

Shane Schlatman leaves the Hamilton courthouse after testifying at the trial of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich on Monday. (CBC)

Days after Tim Bosma disappeared, Dellen Millard was texting one of his employees about the missing man and his truck — which was seen in the MillardAir hangar, a Hamilton court heard today at the trial of two men accused of murdering the 32-year-old.

The Superior Court trial resumed Monday with the jury seeing texts between Millard, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, and one of his former employees, Shane Schlatman. Those texts were written after Bosma failed to return after taking two men on a test drive of a pickup truck he was trying to sell.

[...]

"I can't stop thinking about what that family is going through," read one text Millard sent to Schlatman. He previously told Schlatman that he "bought the truck in Kitchener."

[...]

'I never thought he would hurt someone'

"Ya, that's a tough call man," Schlatman said in a text response. "Have you considered goin to cops? Tell em ya bought this truck but you think it's warm?"

Millard answered: "Hypothetically: if this is the same one, I'm in a lot of jeopardy: what truck?"

[...]

Homemade incinerator attempted

In late 2011 or early 2012, Schlatman testified, Millard asked him to build a homemade incinerator to "burn off garbage" from his properties.

"There was a lot of garbage produced from [his] properties, so he wanted a way of getting rid of it quicker and cheaper," he said.

 

[Coldpizza]

Bosma trial: Millardair employee describes texts
Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, March 21, 2016

HAMILTON -- A man charged with first-degree murder said in a text a few days after the disappearance of a father he is accused of killing that he felt badly for the victim's family, his trial heard Monday.
In testimony in Ontario Superior Court, Shane Schlatman said Dellen Millard texted him three days after Tim Bosma vanished to express sympathy with what "that family" was going through.

[...]

Asked by Crown attorney Craig Fraser why he didn't ask Millard about Bosma's whereabouts, the former Millardair employee said it didn't cross his mind that his employer might have had anything to do with Bosma's disappearance.
"The Dellen Millard I know is a rich guy," Schlatman told court. "He's a nice guy. I would never have connected him with this."

 

[Coldpizza]

Tim Bosma trial: Woman who had 'intimate relationship' with Dellen Millard testifies
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Mar 22, 2016

Toronto real estate agent Lisa Whidden, who had a romantic relationship with accused killer Dellen Millard before his arrest, leaves the John Sopinka Courthouse in Hamilton. (Adam Carter/CBC)

One of two women Crown prosecutors say were in some sort of relationship with Dellen Millard around the time Hamilton man Tim Bosma disappeared testified in court Tuesday about text messages she exchanged with the accused killer.

Though Toronto real estate agent Lisa Whidden classified her relationship with Millard as "intimate," the text message exchanges shown to the jury were not. Most centred on a condo deal Millard was attempting to broker back in 2013 — and one sent just before he was arrested claiming someone "set him up."

[...]

"They put me in handcuffs and took my belongings," Whidden testified.

"What crime did you commit?" Millard's lawyer Nadir Sachak asked.

"None that I knew of ... They took my purse and my phone.

[...]

In another text from Millard to Whidden on May 9, 2013, he wrote "Let him know I'm too hot, stay away," speaking about a mutual friend.

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma case: Dellen Millard's roommate says he visited hangar on day Bosma disappeared

In the witness box on Wednesday, Robert Bochenek testified about his short stint as one of the accused killer's roommates. He lived with Millard at his Etobicoke home for one month starting in April of 2013.

Tax Troubles

One of Dellen Millard's employees, Javier Villata,
testified Wednesday in Superior Court in Hamilton. (Adam Carter/CBC)

Another one of Millard's employees was also in the witness box on Wednesday. Javier Villata, who testified with the help of a Spanish interpreter, talked about the various construction jobs he had worked on at Millard's homes and at the MillardAir hangar.

Villata said he and Millard had started a company called Villata Homes. Millard was the owner and he was the foreman. Much of his testimony centred around the finances of that company.

Their plan, he said, was to buy homes and renovate them. But instead, Villata, his brothers and in-laws only worked on Millard's properties.

Switching vehicles

Two days before Bosma vanished, Millard contacted Villata and said he wanted to switch vehicles with him so he could use the truck, court heard.

Villata said Millard told him he needed it for at least a week.

 

[Kamille]

Bosma Day 26

The jury at the Tim Bosma murder trial heard more about the pre-arrest life of Dellen Millard today. Court has heard that Millard grew up rich and lived lavishly, but didn’t seem to have any income and he appeared to be depleting his family resources.

Video at link...

http://www.chch.com/bosma-day-4/

 

[swedie]

Witness List part 2 to date - March 24, 2016. 13 witnesses. For a total of 77.

Robert Gerard - Forensic scientist in the chemistry section of the CFS. Gave evidence regarding GSR.

Christianne Lys - Qualified expert on fingerprint analysis. Compared photo of DM's index finger, holding a gun in photo found on DM's computer, to his fingerprints on file. Matched.

Michael Plaxton - Qualified expert in forensic video analysis. Retrieved video surveillance from Super Sucker, Bobcat, hangar interior and exterior. Exterior camera re postioned week before TB's murder, aimed at wall of hangar rendering it useless for capturing movement at hangar property.

Craig Alma - gave police statement in May 2013. Semi-retired supervisor at GA Masonry, the business next to MA. GA Masonry had surveillance cameras which captured activity at MA. CA testified to seeing DM's Dodge leave hangar the evening of May 9th, made a u-turn on road and went back to hangar. Two males carried orange tarp from hangar and put in the back of DM's trailer.

Officer Steve Griffin - With the surveillance team in May 2013.

Robert Burns - DM uncle/MB's brother. Denied any involvement in the knowledge and plans for the incinertor. DM made claim he was going into cremation business with his uncle who was a veterinarian. RB testified "for altruistic reasons," he cared for DM sporadically while DM was growing up, after parents split. Characterized relationship with DM as "distant."

Spencer Hussey - Employee of Airway Aviation at Waterloo airport. Ground operations for WestJet, manages the ramp and baggage. In Sept/Oct 2012 he began working PT at Millardair (10-30 hrs a week) until March 2013. Was also still working PT at airway aviation. At MA he worked on cars, helped put up walls. "We've never seen an aircraft." Worked under SS. Went to Millard farm first time after being employed with MA only a few weeks to offload barrels of oil, gas cans, second time Feb. 2013 to remove hay from second level of barn. He was told DM was going to convert barn into a house. He saw The Eliminator in the barn, centre of barn, upper level.

Shane Schlatman - DM's right hand man/mechanic who was the only employee on payroll with MA (besides DM and MB). No planes ever worked on at MA. Ordered incinerator at DM's request, showed DM how to power it up. Built incinerator from oil drums, DM claimed not adequate. SS also built trailer for purchased incinerator. SIL of AJ the co-op student DM took on to do odd jobs at the hangar. Continued to be employed by MA under MB, until April 2015 when hangar was sold.

Mark Zivolak - retired forensics detective. Co-lead with Det. Annette Huys on forensics for this case. Took evidence from locked storage locker/room, boxed them, i.e., TB's remains, DM's washing machine (originally seized from Maple Gate house), gloves, toolbox, TB's toothbrush and shirt and delivered to CFS and filled out CFS submission forms. Will be recalled to the stand at a later date. According to Assistant Crown Attorney, there were thousands of exhibits seized in this case.

Lisa Whidden - On DM's "No Contact List." Claims she never gave statement to police. Giving testimony by subpoena. She met DM cold calling real estate ads. Had an intimate relationship with DM starting April or May 2012 until he was arrested. Most text messages between her and Millard were personal. Claims LE made her bleed while arresting her and seizing her cell phone.

Const. Patrick Mitchell - Hamilton police. He ran licence plates in relation to the case on vehicles found in the MA hangar.

Robert Bochenek - Childhood friend of Andrew Michalski. DM's and AM's housemate. Moved in mid April 2013, and moved out after DM was arrested. RB drove AM to the hangar on the eve of TB's murder to pick up AM's car. Took video of Camaro and other vehicles.

Javier Villata - JV knew Dellen Millard through his father WM, who gave him a job back in 2008. JV did construction/reno/odd jobs for DM. JV said he and Millard had started a company called Villata Homes. Millard was the owner and JV was the foreman. Their plan was to buy houses and renovate them and resell. But instead, JV, his four BILs only worked on DM's properties. JV rented apartments from DM and leased the red Dodge truck and for a time the white van belonging to MA from DM. Two days before TB's murder, DM contacted JV saying he needed to use the red Dodge truck for a week. This witness is not done giving testimony.

 

[SnooperDuper]

Video of Lisa Hepfner on the Bosma case this Easter weekend:

http://www.chch.com/bosma-trial-recap/

 

[Kamille]

Bosma Day 25

This was the first time the prosecutor had spoken to Lisa Whidden in person, she told the jury that her lawyer advised that she didn’t have to talk to police or the crown and she exercised that right. She seems friendly to Millard, she kept smiling at him while she was in court.

Whidden also helped sell a condo in the Distillery District in Toronto,-even though she didn’t close the deal we heard she got $10 000 when the unit sold. Mark Smich’s lawyer said, “that’s a pretty nice gift. You date a guy for a year, don’t sell anything, and get $10 000.

http://www.chch.com/bosma-day-3/

 

[Kamille]

Co-accused in murder of Tim Bosma overshadowed at own trial by Dellen Millard

Dellen Millard, left, and Mark Smich are on trial for the first-degree murder of Tim Bosma.

HAMILTON, Ont. — Mark Smich has been overshadowed at his own trial by his co-accused; Dellen Millard is taller, richer, more out-going, from a modestly famous family and centre of much of the evidence and attention at their trial for the murder of Tim Bosma.

At times he seems invisible.

Nowhere was that slide into the background more emblematic than Wednesday when a witness failed to even recognize Smich in court, who was sitting beside Millard at a table behind their lawyers.



Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...-at-own-trial-by-dellen-millard#ixzz44UabdGnu