YES!!!! I always think this EXACT THING about the Tim Bosma murder! If the cops had bothered to follow up on her ex boyfriend's thorough research with the phone records, they could have caught Millard wayyy before he had a chance to meet Tim Bosma. The ex bf handed the police their case on a silver platter and they just ignored him! I can't think of the Tim Bosma case without thinking how the Toronto Police have his blood on their hands.
Yes I agree. Sadly the police would not act on Laura Babcock because they even tried to pin blame on her for working on the "sex trade" and leading that type of life style. It is horrible to think that it is justified for women to go missing like that and someone begging the police to act yet very little action. Had they acted Tim would be alive. Also look at the highway of tears and how many Aboriginal women have gone missing it is ridiculous. I feel that if a woman has any connection to street life she is left as if she "deserves" death for leading that life style. I have worked with women in the sex trade in a counsellor position and most of the ones I met had horrific sexual violence inflicted upon them at young ages which led them to addiction and then street life. They are an easy target for people because "no one cares" if they go missing. I was so sickened when they tried to pin blame on Laura for being involved in the sex trade basically reducing her and making it seem like thats why they never went further. I feel horrible for both Laura's and Tim's
family. Such senseless death, his daughter has no dad and his wife has to live with this nightmare for the rest of her life, they killed him just for fun, no motive it was such a sick crime.
At a press conference meant to appeal for help finding the 23-year-old Babcock, Toronto Police Det. Mike Carbone found himself on the hot seat, bombarded with questions about phone records and defending his predecessors.
“In 2012, Mr. Millard would not have raised up to the level he is at this point,” Carbone said. “He would have been just like any other person on that phone.”
He maintained 22 Division officers, who handled the case when Babcock was reported missing by her ex-boyfriend, Shawn Lerner, on July 12, 2012, “did their job” and conducted “a thorough investigation.”
Babcock’s phone records reportedly show she spoke to Millard eight times on July 2 and 3. Lerner has claimed he gave those records to investigators around the time he reported her missing.
But Carbone disputed that claim saying he only became aware of the phone records two days after Millard was arrested May 10.
“It is my understanding that 22 Division also did not become aware of (those records) until the arrest of Mr. Millard,” he said.
Carbone also revealed that Babcock — who was last seen June 26, 2012 — was “known to be involved in the sex trade business as an Internet escort.”
) and we would know the fate of Laura Babcock. The Toronto Police detectives involved should have been fired but they are still happily employed collecting their big fat six figure salaries. It makes me sick!
