Wayne Millard: Dellen Millard Charged With Murder In The First Degree #1

[Alethea Dice]

Is there a valid reason we should doubt AS's statement that he was in negotiations with various potential customers? Why would one not first look to the already-published statements that DM was not interested in this operation and was bitter in fact about having to work in it?



"Left to manage that legacy", but yet closes operations at the first possible opportunity, which was only one business day after WM's death.

http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story/4293771-jailhouse-interview-dellen-millard-says-he-didn-t-kill-tim-bosma/

And if you continue reading:

He planned to turn the company’s new hangar into a “fixed base of operations” — a kind of hotel for airplanes offering parking space, fuel services and car rentals.

Those plans ended the day of his arrest.

All he closed was the MRO business. Not all future plans for MillardAir and the hangar.

JMO

 

[deugirtni]

One more thing before I head out.. and I apologize if this has been discussed before. I have always felt really awkward about the manner in which WM committed suicide, if in fact that is what he did. Who shoots themselves in the eye? So I started looking into that. Apparently that is not very common in itself, and apparently it is also rather uncommon to shoot yourself on the opposite side of your 'handedness'. Was WM left handed? All of this of course, is rather meaningless, but when one considers both the uncommon-ness of 'shooting yourself in the eye' as a method of suicide, as well as shooting oneself on the opposite side of one's handedness, and then also considers the seeming infatuation that DM and his pals have with shotgun to the eye (as evidenced by DM's profile pic on 'steam', and on various images of the fellow charged with selling DM the gun used in the death of WM), it just all seems so bizarre.

The typical entrance wound sites in suicides were the temple (36%), mouth (20%), forehead (11%) and left chest (15%) but uncommon entrance wound sites such as the eye, ear, and back of the neck and head were also encountered.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12376836
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For those aiming at the head, the most popular site is the right temple2 (the left temple presumably being for left handers), second comes the mouth, followed by the forehead.

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/firearms
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Two hundred twenty-six suicides by firearms were analyzed to determine the entrance wound site. Overall, the head was the most favored site, accounting for 75% of the wounds; specifically, the right temple accounted for 39% of the wounds. The data were further examined in terms of specific weapon types. In the case of handguns, the preference for the temple was even more prominent, with this site accounting for nearly two thirds of the wounds. With long guns the predominance of head wounds was less pronounced but still present. Correlations with sex and age showed no significant difference in choice of site but did show differences in selection of gunshot as the means of suicide. Correlations of site with handedness showed that most individuals held true to form but that a significant proportion (8%) inflicted their wounds on the other side.

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/firearms
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Positional evidence....

Handguns are typically held to the temple, behind the ear, to the side or front of the forehead, in the mouth or under the chin, or to the heart. Long guns are usually fired pointing upwards, with the muzzle against the under-chin, in the mouth, or at the forehead, or pointing downwards and sideways into the lower chest area, or upwards and sideways into the upper chest area. If a longgun is used, the investigator must account for the ability of the victim to reach the trigger.

http://dmmoyle.com/simeans.htm

(This site is interesting, by 'DM Moyle', who offers training credits for officers in Minnesota and has developed a 'dealth investigation manual' and a 'suicide investigation manual' for field officers.)

 

[deugirtni]

Yes, I had read further.

And if you continue reading:



All he closed was the MRO business. Not all future plans for MillardAir and the hangar.

JMO

 

[Alethea Dice]

Yes, I had read further.

My apologies. The point is, he was still "left to manage that legacy". That didn't end with the closing of the MRO.

JMO

 

[MsSherlock]

If, as you say, the airport managers would have moved to shut down MA right away, wouldn't it make sense to lay off the employees while they were looking for an new operator? Isn't it easier to get an employee back after a layoff than after firing them? Would MA really be expected to pay employees to sit around and do nothing while they wait for someone else to get it running?

Juballee, I wasn't insinuating that the Airport would have been moving to shut down MA. What I was suggesting was that when the Manager received news that WM had died and that DM had closed MA and laid off all the employees, he would have found himself in a precarious position. He now had a tenant, that the airport had bent over backwards for, informing him that they had shut down operations in Year 1 of a 50 year lease, because the CEO's father had died? WM didn't have the the deal with the Airport- Millardair did. "Wayne Millard passed away on Thursday last week, and his son Dellan (sic) has decided to shut down the business. All employees were laid off as of today. Jeff (Schelling, regional government lawyer) will be discussing the next steps with the bank and Millard's legal council. There is never a dull moment around here, that's for sure."
http://www.therecord.com/news-story...aster-inside-the-secret-millard-negotiations/

IMHO, the highlighted text confirm that one of the first things CW did was contact Jeff Schelling, the regions lawyer and the lawyer would be contacting MA's legal council. Also, a couple other things jump out at me. "and his son Dellan (sic) has decided to shut down the business." It would appear from this statement that communication came straight from DM, otherwise, IMO, this quote would say "representative of Millardair" or "Mr/Ms So and So of Millardair's lawfirm" has just informed us of the death of WM.
IMO, it's just another indicator that DM knows best and is prone to "acting" without considering the consequences of his actions.

"The article should have clarified that Dellen Millard spoke without consulting his lawyer Deepak Paradkar. That’s a pretty dumb thing to do and shows that the accused murderer of Tim Bosma doesn’t listen to his handpicked and highly paid legal counsel, who said in an email to me that he had not approved any interviews. Deciding to ignore your lawyer and talk to the press is the action of someone who thinks he knows best and can’t be told what to do, even in an extremely serious situation.

This is very similar to Millard’s behaviour when he wrote to a jailhouse groupie last summer. At the time Jim Van Allen, former manager of the OPP’s Criminal Profile Unit, described the decision to write the letter as “impulsive and somewhat reckless.”

“This type of personality is a nightmare for a lawyer. You can’t control them,” he said. “They are individuals who often don’t consider the consequences of their actions.”


http://www.annrbrocklehurst.com/201...-jailhouse-interview-with-dellen-millard.html

 

[swedie]

Yup. I wonder why were AS and "other Millard Air executives" upset about DM's haircut. Were there goofy photographs in the Annual Report or something? I didn't think AS even came on board until 2012, did he? Pretty much post-Mohawk wasn't it? Anyway thanks for the insights. I'm an eensie bit familiar with the aviation biz myself. LOL. As far as AS is concerned, I'm sure he is probably an extremely valuable consultant who has a history of bringing in multi-million dollar contracts to major aviation companies. As I say, it'll be interesting to hear about those achievements and more about his experience in dealing with WM and DM. MOO. IMHO. MHO. Meanwhile, when I go through the list of those employees assembled during 2012 it appears that many, if not most, had worked with WM or Millard Air in the past. There was also another consultant, this one actually present on site, who, according to his WIKI, developed and implemented the business plan; authored the Maintenance Policy Manual and all the other documentation required for submission to Transport Canada and developed the marketing strategy for the company. Just sayin'. MOO. IMHO. etc. Incidentally, this employee was the individual named PRM by Transport Canada.

Personally I don't think ABro was suggesting the red mohawk spelled trouble. It was the person sporting it.As far as Mr. Sharif and other executives at the company were concerned, Dellen and his red mohawk spelled trouble. Maybe ABro can clarify the reference to the mohawk. Did AS specifically make refer to the red mohawk and trouble surrounding it or is it just the way you worded it as your descriptor of DM? We do know in those early days if IIRC one of the very first pictures to emerge in MSM of DM, was the one with him sporting the red mohawk, the picture ABro included in her article. MOO.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...bosma-murder-suspect-started-to-dismantle-it/

 

[Carli]

I suppose my question might be why the Millards ever went for this licensing anyway.

Here's an insight into WM's reasoning, as per ABro's website.

http://www.annrbrocklehurst.com/201...bout-the-millardair-kitchener-operations.html


Here's an interesting overview of the WIA that includes a description of where Millard Air would fit in the overall plan.

http://www.cambridge.ca/relatedDocs/2012-08-22 CanadianSkies - Built for Bigger.pdf


Unfortunately, the original MSM item is now missing, but kept online here... It describes the style of both CM and his company.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/UfL-ykEUcWQ

I see that in someone recently received a response to a Transport Canada FOI request in the form of a 1757 document described as "Partial disclosure" of "Millardair’s certification, safety record and operations at Toronto Pearson International Airport"
and another 773 page partial disclosure entitled "Records regarding Millardair from January 1, 2012 to present (June 26, 2013)."

Wassup, I wonder.

By the way, upon rereading the following MSM account, I see no indication that DM was either disinterested in or unable to participate in the hangar or the airport development plans.

http://www.therecord.com/news-story...aster-inside-the-secret-millard-negotiations/

 

[swedie]

Thank you, as always for all the valuable information.

I was wondering how prospective clients would have known that the hanger looked like a 'man cave' if AS had never managed to get any there? Was AS telling them that it was full of non-relevant vehicles? If AS did manage to get far enough into sales negotiations to convince potential clients for a tour, would they have done the tour with absolutely no notice to Millardair? How long would it actually take to move a dozen working vehicles?

I seem to recall pictures of the old hanger looking like a messy working gargage, but the pictures of the new hanger had a shiney floor and vehicles in an orderly array, it did look pristine, in my opinion. I am stipulating that it may have taken an hour or two at most to move the vehicles in the hanger should an appointment ever have been booked to tour the facility. Again, I would assume that viewing the hanger wouldn't be a spur of the moment idea to a client, and even it it were, odds are that the client wouldn't be situated in Waterloo at the time, they could be coming in from anywhere in the world, which would give MA sufficient notice to move the cars, logically.

Again, layoffs are not firings. Sudden firings would be one thing, but sudden layoffs happen all the time, for all kinds of reasons, in companies of all sizes. As far as I know, it's often one of the first things that can be done in a company emergency, legally. If, as you say, the airport managers would have moved to shut down MA right away, wouldn't it make sense to lay off the employees while they were looking for an new operator? Isn't it easier to get an employee back after a layoff than after firing them? Would MA really be expected to pay employees to sit around and do nothing while they wait for someone else to get it running?

All it would have taken was a visit from AS to the hangar to see the hangar was not set up for the professional business it was intended to be. And/or talks with WM stating the condition of the new hangar in which his son had it in. Do you know these vehicles were working as you stated? It was reported by LE shortly after DM's arrest, during the investigation of the hangar it was a chop shop Where and how would one suggest these vehicles be moved to or stored? Could you kindly post links to the pictures of a pristine hangar just prior to TB's murder? TIA and MOO.

Why the need to fire or lay off any workers? There were sufficient and knowledgeable employees who could have pretty much ran the business without DM just as his grandfather had done years prior with his business IMO. At least until he got his act together after his father's murder. MOO.

Police say they've found evidence that suggests a hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport owned by Dellen Millard was being used as a giant "chop shop" for stolen vehicles.

Hamilton police confirmed Thursday they're investigating multiple stolen vehicles and parts found inside the massive Breslau hangar.

"I can confirm that the motorcycle written about was recovered in the hangar by the Hamilton police. There were a number of vehicles and/or parts found in the hangar and this remains under investigation," Constable Debbie McGreal-Dinning said in an email.

Police say they're still trying to track down owners of the discovered vehicles, putting the number found at fewer than 10.

The description of vehicles dismantled, repainted and having serial numbers ground away fits with a "typical chop shop," said Waterloo Regional Police Inspector Kevin Thaler.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/3250204-murder-suspect-s-waterloo-hangar-set-up-as-chop-shop-/

Last year police found evidence that the giant hangar was being used as a "chop shop" for stolen vehicles. Last month, photographs of Millard-owned items stored inside the hangar began appearing for sale on the classified website Kijiji.ca. They include snowmobiles, a modified Jeep and a convertible.

http://www.theweeklynews.ca/news-story/4486045-bosma-case-big-hangar-bold-plan-total-disaster-/

 

[Carli]

One more thing before I head out.. and I apologize if this has been discussed before. I have always felt really awkward about the manner in which WM committed suicide, if in fact that is what he did. Who shoots themselves in the eye? So I started looking into that. Apparently that is not very common in itself, and apparently it is also rather uncommon to shoot yourself on the opposite side of your 'handedness'. Was WM left handed? All of this of course, is rather meaningless, but when one considers both the uncommon-ness of 'shooting yourself in the eye' as a method of suicide, as well as shooting oneself on the opposite side of one's handedness, and then also considers the seeming infatuation that DM and his pals have with shotgun to the eye (as evidenced by DM's profile pic on 'steam', and on various images of the fellow charged with selling DM the gun used in the death of WM), it just all seems so bizarre.

(Snipped by me)

Just for the record I think you'll find that the whole "shot in the eye" thing has never been acknowledged by LE and has, in fact, been refuted several times. I'll provide copious links, if you need them, but, you know, Google is our friend. IMO. IMHO. MOO etc.

 

[cansleuther]

Could you kindly post links to the pictures of a pristine hangar just prior to TB's murder? TIA and MOO.

No links to pictures, but ...

I know that several weeks before the Bosma incident, a witness has said there were only small planes inside the hangar.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/31/lawyer-for-tim-bosma-murder-suspect-says-police-damaging-chance-for-fair-trial/

 

[swedie]

No links to pictures, but ...



http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/31/lawyer-for-tim-bosma-murder-suspect-says-police-damaging-chance-for-fair-trial/

A witness... And several weeks before? Well I guess that says it all hahahaha. Guess this witness missed the stolen trailer with the chopped HD inside, all of the "toys" owned by DM (maybe even some he purchased for friends) which were listed on Kijiji some time after DM's arrest. Much can happen over several weeks IMO.

 

[swedie]

Just for the record I think you'll find that the whole "shot in the eye" thing has never been acknowledged by LE and has, in fact, been refuted several times. I'll provide copious links, if you need them, but, you know, Google is our friend. IMO. IMHO. MOO etc.

“He died from a gunshot wound to his eye, but it was ruled a suicide,” the officer said of the Millardair president. “If there was new information, as it would be on any case, the coroner could ask for it to be looked at again.”

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/16/tim-bosmas-murder-may-have-been-thrill-kill-source

 

[Sillybilly]

Your link didn't work for me swedie, so am providing another one from another source (with the identical wording):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...-thrill-kill-source+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

 

[Carli]

Swedie - HTH

May 16, 2013 Sun News - Joe Warmington

"He died from a gunshot wound to his eye, but itwas ruled a suicide," the officer said of the Millardair president.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/05/20130516-090354.html

May 31, 2013 National Post - Ann Brocklehurst

"As tight-lipped as Toronto police have been about Wayne’s death, there have been leaks from inside the force. The Toronto Sun learned that Wayne was found shot in theeye"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...bosma-murder-suspect-started-to-dismantle-it/


JUNE 4, 2013 The Star - Jennifer Pagliaro

"Police are still investigating the death of Millard’s father, Wayne, after an apparent suicide last November. They would not say who made a 911 call on the night of his death and would not comment on media reports he was shot in the eye"

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/06/04/tim_bosma_murder_case_police_reveal_little_about_investigation_into_missing_woman_laura_babcock_death_of_wayne_millard.html

April 15, 2014 The Grid - Ann Brocklehurst"He ( Carbone) also refused to confirm newspaper reports that Wayne had been shot in the eye."

http://www.thegridto.com/city/local-news/the-mystery-of-dellen-millard/

 

[Alethea Dice]

A witness... And several weeks before? Well I guess that says it all hahahaha. Guess this witness missed the stolen trailer with the chopped HD inside, all of the "toys" owned by DM (maybe even some he purchased for friends) which were listed on Kijiji some time after DM's arrest. Much can happen over several weeks IMO.

What difference does it make if the "toys" were moved to the hangar during those several weeks? The MRO was already closed, had been since December, and there would be no potential clients touring it. It only matters what was there before December. The photographs are out there. They just can't be linked here, and shouldn't be, due to TOS.

JMO

 

[deugirtni]

I see that it has not been officially confirmed by LE to the public that WM was shot in the eye, however I cannot find links to say that being shot in the eye has been refuted several times. As we know, LE often holds back much information and details.

In the case of Wayne Millard, several police sources say, the wound that killed him was a gunshot to the eye. A detective in the Bosma case told me there were relatives who had expressed doubt the elder Millard would commit suicide.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/04/20140411-073659.html

Just for the record I think you'll find that the whole "shot in the eye" thing has never been acknowledged by LE and has, in fact, been refuted several times. I'll provide copious links, if you need them, but, you know, Google is our friend. IMO. IMHO. MOO etc.

 

[deugirtni]

In my humble opinion, the closing of the MRO absolutely ended the legacy that WM had built for his son. A legacy thrown away for only 20cents on the dollar. How sad.

The last time the pilot saw Wayne was a couple of years ago when he was supervising the demolition of Millardair’s old hangars in Toronto as he embarked on his new Waterloo venture. “Wayne said he wanted the new project to be Dellen’s project,” the pilot explained. “He wanted to build something substantial that would continue on.”

By 2012, Wayne had hired a team of Canadian aviation veterans, brought in Mr. Sharif to drum up international business, and signed a 50-year lease for the land on which the 50,000 square foot hangar now stands. Millardair won the support of the local airport authority and convinced the Waterloo regional council to invest in runway improvements to accommodate larger jets. When things went over budget, bank loans provided funding for the tools and staff needed to obtain key Transport Canada certification, which came through on November 1, 2012, just before Wayne’s death.

.. He emphasized to Dellen, as he had to Wayne, that the real value of the business lay in its coveted Transport Canada operational certification, the high-quality team it had assembled, and the potential customers who, Mr. Sharif says, were lining up. To dismantle the business before things really got underway and plans came to fruition could mean getting back just 20 cents for every dollar invested.

Yet that’s exactly what Dellen, Wayne’s sole heir, did when his father died suddenly. Mr. Sharif and the Millardair team were told that Wayne had died of a brain aneurysm. Within days, employees were laid off and Dellen moved quickly to begin liquidating assets. In February, Millardair requested cancellation of the Transport Canada certificate executives had worked hard to obtain.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/31/millard-aviation-business-in-decline-long-before-tim-bosma-murder-suspect-started-to-dismantle-it/

My apologies. The point is, he was still "left to manage that legacy". That didn't end with the closing of the MRO.

JMO

 

[deugirtni]

Do you mean the insurance policy on WM? ie the personal life insurance policy? If so, I suppose we won't know until trial, however I believe that insurers often write that suicide is not covered until a certain point in time after the policy has been in effect, like a year or two. It would be so unfair of them to just state that suicide would not be covered, period.
If instead you meant 'the insurance policy on MA' as stated, I don't think any commercial policies cover such things as suicide of president, MOO.

I've often wondered about the insurance policy on MA. IIRC it was discussed many moons ago here but nothing conclusive came to light. Will be interesting to learn if that policy covered suicide. I'm sure DM would know what the stipulations were. MOO.

 

[deugirtni]

'and has, in fact, been refuted several times'... I'm not seeing in the links you provided where the being 'shot in the eye' has been refuted? It simply has not officially been confirmed by LE, although it seems that LE have stated it in several instances, unofficially. Just as LE is not saying who made the 911 call, we still know that the call was made, and even though I don't believe any LE or anyone else for that matter, have stated who it was that made the call, we can safely assume that it was DM, since he lived at the residence, and we know that he, his gf, and his mother were the only ones there that night with LE.

Just for the record I think you'll find that the whole "shot in the eye" thing has never been acknowledged by LE and has, in fact, been refuted several times. I'll provide copious links, if you need them, but, you know, Google is our friend. IMO. IMHO. MOO etc.

Swedie - HTH

May 16, 2013 Sun News - Joe Warmington

"He died from a gunshot wound to his eye, but itwas ruled a suicide," the officer said of the Millardair president.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/05/20130516-090354.html

May 31, 2013 National Post - Ann Brocklehurst

"As tight-lipped as Toronto police have been about Wayne’s death, there have been leaks from inside the force. The Toronto Sun learned that Wayne was found shot in theeye"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...bosma-murder-suspect-started-to-dismantle-it/


JUNE 4, 2013 The Star - Jennifer Pagliaro

"Police are still investigating the death of Millard’s father, Wayne, after an apparent suicide last November. They would not say who made a 911 call on the night of his death and would not comment on media reports he was shot in the eye"

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/06/04/tim_bosma_murder_case_police_reveal_little_about_investigation_into_missing_woman_laura_babcock_death_of_wayne_millard.html

April 15, 2014 The Grid - Ann Brocklehurst"He ( Carbone) also refused to confirm newspaper reports that Wayne had been shot in the eye."

http://www.thegridto.com/city/local-news/the-mystery-of-dellen-millard/

 

[Carli]

'and has, in fact, been refuted several times'... I'm not seeing in the links you provided where the being 'shot in the eye' has been refuted? It simply has not officially been confirmed by LE, although it seems that LE have stated it in several instances, unofficially. Just as LE is not saying who made the 911 call, we still know that the call was made, and even though I don't believe any LE or anyone else for that matter, have stated who it was that made the call, we can safely assume that it was DM, since he lived at the residence, and we know that he, his gf, and his mother were the only ones there that night with LE.

"Refuted" vs "Unconfirmed". There I go, mixing up my past participles with my present perfect progressives again. This is a tough room. LOL MOO. IMHO. IMO. etc. Actually, while this information has been widely repeated, I think you'll find a single earliest source. Is that how it looks to you, too? Further on hair-splitting, didn't Abro report that those present at WM's death scene when the cops were on site "included" DM, his X, and his mom? Accordingly I suppose the caller could have included any of those or someone who had already left the scene or any one of the many unusually inquisitive neighbors who appear to live near or beside all Millard owned properties. IMO. MOO. IMHO. (And thank goodness for them, of course, IMO, IMHO. MOO. etc.)