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[Coldpizza]

CLAIRMONT: Millard’s ‘ambition’ revealed to jury in Bosma case
By Susan Clairmont

It is my first glimpse of Dellen Millard's ambition.

There, on his left arm, just above his wrist. It is smaller than I thought it would be. Less dramatic than I imagined.

A tiny, black lettered tattoo, all lower case in a typewriter font. And it looks as though there may be a period afterward. No box around it.

ambition.

So much turns on that one word.

I see the tattoo in Millard's Hamilton police arrest photos, taken on May 10, 2013. He was arrested at gunpoint by plainclothes police who surrounded his Yukon SUV in Mississauga and charged him with the forcible confinement of Tim Bosma. Four days earlier Tim took two men for a test drive of the truck he was selling and vanished. The Crown believes Tim was shot in his truck and then cremated in an animal incinerator later found on a farm owned by Millard in Waterloo Region.

 

[Coldpizza]

Tim Bosma case: Dellen Millard arrested at gunpoint, court hears
By Adam Carter, CBC News Feb 08, 2016

Four days after Tim Bosma disappeared, Dellen Millard found himself sitting in his SUV with a police officer pointing a gun at him.

On Monday, a Hamilton court heard for the first time details about Millard's gunpoint arrest in May of 2013, days after Ancaster, Ont., man Tim Bosma vanished.

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Sgt. Stuart Oxley walked toward the driver-side window of the SUV with his gun drawn, he testified in Superior Court Monday.

"I approached the car myself with my gun drawn. He looked over at me and put his hands up," Oxley said.

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Police had decided to put Millard under surveillance after a detective visited him at the hangar housing his family's aircraft maintenance company at Waterloo airport.

 

[Kamille]

Bosma murder trial hears how cops found Bosma’s truck at home of mother of accused

HAMILTON—Police officers testifying at the trial of two men accused of killing Tim Bosma described a frantic search of a trailer found north of Toronto as they looked for the missing Hamilton man.

Const. Cory Weick told court Tuesday he and another officer responded to a call in Kleinburg, Ont., about a “suspicious trailer” that might be related to Bosma, who had disappeared a week earlier after taking two men for a test drive in the truck he was trying to sell.

Weick, a York Regional Police officer, said he had to call the force’s tactical team to break into a large trailer that was parked at the home of Madeleine Burns, Dellen Millard’s mother.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...lling-tim-bosma-continues-this-afternoon.html

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma's truck found in driveway of Millard's mother's home

A key piece of evidence in the trial of two men accused of killing Tim Bosma was found sitting in an affluent neighbourhood in Kleinburg, Ont., court heard Tuesday.

It was May 11, 2013 when a reporter came to Frank Cianfarani's door on Tinsmith Court and asked him to look at some photos of Dellen Millard, who had just been arrested in connection with the disappearance of the 32-year-old father from Ancaster, Ont.

Cianfarani recognized something in one of those photos, he testified Tuesday in Superior Court: "I did notice there was a trailer in the background of the photo — and that same trailer was parked in the driveway next to my home."

That driveway belonged to Dellen Millard's mother, Madeline Burns.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...driveway-of-millard-s-mother-s-home-1.3441135

 

[Kamille]

Bosma trial- Day 6

Great video at this link with evidence pictures and information from the courtroom today.

http://www.chch.com/bosma-day-6/

 

[Kamille]

Box fell out of trailer seized by police, Tim Bosma murder trial told

A Hamilton police officer told the first-degree murder trial in the death of Tim Bosma that the doors of a trailer believed to be linked to the crime sprung open and spilled potential evidence onto a roadway.

Officer Lauren Troubridge told court on Wednesday that a box fell out onto the road from a trailer that was discovered at the Kleinburg house of Millard’s mother on May 12, 2013.

Troubridge told court that a cardboard box fell onto the road after the back doors of the trailer somehow came open while it was towed to an Ontario Provincial Police forensics facility in Tillsonburg.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/10/tim-bosma-murder-trial-continues-in-hamilton.html

 

[Kamille]

Bosma trial: Millard's trailer opened and spilled a box on the way to forensics


Two days later, Det. Const. Lauren Troubridge was tasked with escorting the trailer (which was again to be pulled by a tow truck) on an hour drive to Tillsonburg, where it would be examined at an OPP forensic facility. There were two warrants for the search of the trailer and the truck.

While following it up the Ancaster hill on Hwy 403, she recalled on the stand that the back doors of the trailer blew open and a cardboard box tumbled out, which she ran over. She honked, but the driver did not hear her. She eventually pulled up beside him, waving for him to pull over. Roughly three minutes (or 2 km) later, he did.

They used a piece of wire to secure the doors shut and continued on. An officer was dispatched to go out and look for the box -- the only thing that fell out, Troubridge says -- but brought back the wrong one. She went back out herself when she returned from Tillsonburg around 10 p.m. and recovered the one she saw.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...ed-and-spilled-a-box-on-the-way-to-forensics/

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial testimony: major evidence unsecured during transport

Det. Const. Lauren Troubridge (centre) and Const. Brent Gibson (right) leave the John Sopinka courthouse in Hamilton on Wednesday. Troubridge testified that the trailer containing Bosma's truck opened up on the highway while in police custody. (Rob Krbavac/CBC)

An integral piece of evidence in the Tim Bosma trial was left unsecured during transport to an Ontario Provincial Police facility, court heard Wednesday.

A trailer with the Ancaster, Ont., man's truck inside was being transported from a secure facility in Hamilton to an OPP forensics facility in Tillsonburg, Ont., for further examination on May 14, 2013.

Det. Const. Lauren Troubridge was tasked with following the trailer as it was towed. On Highway 403, at the Golf Links Road overpass, the rear doors of the trailer opened up, Troubridge testified in court Wednesday.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...evidence-unsecured-during-transport-1.3441914

 

[Kamille]

Trial’s deep dive into Bosma cellphone evidence vital, if not riveting

BOSMA
John Rennison,The Hamilton Spectator Tim Bosma's cellphone, the phone his wife Sharlene, centre, called and texted when he didn't come home, was shown in court.

Seldom does a homicide trial go by now without hundreds, even thousands, of cellphone records being examined.

The Tim Bosma murder case is no different.

Though DNA and fingerprints might not always be found during a murder investigation, it has become almost a matter of course, a given, that somebody accused in the homicide phoned or texted somebody else and detectives have acquired a digital trail of those interactions.

We are seven days into the first-degree murder trial of Dellen Millard, 30, and Mark Smich, 28, accused of abducting and shooting Tim during a test drive of his truck on May 6, 2013, and the jury has become well versed in cellphone technology and record keeping. They have heard more on this issue than any other thus far and they have been told they can expect much more to come.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...sma-cellphone-evidence-vital-if-not-riveting/

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Blood stains found on inside and outside of truck


Tim Bosma's family sat stone-faced in a Hamilton courtroom Thursday as a police detective explained how investigators discovered blood stains on the inside and outside the Ancaster, Ont. father's truck.

It was a sombre end to the second week of testimony in the Superior Court trial of two men charged with killing Bosma, 32, whose's burned remains were found days after he disappeared after taking his truck out for a test drive with potential buyers on May 6, 2013.

Dellen Millard, 30, and Mark Smich, 28, are both facing first-degree murder charges.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...ound-on-inside-and-outside-of-truck-1.3443882

 

[Kamille]

Interior of Tim Bosma’s truck spattered with blood and gun residue, murder trial told

HAMILTON — Even though police forensic investigators brought elaborate lasers, spectrum lights and sprays to search for blood, just by looking through the windows into the stolen truck that belonged to Tim Bosma, they could easily see dark-red and reddish-brown stains.

There were apparent blood stains in crevices throughout the interior — around the glove box, the central console, the dashboard and the driver’s side visor, court heard Thursday at the murder trial of Dellen Millard, 30, of Toronto and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...ttered-with-blood-and-gun-residue-jurors-told

 

[Kamille]

Blood, bullet casing found in Tim Bosma's pickup truck, murder trial told

HAMILTON -- Family members of Tim Bosma winced and looked away as a police officer told his murder trial the details of a bullet casing and blood she found inside the Hamilton man's pickup truck.

Det. Const. Laura McLellan of Halton Regional Police testified Thursday that she and her team of officers didn't initially see the shell casing because it was lodged somewhere behind the truck's rear seat.

McLellan said it became dislodged as she snapped hundreds of photographs of the truck and the trailer it was found in -- a trailer that was registered to Millardair, an aviation company owned by Dellen Millard -- one of the two accused.

Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, from Oakville, Ont., have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Bosma's death.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/02/11/cellphone-expert-continues-testimony-at-tim-bosma-murder-trial

 

[Kamille]

BOSMA TRIAL: Investigators saw blood on items from Bosma’s truck

The first thing they saw was the burned-out car seats, covered by a green tarp. The cushions and the upholstery were gone, leaving only the charred metal frame.

"It looked like it had been set on fire," Det. Const. Laura McLellen remembers.

The Halton Police identification officer was one of several officers to be called in to examine a large trailer containing Tim Bosma's pickup truck after it was seized by police from Dellen Millard's mother's driveway back in May 2013.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...gators-saw-blood-on-items-from-bosma-s-truck/

 

[matou]

Link from Ann Brocklehurst: Powerpoint of the exhibits. 107 slides.

BOSMA TRUCK IDENTIFICATION

May 14-May 17, 2013

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2HcLKBpswT4aEswVnRPbTVmbjQ/view?pref=2&pli=1

 

[matou]

Ann Brocklehurst link to a powerpoint of exhibit photos. 31 slides. Yukon and incinerator receipt.

EXHIBIT #49

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2HcLKBpswT4UDdFTW1nZXA2REE/view?pref=2&pli=1

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma's truck key, incinerator receipt found in Dellen Millard's SUV

The key to Tim Bosma's truck and a receipt for an animal incinerator were found inside Dellen Millard's SUV after he was arrested, court heard Tuesday.

These were the latest pieces of evidence the Crown laid out in its case alleging that Bosma was abducted and shot at close range inside his truck on May 6, 2013, while his body was incinerated hours later at Millard's airplane hangar in Waterloo, Ont.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/tim-bosma-key-found-dellen-millard-suv-1.3450417

 

[Kamille]

Key evidence unveiled in Bosma murder trial: truck key, incinerator receipt

After Dellen Millard was arrested on May 10, 2013, two key pieces of evidence were seized from the GMC Yukon he was driving.

The first was the key to Tim Bosma’s truck — found dangling on the key ring in the Yukon’s ignition.

The second was a receipt, found in an orange duffel bag in the back of the SUV, for a $15,424.50, 500-pound animal cremator. It was invoiced to Millardair — Millard’s family business at the Region of Waterloo International Airport.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/16/tim-bosma-murder-trial-resumes-today.html

 

[Kamille]

BOSMA TRIAL: Keys to Tim Bosma’s truck found on key ring in SUV Millard was driving

After Dellen Millard was arrested on May 10, 2013, two major pieces of evidence were seized from the GMC Yukon he was driving.

The first was the key to Tim Bosma's truck — found dangling on the key ring in the Yukon's ignition.

The second was a receipt, found in an orange duffel bag in the back of the SUV, for a $15,424.50, 500-pound animal incinerator. It was invoiced to Millardair — Millard's family business at the Region of Waterloo International Airport.

"Garbage or utilities account" was scrawled in pen at the bottom of the invoice, dated June 21, 2012.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...found-on-key-ring-in-suv-millard-was-driving/

 

[bessie]

Tim Bosma trial: Bone fragments found in incinerator on Dellen Millard's farm
Crown alleges livestock incinerator was used to burn Bosma's body after he was shot
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2016 12:28 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 17, 2016 8:11 PM ET

When police Sgt. Annette Huys first came upon a livestock incinerator on a farm owned by Dellen Millard in Ayr, Ont., she worried that someone could be inside it.

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When Huys climbed to the main hatch and opened it, she found only bones and fragments. The largest was about 20 centimetres long.

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After that first discovery, a second bone was found, about half the size of the first.

The Crown says the bones belonged to Tim Bosma, who prosecutors say was burned in the incinerator after being shot and killed at close range inside the Dodge truck he had been trying to sell online.

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Police were led to the incinerator by Chaz Main, who told the court that he was riding his dirt bike on May 10, 2013, when he came upon what he thought was a "big, redneck smoker" in the middle of the tree line.

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Sgt. Ben Adams from Hamilton police took Main to a police car and asked him if he had seen any unusual activity in the area.
"I showed them the location of the Eliminator and the excavator … and the burn marks," Main said.

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The excavator that was found in a nearby swamp, Main said, had been there since winter.

Two burn sites were found not far from where the incinerator was discovered. Court heard Wednesday that three seatbelt buckles were found among the charred corn stalks, alongside other small debris. (Court exhibit)

 

[Kamille]

Bosma family emotional as court hears bones found in incinerator

HAMILTON - HAMILTON -- Family members of a slain man dissolved in tears Wednesday as a police officer told court about finding bones inside an incinerator -- a substantial apparatus emblazoned with the words "the eliminator" -- on a farm owned by one of Tim Bosma's accused killers.

Sgt. Annette Huys's testimony left much of Bosma's family, including his widow, Sharlene, weeping as the forensics officer methodically pored over photographs of the remains found in the incinerator just days after Bosma disappeared.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/02/17/tim-bosma-murder-trial-continues-in-hamilton