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Patent on animal incinerator.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuo8feohd3duxkp/incinerator patent.pdf?dl=0

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/RE39442.html

 

[matou]

All youtube videos of evidence slideshows uploaded onto THE MOB REPORTER 's channel. This belongs to National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUnsj4TU7mOQ-4l2HOaRekgA

 

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Forensic science expert at Bosma murder trial climbed inside ‘The Eliminator’ to find human remains
Adrian Humphreys | February 18, 2016

HAMILTON, Ont. — After six days of probing, lifting, tweezing, sweeping and even vacuuming human remains from inside an incinerator found on the farm of an accused killer, the grim reality is very little of what is believed to have been Tim Bosma has been found.

The jury hearing the first-degree murder case in the death of Bosma, 32, of Hamilton, who vanished May 6, 2013, after leaving with strangers on a test drive of a truck he was selling online, watched photograph after photograph of what was retrieved from the incinerator, meant as an animal cremator called The Eliminator.

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Rogers quickly determined they were human bones, because of distinct characteristics between human and animal bone structure, such as being longer and thinner and having joints that are smoother and rounder, she said.

The Eliminator stood almost 11-feet high from the ground. It was hard to reach down, she said.

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The remains recovered stretched from head to toe but only in sparse fragments: 58 bone fragments and two bones.

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Court also heard from a number of neighbours to Millard’s farm property. One testified to seeing what looked like flashlights reflecting off the silo on the Millard farm shortly after Bosma disappeared; another said he saw a plume of “thick, black-greyish smoke” rising from the area in the early morning around the same time.

 

[Kamille]

BOSMA TRIAL: Legal teams get scrappy as jurors wait

It was the scrappiest day the legal teams have had in this trial, which is starting its fourth week. While defence lawyers have gone hard after witnesses a few times, this is the first time the Crown and defence — in particular the legal team of Ravin Pillay and Nadir Sachak representing Dellen Millard — have squared off. The result was the 14 jurors were holed up in their room for more than half the day and two witnesses who flew in to testify — one from Winnipeg, the other from Georgia — didn't finish.

When the jury was dismissed at the end of the day, Justice Andrew Goodman reminded them of his initial instructions at the start of the trial, which is expected to last three more months.

"No one should be faulted when making an objection," he said. "Today you've been asked to go out several times ... It is a part of every normal criminal trial."

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6328706-bosma-trial-legal-teams-get-scrappy-as-jurors-wait/

 

[Kamille]

Accused killer’s employee raved about ‘awesome’ $15K incinerator he bought for his boss, Bosma trial hears

HAMILTON, Ont. — An employee of one of the accused killers in the Tim Bosma murder case enthused about the “awesome” incinerator, called The Eliminator, he bought for his boss, a jury heard Monday.

The jury at the first degree murder trial of Dellen Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville, read emails from 2012 between Shane Schlatman, an employee of Millard’s aviation company, and Bill Penner, the Canadian distributor of the large animal incinerators arranging the sale, delivery and technical assistance for an incinerator with a capacity of 500-pounds of intake weight.

“Received the unit on Thursday,” Schlatman wrote, court heard. “WOW!! Very impressive.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...ator-he-bought-for-his-boss-bosma-trial-hears

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial hears of Millardair’s purchase of ‘Eliminator’ incinerator

At more than three metres tall and weighing 2,720 kilograms, The Eliminator is designed to cremate up to 225 kilos of animal carcass in mere hours.

When Bill Penner received an inquiry back in 2012 about putting one of the massive incinerators on wheels, it was the first he’d ever heard of such a thing.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/22/tim-bosma-murder-trial-continues-today.html

 

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Tim Bosma trial: through the eyes of people who loved him
By Shannon Martin, CBC News Posted: Feb 22, 2016

Two of Tim Bosma's best friends, Mike Vanhouten and Krista Dam-VandeKuyt, tell of the desperate moments after Tim's disappearance.

As week four gets underway at the trial into Tim Bosma's killing, the Crown is expected to continue its slow build against the co-accused, presenting more forensic evidence in painstaking detail. The court case, at times has become so graphic, some may be tempted to simply tune out of the news coverage.

Bosma's loved ones don't have that luxury.

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Vanhouten remembers the moment he realized Tim's disappearance wasn't some kind of joke or prank his friend was known for pulling.

He circled by several times before pulling in. Hank, he recalls, was on the phone, on the front steps. Then Sharlene came outside.

"She said, 'Mike you gotta call the boys,'' he remembered. "Within an hour, all of our friends were searching."

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The trial has, at the very least, help fill in some of the blanks.

But what so many still struggle with, and remains untouched at this point in the court case, is why.


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While he won't be there, his friends honour him everyday as best they can.

By living the way Tim did, with kindness and love.

 

[matou]

Emails about the sale of the incinerator. 17 slides of exhibits.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/300099872/Emails-about-sale-of-incinerator

 

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[video=youtube;9ILN0NSU1To]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ILN0NSU1To[/video]

Tim Bosma Murder Trial: Examining human tooth found in incinerator on Millard’s farm | EXHIBIT #67-A

The Mob Reporter by Adrian Humphreys from the National Post

 

[Kamille]

Police seized DVR and another item from home of murder suspect’s girlfriend, Tim Bosma trial hears

HAMILTON, Ont. — Two items were seized by police from the home of the girlfriend of one of two men charged with murdering Tim Bosma, a Hamilton man who vanished after leaving with two strangers who came to his home to test drive a pick-up truck he was selling online, a jury heard.

Police arrived at the west Toronto home of Christina Noudga, the girlfriend of Dellen Millard, 30, of Toronto, almost a year after Bosma disappeared on May 6, 2013.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...der-suspects-girlfriend-tim-bosma-trial-hears

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma case: Remains found in incinerator could not be ID'd

he remains found inside a livestock incinerator on Dellen Millard's farm could not be positively identified, the jury in the Tim Bosma murder trial heard in a Hamilton court Tuesday.

Though scientists tried various methods of identification through DNA and dental records, the bone shards and a piece of tooth found in the incinerator were too damaged to conclusively identify the person they came from, forensic expert John Fernandes told jurors.

"Most of the remains were ashes," he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...nd-in-incinerator-could-not-be-id-d-1.3460556

 

[Kamille]

Bosma murder trial hears about DVR found in Dellen Millard’s girlfriend’s closet

A police search of Christina Noudga’s bedroom, 11 months after her boyfriend Dellen Millard was charged with murder, turned up a DVR.

The jury at the first-degree murder trial of Millard, 30, and his friend Mark Smich, 28, has previously heard, during the Crown’s opening address, that that digital video recorder contains footage from Millard’s air hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...rial-hears-from-incinerator-manufacturer.html

 

[Kamille]

Was Millard rich? Bosma trial hears about accused killer’s finances

Was Dell Millard rich?

At first glance, it seemed that way.

He certainly had a lot more than most 27-year-olds. He owned and operated Millardair, a massive hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport. He owned a farm in Ayr. He drove a GMC Yukon. He had raced a Jeep in Baja, Mexico. He bought a $15,000 animal incinerator called The Eliminator.

But as his first-degree murder trial digs a little deeper, the jury is hearing Millard's pockets may not have been so deep after all.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...-trial-hears-about-accused-killer-s-finances/

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Arrest of accused Mark Smich detailed for jury

Mark Smich is seen in this police surveillance photo with his girlfriend, Marlena Meneses, that was taken in 2013 before his arrest. Smich, along with co-accused Dellen Millard, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tim Bosma. (Court exhibit)

When Mark Smich was arrested for first-degree murder in the death of Tim Bosma, he yelled at his girlfriend to keep quiet, a Hamilton court heard Wednesday.

It was the first time that the Ontario Superior Court jury has heard details about the arrest of the 28-year-old from Oakville, Ont.

Oxley testified that around 10 a.m. on May 22, he saw Smich on a BMX bike on an overpass overlooking the QEW in Oakville. "I grabbed Mr. Smich, placed him on the ground, put him under arrest for first-degree murder," he testified. Smich's girlfriend, Marlena Meneses, was also placed under arrest.

"Mr. Smich was yelling at Marlena repeatedly, 'Don't tell them anything, babe,'" Oxley said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...ccused-mark-smich-detailed-for-jury-1.3461958

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Financial health of Dellen Millard's company disputed

Lawyers picked apart the financial health of Dellen Millard's company on Thursday, as the trial of two men accused of killing Tim Bosma continued in Ontario Superior Court in Hamilton.

MillardAir bookkeeper Lisa Williams returned to the witness box and told the jury that the company was generating no income when Millard took over from his father in 2012.

"If you're going by the money that's in the bank account, I'd say things are getting tight. Very tight," her statement read. On Wednesday, Williams told the court about a loan the company took out in October 2012 to keep the business going. She said it was for approximately $3.7 million.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...f-dellen-millard-s-company-disputed-1.3463996

 

[Kamille]

Company finances ‘tight’ but Millard could still afford to buy Bosma’s truck with $125K salary, trial hears

HAMILTON, Ont. — Dellen Millard, one of two men accused of killing Tim Bosma while on a test drive of a pickup truck Bosma was selling online, was earning plenty enough money to buy a used truck, a jury heard Thursday.

Lisa Williams, the bookkeeper for Millardair, the moribund aviation company Millard inherited after his father’s death, spent a second day on the witness stand discussing the firm’s finances at the high-profile murder trial.

Williams said Millard was drawing $125,000 a year in salary from the company.

Ensuring the point was not lost on the jury, Nadir Sachak, one of Millard’s two lawyers, then asked Williams: “Enough to buy a $25,000 truck?”

“Yes,” she replied.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...uy-bosmas-pickup-with-125k-salary-trial-hears

 

[Kamille]

Very small chance blood on truck wasn’t Tim Bosma’s, DNA expert testifies

There was a 1 in 18 quadrillion chance the blood found on the underside of Tim Bosma's truck came from someone other than him, a DNA expert testified Monday.

Forensic biologist James Sloots took the stand as the Tim Bosma murder trial began its fifth week, to walk the jury through the process of DNA testing by the Centre of Forensic Sciences.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/29/tim-bosma-murder-trial-continues-today.html

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Blood, DNA evidence links Bosma, Millard

There is a one in 18 quadrillion chance that the blood found inside and outside Tim Bosma's truck came from someone other than the slain man, a Hamilton court heard Monday as the trial of two men accused of killing the father of one continued.

James Sloots, a forensic biologist from the Centre of Forensic Sciences, took the jury through the complicated process of how DNA evidence was recovered and analyzed in the case.

While it isn't possible for Sloots to say with total certainty that the blood matches Bosma's DNA, the chance that it doesn't is astronomical — it even exceeds the number of people that the Population Reference Bureau estimates has ever lived on Earth.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...od-dna-evidence-links-bosma-millard-1.3469406

 

[Kamille]

Bosma trial: Investigators searched for gun at Smich house, seize iPad

Investigators combed the property around Mark Smich's Oakville, Ont., home looking for a gun in 2013, court heard Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of killing Hamilton-area man Tim Bosma.

They scoured a ravine behind the home at 1081 Montrose Abbey Dr., but no weapon was found, Hamilton police Const. Mario Rizzo testified in Ontario Superior Court.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...d-for-gun-at-smich-house-seize-ipad-1.3471003

 

[Kamille]

Tim Bosma trial: Gun photos found on Dellen Millard's computer

This photo of a man holding a gun was discovered on an iPad backup found on a computer seized from Dellen Millard's Toronto home. The backup, court heard, came from an iPad seized from Mark Smich's home in Oakville. (Court exhibit)

Investigators examining computers found at Dellen Millard's Toronto home discovered pictures of guns and the online ad for Tim Bosma's truck in the internet browsing history, court heard Wednesday at the trial of two men accused of killing the Hamilton-area man.

Jim Falconer, a retired officer who worked in the Ontario Provincial Police's electronic crime unit, returned to the witness box to take the jury through the data evidence recovered from computers and devices seized as part of the murder investigation.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...-found-on-dellen-millard-s-computer-1.3472916