Dellen Millard
Murder Category: Serial Killer
Sub-Category: Thrill Killer
Murder Partner: Mark Smich
Victims: Wayne Millard, Laura Babcock, and Tim Bosma
Relationship to Victims: Son (Millard), Ex-boyfriend (Babcock), Stranger (Bosma)
Date of Murder: Wayne Miller — November 29, 2012, Laura Babcock — July 3, 2012, Tim Bosma — May 6, 2013
Murder Method: Shotgun wounds|
Conviction:
- June 17, 2016 — Millard and Smich found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Bosma
- December 2017 — Millard and Smich found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Babcock
- September 24, 2018 — Millard found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Wayne Millard
Sentence: Three consecutive life sentences in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years
THE CRIMES
Dellen Millard, along with his accomplice Mark Smich, is serving two consecutive 25 year sentences for the first-degree murders of Laura Babcock and Tim Bosma. He alone will be facing another trial for the murder of his father, Wayne Millard, in the fall of 2012.
Millard was born into a wealthy aviation family. His grandfather started his own charter airline, MillardAir, in the 1960s based out of Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The business went bankrupt in the 1990s, and was changed to an aircraft maintenance business.
Millard’s father, Wayne, took over the business upon his father’s death in 2006. Before he died in 2012, he moved MillardAir to Waterloo International Airport.
Wayne was an airline pilot and Millard’s mother, Madeleine Burns, was a flight attendant, so it was natural that he was taught to fly from a very young age. In fact, he became the youngest person to pilot solo both a helicopter and airplane on the same day – his 14th birthday.
Although his family was quite wealthy, Millard was never showy in high school. School mates described him as quirky, but there was no behaviour that would hint at a violent nature.
After high school, Millard was listless and couldn’t settle on a life direction. He briefly enrolled in culinary school, and tinkered around with the idea of becoming a make-up artist or an animator. He took up photography and did a shoot for the Suicide Girls.
He lived with his father in their Etobicoke home, where he was well-known to host raucous parties, and became a legendary host, especially to teenagers.
THE VICTIMS
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TIMELINE
2008-2009: Dellen Millard meets Laura Babcock at the Brunswick House pub in Toronto. They date for a short amount of time, but later become friends and occasional lovers.
Aug. 2011- April 2012:
- Babcock visits the hospital over 12 times for her mental health problems.
- She is dating Shawn Lerner, who later becomes a close friend.
Feb. 26, 2012: Millard’s girlfriend, Christina Noudga, and Babcock have a text exchange that raises the tension between Millard and Noudga.
Noudga: Happy birthday. A year ago today was the first time I slept with Dellen.
Babcock: That’s fine, I slept with him a couple of weeks ago.
Noudga: Did you miss your medication today? You’re a crazy psycho bitch just trying to get my boyfriend. You had him and you lost him. Give it up.
April 16, 2012: The following texts are sent:
Millard to Babcock: You are harmful to me. please don’t try to contact me until you’ve made some huge leaps of self discovery. as i said before, good luck with life.
Babcock texts mutual friend Andrew Michalski: ya dells def not a fan of me. He told me he told xtina when he slept with me before. Erg these ppl cause [so] much unwanted drama for me. and bring me into it.
April 17, 2012: Millard sends Noudga a text letting her know he is going to take care of the Babcock problem.
Millard to Noudga: first im going to hurt her. Then I’ll make her leave. I will remove her from our lives.
May 2012: Millard asks his mechanic Shane Schlatman to order a commercial incinerator.
June 2012:
- Babcock works for Last Minute Escorts.
- She couch surfs with her dog, Lacey.
- Lerner gives Babcock an iPad for her so she can search for apartments.
June 26, 2012: Babcock, 23, is last seen near Queen Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto around 9 p.m.
July 2, 2012: Matthew Ward-Jackson (a rapper called Ish) sells Millard a .32-calibre handgun.
July 3, 2012:
- Both Millard and Babcock’s phones ping off towers together as they move from Kipling station to Millard’s Etobicoke home. Smich’s phone pings near Millards home as well.
- Millard send Smich a text at 7:30pm. Millard to Smich: I’m on a mission, back in 1 hr.
July 4, 2012:
- Millard’s computer connects to Babcock’s iPad and renamed Mark’s iPad.
- Babcock’s phone goes dead.
- 2:40pm — An object wrapped in a blue tarp at the Waterloo farm is photographed on Millard’s phone.
- 6p.m. Millard places an order for a new mattress paying for quick delivery.
July 5, 2012: The $15,424.50 animal incinerator, The Eliminator, that Schlatman ordered arrives.
July 7, 2012: Millard’s phone notifies him a calendar reminder to do a “Barn smell check.”
July 11, 2012: Schlatman, with Millard and Smich’s assistance, build a trailer for The Eliminator.
July 14, 2012: Lerner and Babcock’s family both file missing persons reports.
July 23, 2012:
- Millard and Smich’s phones ping towers travelling from the airport hanger to Millard’s farm in Waterloo.
- 3:07 p.m. — Millard texts Smich: Bbq has run its warm up, it’s ready for meat.
- 10:38 p.m. — Millard’s phone Googles “What temperature is cremation done at?”
- Photos from Millard’s phone show objects burning in The Eliminator, the objects are later identified as human bones during court testimony from a forensic expert.
July 24, 2012: Mark’s iPad (previously Babcock’s) records written rap lyrics attributed to Smich that say “The bitch started off all skin and bone/ Now the bitch lay on some ashy stone/ Last time I saw her’s outside the home/ And if you go swimming you can find her phone.”
July 27, 2012: Babcock’s cell phone bill arrives at her parent’s house and Lerner sees her last calls were to Millard. When he confronts Millard, he is told that Babcock called looking for drugs and a place to stay. Millard says he turned her down for both.
Aug. 2012: Smich invited friends Desi Liberatore and David Cronin inside the garage at his mother’s home in Oakville to smoke pot. Smich raps the lyrics for them and then makes a confession that he “killed a girl, burned a body, and disposed of it in a lake.”
Nov. 29, 2012: Wayne Millard is found dead with a gunshot wound through his eye. Inside the Etobicoke home he shares with Dellen at the time were Dellen, Dellen’s mother, and Dellen’s ex-fiance. Mark Smich is living in the basement. His death is ruled a suicide.
May 5, 2013: Two men meet up with a seller in Toronto to test drive his truck. The seller later says he found them suspicious.
May 6, 2013: Two men arrive at Tim Bosma’s home in Ancaster to test drive his Dodge Ram pickup truck he had listed for sale on Kijiji. It is after 9:30p.m. and Bosma mentions that it is late for a test drive, but accompanies them anyway. He is never seen again.
May 7, 2013: Hamilton Police Service declare Bosma officially missing.
May 9, 2013: Sharlene Bosma (Tim’s wife) appeals to the kidnappers to return her husband during a press conference.
May 10, 2013: Bosma’s phone is located in Brantford.
May 11, 2013: Dellen Millard is arrested and charged with forcible confinement and theft over $5,000 in relation to the Tim Bosma disappearance.
May 12, 2013: Bosma’s truck is found at Millard’s mother’s home in Kleinburg home.
May 15, 2013:
- Police confirm Bosma’s burned remains were found on Millard’s farm.
- Millard is charged with first-degree murder.
May 21, 2013: Police announce they are reopening the cases of Babcock’s disappearance and Wayne Millard’s death.
May 22, 2013: Mark Smich is arrested for the murder of Tim Bosma
May 23, 2013: Mark Smich is charged with first-degree murder in Bosma’s death.
Dec. 2013: Police find Babcock’s red duffel bag in Smich’s Oakville home.
April 9, 2014:
- Millard and Smich are charged with first-degree murder in Babcock’s death.
- Millard is charged with first-degree murder in his father’s death.
April 10, 2014: Christina Noudga is charged with accessory after the fact to murder in connection with Bosma’s death.
April 2014: During a search of Noudga’s home in Etobicoke, police find 65 letters from Millard with incriminating statements in them, like “the night Laura disappeared, I told you Laura was over doing coke with Mark in the basement… Later when she’s reported missing, I told you that Mark told me that she OD’d” and “that stuff I wrote before… that was just brainstorming. Forget it.” He asks Noudga to destroy the letter.
Feb. 1, 2016: Dellen and Smich’s trial for the murder of Tim Bosma begins.
April 21, 2016: Smich’s former girlfriend, Marlena Meneses, testified that Millard shot and killed Bosma.
May 11, 2016: Smich testifies that Millard shot and killed Bosma, disposing of his body in the animal incinerator on Millard’s farm.
May 18, 2016: The Crown point to a botched truck robbery, motivated by the financial desperation, led to Bosma’s murder.
June 17, 2016: Millard and Smich found guilty of first-degree murder.
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