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.

 

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.