The Murder Of Tim Bosma

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In this country, our justice system continually strives to seek restitution and retribution for both the victim and the accused in its entirety. As a country, we have seen many tragic deaths and this one, in particular, struck the hearts of many. Tim Bosma a young, 32-year-old man was struck down on an early morning in May 2013. Bosma set out in hopes of selling his truck to two prospective buyers. Though, what he did not know was that he would never come home to his wife Sharlene and little girl. The two apparent buyers Dellen Millard and Mark Smitch are believed to have shot Bosma in his own truck and then hours later taken him Millard’s hangar where they essentially incinerated him using an animal incinerator located on Millard’s property. …show more content…

Milliard grew up in a very wealthy home and was very privileged. He was always the focus when it came to parties and his friends. Early on he inherited his father's hangar ( a storage place to keep planes), that is where police found the remains of Tim Bosma’s body. To an extent Millard had everything a young boy would dream of having, nice cars, girls, and even his own helicopter, all at the tender age of 30. At the time of the murder, Dellen Millard possessed no mental disorders that police are aware …show more content…

We uncover some of the evidence as we dig deeper into the mystery behind the murder of Tim Bosma. According to police evidence, the pair and Tim Bosma had no relations whatsoever. It was simply a spree kill. When the body was soon after found, it was hardly recognizable to police, though bits and pieces of the DNA, matched the blood stain in the truck that was said to be Tim Bosma’s. If we rewind to a few days before the murder, when an employee of Dellen Millard by the name of Javier Villada (25) was asked by Millard to swap vehicles for the week giving Millard the truck with more space. Javier Villada was an employee of Millardair, in the early years before the murder, the one truck in Millard’s fleet that could tow that amount of weight was the one that Javier possessed. The police also found photos of guns. These were located on both the pairs phones and personal computers. A gun expert by the name of Christiane Lys has testified to both the judge and jury that the shot was definitely in close range and the gun had to be a Walther PPK .380-calibre handgun. Her evidence matched the photo, police seized from Millard’s home of him holding the same gun. In the photograph it is not evident who is holding the gun, as the photo only shows the fingers of the man, but fingerprint experts with Hamilton police have found a 17% match to that of Millard’s, which gives them reasonable grounds

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