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In May 2013, Tim Bosma left his rural Ontario home for a late-night test drive with two strangers interested in buying his truck. He never returned. Within days, police began unraveling a case that pointed not to desperation or profit, but to entitlement. The prime suspect was Dellen Millard, a wealthy aviation heir with unlimited resources, a history of thrill-seeking, and a disturbing habit of treating crime as entertainment.
Investigators uncovered a chilling trail of evidence: burner phones, GPS data, text messages about “missions,” and a custom-built industrial incinerator Millard called The Eliminator. Human remains recovered from the device confirmed Tim Bosma had been murdered. As the case expanded, detectives linked Millard to the disappearance of his former girlfriend Laura Babcock and the death of his father, Wayne Millard—initially ruled a suicide, but later reclassified as murder.
Millard and his accomplice, Mark Smich, were ultimately convicted for Bosma’s murder, with further convictions tied to Laura Babcock and Wayne Millard. Prosecutors argued that Millard killed not out of necessity, but boredom. Driven by power, control, and the belief that consequences didn’t apply to him, he did the unthinkable. Today, Dellen Millard is serving multiple life sentences, a stark end to a life that began with limitless privilege and ended in calculated violence.
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Investigators uncovered a chilling trail of evidence: burner phones, GPS data, text messages about “missions,” and a custom-built industrial incinerator Millard called The Eliminator. Human remains recovered from the device confirmed Tim Bosma had been murdered. As the case expanded, detectives linked Millard to the disappearance of his former girlfriend Laura Babcock and the death of his father, Wayne Millard—initially ruled a suicide, but later reclassified as murder.
Millard and his accomplice, Mark Smich, were ultimately convicted for Bosma’s murder, with further convictions tied to Laura Babcock and Wayne Millard. Prosecutors argued that Millard killed not out of necessity, but boredom. Driven by power, control, and the belief that consequences didn’t apply to him, he did the unthinkable. Today, Dellen Millard is serving multiple life sentences, a stark end to a life that began with limitless privilege and ended in calculated violence.
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00:00It's a tale as old as money. The guy who has everything suddenly wants something worse. I
00:06want you to think that private island, no rules, ultra rich, run for your life energy, you know,
00:12the kind where normal rules just don't seem to apply anymore. That is the energy quietly driving
00:18Dellen Millard because even though he could walk into a dealership and buy 10 brand new trucks
00:25without even thinking about it, he decides to play bargain hunter and ask for a test drive in Tim
00:32Bosma's truck instead. So when Tim vanishes, that little joyride becomes clue number one
00:39in the what the hell is Dellen doing investigation. And yeah, it's bad. Serial killer bad. I'm Amy.
00:47Thanks for being here. Let's recap.
00:55So here we are in Canada, the land of maple syrup, moose sightings, epic politeness,
01:01specifically Ontario, where this story plays out like a very dark road trip no one signed up for.
01:07And the guy at the heart of this story, Dellen Millard, he was born into money, aviation empire
01:15money. His family owns Millard air. So he grows up around hangars instead of playgrounds. And by 14,
01:22he's the youngest solo helicopter pilot in Canada. Impressive, right? Yes. Until you meet the
01:30personality attached. Because Dellen is one of those dangerous rich kids, you know what I mean?
01:36The kind where something feels just a little off, like that cocktail of entitlement, zero accountability
01:42and a vibe that says rules are for other people. And like a bad smell lurking in the back of the old
01:49fridge, it only gets worse with time. So flash forward to 2013 and Tim Bosma, 32 year old, great
01:56all around guy, husband, new father, Tim Bosma. He just wants to sell his truck. That's it. No big deal.
02:05The whole plan. What could possibly go wrong? He posts his Dodge Ram online. The normal way.
02:12Normal people do normal things. Then on May 6, 2013, he gets a bite. Someone's interested.
02:20They set up a meet for that night, but the guy is running late. Okay. But time keeps ticking. It's
02:26getting weirdly late for a test drive until finally around 9 p.m. 27 year old Dellen Millard and his
02:33buddy, Mark Smich, wander up to the house on foot. They say someone dropped them off, but the whole thing
02:40is just really strange because Tim lives out in the country with his wife and daughter and there's no
02:45sidewalks. There's no strolling. It's not really like, okay, your friend dropped you off and then
02:50how are you leaving? Because it's super, it's just, it's weird. But Tim's a good guy and they really
02:56do want to sell this truck. And now there's this gnawing worry that if he doesn't go on the test drive
03:03with them, then these two weirdos might just steal it. So Tim gets in. Dellen slides behind the wheel.
03:09Tim's in the passenger seat. Mark climbs into the back seat and they drive away at 9 20 p.m.
03:15Tim Bosma is never seen again. And here's the part no one expects. The guy responsible. He doesn't
03:22fit anyone's idea of a suspect. He's the heir to an aviation empire. Millard heir. The family business.
03:29His grandfather started in the 1950s. Now Dellen owns real estate across Ontario. He's got a rotating
03:36cast of cars and trucks, couple of planes, and yeah, he even has his own helicopter. He travels. He's
03:42into cars. He races. He once competed in the Baja off-road challenge in Mexico just because he was
03:47bored. He doesn't want the family business though. So he dabbles. Cooking, animation, makeup artistry,
03:54photography, specifically the softcore kind. But mostly he just parties. So Dellen also likes
04:02keeping this little circle of guys around. People he can kind of boss around. Pull into his scheme so
04:08he feels like some kind of petty crime boss. And one of those guys is 25-year-old Mark Smitsch. Now Mark
04:16is a broke, small-time drug dealer, and he's a wannabe rapper who first met Dellen selling him weed back in
04:232008. From there they formed, well, I mean, friendship? Even though that's kind of a generous
04:30label. But Mark starts doing odd jobs for Dellen. At the house, at the airplane hangar, anywhere Dellen
04:36needs an extra set of hands. And Dellen pays him in whatever feels convenient at the moment. Like
04:42sometimes in weed, in shoes, maybe he covers a bill or two, buys him something else. It's weird. But these
04:49two guys kind of hang out. They're playing video games. They're getting high. And they go out thieving
04:54random things just to keep Dellen entertained. What kind of things? Honestly, anything they can grab.
05:02Construction equipment, trailers, trees from like a landscaping place. Dellen calls these little
05:09adventures missions. And he plans them like he's running Black Ops. Like they've got walkie-talkies.
05:15It's crazy. One of these missions plays out on May 6th, night Tim vanished. At 7.40 p.m. that night,
05:24Dellen texts his girlfriend, Christina Nuka, I'm on my way to a mission now. If it's a flop,
05:30I'll be done in two hours. If it goes, it'll be an all-nighter. At 10.47 p.m., Christina, or
05:37kinks as he calls her because romance is alive and well, she texts him back. So you finish? And he responds,
05:44gonna be an all-nighter. And that all-nighter, it turns into a national missing persons case with
05:51Tim Bosma's wife on TV begging his kidnappers to let him go. It was just a truck.
06:01It is just a truck. Meanwhile, May 9th, Dellen texts Christina again, asking if she wants to help
06:12him out with the tiny missions she's in. So he picks her up in his truck. He's towing a huge trailer
06:18behind him. Inside it is Tim Bosma's blood-stained Dodge Ram. Next stop is Dellen's mom's house.
06:26They park the trailer, practically touching the garage door. Of course, mom comes outside like,
06:31what is this circus parked in my driveway? She doesn't know anything about it.
06:34Dellen waves her off. Classic. He and Christina head out again, eventually ending up at the
06:40Millard family farm. And this is where things go from sketchy to, oh, hell no. Because Dellen
06:47has a task in mind and it is not feeding animals or fixing fences. No. He wants to move a livestock
06:55incinerator. But not just any incinerator. This thing has a name. A dramatic, absolutely on-the-nose
07:02name. The Eliminator. This thing is massive. It weighs thousands of pounds. Costs more than 15,000.
07:09But even stranger is the way he modified it. He'd had one of his mechanics attach it to a trailer
07:15with a generator. Pro painting. So it could be towed wherever he wanted to use it. So that is not
07:24suspicious at all. And on May 9th, he tells Christina that they need to move the Eliminator
07:31because the floorboards underneath it are creaking from the weight. So why does he even have this
07:36thing? Okay, great question. He gives everyone a different answer. To Christina, he says he needs
07:42it to burn metals because he's starting his own aviation company. To others, he claims he bought it
07:47to get into the pet cremation business. Of course, we all know what he was actually using it for. We
07:55just don't know all of it yet. So on this night, day three of the frantic search for Tim Bosma,
08:01while volunteers are combing the fields, detectives are chasing leads, Dylan and his 21-year-old
08:07girlfriend are busy hauling this giant industrial incinerator across the property at around 3 a.m.,
08:14by the way. They tow it behind his Yukon, rumbling down this narrow path into the woods where he
08:19hides it. Oh, we see you, Dylan. And so do the police. They're out there working around the clock
08:25connecting dots. And oh boy, there are so many dots. Dots everywhere. Because remember, Tim Bosma wasn't
08:33the only person selling a truck that week. So Dylan and Mark had gone on this little test drive tour
08:38around Ontario. Same routine, same story, same creepy energy. And unlike Tim, another seller lived
08:45to talk about it. And the detail that really stuck out to him? A tattoo. A very specific tattoo on one
08:52guy's wrist. It reads, Ambition. And that's the kind of irony the universe saves for true crime stories.
09:00So the local cops reach out to other departments, you know, all throughout Ontario, basically sending up
09:07a flare. Hey, anyone out there know a guy with Ambition stamped on his wrist? And wouldn't you know
09:12it, someone does. That's how they find out Dylan Millard has that exact tattoo. And when they dig
09:19deeper, his phone records match a burner phone registered to a Lucas Bait. The same burner that called
09:27Tim asking about his truck for sale. But here's where Dylan really stepped on the rake. When he went for
09:33the test drive, he also had his real phone on him at the same time, because why cover your tracks when
09:40you can leave a trail straight to your door? So police believe that they, him and Mark shot Tim in
09:45the truck not far from his house. The passenger side window was blown out. They took him to the
09:51airplane hangar, this body where the eliminator was set up. And then Dylan texted his employees,
09:57telling them to stay out of the hangar. But one man stopped by and he saw Tim's truck sitting right
10:05there inside on this green tarp and sent this picture to Crimestoppers. Dylan found out, long
10:13story how it's like, the man's son worked for Dylan. He told Dylan, it's the whole thing. But I guess
10:19it's not that long of a story. Anyway, when Dylan heard that this tip had been sent into Crimestoppers,
10:24that made him cover his tracks even more by moving the eliminator to his farm and hiding Tim's truck
10:29in the trailer at his mom's house. So now all of these little dots, the tattoo, the phones, the
10:35hangar, the truck, they all start snapping together like this crime scene connect the dots puzzle and
10:40police arrest him on May 11th. Hallelujah. Four days after that, they find the eliminator exactly
10:47where Dylan had shoved it into the trees. And inside are remnants of Tim's bones and teeth. A week
10:55after that, they pick up Mark Smich. So with these chewing cuffs, you'd think the story might settle
11:00into a straight line. But no, this is the part where police realize that Tim Bosma isn't the first
11:06person to vanish around Dylan Millard. Because once investigators start digging into his life,
11:11his phones especially, his messages even more so, the relationships, his movements, a second name
11:18surfaces. A name that has been whispered for almost a year. Laura Babcock. She's been missing since July
11:272012. 23 years old, bright, social, trying to find her way. And then she just disappears. And here's
11:36where things get chilling. She was not some stranger. She dated Dylan. And the relationship
11:42drifted into this messy, on-again, off-again thing that overlapped with his new girlfriend,
11:48Christina, creating this toxic love triangle with a lot of drama. With Dylan at the center lying to
11:54everybody. So by 2012, Laura was struggling with her mental health. She's bouncing between friends'
12:00couches. She's trying to get back on her feet, but she's still in touch with Dylan. In fact,
12:05their phone's connected dozens of times in the days leading up to her disappearance. And then in early
12:10July, Laura meets up with him. Then her phone goes dark. Her iPad is renamed to look like it belongs to
12:18Mark Smitsch. And she's never heard from again. What happens next only becomes clearer a year later.
12:26Dylan messaged Mark Smitsch that he was on a mission. The Eliminator showed up at the Millard farm
12:33and photos taken that week showed a large object wrapped in a blue tarp. Within days,
12:39Dylan was Googling cremation temperatures and texting Mark that the barbecue has run its warm-up.
12:46It's ready for meat. Laura's family reported her missing, but at the time,
12:51the investigation really didn't go anywhere. It isn't until the Tim Bosma case blows everything
12:56open that police revisit Laura's case and the full picture snaps into focus. So yeah,
13:02Laura was a problem. Dylan eliminated her. And yet another name pops up. Wayne Millard,
13:10Dylan's father. So Wayne was found dead in November, 2012, just a few months after Laura vanished.
13:17Gunshot wound. The official ruling? Suicide. Case closed. No further questions. Thank you very much.
13:24But now detectives are sitting on a pile of evidence that Dylan is capable of multiple murderers.
13:33So naturally, they start asking the big question. Did Wayne Millard really kill himself or did someone
13:40maybe help him along? Investigators go back to the evidence. The angle of the shot is all wrong.
13:46Would have been hard, if not impossible, for Wayne to do it himself. And then they review phone records
13:51and statements. And guess what they find? Dylan lied. He was home that night, alone with his father.
13:57And the gun used? It was Dylan's. Bought illegally. And there's a motive too. Wayne had been working to
14:04turn Millard era around, pouring money into the business. Money that Dylan didn't want spent.
14:10Money he felt belonged to him. And Wayne was getting frustrated with his son's aimless,
14:15entitled lifestyle. So now, police have not one, not two, but three deaths connected to this guy.
14:22Trust me, the trials are every bit as chaotic as you'd expect. Prosecutors come in hot. They're
14:29armed with texts, GPS pings, witness statements, surveillance footage, and enough digital breadcrumbs
14:36to make Hansel and Gretel look unprepared. They roll out the timeline like a slow motion car crash.
14:42Tim, Laura, Wayne, three lives, one common denominator, Dylan. Now for his part, he's
14:51at core trying to maintain the vibe of a man who is both very innocent and very above all this.
14:59He shows up in nice shirts. He's sometimes smirking. He's sometimes acting bored. He's always radiating
15:05that I'm too good for consequences energy. Spoiler, he is not. Oh, fun fact.
15:11His lawyer is the same lawyer that Ryan Wedding, the Olympic athlete turned drug dealer, alleged drug
15:20dealer, used. Yeah. So interesting. And that lawyer was arrested in Ryan Wedding's case for allegedly
15:28giving him some advice. Allegedly. Anyway. All right. That's a whole other recap you got to watch.
15:35But anyway, back to this. And then there are Dylan's co-stars. Let's start with Mark Smidge.
15:42He walks into court looking like the world's most reluctant plus one to a murder scene. He still
15:47doesn't fully understand. He insists Dylan is the mastermind. He insists he was just along for the
15:53ride. He insists he didn't pull the trigger. But prosecutors aren't letting him off the hook that
15:59easy. They play the rap videos he made. Yes, rap videos in the aftermath of Laura's murder, where he
16:05pantomimes shooting a gun and references burning a girl's body into ashes. It's equal parts horrifying
16:13and wildly incriminating. It's the kind of evidence that makes jurors be like, are you kidding me?
16:20And when it comes to Tim's case, Mark finger points hard at Dylan. Dylan, of course, finger points right
16:27back. They're both saying the other person actually murdered the man, but the jury sees right through
16:32it. They're both found guilty of his murder. And then there's Christina, the girlfriend. She helped
16:40Dylan hide evidence without, she claims, knowing any of it was evidence. Well, in court, her role becomes
16:47one of the most scrutinized threads of the entire case. Let's go down the list. She hid a DVR that he
16:56gave her, showing him and Mark in the airplane hangar, presumably covering up Tim's murder. But
17:01again, she says she didn't watch it, didn't know what was on it. She rode along with the trailer,
17:08towing Tim's truck, but said she didn't know what was in there. Then later, she wiped her and
17:15Dylan's mother's fingerprints off that trailer after Dylan was arrested. But she says she didn't realize
17:22it was evidence because she didn't know that the truck was in there, but she knew it probably wasn't
17:29good. So she wiped the fingerprints. I don't know. She helped move the eliminator to be, but she said
17:39she didn't know what it was used for. She got secret love letters to Dylan in jail where he asked for her
17:44to be his secret agent on the outside and get their story straight and maybe intimidate witnesses.
17:50There's no evidence that she actually did any of those things. And she kept the letters. She didn't
17:55try to throw them away. So all of that is to say she does not face murder charges, but she does get
18:01hit with an accessory after the fact charge. The prosecution paints her as someone who helped
18:08the man cover up a murder because she desperately wanted to stay in his orbit. But her defense paints
18:15her as a girl who got played by this rich older guy that she was in love with. But the truth is that
18:20they really didn't have any direct evidence to say that she did know about any of this. She said she
18:28didn't. They couldn't prove that she did. So going to trial with that and winning would have been hard,
18:35if not impossible. So prosecutors settle for a plea deal. Christina pleads guilty to a single reduced
18:42charge of obstructing justice and she gets time served, which was four months in pretrial custody
18:47and two years of house arrest plus one day. After that, she leaves the country and goes to medical
18:53school. So Mark gets life in prison, no chance of parole for decades. Dylan ends up with three life
19:01sentences plus another year tacked on after he stabbed a fellow inmate in 2021. And just recently,
19:09in November 2025, his name popped back into the news when he was transferred to a medium security
19:15prison. Oh, even behind bars, this guy still finds his way back into the headlines. Unbelievable story.
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