Crime Junkie - SERIAL KILLER: Dellen Millard

Episode Date: December 2, 2019

Dellen Millard was the 27-year-old millionaire heir to a Canadian aviation company when he murdered a perfect stranger during a test-drive. What unfolded in the months that followed would leave Canada -- and the world -- in disbelief. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit https://crimejunkieapp.com/library/. Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/serial-killer-dellen-millard/

Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Brett, and this week's story is about a murder spree that happened in Plain site and when undetected for almost a year and it's also a Cautionary tale for the digital age and for anyone who's ever sold something to a stranger on the internet This is the story of Delin Millard On the evening of May 6th 2013 Tim Bosma put his two-year-old daughter to bed and began to pace He was waiting for a guy who was supposed to come test drive his truck They've planned to meet at like seven, but it was now almost 9 p.m. Now he knew they were coming they called around like 7 30 to say they're on their way from Toronto

But now it's almost dark and like he's like let's just get the show on the road already So while he's waiting for them He's kind of like talking to his wife about the people coming over and he's asking her like Do you think I should like go with them for the test drive or just like give them the keys and let them do it? And she's like yeah, of course you go with them like we want our truck to come back. Don't worry Give your keys to a stranger So finally well after 9 o'clock two men arrive for the test drive and it's no wonder they were late because they show up on

Foot and this is a little unusual in general, but you know like they're there to buy a car Maybe they didn't have one of their own right fine But what makes this feel extra strange was that Tim and his wife Charlene Lived in this like very semi-roll area. That's an hour outside of Toronto So this isn't a place that you typically like get to on foot, but whatever they were here And honestly, they were just hopeful that the truck was gonna sell like at this point It was costing them way more than they were willing to pay in repairs and cash would be welcome for the young family So Tim smiles at his wife and he says he's gonna be right back

he gets into the truck drives away and The time starts to pass a little more slowly and when an hour passes and Tim still hasn't returned Charlene begins to really worry like this was just a test drive Even if they wanted to take the truck on the highway It wouldn't take this long something isn't right and she knew that he charged his phone that evening when he got home from work So the fact that she was making calls to him and they're rolling straight to voicemail is making her even more concerned Like she knew it was charged. He should be picking up, but yet every single one was going to voicemail

So she starts calling around to friends and family, but no one has seen or heard from Tim Her bad feeling begins to grow and she couldn't sit around and wait anymore So Charlene reports her husband missing to the Hamilton police By the time the Sun comes up on May 7th police were already starting their ground search with officers and their canine unit Which just goes to prove that you can file a missing persons report as soon as possible. Yeah, absolutely Like there's no time limit. I mean, that's one of the things we've heard over and over in cases people Being told by police you have to wait time. I would hope now it's 2019 like everyone knows that's not a thing But if something happens if someone you know where to go missing you have to wait no amount of time

So when police assigned to Tim's case start looking into his life They find that by all accounts Tim had been living a totally normal life. He went to work every day He came home to his wife and his young daughter They had built this home in Ancaster, Ontario Like he's active in his church and his community like literally according to every source I read for this story from like books to local media national media He was not the kind of guy to just up and walk away or disappear So when he did disappear people noticed and like I said, they start this search right away

In addition to the ground search police also set to work on getting the public's help to locate Tim's black Dodge Ram truck Like it's big. It's flashy. It's hard to miss. They think that this could be the best opportunity for someone to Find him is if we find this truck first and it turns out someone had seen the truck in Brantford and this is about 20 minutes from the home and at about 10 after 10 on the night that Tim went missing And you know what else they found in Brantford? Is it like too hopeful to want them to find him? Well, that would make for a really short episode. So no they didn't find him, but they did find his phone Now on the one hand the investigation seemed like it was moving pretty quickly like again Like the night of the truck is spot the next day. They're searching. They find the car

They find him right these were actually developing But on the other finding the phone without Tim meant that he had likely not disappeared on his own Which again, I mean people had been saying all along but like that confirmation I'm sure people were holding out hope that this was all just a misunderstanding But they at least had his phone now and they needed to dive into the records They knew from Tim's wife Charlene that the men who had come for the test drive had contacted Tim by phone at least twice Once to set up the time and then another to basically alert him that they were gonna be late So police had this number and maybe that was gonna lead them to Tim

So it was super easy obviously to get the number But when police track the number they also get a name Lucas bait So according to live trial coverage by Adam Carter of the CBC police went to great lengths to find this Lucas bait person they tracked down where the phone is purchased and they go get surveillance footage But they weren't able to get the surveillance footage So too much time had passed at that point between when it was purchased and when they were looking for it But they were able to get an address for Lucas bait

Now his address was one in like a nearby neighborhood of Toronto. So not too far away But the address led them to somewhere really unexpected It led them to a high school a high school that had never heard of a Lucas bait So of course the police realized this phone is a burner And I'm sure most of our seasoned junkies know what a burner phone is But it's really this like basic phone with basic service no bells no whistles Like you can you have to register it but you can register it in bogus names bogus addresses, right? There's no like contractor anything really official tied to it. Yeah, I mean you could just be anyone

it's basically registered to a ghost and this is what the situation is here and Unfortunately, even though we have this number. It seems like the name we have is fake and it doesn't offer any new information But here's the thing it wasn't a complete dead end When police access the phone's call history, which they could do they see several other Toronto area numbers listed as outgoing calls So the imaginary Lucas bait led police Straight to the man who would blow this case wide open The man who was the key to this case was named Igor now

It turns out Tim Boseman wasn't the only guy with a dodge ram for sale Igor had one listed online too and it turns out a few nights prior to Tim's disappearance Igor had taken two guys on a test drive and his story sounds just like the one Charlene Boseman told about her husband Now two guys arrived at his house on foot looking to test drive a truck Now the only difference is that Igor came back and Tim Boseman did not Okay, but like what's the difference like why take Tim but not Igor well So there's this woman named Anne Brokelhardt who wrote this book Dark Ambition and she also covered this for the Toronto Star And according to everything she wrote police said quote that he was a very large

Individual who could easily have overpowered the suspect So I think Igor was just a much bigger guy and presented like a bigger challenge for them than maybe Tim would have So as police talked to Igor about his experience I mean we have now a living witness of likely the two guys who took Tim Igor tells them that one was a smaller guy in a baggy sweatshirt with his hood pulled up And the other was a taller man carrying a satchel and sporting a small tattoo on his wrist that read Ambition so now police were actually getting somewhere So this is when they take this information and they go to the public to ask for help find us a guy

Who carries a satchel and has an ambition tattoo? They said so within hours the phones are ringing and not once but twice Two other Ontario policing agencies are the ones that are calling though and they say we know who your guy is So on May 11th, this is just five days after Tim Boseman went on that test drive Police announced publicly that they've made an arrest. I mean out of nowhere. It seems they Arrested a man named Dylan Millard when police originally were brought to him Dylan looked like he was the last person you would have like picked out to kidnap a guy and steal his truck There's this article from Robin Levinson King of the BBC that gives a perfect life and times overview of this guy

He was basically 27. He's the heir to a multi-million dollar aviation business started by his grandfather Yeah, and then continued by his father at 14 Dylan set a record He became the youngest Canadian to fly a helicopter and an airplane solo on the same day His life wasn't perfect though like six months before all of this happened like this whole Tim Boseman thing went down Dylan's father had actually died suddenly surprising everyone in the community Especially those closest to him now his parents had also divorced when Dylan was really small and it was exceptionally hard on him But as he got older and like grew into himself Dylan became kind of a party boy with this big Social circle he would host friends on the weekends

He even moved people in when they needed a hand and like his social circle included No shortage of young women and it would come out later that Dylan was like quite the Casanova Like dating and sleeping with multiple partners. He also owned multiple properties in Ontario He had like several luxury cars. He usually like bought them in cash And his friends would always estimate that he was worth between 10 and 20 million dollars So why is he stealing trucks? So that's the thing that doesn't make sense, right? Like he didn't need to yeah He could have walked onto any car lot anywhere and just bought one in cash And that's literally what his friends say that he used to do and again

That's why when police were like pointed to him none of this made sense Like why is this guy kidnapping a guy for a Dodge Ram truck when he's got like a lot of luxury cars? He has multiple homes like it wasn't fitting it didn't seem like the profile right right so the night police finally brought Dylan Millard in was like a scene from a movie according to the CBC police surrounded his car guns drawn and placed him under arrest in his front pocket was $350 cash and three black latex gloves When they searched his car on his keychain were the keys to Tim's truck Now police may have a suspect in custody, but they still don't have Tim Bosma

Tim's family and friends even investigators were hopeful, but the mood had started to shift It had been five days since that test drive. No one had heard from Tim if he was alive somewhere Like what kind of shape would he even be in at this point now? Police weren't speculating publicly about the outcome, but their actions spoke volumes The case was being led by the Hamilton police homicide squad and when reporters asked if this meant that it was a murder investigation police would only say it was a missing persons case with Unusual circumstances The community did all they could to like surround and support the family police would say that in total over

700 tips came in from the public about Tim's disappearance and many of those tips did help inform the investigation Now one of those tips led police to the home of Dylan Millard's mother whose name was Madeleine Burns Now when they pull in the driveway of this like well-appointed home, they notice one thing immediately a Giant vehicle trailer parked in the driveway and when they look inside the locked vehicle trailer Which was registered to Dylan's family business? They find a Dodge Ram pickup truck the Dodge Ram pickup truck Tim's pickup truck Ironically enough though when they find it. It's Sunday May 12 Mother's Day and this is when they find it on Dylan's mother's property

Now inside the truck police find a shell casing gunpowder residue and Fingerprints belonging to Dylan sprayed with luminol and viewed under a blacklight. They could see blood evidence and Signs of a cleanup now again. This is great. We have more evidence However still no Tim. Yeah, and we're getting less and less hopeful now because I mean we have Tim's truck We have Tim's phone. We don't have Tim But we have signs of someone shooting a gun and clean up So the police again not releasing this to the public are more and more concerned that what they're looking for at this point Is a body mm-hmm now during this time

they were also searching other properties owned or associated with the family and Dylan himself owned four properties a house farmland and two condos Police were at the farmland property when they ran into this guy named Chas main now this guy liked to like bomb around the property on his ATV and According to Anne Brocklehurst reporting Chas didn't know or had in fact never met Dylan Even though Dylan had owned the property for several years that he was like tooling around on his ATV with But even though he didn't know him this guy was valuable to the investigation He tells police that he'd seen some strange stuff on the land not creepy strange just

strange strange like heavy equipment including an excavator stuck in the middle of a swamp and What he called a redneck smoker in the woods. So police are like, okay Why don't you show us what you're talking about so Chas takes them to this clearing in the woods where he'd last seen What he called that redneck smoker just a day prior and it was a decent description Like it certainly looked like basically a giant barbecue, but it wasn't it was six feet tall ten feet long Connected to a one hundred pound propane tank like this is not the kind of machinery that you see

Every day or maybe even ever I've never seen anything like this in my entire life I would maybe say that I've possibly seen something like this at like a butcher who also does barbecues on the weekends We literally did like a hog roast years and years and years ago My family did and we had like this like metal container thing and it still wasn't even that big like Mm-hmm. It's massive and so on this massive thing. There is this Like metal tag that reads small and large animal cremators a product of southern breeze fabricators so this isn't just like a barbecue this is a

cremation device and on the side in red letters was Something that it looked like Delan had put on he had named the device He named it the eliminator Now given the size of this machine like police had the same concerns that you and I just did like this isn't made for a barbecue You could fit an entire person living or dead inside so With a little trepidation they check inside, but it was empty however, not entirely empty

Inside the incinerator were several very small tooth and bone fragments now Unfortunately when they take those to be tested there wasn't even enough there to test for DNA And even if there was the high temperature in that incinerator Basically destroyed everything But even without usable DNA once the experts arrived They were able to confirm that the bones were in fact human not some kind of animal bones So once the police knew that they were dealing with actual human remains Police called in one of Canada's leading forensic anthropologist Tracy Rogers right away

In fact, it was she who climbed into the eliminator to sweep out every last bit of bone and ash And she's actually the exact same person who several years prior had led the team of experts and students to identify remains found on Robert Picton's farm who we talked about like a month or so back So this lady's like the professional like the lady in the area now The sum total of what Tracy pulled from the incinerator weighed about like 503 grams or just over one pound and police were certain This was all that remained of Tim Bosma. So the scene inside the truck and the remains within the incinerator Told a frightening story of Tim's last day alive

Investigators were now sure that he had been murdered that his remains had been destroyed and that Delin was responsible for all of it After notifying Tim's wife and family police announced that their search for Tim had come to a heartbreaking conclusion And that Delin would be charged for first-degree murder on May 22nd 2013 hundreds of people gathered at a Hamilton church to remember Tim and lay his remains to rest and Throughout all of this the people of Hamilton and throughout the province of Ontario were just dumbstruck like was this man Really killed over a truck by two complete strangers one of whom again didn't need money at all And the biggest question though is there were two strangers. So we've got one of them behind bars But where's the other guy? Who is the other guy?

At least one of the public's lingering questions was answered later that very day when police announced that they'd made their second arrest In this case a 25 year old man named Mark Smitch He like Delin Millard would be charged with first-degree murder Now Mark couldn't have been more different from his friend who he called Delin the felon Mark was a high school dropout who'd gotten by from the money that he made selling drugs His chosen job got him into a good deal of trouble with the law This guy was like not an upstanding citizen and in this documentary called the devil had a name produced by the CBC One of the people interviewed said that Mark quote clung on to and looked up to Delin Miller

And based on everything else that I've read about this guy. That's a pretty apt description for their relationship Being around Delin gave Mark access to things he would have otherwise never had money mostly But there were other like comforts and thrills that like money can't buy that like Delin had access to He was just one of several hangers on that swirled around Delin Millard's life What police learn is that the two had spent the last several years stealing vehicles and equipment at random sometimes Just to destroy it. It's not like they were even selling this or using it or just the thrill It was for the thrill all while flying completely under the radar So that was kind of the question police were asking like was Tim's death an unfortunate result of a vehicle theft gone wrong

Or was it the culmination of what one friend of the two men called a quote succession of thrills Now at about the same time that police were arresting Mark and charging him with murder They got an interesting tip about a cold case that would take their murder investigation And blow it up into something much bigger One day police got a call from a worried set of parents their daughter Laura Babcock had been missing for almost a year and on the surface like okay, like there's a lot of people missing What does this have to do with this case? Why are you calling now? Right? Well, their daughter's ex-boyfriend whose name was Scott told them that when he heard Delin's name on the news

Because obviously this is like a huge case being publicized everywhere. He remembered something important After his ex went missing he had gotten her phone records and the last eight calls that she ever made Were to Delin who she had dated for a couple of weeks and then kind of had like a Friends with benefits thing happening around the time that she went missing When police take a closer look at Laura's case they learned that during the summer of 2012 23-year-old Laura Babcock had hit a bit of a rough patch She was a University of Toronto graduate from like this middle-class family But she was working as an escort at the time and using drugs daily

She had basically transformed from this like rosy cheek brown haired girl next door to very thin and a very troubled young woman She'd been fighting with her parents about the rules in their house, which is why during the summer of 2012 She was basically couchsurfing between friends and escort clients now Laura had well known and well documented mental health issues as well And they were at an all-time high during this period in her life because again, she was self-medicating with drugs She wasn't seeking any kind of help for her mental health issues Now it's around this time in her life when she's like couchsurfing going from friend to friend that her ex-boyfriend Scott Now he's the one that initially like made the connection to Delin. He

Like felt bad for her. He like still really cared for her. He saw that she was struggling So he had been paying for a hotel room for her and loaned her an iPad so that she could look for work and housing But but they weren't together, right? No, they had just stayed in touch and again, he was just like very worried about her And he just wanted to make sure she had a safe place to stay exactly. He just really cared for her So at this time is when she has this friends with benefits thing happening with Delin The problem is at the time that they have this arrangement Delin had an actual girlfriend named Christina Now Christina and Laura knew each other. They ran in the same like big circle of friends a circle that included Delin and

Christina knew that Delin had dated Laura in the past, but in her mind like it was completely over now The problem was Christina was kind of like a mean girl and would poke at Lauren Even though she thought that the relationship was over. They weren't together on Laura's birthday Christina sent a text message that said happy birthday a year ago today was when I first slept with Delin So Laura like not wanting to take any of her crap shoots back immediately and said quote That's fine. I slept with him a few weeks ago. So you can imagine that Christina was Not happy. She was done sharing her boyfriend with this other woman and Delin had to like intervene She goes to Delin. She's super pissed. She's like, I want this girl gone and he told his girlfriend that he would take care of the situation

And he wouldn't let Laura Babcock bother them anymore The last time anyone recalls seeing Laura was June 26th 2012 and for the people who loved her it was like Laura just vanished into thin air Did you say that she had been missing for a year by the time it was reported? Like was this the first time the police were even brought in on the investigation? So no, this is at the time that they're like brought back into this is about a year later But it wasn't the first time that her parents had called police about their daughter's disappearance In fact, she'd been reported missing only after a few days by both her parents and Scott back right away

But when police like looked at her situation at the time in particular her lifestyle of drugs and sex work and her history of mental illness They basically kind of chalked it up to like, I don't know Maybe it's on her own that she went away like it was just a very low priority And at one point the Babcox were told that Laura would probably just be back by Christmas But Christmas of 2012 came and went with no Laura So now that they've been like, you know brought back into her case It's back at the forefront and might have a connection to someone that they have in custody Police are trying to make some kind of connection to Dylan, but all they have are like a few phone calls and this ominous statement to his girlfriend

But that's not much. However, they stumble across a clue in a very unlikely place So shortly after Mark's arrest police were searching his place looking for evidence to use in a trial to support a connection to the Tim Bosma case But they actually find something else instead in Mark's room police discovered not only Laura Babcox's iPad But also a duffel bag with her name and address on it So the evidence is starting to pile up and it was painting a really grim picture about what could have happened to Tim and to Laura and maybe even others Now in all of their searching police never found Laura Babcox's body But once police had enough probable cause and did a little more thorough search of everyone's cell records Google search histories like all the electronic evidence

They knew everything they needed to to know what happened to her that night in July Basically cell tower information showed that Laura and Dylan were together on the night of July 3rd They together drove to Dylan's house where they spent the night. Then the next morning July 4th They drove along Lake Ontario in the direction of Dylan's farm Now on the way at some point Laura's phone suddenly stopped sending and receiving messages But Dylan's phone continued on to the farm Once he gets to the farm he snapped a picture just outside of the barn Of this you know what I need to show you

Okay, bro. I just sent you the picture that he had taken like Almost like shortly after he shows up on the farm, but no one else It is a blue tarp just like a normal blue tarp But it has rolled up Like a carpet like there's a body in it Yeah, the exact shape of a human body that this dude is taking a picture of it's like taped around too, isn't it? Now shortly after he snaps this picture again, he's like leaving this digital trail After he snaps the picture he sets a reminder for himself in his phone for July 7th

And the reminder says Quote barn smell check. Oh my god. Yeah Yeah, so I mean it's easily pieced together. So Dylan got himself a few toys around this time too Like he got a gun that he purchased the day before Laura disappeared He got the eliminator which arrived just a few days after So there is a very clear pattern of his planning of his intent and what actually happened Even though we might not have any physical evidence anymore

Almost three weeks would pass before delin and his sidekick mark would burn laura's body on july 23rd Delin tex mark quote bbq has run its warm-up. It's ready for meat And later that night records show that there was a screenshot of the answer to this question typed into a search engine What temperature is cremation done at? I mean did delin google that himself? So it's not totally clear whether he did the search or not, but he whether he did or not He definitely saved the photo, you know like for reference. I mean, right? I don't know so While delin and mark burned the body of their one-time friend laura delin took a series of photos There are some of like mark smiling near this like family business

There's one of mark posing in front of the eliminator And there's also pictures of the interior of the incinerator in flames And just in case this isn't enough incriminating evidence mark who's like a wannabe rapper I guess was inspired to write these lyrics that very evening That started off all skin and bone now that bitch lay on the same ashy stone Last time I saw hers outside the home and if you go swimming you can find her phone Oh my god Yes, so police found those lyrics on the ipad that mark had in his bedroom

Now he thoughtfully renamed it mark's ipad though It was in fact laura babcock's ipad that he had stolen from her In addition to all of the electronic evidence against delin police also had 65 letters that he'd written from prison to his girlfriend christina and in the letters Which we'll link to in the blog post for today's episode delin tells her that they need to basically get their story straight About the night that laura went missing He tells her that basically she should say if she gets asked that laura was at delin's house that night And that she and mark were using drugs in the basement and she likely overdosed

So delin asked christina to destroy the letters to protect him But for whatever reason and luckily she didn't so police are tying things up They have another case that they're building like a really strong case against both delin and mark for tim now for laura But the investigation into these two monsters wasn't over because police saw something In delin's background that stood out something that they thought was worth taking a second look at There was a case police had investigated and closed six months earlier It was the death of wane miller delin's dad Now wane had been found in the suburban toronto home that he shared with his son delin on november 29th

2012 he was dead from a single gunshot wound through his left eye Now police and the medical examiner were called to the scene and their brief investigation ruled the death a suicide Wayne was laying in bed. There was a gun on the floor next to his body open and shut they said But now investigators wondered if maybe it wasn't so open and shut maybe they made a mistake Because maybe wane miller had found himself on the wrong end of his adult son's killing spree delin was after all the one who found his father's body that morning And when questioned at the time he told investigators that he was staying with a friend the night of his father's death And of course you won't be surprised at all to know that the friend that he claimed he was staying with was mark

Of course Now here's the really interesting part. I think at the time of his death people in wane's circle like employees and associates Were actually told that his sudden death was the result of a brain aneurysm They had no idea that it was ruled a suicide So there wasn't even anything for people to be suspicious of his like employees and associates didn't even realize what had really happened until Delin was charged with laura's murder and then wane's murder and that's when the people close to them learned like the truth about What really happened to him?

And I think if they had known like the real cause of death like maybe His employees could have raised like alarm bells a little bit sooner because the story among Employees when they actually like got talked to was that wane was threatening to cut off his son financially Like basically they knew that delin was spending way too much money not taking any responsibility for the family business And like kind of trashing this family business that his father and grandfather had like worked so hard to build up wane had basically gotten to the point where he wasn't going to sit by anymore and watch his only son Ruin the business that he worked so hard to build so he was about to cut him off Again, all of this is going on and nobody really knows that because at the time police were like up open and shut

And then everyone decides to lie about how he died. So like the right people weren't connecting Now once investigators reopened this case. Luckily, they did have physical evidence to revisit Specifically there were these x-rays that showed the bullet and its trajectory through the eye And police had kept the gun that they'd assumed wane used when like the death had happened when it seemed like it was a suicide Well, wouldn't you know it the gun had delin millard's dna on it Yeah, and more than that delin had purchased the gun Like it was the one that he had bought in the days before laura babcock's disappearance and Probably i don't know this for sure, but probably the same murder weapon

And you know, it's so interesting when i look at like this specific case because recently I was talking with a retired state police investigator from another state and he had some really good insight He said, you know back when I was running my squad Like I taught every investigator to treat every death scene like a homicide first Like it doesn't matter what it is like old guy in a nursing home Woman found on the side of the highway or even a scene that looks a lot like a suicide Treat it like a homicide first because it's so much easier to like back down from a homicide to a suicide than to go the other way around Right

So as a part of the reinvestigation the coroner who ruled the death as suicide at the outset admitted That it was the first time he'd ever seen someone die by suicide With like a gunshot through the eye, so You know he was new to him, I guess But like he said it seemed clear to him at the time But he could like see looking back on it that maybe was his inexperience Here's the part that like I can't chalk up to inexperience Apparently even at the time like even though they thought it was probably a suicide

They tested his hands for gunshot residue There was no gunshot residue on Wayne's body like anywhere Of course there wasn't So yeah, I guess like I Don't know how you rule that a suicide Like I'll never figure that part out. It doesn't make sense to me So during his initial questioning when police like originally investigated Wayne's case and decided it was a suicide Dylan told police that his father was lonely. He drank too much

He was having problems with the business and like some of that was true Wayne did have known issues with alcohol, but at the time he was in a new relationship It was going well They had this like spin-off aviation business that he spent years building for his sons and was close to opening its doors to the customers so like Yes, he might have had some problems with alcohol But like everything else in his life seemed like it was on the upswing right The morning his dad had killed himself

Dylan was cool as a cucumber speaking to police like on the morning that he supposedly found his dad dead Calm collected I mean, I guess not so calm that it raised flags, but he was like definitely cool definitely collected It was enough to be notable. Yeah Well, he had so much stuff that police like didn't really question him because as far as I could find They never tested his hands for any kind of gunshot residue because if they would have they likely Would have seen something there In the end

Dylan and mark were tried and convicted in two separate trials for the murders of tim bosma and laura babcock For their crimes. They'll serve two life sentences back to back with no possibility of parole for 50 years For the death of his father. Dylan was found guilty and was given a third life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years To be served consecutively after his other sentences Total he'll serve about 75 years before he's eligible for parole and when that time comes he'll be 102 years old Okay, so there's just like one thing that's kind of still unresolved for me So I feel like we're all reasonably sure that delin himself was responsible for the death of his father and for laura, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure okay, but tim was a complete stranger to both guys like what was the motive and for that matter like

Who actually pulled the trigger if they were both convicted? Yeah See that's a thing the evidence doesn't tell us who pulled the trigger But the crown didn't necessarily have to prove that in court They said that those details like who actually held the gun who fired it didn't matter It only mattered that delin and mark both knew what was happening that night and that they were basically in it together overall the case against both of them were largely circumstantial and Tied together with like this digital footprint of texts and calls and web searches and photos like all that stuff that they left behind

It's interesting because at the trial they pretty much admitted to killing tim boseman But each of them were pointing the finger at the other the majority of the defense's case was built on Exactly this kind of finger pointing like delin said that he was surprised when mark fired the gun from the backseat of the truck during that test drive That basically like mark was high and he was shooting on accident And mark said he wasn't even in the truck when the gun was fired He was falling behind in delin's suv like the whole trial was like this back and forth and back and forth finger pointing finger pointing But when mark eventually went to trial like again, these were separate trials The courtroom also heard from two young men like high school students who had bought drugs from mark

They said that mark actually confessed to them later that summer and according to those kids Mark told them that he had killed a girl burned her body and threw her in a lake So to even go back to your thing like hey, we think delin killed his dad and laura I don't even a hundred percent know about that heat mark might have had a bigger role in laura's death as well But we will never for sure know which is the truth or what the full truth is and as for motive People really struggled with this in the early days of tim boseman's investigation and frankly i'm still struggling with it now Like sadly it seems like the motive was simply a truck a truck delin millard could have easily purchased with cash If he wanted to but if you're looking for a better why and i mean it's hard not to

There really isn't one to be found here, but i would say you know, it's hard to find an upside in all of this I would say like tim died senselessly But it was his case and the diligence of everyone who worked it that i think stopped a monster Who knows where his succession of thrills would have led him or how many victims? He would have taken in his wake If you want to see the pictures from this case those letters we talked about If you want to see the sources that we use for this episode you can find all of that on our website crimejunkiepodcast.com and be sure to follow us on instagram at crime junkie podcast and we'll see you next week with a brand new episode

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