Bosma Day 16

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It was Tim Bosma’s blood that was found in his stripped-down truck and it was also Bosma’s blood found on the hatch of the livestock incinerator. A Hamilton jury heard those details today in testimony from a forensic biologist at the first degree murder trial of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich.

We’ve already heard that scientists couldn’t find DNA in the bones or ashes found in the hatch of the incinerator, so today was important for the crown, finding evidence of Tim Bosma’s DNA.

James Sloots is a forensic biologist from centre of forensic sciences. He testified that it is impossible to be entirely certain that DNA comes from a particular individual, but you can match DNA profiles to remove all but the slimmest doubt.

For example, he tested the blood found spattered inside and outside Tim Bosma’s truck and compared it to DNA on Bosma’s toothbrush, it was Tim Bosma’s blood the chances of it being someone else’s was one in 18 quadrillion, in most cases. The truck was found in a trailer at the mother’s house of one of the accused Dellen Millard.

Similarly blood found on the hatch of the incinerator found on Dellen Millard’s farm came from Tim Bosma and on gloves found in Dellen Millard’s pockets when he was arrested was DNA from Tim Bosma, Dellen Millard, and Dellen Millard’s girlfriend Christina Noudga.