Bosma day 29

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Dramatic testimony at the Tim Bosma murder trial today. Dellen Millard’s mechanic admitted today that he lied to police when he was questioned shortly after his boss’s arrest in connection with Tim Bosma’s disappearance.

We heard before that Shane Schlatman was Millard’s jeep mechanic when he worked at a shop in Halton region. He was making $21/ hour, and then Millard hired him at $31/ hour. Today under cross examination by Smich’s lawyer Tom Dungey, Schlatman revealed a lot more than previously.

Schlatman was the one who sourced the incinerator found with evidence of Tim Bosma’s remains. He says Millard wanted to start a pet incineration business. After researching and finding it, he was rushed into building a trailer for the machine, all totalled $23 000. But after Schlatman fired it up, got a proper fuel tank and saw it working, he only ever saw it parked at the farm.

“What ever happened to the business incinerating animals?” Smich’s lawyer asked. Schlatman didn’t know.

He said it wouldn’t be unusual to have vehicles or equipment appear at the hangar. Schlatman was asked to remove the GPS tracking device of a Bobcat machine that showed up. Schlatman said he wasn’t suspicious but he found out from police the machines were stolen.

The day after Tim Bosma went missing, Schlatman and others who work at the hangar were told not to go there, even to pick something up. The following day, Schlatman saw the truck that turned out to be Tim Bosma’s on a tarp. He wanted Schlatman to take out the windshield. The mechanic testified that would be the best way to swap out a VIN number.

Schlatman’s father in law, Art Jennings was suspicious of the truck and confirmed with Crimestoppers it was Tim Bosma’s. Instead of calling police, he called a family meeting. Schlatman always said he didn’t inform his boss of the meeting about Tim Bosma’s truck being in the hangar. Until today, on the stand he admitted he told Millard about Jennings calling Crimestoppers, and Millard was angry.

Smich’s lawyer said, “Your loyalty is so great, to hell with Tim Bosma, right? Whatever Dell wants, Dell gets.”

Schlatman says he lied to police when he was first asked about Millard’s red truck and where it was. But he said, he’s not lying to the jury now.

Also today we heard from a gun expert who looked at photos of guns found on devices owned by the accused, they looked exactly like Walther PPK 9mm pistols, a gun that could have fired the shell casing found in Tim Bosma’s truck