Bosma Trial May 24th

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Video shows Mark Smich and Dellen Millard leaving Millard’s airplane hangar after killing Tim Bosma, ripping evidence out of his truck, and burning his remains in an animal incinerator, Mark Smich agreed on the stand. Further video shows them going back to the hangar a day later, and spending two and a half hours there.

“You had to clean out the eliminator,” Craig Fraser, the lawyer for the Crown, suggested. “It was too hot the night before.”

Tim Bosma’s remains had mostly been cleaned out of the incinerator, according to forensic experts. Smich disagreed that he helped with that. Then they took the eliminator to the farm and put it in the barn. Later, they burned evidence like the seats and carpets from Tim Bosma’s truck.

Then Smich and Millard put the Bosma truck into a fifth wheel trailer and left. By the next day police were following Millard. He went to the bank, then to Smich for almost an hour. Smich doesn’t know what they talked about.

“Every plan has a beginning, middle and end.” Fraser said. “This one started with finding a Dodge 3500”, he said. Then they got a gun.

“And that incinerator, so chillingly referred to as BBQ, was the last piece of the puzzle, right?” Fraser said.

Smich helped source the incinerator in 2012. It cost $15 000 and Millard spent $7000 putting it on a trailer. For human victims. Smich said he didn’t ask Millard why he never used his expensive new machine for cremating pets- the excuse.

Fraser said Tim Bosma was at the bottom, four feet six inches down in the incinerator. The opening is one and a half by two feet.

“It’s a two-man job.” To put someone inside, he said. Smich must have helped, contrary to his testimony.

Fraser asked why Smich brought a change of clothes to the two test drives they took, when he and Millard didn’t hide their faces from potential victims.

“A change of clothes is necessary when it’s going to be a bloody mess, and that’s what happened,” Fraser said.

According to Fraser, Igor Tumanenko was supposed to be their victim. He’s the man who went on a test drive with the two accused the day before Tim Bosma. Fraser said he was “a little too six foot four, a little too Israeli army” for the accused, and they got scared.

Fraser will finish his cross examination Wednesday.