Months before Tim Bosma disappeared, jurors at the trial of the two men accused of killing him heard Monday, Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were messaging each other about plans to steal a truck.
Millard and Smich have both pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in connection with the May 2013 death of Bosma, a Hamilton resident.
Bosma disappeared after taking two men for a test drive of a pickup truck he was selling.
The Crown alleges that Millard and Smich killed him in his truck, burned his ashes in an animal incinerator at Millard’s hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport, and ultimately moved the incinerator to a farm property Millard owned on Roseville Road in North Dumfries.
Monday, the trial heard from Const. Craig Harrison, who examined call logs and other information from electronic devices found at Smich’s Oakville home.
Jurors heard about a text message sent from Millard to Smich in March 2012, during which Millard said he thought the two could “grab that truck I need before I go to the States next.”
“It just has to be a Dodge 3500,” he said. “They are common enough.”
Smich replied that the pair would need a “proper plan,” to which Millard responded “we can’t make any mistakes.”
The truck didn’t come up again until October 2012, when Smich said he had found a suitable 3500, which was black in colour.
Jurors also heard about a December 2012 text message in which Millard said that he had discovered his father was “hiding debts.”
Millard is also charged with murder in connection with the death of his father Wayne, which was initially ruled a suicide.
That case has yet to make it to trial.
“My dad’s death has put the financial screws to me,” he messaged a friend a few days later.
