Jurors at the murder trial of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich got a glimpse Tuesday into what the two accused killers were talking about in the days surrounding Tim Bosma’s death.

Millard and Smich have both pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in connection with the death of Bosma, a Hamilton resident.

On May 5, 2013, jurors heard Tuesday, Millard was on a “mission” – a word he and his friends sometimes used to refer to thefts – and sent a text message saying he was “working on trading one of my gas trucks for a diesel.”

The following day, Bosma disappeared after taking two men for a test drive of a black pickup truck he had listed for sale.

Jurors were told of a text message sent from Millard’s phone at 7:40 p.m. that night.

“I’m on my way to a mission now,” the message reads.

“If it’s a flop I’ll be done in two hours. If it goes, it’ll be an all-nighter.”

A few hours later, another message was sent, saying simply “gonna be an all-nighter.”

The Crown alleges that Millard and Smich killed Bosma in his truck, then burned his body in an animal incinerator kept at the Millard Air hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport.

Witnesses have told the trial about an unfamiliar black pickup truck being spotted in the hangar during the week in question.

At 6:21 p.m. on May 7 – one day after Bosma’s disappearance – Millard sent a text saying he had just had a five-hour nap and bath, and was “refreshed and ready for the next stage of mission digestion.”

Several witnesses have testified that Millard messaged his staff early that morning, telling them all to stay away from the hangar that day due to “airport politics.”

The following day, a friend asked Millard how the mission had gone. He replied that he was “still going” on the mission.

Jurors also heard about text messages sent in the month before Bosma’s death, including one in which Millard talked about wanting to sell his house, his hangar and his condo.

“Gonna keep selling (until) I’m out of debt,” he wrote.

The trial heard Monday that Millard claimed his father left behind a mess of financial issues when he died.

That death was initially deemed a suicide. Millard was later charged with first-degree murder in that case, after he was arrested on suspicion of killing Bosma.