Nightmare Psychopathy

A family is in an agony of grief. Suddenly a young father of a two-year old child leaves that child with a single parent, a mother who will now live out her life in his absence. Tim Bosma advertised his pickup truck on popular Internet websites. Two men appeared interested in his truck. They drove up from Toronto to his home address in Hamilton in the early evening for a test drive.

And the 32-year-old Tim Bosma casually called back to his wife that he'd be back home in short order.

As he drove with the men out of his driveway, however, another vehicle followed them. And as it happened, Mr. Bosma simply did not return home, at all. Not that evening, not ever. For a week family and friends desperately attempted to find clues to his possible whereabouts. Police too looked for clues, and they found them, although a huge mystery continues to surround the abduction of Mr. Bosma.

As long as the mystery continued with respect to where he was, his family could find comfort in hoping that he was being held somewhere against his will, possibly for ransom. In his absence, with no word there was yet hope. But that hope died a cruel and abrupt death when police discovered his body, barely recognizable, burnt beyond immediate identification. An autopsy indicated that he had been murdered the very evening of his abduction.

Abduction, however, for what purpose, other than simply malignant misadventure...? Police feel assured that Mr. Bosma had experienced no previous encounter with the two men who had appeared at his door, ostensibly interested in his truck. His truck, in fact, was discovered to be in a trailer in the drive of 27-year-old Dellen Millard's mother's country home in Kleinburg, near Toronto.

Dellen Millard is from a Canadian aviation family, himself a pilot. From a wealthy, privileged family. A young man with a good education and some amount of personal history of good repute. He has been charged with forcible confinement and theft over $5,000. Added to those initial charges, now that the body of Mr. Bosma has been found, will be a charge of first-degree murder.

Mr. Bosma's burned remains were discovered on a rural property in Ayr, Ontario owned by the Millard family. Mr. Millard had no conceivable need for ransom in abducting a young man with no personal wealth himself. In contrast, Mr. Millard's family owns the 50,000 square-foot hangar of Millard Air, an aviation company his grandfather founded located at Waterloo International Airport.

Police investigators are now looking for suspects other than Mr. Millard, accomplices; the person who was with him on the test drive, along with one or more individuals who were in the vehicle following Mr. Bosma's truck, taken on that fateful test drive a week earlier. There is a certain risk to the public, it is felt, until such time as all the suspects in the case are apprehended.

"Look what he did the first time to Mr. Bosma. So, yes, there is a fear and we are doing everything we can to identify this person and get him under arrest. He will be arrested, I can guarantee that", assured Staff-Sgt. Kavanagh of the Hamilton Police Force. "I don't know the motive at this time."