From Child Prodigy To Serial Murderer

"We're zealously going to defend it. He is definitely pleading not guilty to the charges and, at this point, we can only await to see what their case is."
"There are a lot of unanswered questions. We're going to take one case at a time."
"Originally, [Wayne Millard's death] was labelled a suicide so I just don't know how it goes from suicide to homicide unless it is pure notoriety; like, they got him on the Bosma murder and somehow now they revisit the case from two years prior and it's supposedly a homicide."
Deepak Paradkhar, lawyer for Dellen Millard

"Investigators are still following up on new information."
Sergeant Pierre Chamberland, Ontario Provincial Police

"This investigation will continue into all three matters until the investigative leads have been exhausted."
Staff Inspector Greg McLane, supervisor, Toronto police homicide unit

"I'm done. I always say that everybody has so much that they can take. And I'm reaching that limit and I just hope this is it; that we're done now. I'm not sure we can take any more surprises."
"The case is the case, that's completely separate from being able to cope with life. The case just makes it more complicated. It makes grief more complicated."
Sharlene Bosma, Hamilton

Tim Bosma with his wife and child in an undated family photo.
Handout / Hamilton Police / Bosma Family

The last time Mrs. Bosma saw her husband, 32-year-old Tim Bosma, he smiled, waved at her and said he'd shortly be back home. He had acquiesced to a test drive of the truck he had advertised for sale, with a young man interested in its purchase. This was Dellen Millard, 28, from Toronto.  His friend Mark Smich, 26 of Oakville, Ontario, followed driving another truck. But Tim Bosma never did return.

And when his wife made an emotional appeal for his return, police forces were alerted. A multijurisdictional task force called Project Capella slowly pieced together a conspiracy and a murder. Mr. Millard was charged with the murder of Mr. Bosma whose charred remains were discovered later at a farm he owned located near Cambridge, Ontario. An incinerator used to cremate livestock was at the farm.

And Mr. Millard was connected to the disappearance as well of Laura Babcock, a young university student who had suddenly disappeared. Her frantic family found she had emailed Dellen Millard several times before her inexplicable disappearance. Police searched the grounds of the farm but have not divulged whether evidence of her remains have been found there. Subsequently, police opened their file on the suspicious death of Mr. Millard's father, Wayne.

A third person has come under scrutiny and arrest, 21-year-old Christina Noudga, living near Hamilton, who is now charged with having aided Dellen Millard to evade police in their search for him. He was arrested two days later, charged with forcible confinement and theft of Mr. Bosma's truck. Three days following that, police announced Mr. Bosma's remains had been found and laid first-degree murder charges against Mr. Millard and Mark Smich.

Dellen Millard distinguished himself at an early age. His grandfather had built his own charter airline, Millardair, in operation up until 1990. An airplane maintenance company operating from Lester B. Pearson Airport, Toronto, was a later family enterprise, which Wayne Millard, Dellen's father took over in 2006. On Dellen Millard's 14th birthday he became the youngest Canadian to solo pilot a plane and also a helicopter.

He inherited his family's wealth and holdings on his father's death. He owned a plane and a helicopter, but trucks and cars represented his mechanical passion. He dismantled the family business and focused on what interested him.

Mechanical engineering relating to vehicles, and serial murder.