Convicted killer Dellen Millard turned and glared at Tim Bosma’s family Friday, shortly after he and his friend Mark Smich were found guilty of first-degree murder. The courtroom erupted in cheers and cries as the jury foreperson read out the verdicts, culminating an exhaustive five-month trial more than three years after the 32-year-old Ancaster dad was senselessly murdered for his pickup truck. “For three years, we have been in and out of this courthouse, forced to look at and breathe in the same space with the utter depths of depravity in our society,” Sharlene Bosma, Tim’s widow, said in a speech outside the courthouse afterward.
“We have had to endure being near the two men that walked down my driveway . . . and took away the bright light in our lives that was Tim.” “For Tim’s murderers, their life sentence begins now. Ours began over three years ago — when they murdered Tim.” It took five days for the 12-person jury to reach its decision. Millard faces two other first-degree murder charges, one for the death of his father, Wayne, and a second for the death of former girlfriend Laura Babcock. Mark Smich also faces a first-degree murder charge for Babcock’s death.
Bosma left his Trinity Road house — and Sharlene and their two-year-old daughter — on May 6, 2013, to take Millard and Smich on a test drive of the pickup truck he was selling online.
