[3] Wayne was a pilot who had worked at both Air Canada and Millardair, an aviation firm founded by his father, Carl.
[5][6] In 1999, at age 14, Millard set a world record for the youngest person to fly both a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane solo on the same day.
[10] He had a criminal record involving petty offences such as drug possession, driving impaired, mischief, failure to appear, and breach of conditions.
[13] By 2011, they had grown closer, and in 2012 Smich and his girlfriend Marlena Meneses moved into the basement suite of the Millard family house.
[13] Around the same time, Millard began to arrange for Smich and other friends to accompany him on what he termed "missions": night-time excursions to steal items such as Bobcat construction equipment, lawnmowers, and even trees.
[17] The pair contacted Bosma by phone to arrange a test drive of a pickup truck he had been selling online on Kijiji.
[18] Millard and Smich arrived on foot for the test drive just after 9:20 pm on May 6, 2013,[19] telling Bosma's wife Sharlene they had been dropped off by a friend.
[22] The Hamilton Police Service treated the Bosma case as "a missing persons investigation with unusual circumstances".
[25] On May 9, Bosma's deactivated cell phone was found in an industrial area on the west side of nearby Brantford.
[26] Using the call records from the burner phone, police discovered that the men had arranged two other test drives in similar vehicles in the days preceding Bosma's murder.
One of the men carried a small satchel bag and had a tattoo on his wrist of the word "ambition" inside a box, a detail the police released to the public hoping for an identification.
[33] Burned remains believed to be Bosma's had been located inside the incinerator, which had been found at Millard's farm in Ayr.
[21] On June 17, 2016, the two men were convicted of first-degree murder in Bosma's killing and were sentenced to life imprisonment, with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
[42] During this trial by judge alone, which started in June 2018, Millard did not testify; his lawyer insisted that his father's death was by suicide and that the Crown did not prove any motive.
The 90-minute reading of Justice Maureen Forestell's finding included this statement: "I am satisfied that Dellen Millard killed his father by shooting him in the left eye as he slept.
On 12 January 2018, Matthew Ward-Jackson (born 1987), an acquaintance of Millard, was sentenced to eleven years of imprisonment after pleading guilty to nine charges relating to gun possession and trafficking.
The victim survived, and Millard and the other man were charged with assault causing bodily harm and weapons possession.