Bosma day 13

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The jury has heard a lot of forensic evidence already, today was more about what the scientists did not find. Tim Cook was in town from Georgia to testify, his company makes animal incinerators, mostly for farmers who want to eradicate disease in their dead animals. Last week he was asked to look at a photo of the unit he sold to the accused, Dellen Millard the one that was found on his farm. Cook said it looked like it had been used before. Today, the judge told the jury that evidence was speculative at best and they should ignore it.

Then the jury heard from a dentist who examined part of a tooth that was found in the ashes at the bottom of the incinerator. He said it looked like the lower bicuspid from a young human but it was only a broken tooth root and he couldn’t accurately compare it to Tim Bosma’s dental x-rays. The tooth was evidently cracked from high heat and no DNA could be recovered from the pulp of the tooth.

A forensic pathologist then testified that he had similar problems testing the ashes in the incinerator, only 503 grams in total. There was no scientific way to prove whose remains were in the incinerator. He said, “we can never retrieve DNA from ashes.”

The next witness was an officer who was sent to search Dellen Millard’s girlfriend Christina Noudga house in April 2014 in Etobicoke. In her closet, buried under piles of clothes, was a digital video recording machine. He found another item too, but the crown instructed him not to tell the jury what it was