Bosma Day 7

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A critical fingerprint, a police blunder and a detailed timeline taken from cell phone data. These are the prominent pieces of evidence presented at day 7 in the trial of the two men accused of killing Ancaster father Tim Bosma.

This afternoon the crown called OPP analyst Phillip Wilkinson to the stand. Wilkinson examined the cell phone activity of Tim Bosma, Dellen Millard, Mark Smich, and a phone listed to the name Lucas Bate, a phone that the crown has put forward as possibly being under a fake name and the same one that called Tim Bosma the night he disappeared.

That night it showed both the cell phone of Dellen Millard, the phone listed to Lucas Bate making calls that ping cell towers near Millards home in Etobicoke. Then Millards phone pings a tower near the Oakville home of Mark Smich. Later Millard, Smich and the Lucas Bate phone ping towers near the home of Tim Bosma. After 9pm both the phone of Lucas Bate, and Tim Bosma go silent.

Earlier in the morning we heard from a finger print expert who says Millard left a print on the door of Tim Bosma’s truck. Halton police finger print expert Colleen O’Rourke lifted the print in May 2013. In her analysis there are 48 points of similarity between the two prints, enough to constitute what she called a match. This corroborates testimony given by another expert who lifted a print from the trucks rear view mirror.

One of the stranger pieces of evidence today focused on what happened when police moved the trailer from Hamilton to a forensic facility in Tillsonburg. It appears that police failed to properly latch the rear doors of the trailer and they promptly swung open while on the 403 traveling up the Hamilton mountain. Luckily the truck had been removed by then, but a small box did fall out onto the highway and was destroyed. It is not believed there was any evidence inside that box, but impossible to tell. Police did manage to secure the door and continue on.