Laura Babcock Murder: Lover Dellen Millard Burned Missing Woman’s Body In Incinerator, Prosecutors Charge
Laura Babcock vanished on June 30 of 2012 and the 23-year-old has been missing ever since. But in a Toronto courtroom on Monday her former boyfriend Dellen Millard went on trial for her murder. And in the opening day of what is shaping up to be a sensational, bizarre trial, the prosecution presented a horrifying and grisly scenario detailing what they allege Millard and accused accomplice Mark Smich did to Laura — and the sickening method they used for disposing of her body, according to a report in The Toronto Star newspaper.
Also on Day One of the trial, Babcock’s distraught father, 60-year-old Clayton Babcock, was forced to take the witness stand on his 35th wedding anniversary — only to be cross examined by the accused killer himself, The National Post newspaper reported. In a highly unusual move for a first-degree murder trial, Millard has been permitted by the court to act as his own defense attorney.
Millard opened his questioning of Laura Babcock’s father by asking, “This can’t be easy for you, being questioned by me, considering I’m the accused. Does this make it extra difficult for you?”
The elder Babcock simply replied, “No.”
But before Millard questioned the father of the woman he is accused of murdering in cold blood, lead prosecutor Jill Cameron revealed text messages from the 32-year-old Millard to a second girlfriend, Christina Noudga in which Millard told Noudga that he planned to “hurt” Laura and “remove her from our lives.”
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Laura Babcock had confronted Nudga and told the woman that she was still in a sexual relationship with Millard sometime before she was killed, Cameron told the jury, adding that “Noudga was very upset about this.”
Cameron also showed the jurors in what is expected to be a marathon, 10-week trial a video of co-defendant Smich, 30, performing what appeared be a rap song about the murder of Laura Babcock, as report by CBC TV said.
“The b**** started off all skin and bone, now the b**** lay on some ashy stone,” Smith is heard rapping in the video shown to the jury. “Last time I saw her she was outside the home. If you go swimming you can find her phone.”
Cameron said that the accused pair had written the lyrics on July 23, 2012, the very day that they disposed of Babcock’s body — by burning her in an incinerator called by the brand name, “The Eliminator.”
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Earlier that day, Millard had learned that the incinerator was ready for use, and he sent a text message to Smich saying, “the BBQ is ready for meat,” Cameron said in court. The incinerator allegedly cost Millard $15,000 Canadian dollars, or approximately $12,000 in United States cash.
Smich did not choose to represent himself, and his lawyer, Thomas Dungey, also questioned Babcock’s father — presenting a defense that apparently will center on Laura Babcock’s sexual history and alleged drug use, asking the dad if he was aware that his daughter had once worked as an “escort.”
Babcock said that Babcock replied that, “If you’re trying to keep a normal father-daughter relationship, it’s not the first thing you blurt out.”
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