Laura Babcock Murder Trial: Accused Killer Of Missing Woman Raps About Burning Body, Jury Views Chilling Video
Laura Babcock, a 23-year-old Toronto, Canada, woman has been missing since June 30 of 2012, but police and prosecutors are certain that the young woman was killed and the trial of two men accused in her slaying continued this week as jurors watched a chilling video in which one of the men performs a rap song that appears to describe the brutal way in which Babcock was murdered.
Though only four days old, the trial has already been sensational fare, offering more than its share of bizarre developments starting with accused killer Dellen Millard acting as his own attorney and questioning his first witness — 60-year-old Clayton Babcock, father of the missing and presumed murdered woman.
Prosecutors charge that Millard, 32, and Mark Smich, 30, killed Babcock sometime in July of 2012 because she was the odd woman out in a love triangle involving Millard, Babcock and a second woman, Christina Noudga. On Day One of the trial, prosecutors revealed text messages from Millard to Noudga in which he said he planned to “hurt” Laura Babcock and “remove her from our lives.”
Wednesday was an especially dramatic day of testimony, with a friend of Millard’s accused accomplice Mark Smich, Desi Liberatore, telling the court that Smich boasted about committing the murder to him back in 2012, according to a report in the Toronto Star newspaper.
“We burned a girl and threw her in the lake. We killed someone,” Liberatore quoted Smith as telling him.
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But the most alarming and frightening moment of the day’s testimony came when prosecutors played a video of Smich recorded in September of 2012, in which he performs a rap for the camera, reading lyrics off of an iPad — lyrics that appear to describe the murder of Laura Babcock, according to a report by the Ottawa Sun.
“The b**** started off all skin and bone, now the b**** lay on some ashy stone,” Smich raps in the video, seen and heard by the jury in Toronto Wednesday. “Last time, I saw her she was outside the home. If you go swimming, you can find her phone. If you go swimming, you can find her phone.”
Smith is seen laughing in the video, and pretending to swim in a lake, doing the breast stroke, as he raps the lines about finding “her phone” in a “lake.”
Prosecutors say that Millard and Smich disposed of Babcock’s body by burning it in a home incinerator known as “The Eliminator.” They said that when the incinerator was finally purchased for $15,000 Canadian ($12,000 U.S.) and assembled, Millard sent a text to Smich that read, “the BBQ is ready for meat.”
Liberatore testified on Wednesday that Smich performed the rap for him on a different occasion than when the video was recorded, and when he was done Smich told him that the rap described a real incident.
“He told us in greater detail what happened to the girl,” he recalled. Liberatore testified. “He said, ‘Yeah, we did burn a girl and throw the body in the lake.'”
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On Thursday, another former friend of Smich viewed the horrifying rap video in court. David Cronin, now 22, broke down in tears after the video, saying “it’s a lot to deal with,” according to a report by 680 Radio News. Cronin also recalled that Smich boasted that the rap lyrics described the killing of an actual person, and that he “burned a body” and dumped it in a lake.
But Cronin said that he did not believe Smich at that time, assuming that Smich was simply trying to be “a big cool guy.” But when he later heard reports of a missing woman, Laura Babcock, he began to suspect that Smich was actually telling him the truth that day.
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