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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 07:28 PM

Canada Jury Finds Two Men Guilty Of First Degree Murder Of Woman Burned Inside Animal Incinerator In Love Triangle

A jury in Canada found two men guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a woman whose body was burned inside an animal incinerator that was called “the eliminator.”
 

Jurors in Ontario Superior Court needed less than four days to render a verdict in the bizarre case, finding Dellen Millard, 32, and Mark Smich, 30, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Laura Babcock, reports CBC News.

The victim’s family and several jurors reportedly cried as the verdict was read.

Millard, the heir to a storied aviation company, owned a fleet of cars parked at an airport hangar — including a maroon, boat-sized Cadillac. He hosted pool parties where women outnumbered men by a 2-to-1 ratio and also owned a range of high-end properties.

Smich and Millard, already serving sentences in the murder of Tim Bosma, were automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without a chance of parole for 25 years in Babcock’s death.

Millard’s former mechanic, Shane Schlatman, purchased one incinerator on behalf of the convicted killer, while a second incinerator was homemade. Schlatman testified that he saw ash and something that looked like bones inside of the machine that prosecutors claim was used to burn Babcock’s body after she was killed.