Laura Babcock Murder

• Toronto family receives death certificate 2 years after daughter was murdered

  Two men were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2017 in Laura Babcock's shooting death, but her body was never found and the coroner could not declare her dead. That left the young woman's family tangled in a bureaucratic battle that involved the courts and lasted about 18 months

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  Dec 10, 2019
  
• Dellen Millard appeals murder conviction for killing Laura Babcock

  Late last year, a jury found Millard, 32, of Toronto, and his former friend, Mark Smich, 30, of Oakville, Ont., guilty in Babcock's murder.

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  Mar 29, 2018
  
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• Dellen Millard, Mark Smich to serve consecutive life sentences for Babcock murder

  A jury found Dellen Millard and Mark Smich guilty of first-degree murder in the presumed death of Laura Babcock, who went missing more than five years ago and whose body has not been found.

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  Feb 26, 2018
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• One question remains after Babcock murder trial: Who got Dellen Millard’s letters out?

  Dozens of jailhouse letters convicted killer Dellen Millard wrote to a girlfriend who was on his court-ordered no-contact list became crucial evidence at his first-degree murder trial, which ended Saturday with a guilty verdict.

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  Dec 17, 2017
• Jury begins deliberation in murder trial for presumed death of Laura Babcock

  Both Millard and Smich have said the Crown hasn't proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Babcock is dead.

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  Dec 12, 2017
• Millard ordered purchase of incinerator days before Babcock vanished: witness

  Prosecutors say Millard and Smich burned the 23-year-old woman's remains in an incinerator that was later found on Millard's farm near Waterloo, Ont.

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  Nov 9, 2017
• Dellen Millard promised in text to his girlfriend to ‘hurt’ Laura Babcock: Forensic officer

  Millard, 32, of Toronto and Mark Smich, 30 of Oakville, Ont., have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the presumed death of Laura Babcock, 23.

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  Nov 8, 2017
• Laura Babcock’s friend tells court accused killer didn’t care about feud with another woman

  Karoline Shirinian, a friend of both women, has told court that Babcock and Noudga fought over Millard and were sleeping with him around the same time.

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  Oct 30, 2017
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• Laura Babcock depressed, unhappy in the weeks before she went missing: witness

  The Crown alleges Mark Smich, 30, of Oakville, Ont., and Dellen Millard, 32, of Toronto, murdered Babcock and incinerated her body.

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  Oct 27, 2017
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• Laura Babcock murder trial hears woman’s body burned, thrown in lake

  Desi Liberatore has told court that Mark Smich performed a rap in 2012 in which he described "torching a body."

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  Oct 25, 2017