Ambition: The Crimes of Dellen Millard

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Marcus Aurelius once wrote, “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” Most of us want to aim high in our lives, chase our sparkliest dreams. Today’s story focuses on a man who had big ambitions—and unlike most of us, he was born into the kind of wealth that could have opened just about any door in the world for him. From the time he could talk, his parents made sure he knew he was their little golden princeling, a chosen one entitled to take the world by storm—shoot through life like a comet. He could have become anything he wanted. But what he wanted to be was a killer. Join us for the story of one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers, Dellen Millard, and his partner in crime Mark Smich.Sources:Anne Brocklehurst, Deadly AmbitionCBC's "The Fifth Estate," episode "The Murders of Dellen Millard"Dr. Joni Johnston, Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201901/the-case-serial-killer-dellen-millard#:~:text=Dellen%20was%20an%20only%20child,of%20roofs%20at%20pool%20parties. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42375159 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5194930/dellen-millard-murder-laura-babcock-tim-bosma-mark-smich-christina-noudga-letters/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4480285/decision-trial-dellen-millard-father/https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/parole-revoked-for-man-who-sold-guns-to-triple-killer-dellen-millard https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dellen-millard-2https://www.truecrimeedition.com/post/dellen-millard https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-dellen-millard-1.4988378#:~:text=Millard%20was%20found%20guilty%20in,able%20to%20apply%20for%20parole. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/11/18/the-israeli-army-vet-who-escaped-tim-bosmas-fate.html?rf https://globalnews.ca/news/560553/tim-bosma-a-timeline-of-the-police-investigation/ https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/06/17/man-who-went-for-test-drive-before-tim-bosma-considers-himself-lucky.html https://annrbrocklehurst.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/my-sweet-serial-killer-wrote-dellen-millards-girlfriend/ https://annrbrocklehurst.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/farewell-christina-noudga-whos-taken-a-plea-deal-will-work-for-human-rights/ Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:22.3	Marcus Aurelius once wrote,
0:23.9	A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
0:28.2	Most of us want to aim high in our lives, chase our sparkliest dreams.
0:32.8	Today's story focuses on a man who had big ambitions, and unlike most of us, he was born into
0:37.5	the kind of wealth that could have opened just about any door in the world for him.
0:41.8	From the time he could talk, his parents made sure he knew he was their little golden
0:45.7	princelain, a chosen one entitled to take the world by storm, shoot through life like
0:51.0	a comet.
0:52.3	He could have become anything he wanted, but what he wanted was to be a killer.
0:58.1	And as for the story of one of Canada's most notorious serial killers, this is ambition,
1:03.7	The Crimes of Dellen Millard.
1:20.4	So campers, for this one, we're in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, May 6, 2013, 32-year-old
1:27.4	Tim Bosma had just tucked his toddler daughter into bed, and he and his wife Charlene were
1:32.1	waiting around for a couple guys who'd contacted them about a Craigslist-type ad they'd placed
1:37.0	about selling their Dodge Ram truck.
1:39.7	The guys were supposed to be there at 7pm to test drive the truck.
1:43.4	Now it was 9, and there was no sign of them.
1:46.4	Annoying, and kind of rude, but Tim and Charlene really wanted to unload this truck.
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