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TORONTO — They actually filmed the burning embers of her body as her ashes danced toward the night sky.

Or so the Crown has suggested; that the iPhone video being played for the jury is that of Laura Babcock’s remains being burned in an animal incinerator called The Eliminator, her killers allegedly recording the cremation as she vanished into the air, her body never to be found.

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Dellen Millard, 32, and his best friend Mark Smich, 30, have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

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For three days, retired OPP Det. Sgt. Jim Falconer has painstakingly taken the jury through hundreds of texts as well as numerous photos and videos extracted from three computers seized from Millard’s Etobicoke home in May 2013, almost a year after Babcock had mysteriously disappeared. Reams and reams of data have been unspooled that paint a a dark portrait of the two men on trial for murder.

In the months before she went missing, Babcock, a University of Toronto graduate, had been working as an escort and looking for places to stay. Phone records have shown the 23-year-old was in constant contact with Millard, an old flame and sometime sex partner, and on the evening of July 3, 2012, both of their phones hit cell towers near the Kipling station and then near his home on Maple Gate Ct.

On 7:33 p.m. that night, Millard had texted Smich, “I’m on a mission. Back in one hour.”