He is one of Canada's most notorious killers. But during his most recent first-degree murder trial, Dellen Millard appeared in court as his own lawyer.
Standing at a podium in front of the witness box, Millard took a breath.
"Are you nervous?" he asked witness Clayton Babcock, the father of Laura Babcock, who disappeared in 2012.
Wearing a smart blazer, eyeglasses and a small braid of hair behind his right ear, the 32-year-old looked more like a VP in a tech company than a criminal lawyer.
Yet here he was, acting as defence attorney on the first day of one of the most shocking murder trials of 2017 - his own.
"This can't be easy for you, being questioned by me, considering I'm the accused. Does this make it extra difficult?" Millard pressed.
"No," Mr Babcock replied, determined to get through the exchange.
Over the next seven weeks, the jury would watch as Millard interrogated his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend's closest friends and family.
But what they would not see is that behind the podium, Millard's legs were in shackles.
In 2016, Millard and his co-accused in Babcock's murder, Mark Smich, were convicted of first-degree murder for the death of Tim Bosma.
Now serving life sentences for their part in that crime, the duo headed back to court this autumn to answer for university graduate Babcock's death.
Like Bosma, prosecutors believed the duo had plotted her murder, shot her in July 2012 and disposed of her body in an industrial incinerator purchased just for the occasion.
Her body was never found.
On Saturday, Smich and Millard were convicted, for a second time, of first-degree murder.
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