Author: Chelsea Robinson / Source: WESH
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Jury selection began Monday for the trial of a Florida man who prosecutors say killed his wife in 1993 because she had plans to leave him with their son.
Michael Haim’s trial in Jacksonville was starting this week more than a quarter century after his wife, Bonnie, disappeared from their home.
Haim has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.A key witness will be Haim’s biological son, Aaron Fraser.
As a 3-year-old boy at the time of his mother’s disappearance, Fraser told a child welfare worker, “Daddy hurt her,” or something similar, according to detectives.
“Aaron also stated that ‘Daddy shot Mommy,’ ‘Daddy placed Mommy in timeout,’ and ‘My daddy could not wake her up,’” an arrest affidavit said.
While Haim remained a suspect, detectives had trouble building a case without a body.
In 2014, having won his childhood home as part of a wrongful death lawsuit against his father, Fraser and his brother-in-law set out to renovate the property.
According to the Florida Times-Union, as the men were demolishing a swimming pool in the back, the excavator hit a large concrete slab. Aaron Fraser hacked away with a sledgehammer, until he found a plastic bag containing what he suspected was a coconut.
“Why would someone bury a coconut in a bag?” Aaron asked his brother-in-law, according to News4Jax.
The men soon realized it was a skull. Fraser had discovered the evidence that would lead to his father’s arrest.
DNA tests confirmed the remains were those of Bonnie Haim and a medical examiner concluded she died from a homicide “by unspecified means,” according to the…
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