JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Remains of a 23-year-old woman found two years ago buried at the home where she lived with her husband when she disappeared in 1993 were found by the couple's now-adult child, News4Jax has learned.
A transcript of a police interview with Bonnie Haim's son, Aaron Fraser, now 26, shows he was the one who alerted police to human remains in 2014. After an extensive search of the property, the remains were identified as Haim's. One year later, her husband, Michael Haim, was arrested and charged with murder.
Fraser sat down for an interview with investigators in June.
Fraser had claimed for years that he witnessed his mother's murder as a young child. In an interview with detectives earlier this year, he told the investigator that his family didn’t believe him and his grandparents told him, “You’re brainwashed. We love you. We care about you. We want to see you.”
Fraser also talked about going back to his childhood home with his brother-in-law to renovate it and finding his mother’s remains buried about 6 inches underneath a concrete slab in the backyard.
He told investigators he found her skull first.
“I had it in my hand," Fraser said. "We looked back in the hole and seen teeth."
Fraser goes on to say, "At that point in time, you could actually see, like, the top of the eye socket. And it was like this part of the head, the top-half of the head. I set it back in the hole."
It wasn't disclosed that Fraser was the one who found the remains until News4Jax obtained Monday the interview through public records.
Fraser also said in his interview with investigators that he didn't realize what he had unearthed, at first. He said he thought it was a coconut.
"I ripped the bag. And I was, like, the words I said to Thad was, like, 'Why would someone bury a coconut in a bag?' It looked like a coconut shell," Fraser said.
He later realized it was a skull. Testing by authorities later revealed that the skull and body remains were those of Fraser's mother, Bonnie Haim.
Fraser's father, Michael Haim, is out on bail awaiting trial. He's due back in court at the end of October.
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Vajranaga on April 12nd, 2019 at 02:54 UTC »
There was a similar story in a book I read about the "Pig People", who did research on dead bodies using pig corpses instead of humans, for forensic purposes, like the "body farms" except using pigs. They pioneered the use of 'ground radar' to pinpoint the location of "shallow graves". One woman heard her own father kill her mother and bury her in the back yard, but she was only a child at the time and nobody believed her. Dad did the "concrete slab" thing too. years later, as an adult, she heard about this ground radar thing; she went to the Pig People and asked for their help in determining whether her long ago experience had any validity.. They were indeed able to find the mother's corpse buried under the slab.
carsonnwells on April 12nd, 2019 at 01:04 UTC »
It's a shame that crime scene technicians and forensics did not locate the deceased woman.
That young man had to live with such a heavy burden for so long.
glassjester on April 12nd, 2019 at 00:50 UTC »
Wasn't this an episode of Forensic Files?