{"id":15007,"date":"2019-05-22T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/?post_type=oarticle&p=4095721"},"modified":"2019-05-22T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:08:00","slug":"florida-man-gets-life-in-wifes-1993-murder-after-son-dug-up-skull-in-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/05\/22\/florida-man-gets-life-in-wifes-1993-murder-after-son-dug-up-skull-in-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Gets Life In Wife\u2019s 1993 Murder After Son Dug Up Skull In Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Florida man has been sentenced to life behind bars for murdering his wife in 1993 and burying her in the backyard of their home — where his son would return and uncover her remains more than two decades later.<\/p>\n

A jury in April found Michael Haim guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his 23-year-old wife Bonnie Haim. The 52-year-old killer lived off of her life insurance policy for years until he was arrested in 2015, shortly after her remains were uncovered in a shallow grave behind the couple’s Jacksonville home, The Florida Times-Union reported.<\/p>\n

Haim was long a suspect in the disappearance of his wife and that speculation only intensified when their 3-year-old son, Aaron Fraser, made a startling comment to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

“Daddy hurt mommy,” he told a child investigator more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

When Fraser returned to his boyhood home in 2014 to excavate parts of the yard, he discovered his mother’s skull — prompting law enforcement to reopen the investigation that would ultimately culminate in his father’s arrest.<\/p>\n

“I accidentally busted the bag and saw something I describe as a coconut. I picked up the coconut object and it ended up being the top portion of her skull. I had it in my hand,” Fraser testified last month.<\/p>\n

“Looked back in the hole and you could see teeth. At that point in time, you could see the top portion of her eye sockets.”<\/p>\n

State prosecutor Alan Mizrahi said the discovery of Bonnie’s body in 2014 was the break they needed to crack the case, according to Action News Jax.<\/p>\n

“Finding her in the location we found her was the key piece of evidence,” he said. “Law enforcement always suspected Michael Haim. He was found responsible in a civil court and we just needed the one piece of evidence to make proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”<\/p>\n

And after decades of waiting, Bonnie Haim’s family have achieved some closure in the tragedy.<\/p>\n

“We got justice but we don’t have Bonnie,” her sister, Liz Peak said. “So we’re just going to take one day at a time. Learn what I feels like to not have to keep searching anymore.”<\/p>\n

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