"Daddy hurt him": no one believed in a boy's story, until he unearthed the court 20 years later

This is a three-bedroom, one-floor ranch located on a quiet residential street in North Jacksonville, Florida. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since the age of four and the four walls were full of ugly memories and unresolved issues. But in December 2014, after the 24-year-old took possession of the house, he and his brother-in-law rolled up their sleeves for a renovation.

According to the Florida Times-Union, the two men started by breaking a pool at the back with a rented excavator. At one point, the machine cracked a large concrete slab near an outdoor shower. Aaron started hacking coins with a hammer. Below, in the dust, he found a plastic bag and pulled something out of it. It was a coconut, he thought.

"Why would anyone bury a coconut in a bag?" Aaron asked his brother-in-law, according to News4Jax.

Then, the men noticed the teeth and the orbits. It was a skull.

The discovery alone was a shock. But for Aaron, human remains buried under a layer of concrete in the home of his childhood set up the confusing pieces of a family mystery. In January 1993, her mother, Bonnie Haim, was missing. Police have suspected her husband, Aaron's father, Michael Haim, of having murdered his wife. These suspicions began with what Aaron, then 3, told the authorities.

"Dad wounded him," said Aaron, the Times-Union reported. But Aaron's own family doubted the boy's foggy story and no material evidence linked Michael to the crime.

But that day in December 2014, standing in the middle of broken concrete, Aaron held the evidence that would eventually lead to his father's arrest.

On Monday, the murder trial will begin in Florida against Michael for the murder of his wife in 1993. He claims that he was not involved in the death of his wife. According to the Times-Union, Aaron should testify and recount his memories of the likely death of his mother, as well as the terrible discovery that sparked the cold affair in 2014.

"Next month will hurt," Bonnie Haim's family member said last month about the upcoming trial on a Facebook page, which has decided to remind him of his memory. "It's going to tear dressings and expose us to things we've long been pushing back in our memories, but sometimes we have to rip off bandages to really heal."

Michael and Bonnie Haim worked together in a building materials business owned by Michael's aunt, Eveann Haim. C & # 39; was a manager. Bonnie held the company accounts.

According to the television program Unsolved Mysteries, in the holiday season of 1992, the relationship was at a critical juncture. The couple was frequently fighting and their explosions became violent.

"One day they quarreled … in the parking lot," said Eveann to Unsolved Mysteries. "And she came in crying and slammed her hand in the door and her nails were broken and she was very upset at the time."

Bonnie would have decided to leave the marriage by taking her son with her. She secretly opened a bank account to save money for her escape, the Times-Union reported. When Michael discovered the account and forced it to close, Bonnie started keeping money on deposit with her friends – $ 1250 in early January 1993.

She would have chosen a late date in January to leave, while Michael was on a business trip. In early January, she filed deposits in two apartments where she and her son could start all over again.

But on January 7, 1993, Bonnie, 23, did not show up for work. Her husband will later say that the two men had beaten the night before and that she had left the house alone around 11 pm. He asked his mother, Carol, to come watch for his son while he was looking for Bonnie.

"According to Carol and Mike, he's been away for about 45 minutes," Jacksonville Sheriff's Department detective Robert Hinson told Unresolved Mysteries. "Then, after that he would have done, he went home where he waited until the next morning and never called the police." He called and informed his employer that he was going to be sick that day. "

On the day of his disappearance, an employee of a hotel discovered that Bonnie's handbag had fallen into a dumpster behind a Red Roof Inn, not far from the Jacksonville International Airport, reported the Times-Union. The police then discovered his Toyota Camry in an airport car park. The car, however, raised the suspicions of the investigators.

"What was unusual was the positioning of the driver's seat, which seemed to be farther away than would have been comfortable for Bonnie," Hinson told Unsolved Mysteries. "It was more related to someone the size of Michael Haim."

What ultimately reinforced Michael's suspicion, however, was an interview with his 3-year-old son. Aaron told a child protection worker that his father had hurt his mother.

"According to what Aaron had told us that day, my only conclusion was that there had been a domestic fight and that Michael Haim had killed his wife and had her abducted , and that their 3 ½ year old son, Aaron Haim had witnessed this, "said Hinson.

But as Aaron would later tell the police in adulthood, his family members did not believe his story, believing he had "brainwashed" by involving his father. Even his missing mother's parents doubted the story of the boy.

"The credibility of a child is something you have to judge in perspective," said Robert Pasciuto, Bonnie's father, to Unsolved Mysteries. "He said that two things we know are inaccurate.Mum's car is in the lake." We know that his car was not there. "

Aaron was finally adopted by another family, taking his last name. In the early 2000s, he filed a lawsuit for wrongful death against his biological father, even though Bonnie's remains had not been found. In April 2005, he won a $ 26.3 million settlement against Michael, which included ownership of the family home, News4Jax reported. This was used as a rental.

Then, in 2014, Aaron began renovating the property and made the discovery in the yard. In a few weeks, the investigators confirmed that the skull and other remains belonged to Bonnie.

In August 2015, Michael was formally charged with the murder of his wife. According to the Times-Union, a .22 caliber case was discovered with the remains. Michael would have owned a rifle of the same caliber.

Michael's defense lawyers had previously unsuccessfully asked the court to block Aaron's statements dating back to 1993, saying the boy was contradictory. Aaron is expected to testify at this week's trial. His credibility will probably be the key factor in the case.