memory. no memory goes with that? no, sir. can t remember so much as a touch or the sound of her voice. but this story is all about memories. memories lost. memories later testified to. had the child, now a grown man, really seen something as terrible as all that? this is a boy s story like few others. go back in time to january 1993 in jacksonville, florida. it s just after the holidays, and there s an argument going on inside that modest starter home on dolphin avenue. the young wife, just 23, is restless, the story goes, and she walks out the door. the phone rang early the next morning in the bedroom of eva and bernie haim across town. a funny question at that hour. did they know where bonnie was, the wife of their nephew, mike?
we got a phone call from a police friend of ours. and he knew mike and bonnie. he said where s bonnie? we just found her purse in the dumpster at the red roof inn and y all need to get out here. a maintenance man had come upon the purse in a dumpster behind the airport motel. inside were bonnie s i. d., keys, credit cards, and more than $1,000 in cash. bernie and evann got to the motel just before 9:00 a. m. mike was already there. by the time we got there mike and his dad, john, were in a room. the detectives were there. and they had her purse on the bed and they had everything laid out. mike the husband seemed perplexed by the amount of cash on the bed. he s like, what in the hell is she doing with all this money? given a wad of money like that not taken, robbery was quickly ruled out. i requested them to bring another dumpster right now