middle of the night. haunted for more than two decades, he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock this mystery. now you know the whole story. yes, sir. everything kind of clicked. it s just so unbelievable. i knew he was telling his mom s story. hello and welcome to dateline. aaron fraser was only 3 years old when his mom left the house, never to be seen or heard from again. police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable, the murder of his own mother. the boy would become a man before the whole truth was revealed. and though memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer couldn t stay buried. here s dennis murphy with she never left. she d been gone from his life, unaccounted for, for more than 20 years. his mother, bonnie. it was odd to be the one that found her. because you d spent a lot of your life looking for her, right? yes, sir. there s a poignant video of the mother and child s last christmas morning toget
Stick i was trying to determine what she had on. Clothing. He got real quiet and whispered and said red blood. Chills up and down my spine. This kit saw this. A little boy witnessed something terrifying the night his mother vanished. It was ripping my heart. He was so traumatized. Everybodys life changed that night. What had happened to his mom . I wake up in the middle of the night. Haunted for two decades and he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock the mystery. Now you know the whole story. Its so unbelievable. I knew he was telling his moms story. Be hello, and welcome to dateline. Aaron frazier was three years old when his mom left the house, never to be seen or heard from again. Police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable, the murder of his own mother. The boy would become a man before the truth was revealed. Although memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer could not stay buried. Here is Dennis Murphy with, she never left. She had bee
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
right? yes. even then. a security guard told the detective a man standing earlier on the second floor balcony seemed to be overly interested in the activity below of the dumpster. but he checked out before detective hinson could talk to him. the same security guard also remembered seeing a woman fitting bonnie s description going into one of those second floor rooms. the detective wondered where was the woman s car? it was still out there? yeah. the car was still missing. the airport was nearby, so hinson cruised the parking lots there. it would be a logical place to hide a car. bingo. there was bonnie s toyota camry. maybe she caught a plane. right. it was a theory. had a frustrated wife and mother taken a time out for herself? detective hinson pursued that theory but struck out. there was no indication of her being on any of the manifests on any of the departing flights. that s where the road runs out, huh? until the next day, after they process the car, the
hinson came on duty later that day at the jacksonville sheriff s office. he was assigned the missing person case that would change his life. did you go back out to this airport motel? yes, we did. we spent quite some time out there canvassing the rooms and got the register and saw who was out there and interviewed people. interviewed the security guard. and there were stories circulating about strangely acting men, right? even then, right? yes. even then. a security guard told the detective a man standing earlier on the second floor balcony seemed to be overly interested in the activity below of the dumpster. but he checked out before detective hinson could talk to him. the same security guard also remembered seeing a woman fitting bonnie s description going into one of those second floor rooms. the detective wondered where was the woman s car? it was still out there? yeah. the car was still missing. the airport was nearby, so hinson cruised the parking lots there. it