by then mike had moved to north carolina and remarried. but he did still own shares in uncle bernie s company and the key to the old house on dolphin avenue. at age 16 aaron got the shares and became the owner of the house. growing up under the loving care of the frasers, aaron thrived. he graduated from high school and married his wife, alyssa. i don t think you realized how much you meant to me through the years. and detective robbie hinson remained close by just in case he needed him. and so i just told him, i said you know i love you. if you ever need me, i m here. so i told him, i said, call me no matter what. little did he know a call one sunday afternoon from aaron would turn this whole case upside down. coming up the chilling discovery that will change everything. we start digging up against the house. i see a piece of plastic. and i was like oh,
him in a car seat and off we d go. hinson too thought the body might be buried. but he and aaron never found anything. his investigation grew colder even as his relationship with the boy grew stronger. and the frasers for their part did everything they could to give aaron a normal life, the chance to be a kid again. he was into racing bicycles. he had motorcycles. he had played baseball. he took karate. and the most fun he had was fishing. he was a great fisherman. all these years later, aaron is grateful for the family who embraced him. tell me about the frasers. how did your life change once they came into your life? they re just special people. people of incredible character. opened their home to me. loved me like their own son. i never had to ask for anything. they gave me unconditional love. if i needed something, they were always there. aunt liz remained devoted to aaron and shared his gratitude toward the frasers. they have been fantastic. that was the best thing t
had married her high school steady mike haim. back then they thought she d done okay for herself. i even have a journal entry, and it says, today bonnie met the man of her dreams. you know, he was cute, and he was charming. he looked like the total package. from high school graduation ceremonies direct to the altar. 18 years old. patty pasito is bonnie s mother. were you surprised when she told you they re getting married? they were very young. oh, no, i was not surprised. and she seemed very happy. so i wasn t surprised. happier still with the arrival of aaron two years later. she was happy for that. that s what she wanted. she likes being a mom? loves, loves being a mom. everything circled around aaron. she works so she can get aaron everything he wants. bonnie and mike in their 20s both worked for a construction supply company. mike s uncle bernie was the owner.
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, because we thought maybe bonnie was in a dumpster where they found her purse. so you re thinking foul play at this point? i m knowing foul play. a woman separated from her purse is a very bad sign. right. so we re sitting there crying, hoping they don t bring out a body out of the dumpster. but there was no body and no sign of bonnie s car, either. police handed bonnie s purse to mike and advised him it would be best if he just went home. the police told him go home, sit by the phone, wait for a car from her, ransom call, an accident call, or whatever it might be. homicide detective robbie
almost like i m watching a movie of somebody else. it doesn t even feel like it s me. like i know it was. i have the emotion that it was, but putting that together with what my brain is telling me as far as memories go, there s a little bit of a disconnect. aaron s memories begin after all of that. so when your brain kind of turns on and you re aware of where you are, how old are you and where are you living? i would guess i was about 4 1/2, 5 years old, is my earliest memory. i can remember coming to the frasers, my adoptive parents. but even with the frasers he doesn t remember everything. like those stories told of him searching for his mother. when you were out with the frasers do you remember asking if we could bring a shovel along? no, i don t have an active memory of that. that s not a true memory for you? no, sir. aaron also remembered nothing about the house he lived in on dolphin avenue. he became the owner after the wrongful death suit. i didn t really wa