Michael Haim started his prison sentence on Tuesday after he was found guilty in May of the second-degree murder of his wife.
The Florida Department of Corrections released an updated inmate photo of Michael Haim on Tuesday.
The new mugshot shows a strikingly different look for Haim, as compared to the mugshot released after he was initially found guilty.
Haim was convicted more than 26 years after his wife, Bonnie Haim, went missing in January 1993. He was a police suspect from the start, a position that intensified when their 3-year-old son, Aaron, told a child investigator “Daddy hurt Mommy.”
However, Bonnie Haim's body was never found, and the case went cold.
Aaron Fraser was adopted by another family, and later won a $26.3 million wrongful death lawsuit against his father. As part of that case, he took ownership over the family home on Dolphin Avenue in Jacksonville. In 2014, when excavating the backyard to remove the pool, he found his mother’s skull, re-opening a police investigation that would lead to his father’s arrest and eventual conviction.
Haim maintained his innocence. At trial, he testified, “I love my wife, and I would’ve never hurt my wife.”
But the jury quickly convicted him of second-degree murder. They also found three aggravating factors in a short sentencing trial. Judge Steven Whittington sentenced him to life in prison.
