Franklin Bonner was a public servant, a loving father who brought cowbells to his daughter’s softball games and a master of ceremonies who sometimes wore a pink suit to events. But on Jan. 16, 2009, a month shy of his 19th wedding anniversary, the 68-year-old was bound, gagged, robbed and then died in his Washington Hills home.
For nearly nine years, his case went unsolved – until this week, prosecutors say.
A grand jury returned indictments against Mallory Aunte Vaughn, 36, for felony murder and especially aggravated robbery in Bonner’s slaying, Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston announced Tuesday. Vaughn is on the run and believed to be in Hamilton County.