Linda Bonner sobbed into a loved one’s shoulder as crime scene video of her husband’s killing played on a court room projector screen during the second day of his alleged killer’s trial Wednesday afternoon.
Franklin Bonner, 68, was found bound to a kitchen table and chair inside his ransacked home in the 4000 block of Enterprise Lane on Jan. 16, 2009. He had duct tape around his feet, arms and head, nose and mouth.
He died of suffocation, Hamilton County Medical Examiner Dr. James Metcalfe later determined.
Linda Bonner was the one who found him. She came home from work to find him lying on the kitchen floor. At first, she thought he was having a “spell” because he had been having some inner ear trouble, prosecutors said during opening statements Tuesday.
But as she got closer to him, she saw the tape.