we had bus signs driving all around town. the first one said, who killed bonnie? and continue doing interviews. somebody out there knows what happened. and we just really need to hear from them. and there were lots of tips which went nowhere and only ate up the precious the two troopers precious time. they resisted karen s efforts to insert herself into the case and told her as little as possible. don t tell her for example, about that drop of bonnie blood at the top of the cliff. she was very demanding. i think she felt with her police background she should be privy to all the information we had. the troopers hated me. because i just kept pushing and pushing. i wasn t about to give up. i was so fearful that things were being missed. tension grew. troopers really returned clearance calls, which compounded her believe the investigators did not know what they were doing. unwilling to believe and unaware that they were doing a lot. we were talking to all of
revenge killing? i was doing undercover work. doing drug advice. and who was doing this major bust before hand. so in a position to make some people pretty mad at you? right. i think my mom felt very responsible. like i caused this? i caused this. you know? they killed bonnie because of something i did. she took that as it was her fault. and so, therefore, she had to figure it out. had to solve the crime. caught up in a world of guilt about her own possible role and a growing anger about what she perceived as an inept investigation by the troopers, karen began a campaign to keep bonnie s case in the public eye. we started handing out fliers. we got bumper stickers made. we started building up a reward.
it s just incredibly sad. you think, oh my god. it is her. and you can believe that your baby is laying there, cold and lifeless. the next day, karen saw her baby again. saw more than her face. i noticed something that seemed to confirm what she already believed. it wasn t a hiking accident. she called the alaska state troopers. her knuckles were broken hard. so, i m on the phone screaming to them saying, no you ve got to get back you, have to take more pictures. these are defensive wounds. look again at bonnie s body she said. look harder. what happened to bonnie craig that september day screamed karen, was murder. coming up i think my mom felt very responsible. like, i caused this? yeah. they killed bonnie because of something i did.
morales this, and this is dateline. and you can t believe that your baby is lying there lifeless. she was everything to me, she was so sweet to everybody. and state trooper said that bonnie had died and a hiking accident. the said she fell off a cliff. her mother said, they were wrong. i was screaming to them, these are defensive wounds. no witnesses, no weapon. nothing left behind by a stranger s dna. we no longer have some accidental death. this was a homicide. they had no suspect. but for years, her mother kept fighting to find bonnie s killer. bonnie s mother continues her own crusade. then after more than a decade of searching, a phone call. i just got information, there was a match. can we get a conviction on
lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match to the coldest system. on a semen sample for bonnie craig. they got him. or the system did. quotas is short for combined dna index system. it s a national database of dna profiles created by federal, state and local crime labs. and qudus got a hit with you. everybody was happy. the match was in new hampshire, of all places. a man had been in prison for arm robbery back in early 2003. but nobody got around to entering his dna into codis until late 2006. they got hit the first time with. so, we trooper hunyor flew to new hampshire to meet the man behind the match. his name was kenneth dion. hunyor had never heard of him. hi, my name is