the sad thing about it, later on that day her body was found at mchugh creek. whoa, whoa, whoa. what are you trying to say? well, like i said, i m just down and your name has come up, like hundreds of names. why would my name come up? that s what i m trying to figure out. reporter: what did you think? i thought we had our man. reporter: troopers looked up his new hampshire girlfriends. one said he casually mentioned that he could kill someone and get away with it. she thought he was blowing smoke. then he also told her i can t go back to alaska because of something i ve done. reporter: she never asked him about that, but she told the troopers they might want to talk to her sister. and the sister told us, yeah, you know, he told me that he can t go back to alaska because he killed somebody. coming up bonnie s family learns investigators have made an arrest. i am immediately so fearful. can we get a conviction on just the dna? reveals which disinfectant
no blood indicating an accident fall was ever found on any rocks. this is a no-brainer. we have this sperm in bonnie craig. there s no dispute about this. reporter: this was no accident, said the prosecution. it was rape and murder. this man was about to suggest, maybe bonnie craig had a few secrets of her own. it was consensual sex. how many people had a different side to them that was different than what family and friends knew? coming up the case for the defense. you re saying this young woman i m saying that s a definite possibility. would the jury buy it? i the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment . trelegy. the power of 1-2-3. trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy. with trelegy and the power of 1 2 3, i m breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to. .open airways,.
carried weapons in his car, nun chucks. he loved the adventure. reporter: he was married at the time of bonnie s murder but later got divorced. that s the worse thing i ever screwed up in my life, that marriage there. reporter: told you all this? he had to wonder why an alaska state trooper would fly all those miles just to talk to him. he didn t show it. he was civil. answered all the questions. just like we re good friends. for some reason, i got a bad memory, i forgot things. faces i ll forget your name. i ve already forgotten your name. it s tim. tim? i m sorry. no problem at all. he told me that he got into cocaine, started using drugs, then everything went downhill. he was basically kicked out of the army and the cocaine became
reporter: in fact, bonnie s sister heard her get up that morning at 5:00 a.m. and set out on her 45-minute walk through the predawn dark to catch the bus that would take her to her 7:00 a.m. class at that time university. she usually didn t return home until about 10:00 p.m. packing most of her classes into a few days because she had a job at sam s club. she was incredibly responsible. reporter: responsible and nurturing toward her younger siblings. when i was a little bitty boy reporter: in part because their parents, mother karen and stepfather gary, had divorced a couple of years earlier. she just liked to help us make all the right decisions, and i looked up to her. reporter: another brother jason, was two years older than bonnie. i tell my kids this all the time, you can decide in the morning when you get up, you can have a good day or a bad day. and she would always choose to have a good day. she was incredible. one of those people that as soon as you start ta
he s guilty. amazing, amazing. ken dion did not kill bonnie craig and did not rape her. reporter: are you telling me that you believe your client is innocent? i am. reporter: you don t think he committed this crime? i don t. we re asking for the maximum sentence. reporter: at the sentencing this past october, as the prosecutor argued for 124 years, the maximum sentence and no chance at parole because dion hadn t shown any sign of remorse mr. dion, as the family has pointed out, has never taken responsibility for what he s done. and i never will because i didn t do it! and that answers your question, judge. nothing further. reporter: kenneth dion, as if on cue, denied it all. the judge gave him the maximum but also the chance at parole when he s about 80. for now, dion s appealing the case. is it possible he actually didn t remember doing it? i struggle with that. is it possible that his