behind his dna. match it and they d solve the case. so, who was it? it it couldn t have been the boyfriend, cameron. he was in california. not anchorage. as a reserve undercover officer and determined that the men in the drug buys were not involved either, but there was one man, a very close with opportunity who returned home to anchorage from an out of town trip just the night before the murder. bonnie s stepfather. karen s ex husband, samantha s dad. i remember that being really unsure, scary feeling, in my mind that it makes sense. my dad has never been a violent man so i remember straight-up asking him, dad did you kill bonnie?
nothing at all. it s unbelievable. you know, as a mother i abandoned my kids and just started looking for a killer. and it was months before the troopers gave karen the rest of the news about what happened to bonnie. in the last minutes of her life. coming up as investigators begin looking for possible suspects, they looked first close to home. i remember just straight-up asking him, dad did you kill bonnie? when dateline continues.
kenneth dion s new hampshire girlfriends. one thing said he casually mentioned he could kill someone and get away with it. and he just thought he s blowing smoke, you know. he also told her that i can go back to alaska because of something i ve done. 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 he told me he can t go back to alaska because he killed somebody. coming up bonnie s family learns investigators have made an arrest. i m immediately so fearful. can we get a conviction on just the dna? when dateline continues. helps you stay connected. safe. and charged. the all-new chevy trax
system. on a semen sample for bonnie craig. they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. it s a national database of dna profiles created by federal state and local crime labs. and codis got a hit with you. everybody was happy. the match was in new hampshire, of all places. a man who 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 a hit the first time with him. so, 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 there q and a session was taped. okay, when did you get into alaska?
keith morrison: strange how big events in life and nexgard chews from your vet. can arrive when you least expect them. life can arrive when you least expect them. karen was on vacation again. a remote island in the philippines. an email arrived from the trooper, call me it said. i kept trying to call and we kept getting disconnected. finally the had a conversation login of for karen to learn one thing. one amazing fact. a dna match. after 12 years they had the man who they believed murdered her daughter, bonnie.