reporter: 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. their q&a session was taped. when did you get into alaska? in the 90 some time. i started talking to him about his life, where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. reporter: so you didn t jump right in and say, we know you killed this girl. no, just try to get some rapport with him. basically smoked and joked for a while. you get to travel the state quite a bit? a little bit. i went up to denali a couple of times with friends from the military. i made it up there sometimes. found out he s fifth degree black belt martial arts, ranked number ten in the world in a fighting competition. reporter: wow.
number ten in a fighting competition. reporter: wow. he liked to brawl in bars he said. 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.
but nobody got around to entering his dna into codis until late 2006. they got a hit the first time. reporter: 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. their q&a session was taped. when did you get into alaska? in the 90 some time. i started talking to him about his life, where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. reporter: so you didn t jump right in and say, we know you killed this girl. no, just try to get some rapport with him. basically smoked and joked for a while. you get to travel the state quite a bit? a little bit. i went up to denali a couple of times with friends from the military. i made it up there sometimes. found out he s fifth degree black belt martial arts, ranked number ten in a fighting
time. reporter: 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. their q&a session was taped. when did you get into alaska? in the 90 some time. i started talking to him about his life, where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. reporter: so you didn t jump right in and say, we know you killed this girl. no, just try to get some rapport with him. basically smoked and joked for a while. you get to travel the state quite a bit? a little bit. i went up to denali a couple of times with friends from the military. found out he s fifth degree black belt martial arts, ranked number ten in a fighting competition. reporter: wow. he liked to brawl in bars he
entering his dna into codis until late 2006. they got a hit the first time. reporter: 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. their q&a session was taped. when did you get into alaska? in the 90 some time. i started talking to him about his life, where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. reporter: so you didn t jump right in and say, we know you killed this girl. no, just try to get some rapport with him. basically smoked and joked for a while. you get to travel the state quite a bit? a little bit. i went up to denali a couple of times with friends from the military. i made it up there sometimes. found out he s fifth degree black belt martial arts, ranked number ten in a fighting competition.