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that s all for this edition of dateline extra. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. g melvin thank you for watching captions by vitac www.vitac.com i can t believe that your baby s lying there lifeless. she was everything to me. she was so sweet to everybody. state troopers said bonnie had died in a hiking accident. they 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 but 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

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crime scene, no weapon, nothing more left behind, it was obvious this would be hard to solve. so though eventually they told karen they agreed with her, bonnie had been murdered, they wanted her to keep that information secret. fat chance. by then, karen was telling anyone who would listen what she thought, and she was not about to stop. so you spoiled it for them. yeah. i did. i got in trouble constantly for me getting involved in the investigation and also reporter: opening your big mouth to the media. yeah. reporter: she was troubled by something else, too, her reserve work with the anchorage police department. was bonnie the victim of a revenge killing? i was doing undercover work, doing drug buys, and we had done this major bust just beforehand. reporter: so in a position to make some people pretty mad at you. right. i think my mom felt very responsible.

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in the autumn of 1994 a suffocating grief descended in anchorage, alaska, and settled on the home of 18-year-old bonnie craig. it was a very bad night. it was tough. it was really tough. i guess you just don t know what to do after that. how to channel your emotions. we were all devastated. reporter: once she arrived home, bonnie s mother karen jumped into action, had to find the truth about bonnie s death. and seemed equipped to do so. she was an anchorage reserve police officer, and before that, a local tv reporter. she reporter: she told her media friends it was murder, the troopers didn t know what they were doing. you re not going to get away with it. reporter: she gave a slew of interviews, included samantha in this one. she wouldn t have taken a ride, not from a stranger for sure. there was nothing accidental about it. reporter: but initially it did look like an accidental fall to one of the troopers, the one who happened to be the first to talk to karen. but

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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?

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