improves skin hydration in just 1 day. and for twice the moisture, try the body wash, too. aveeno® naturally beautiful results® strange how big events in life can arrive when you least expect them. karen was on vacation again a remote island in the philippines. an e-mail arrived from trooper hunyor, call me, it said. i tried calling him and i kept getting disconnected. reporter: but finally they had a conversation long enough for karen to learn one thing, one amazing fact. a dna match. after 12 years they had the man they believed murdered her daughter bonnie. and there on that island, karen felt afraid. you would expect that i would
he was basically kicked out of the army and the cocaine became really a big part of his life and he did some armed robberies to support the cocaine habit. reporter: he was in and out of prison in alaska, then in 1996, two years after bonnie s murder, he moved back to new hampshire, where he got in trouble again. and now here he was answering trooper hunyor s next question. did he follow the news when he was up in alaska. all the time. did you ever meet someone called bonnie or someone like that? a pretty high profile case. i can t recall. i can t remember. reporter: hunyor tried to jog dion s memory. i took out bonnie s picture and showed it to him. reporter: the man who said he remembered faces insisted he didn t recognize bonnie. but trooper hunyor was watching his body language. his leg kept twitching. reporter: might he have met her even once, the trooper asked.
and nothing came of it but frustration. the case grew cold, as cold as some of the winter nights up here. and four years became six, eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day couldn t believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig. reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. a system provided by federal, state and local crime labs. and codis got a hit. everybody was happy. reporter: the match was in new hampshire of all places. a man in prison for armed robbery back in early 2003.
anchorage, alaska, it was september 1994, and kenneth dion was a 25-year-old cocaine addict on the way down a long criminal spiral. now at 41, he was entering middle age and facing 124 years in prison for rape and murder. was bonnie murdered? no. she died accidentally. reporter: but not if defense attorney andrew lambert could help it. bonnie accidentally fell off the cliff and died. reporter: after having consensual sex with your client. not necessarily that day. reporter: it could have been a couple of days before. it could have been. reporter: and that was the essence of it, the defense of kenneth dion, that he and bonnie had consensual sex and a few days later she just happened to die in a hiking accident, no provable connection between the two events said the defense. dion told trooper hunyor a few years later that he had never met bonnie, his attorney was now saying the opposite with no evidence of how or when they met. but after all it was the prosecutor s job to
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