and this is dateline. i can t believe that their baby is lying there lifeless. she was everything to me. she was so sweet everybody. state troopers said bonnie had died in a hiking accident. the 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 by 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 own crusade. then after more than a decade of searching, a phone call. i just got information, there was a match. can we get a conviction on just the dna? and there was something else. something about bonnie herself. it was almost like she knew something hello, and welcome to dateline. we often see headlines about dna evidence exonerating the innocent. it seems we hear less about how dna from an unknow
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To take charge of your sight. brought to you by regeneron. 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. when 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 in anchorage reserve police officer, and before that local tv reporter. she told her media frenzy was murder. the troopers didn t know what they were doing. she even included samantha in this interview. she would have taken a ride from a stranger. i m sure. there was nothing accidental about it.
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
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. karen campbell, anchorage. 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 the others saw the evidence a