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
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?
lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match to the coldest system. on a semen sample for bonnie craig. they got him. or the system did. quotas is short for combined dna index system. it s a national database of dna profiles created by federal, state and local crime labs. and qudus got a hit with you. everybody was happy. the match was in new hampshire, of all places. a man 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 hit the first time with. so, we 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
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. but nobody got around to entering his dna into codis until late 2006. they got a hit the first time.
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. but nobody got around to entering his dna into codis until late 2006. they got a hit the first time.