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
from that wall street journal reports claiming president biden is slipping. the white house and democrats pushing back hard and boeing s starliner successfully lifting off. now headed to the the international space station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here the cnn news central some dramatic testimony in court today as former romantic partners of hunter biden take the stand in his federal gun trial. hunters former girlfriend so casten just finished testifying about hunters heavy drug use, including, she says, just weeks before he bought the gun that s at the center of this case? she also described hunters efforts to get sober, including how we moved to california to work on his recovery, but then ultimately relapsed. and this morning, hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle, told jurors about finding drugs and paraphernalia in his car on multiple occasions. including in 2018, when he bought the gun, cnn s paula reid is outs
asking her about what she observed of hunter biden s addiction. now, she first met him in late 2017 and testified about what she observed throughout a big part of 2018, and she s sad when they would be in these hotels. he would be smoking crack every 20 minutes. she detailed how she helped to facilitate drug buys. she would withdraw cash from him. this was the testimony that prosecutors are seeking from her and she testified that she did see hunter biden s smoking crack in september 2018. now that is significant because it goes against the defense s narrative that at that point he was clean and just using wine, but on cross-examination by abbe lowell, she testified she didn t see him in october 2018 after she saw him in mid september, students see him again until november. so she has no direct knowledge of whether he was using illegal drugs or if he was addicted to illegal drugs during the time in question at the center of this case, and her testimony just wrapped what i m telling you
me getting involved in the investigation and also opening your big mouth to the media? yeah. 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 before hand. so in a position to make some people pretty mad at you? right. i think my mom felt very responsible. like i caused this? i caused this. you know? they killed bonnie because of something i did. she took that as it was her fault. and so, therefore, she had to figure it out. had to solve the crime. caught up in a world of guilt about her own possible role and a growing anger about what she perceived as an inept investigation by the troopers, karen began a campaign to keep
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.