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
that s because the dna taken from kenneth dion did not prove he raped and killed bonnie. only that sex took place between them. beyond the dna, the prosecutor had little to connect dion to the murder. there was no murder. no weapon. no witness to the crime. we not only had to establish that kenneth dion was the killer but we also had to disprove that it was an accident. and prove that, you know, she had been murdered and she did not fall off the cliff. his co-counsel, jen, when he was murdered. i remember very vividly how much this impacted the community. everyone secretary sense of security when someone was literally snatched off the street. here in anchorage there under intense pressure. the
Attorney general in charge of cold case homicides. and he was worried. i went into it with a heavy heart. i knew it would be a very difficult task. that s because the dna taken from kenneth dion did not prove he raped and killed body. only that six took place between them. beyond the dna, the prosecutor had little to connect dion to the murder. there was no murder. no weapon. no witness to the crime. we not only had to establish that kenneth dion was the killer but we also had to disprove that it was an accident. and prove that you know she had been murdered and she did not fall off the cliff. his co-counsel, jen occurrence, nine was a 24-year-old anchored when he was murdered. i remember very vividly how much this impacted the community. everyone secretary sense of security when someone was literally snatched off the street. here in anchorage there under intense pressure. the courtroom was packed. standing room only. then on the