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
it was in the nineties sometime. i just start talking to him about his life. where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. so you didn t jump right in and say we know you killed this girl? no. just try to gain some report with him. basically we smoked and joked for a while. did you travel to the state quite a bit? a little bit. it went up to denali a couple times with friends from the military. i ve been to maybe, valdes a few times, i like it down there. found out he was a fifth degree black belt, martial arts. he was ranked number 10 in the world in a fighting competition. wow. he liked a brawl in bars as he said. carried martial arts weapons in his car, including nun chucks. that was his thing. he loved it. he loved the adventure. he was married at the time of bonnie s murder. but later got divorce. that was the worst thing i ve ever scored in my life is that marriage right there. i love her to death, yeah. told you all of this. yes.
there q and a session was state. okay, when did you get into alaska? a, it was in the nineties sometime. i just start talking to him about his life. where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. so you didn t jump right in and say we know you kill this girl? no. just try to gain some report with him. basically we spoken joked for a while. did you travel to the state quite a bit? a little bit. it went up to denali a couple times with friends from the military. i ve been to maybe, valdes a few times, i like it down there. found out he was a fifth degree black belt, martial arts. he was right number 10 in the world in a fighting competition. wow. he liked a brawl in bars as he said. carried martial arts weapons in his car, including with nun chucks. that was his thing. he loved it. he loved the adventure. he was married at the time of bonnie craig s murder. but later got divorce. that was the worst thing i ve ever scored in my life is
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 competition. reporter: wow. he liked to brawl in bars he said. carried weapons in his car, nun chucks.
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 competition. reporter: wow. he liked to brawl in bars he said.