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 a pretty high profile case. i can t recall. i can t remember. hunyor tried to jog dion s memory. i took up bonnie s picture and showed it to him. and then, something curious happened. the man who insisted he remembered faces insisted he didn t recognize bonnie. but trooper hunyor was watching his body language. his leg started twitching. might have met her even once, the trooper asked? 18 years old? yes. hell no, my wife would ve killed me. [laughs] then he got right to the point. and the sad thing about it, later on that day her body was found at mchugh creek. whoa, whoa, whoa what are you trying to say? well, like i said, i m just out here investigating. i hear name has gone up. why would my name come up? that s what i m trying to figure out. what do you say you think? i thought we had our man. troopers looked up some of
bonnie craig fell off a cliff and died. after having consensual sex with your client? not the same day. it could ve been a couple days before? it could ve been. that was the defensive kenneth dion. that he and bonnie had sexual death no provably connection between the two events said the defense. dion told the trooper that he had never met bonnie. has attorney was now saying the opposite. that offering no evidence of how or when they had met. but after all, it was the prosecutor s job to prove rage. not his to prove otherwise. the prosecutors arguing that bonnie was too in love with her boyfriend to have a sexual thing on the side. you ve interviewed thousands and thousands of people. how many of them were really good people that found out that they cheated on their spouse? that
Craig and did not rape her. are you telling you believe that your client is innocent. i am. you don t think he committed this crime? i don t. at the sentencing in september 2011, as the prosecutor argued for two injured 44 years of maximum sentence and no chance of parole because dion hadn t shown any signs of remorse. dion as the family pointed out as never taking responsibility for what s he s done. and i never will because i didn t do it! and that answers your question. judge nothing further. kenneth dion as if on cue denied it all. the judge gave him the maximum. but also the chance at parole when he s about 80. is it possibly actually didn t remember doing it? i struggle with that. is it possible that his protest are sincere in that he had an episode in his life that he has either blocked out or for some reason counter call based on what was happening in his life at that time. cocaine puts holes in your brain as they say.
Off a cliff and died. after having consensual sex with your client? not the same day. it could ve been a couple days before? it could ve been. that was the defensive kenneth dion. that he and bonnie had sexual death no provably connection between the two events said the defense. dion told the trooper that he had never met bonnie. has attorney was now saying the opposite. that offering no evidence of how or when they had met. but after all, it was the prosecutor s job to prove rage. not his. otherwise. the prosecutors arguing that bonnie was two and love with her boyfriend have a sexual thing on the side. you ve interviewed thousands and thousands of people. how many of them were really good people that found out that they cheated on their spouse? that cheated on their boyfriend and nobody knew? how many people had a different side to them that was different than what