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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 ....
Own crusade. Then after more than a decade of searching, a phone call. They 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. Keith morrison with justice for bonnie. Bonnie was an 18yearold whose future was filled with promise. She had a boyfriend and just started college. Then bonnie was murdered. Her body found floating in a creek. Investigators quickly discovered a crucial clue. The killer had left behind his dna. But prosecutors need more than forensics to get a conviction. Heres keith morris. It was one of the eerie feelings when someone knocks on the door at 10 00 and 23450i9 and asked to speak to my dad. Her brother was 13. They huddled on the staircase overlooking the front door. My dad collapse and screamed no, not bonnie. Let her be in the hospital and let her be okay. Bonnie craig, 18 years old. I remember my dad dropping to his knees crying on the ....
To find bonnies killer. Bonnies mother continues her own crusade. Then after more than a decade of searching, a phone call. They 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 unknown person might be used to track down the guilty. In the story youre about to see, a sample found on a murdered young woman was sent to the National Database. 12 years after she was killed, it turned up a match. But in this case prosecutors would need more than dna to convict a killer. Heres keith morrison. Reporter many years ago late on a september night, a family in anchorage, alaska, got a knock on the door. It was on ....