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
For the two of them to have mixed together. anyways said the prosecutors, there was physical evidence of rape, her pants were smeared with grass stains. one of the buttons were undone. she didn t dry. the place she was killed was miles away. someone must have taken her there. there were investigators found that one telling drop of blood on a leaf near the top of the cliff. this is what s really showed that she was injured when she fell off the cliff which establishes that you know, she had been beaten. in fact, the states pathologists found that bonnie s words were not consistent with an accidental fall. she had 11 blunt force wounds on her skull. but no injuries on her face. and few on her torso. no blood indicating an accidental fall was found on any rocks. this is a no-brainer. we have his sperm in bonnie craig. there s no dispute about this. this was no accidents of the prosecution, it was rape and murder. unless this man was about to suggest. maybe bonnie had a few s