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Speaker 1: Determined to find her daughter's killer, a mother went in

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Speaker 2: There is someone out there and they're getting away with murder.

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Speaker 1: Her investigation led her to consider the unthinkable. Was her

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Speaker 2: It just made me so sick to think it could

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Speaker 1: Today, we're in Angora, j Alaska, for the first episode

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Speaker 1: of Someone Is Getting Away with Murder. I'm Slow Glass

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Speaker 1: and this is American Hama Side. Just to note that

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Speaker 1: this episode contained some graphic content. Please take care while listening.

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Speaker 1: Relocating from southern California to Anchorage was a big deal

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Speaker 2: You know, Anchorage was incredible and there's so much to see,

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Speaker 1: Arguably Karen's most active child was her daughter, Bonnie, who,

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Speaker 3: She was the first female wrestler in the state of Alaska.

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Speaker 3: She was always trying to like do things that other

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Speaker 1: Bonnie graduated from high school in nineteen ninety four and

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Speaker 3: But ultimately that was her plan, was to go out

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Speaker 2: There's no way that Bonnie would have missed a class

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Speaker 2: Nothing made sense, so I immediately told him, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Karen spent the long flight home trying to make sense

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Speaker 2: So from Florida back to Alaska, you're at least twelve

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Speaker 2: Who would hurt Bonnie? How could this be?

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Speaker 2: That morning, body would have gotten up, probably her own

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Speaker 1: Karen wondered if someone had been watching Bonnie and knew

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Speaker 2: So I was a reserve police officer with anguage Police Department,

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Speaker 2: And just before Bonnie was murdered, we did a major bust.

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Speaker 2: All over the indictment. Is my name again and again

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Speaker 1: Those drug dealers Karen helped to put away were back

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Speaker 2: You just never a thought that somebody like that would

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Speaker 1: Eighteen year old Bonnie Craig was supposed to be in

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Speaker 1: Karen was furious.

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Speaker 2: You see a Bonnie's body and I see her knuckles.

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Speaker 1: Karen worked with the Anchorage Police Department and at the

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Speaker 1: She feared that that bust might be connected to Bonnie's death.

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Speaker 2: Because of the work I've been doing. Maybe they have

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Speaker 1: Alaska State troopers took a second look at Bonnie's autopsy

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Speaker 1: Karen's ex husband, Gary, Gary was not Bonnie's biological father,

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Speaker 1: But Karen and Gary's marriage didn't last. The two divorced

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Speaker 2: You know, they didn't want their mom and dad divorced.

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Speaker 1: Although Karen and Gary tried to remain civil, it wasn't easy.

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Speaker 2: I was devastated when Bonnie moved out. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: So just before college started, Bonnie moved in with her

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Speaker 2: Gary was supposed to be out of town and he

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Speaker 1: That caught the attention of investigators.

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Speaker 1: It was an uncomfortable situation, not only for Gary but

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Speaker 2: Gary was her dad, he loved her dearly. But yet

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Speaker 2: I still started to think could it have been him?

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Speaker 2: You know, we had gone through a nasty divorce and

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Speaker 1: Investigators didn't want to spook Gary, so they came up

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Speaker 1: Three months after Gary supplied his DNA to investigators, he

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Speaker 1: The two were longtime friends, and for Maria, covering the

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Speaker 4: She felt like troopers weren't doing enough because she believed

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Speaker 4: The repeat line was they weren't releasing more information. Now

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Speaker 1: At the time, Karen was a mom on a mission.

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Speaker 4: And she showed me excerpts from a student journal a

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Speaker 1: That student informed the professor that he had been at

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Speaker 2: We both thought that that was incredibly strange, and so

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Speaker 1: It was another dead end for investigators. By this point,

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Speaker 1: Bonnie didn't know. Three long years would pass before the

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Speaker 1: Alaska State Troopers revealed new details about Bonnie's murder to

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Speaker 2: The troopers told me Bonnie was raped.

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Speaker 1: On the third anniversary of Bonnie's murder, Alaska State Troopers

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Speaker 5: Three years after she was abducted, raped and murdered, they

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Speaker 2: It was really difficult.

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Speaker 4: So the story just kind of kept unfolding along the way.

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Speaker 1: Journalist Maria Downey had never heard of holding this information

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Speaker 4: We asked the troopers repeatedly why they waited so long

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Speaker 1: At that same nineteen ninety seven press conference, the Alaska

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Speaker 1: State Troopers also shared that the backpack Bonnie was carrying

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Speaker 4: The troubling part about this is that I think more information,

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Speaker 1: Bonnie Craig was murdered in nineteen ten ninety four. Throughout

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Speaker 4: We covered this story for months and then it was

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Speaker 4: years after to help solve this case.

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Speaker 1: Frustrated with the investigation, Bonnie's mother, Karen did her own

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Speaker 4: Many mothers they want to find justice. They'll do all

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Speaker 4: they can to find closure, to find the person responsible

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Speaker 4: not just two, but many many steps forward from there.

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Speaker 2: She was that.

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Speaker 4: Steady, informational source who would uncover things on her own

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Speaker 4: and investigat her own daughter's case, and she continually kept

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Speaker 1: Karen did everything she could to keep the unsolved case

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Speaker 4: Throughout Anchorage, there were signs all over town. We're talking

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Speaker 1: In giant letters, these billboards asked who killed Bonnie and

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Speaker 2: I had people walking up to me all the time,

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Speaker 1: Some people even called Karen with TIFFs late at night.

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Speaker 2: I would write everything down, I would take notes, and

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Speaker 1: In two thousand, the DNA found in Bonnie when she

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Speaker 2: I truly believe that our only weapon of finding anything

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Speaker 1: DNA helped to clear all of the suspects the Alaska

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Speaker 1: State Troopers questioned except for one, and this is someone

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Speaker 1: we haven't talked about yet, the bus driver who drove

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Speaker 1: The bus driver sort of disappeared, but the troopers tracked

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Speaker 2: When he was interviewed, he said he didn't see Bonnie

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Speaker 1: So investigators collected a sample of the bus driver's DNA

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Speaker 2: The DNA came up with the match.

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Speaker 1: This was the moment that Karen had been waiting for.

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Speaker 2: You're just hoping so much that yes, make this it

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Speaker 1: But there's more. The Alaska lab that did that testing

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Speaker 2: After they did a second DNA test, they knew, no,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine her disappointment. That had to have felt

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Speaker 2: It was like my guts had been ripped out. I

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Speaker 1: In September two thousand and one, Karen had plans to

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Speaker 1: Instead of going back on the media circuit, Karen decided

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Speaker 2: Not that I was ever going to give up. I

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Speaker 1: Their answer was always the same nothing. In two thousand

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Speaker 2: I am in Thailand, on a remote island, and I

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Speaker 1: Karen managed to get to a telephone. That's when she

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Speaker 2: He found the killer.

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Speaker 1: DNA evidence led Alaska State Troopers to a suspect some

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Speaker 2: They had identified somebody who's matched.

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Speaker 1: The suspect was a man named Kenneth Dion, who at

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Speaker 2: He was addicted to oxy conton and successfully robbed a

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Speaker 2: They were almost one hundred percent sure that this was

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Speaker 1: Alaska troopers flew out to New Hampshire to interview Kenneth Dion.

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Speaker 1: Kenneth claimed he had no memory of Bonnie and denied

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Speaker 1: any involvement in her murder, but his DNA said otherwise,

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Speaker 1: so the police arrested Kenneth and charged him with sexually

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Speaker 1: assaulting and murdering Bonnie Craig. In the twelve years between

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Speaker 1: Bonnie's death and the arrest, the name Kenneth Dion never

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Speaker 2: He didn't know Bonnie and none of us knew him.

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Speaker 2: It was a total random crime.

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Speaker 1: Even with her daughter's suspected killer and custody, Karen couldn't

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Speaker 2: I always thought I would be so excited and relieved

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Speaker 2: to hear that, and I just got so fearful thinking,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, are we going to be able to

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Speaker 2: convict him? Oh, We've got his DNA.

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Speaker 1: And his defense team would put up a fight that

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Speaker 1: would force investigators to account for a key piece of

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Speaker 2: All you need is one juror who could end up throwing.

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Speaker 1: The case, all of which would push Karen's patience to

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Speaker 2: It could have been solved in weeks. Instead it was

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Speaker 2: seventeen year saga.

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Speaker 1: Would end with Karen engaged in a totally different fight.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's too important. We need to change

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Speaker 2: this law now.

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Speaker 1: In the conclusion of someone is getting away with murder,

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Speaker 1: we'll go into the court room where a key piece

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Speaker 1: of evidence goes missing. I'm Slow Glass. That's next time

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