WEBVTT - S1: E27– Someone Is Getting Away with Murder, Part 2 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:05.960 For twelve years, Signs hung all over Anchorage asking who 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.280 killed Bonnie Craig. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.200 There's signs on all the buses, there was signs on benches, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:12.960 there was fires. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.840 With no arrest. The victim's mother lost hope. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.320 It wasn't investigated real well. They don't have a lot 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:21.040 of evidence. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.479 And then finally the suspect turned up in a prison 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:32.040 some forty five hundred miles away. But did he kill Bonnie? 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.000 This man stands up and starts yelling at Bonnie's family 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.360 that they're all liars and that he didn't do anything. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.720 The only evidence was a drop of blood and some DNA. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.400 Would it be enough to get a conviction? It's always 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:50.320 a crap shoot. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.680 All you need is one juror who could end up 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:54.840 throwing the case. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.720 Today we're an Anchorage, Alaska for the conclusion of some 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.280 one is getting away with murder. I'm Sloan Glass and 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.320 this is American homicide. Just a note that this episode 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:15.760 contained some graphic content. Please take care while listening. Bonnie 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.720 Craig was an eighteen year old college freshman at the 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.840 University of Alaska in Anchorage. On the morning of September 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:28.000 twenty eighth, nineteen ninety four, Bonnie headed to class that afternoon. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.240 Bonnie was dead. Her body was found floating in a 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:36.520 creek inside of a state park some ten miles from campus. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.560 Those moments, it's etched in my brain and you don't 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.440 forget something like that. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.680 That's Bonnie's friend, Amy Navotney. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.040 How could this happen to somebody like Bonnie? It didn't 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.360 seem real. It didn't seem real at all. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.240 After first calling Bonnie's death a hiking accident, Alaska State 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.960 troopers later ruled it a homicide. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.800 I don't recall anybody ever thinking it was an accident. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.600 Just didn't make sense. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.960 You can learn a lot about Bonnie Craig by looking 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.760 at her college schedule. While most college freshmen were asleep 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.320 at seven am, Bonnie was already in class. Her friends 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.080 and family said, if you believed Bonnie willingly skipped school 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.080 to go hiking, you didn't know Bonnie. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.520 Bonnie was very reliable and she wouldn't have missed school. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.760 The fact that her body turned up more than ten 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.800 miles from her home raised plenty of questions. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:38.360 Bonnie didn't drive, that's quite a ways away from where 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.639 she lived, or from the. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.520 University, and if she walked. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.640 It would take probably, you know, several hours to walk 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.200 to mc que Creek from her home. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.240 Bonnie exclusively took the bus to campus. None of those 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.120 buses went to McHugh Creek. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.760 Just a lot of unanswered questions. At that point, something 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.440 was definitely wrong. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.800 Investigators later revealed that Bonnie not only was murdered, but 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.679 also had been sexually assaulted. Even with that DNA evidence, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.480 twelve years went by without an arrest. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.200 How come nobody's coming forward? Somebody knows something? Is this 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.360 ever going to get figured out? 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.840 Every new promising lead fizzled out, leaving Bonnie's family and 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.680 friends feeling uneasy. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.680 What's scary? You know, scary? And that went on for 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.960 a lot of years. You know, every year, I think 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.000 it got a little bit more difficult. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.680 At the forefront of the investigation was Bonnie's fierce and 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:48.800 strong willed mother, Karen. She gave frequent press conferences and 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.480 was responsible for putting up all those signs throughout Anchorage 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:57.840 that said who killed Bonnie and someone is getting away 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:58.520 with murder. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.960 Karen ver determined person she was going to get to 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:03.720 the bottom of it. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.640 As Amy and Bonnie's other friends graduated college, got married 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:13.440 and had children. They couldn't help, but wonder what if. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.680 Definitely every year kind of just breaks your heart and 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.200 you kind of think of all the amazing things that 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.240 Bonnie would have amounted to, places that she would have gone, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.640 you know, the family that she could have started, and 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.719 just live in life like the rest of us. Those 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.159 things go through your mind every year. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.680 Bonnie Craig was killed in nineteen ninety four. It wasn't 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.680 until two thousand and six when police had a man 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.360 in custody in New Hampshire. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.080 That was one of the best days. I think. I 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:50.240 cried tears of joy. They finally had who was responsible 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.760 for taking such a wonderful person away from so many people. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.400 This aspect was a thirty seven year old former Alaska 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.560 resident named Kenneth Dion. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.600 The name makes me utterly sick to my stomach. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:10.000 At early sick, So who is Kenneth Dion. At the 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.839 time of his arrest, he was serving time in a 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.360 New Hampshire prison for armed robbery Back in nineteen ninety four. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.440 Kenneth was twenty five years old and living in Anchorage. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.960 Like a lot of people that end up in Alaska, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.360 Kenneth Dion was stationed here in the military. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.760 Journalist Casey Grove covered the story. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.279 At some point divorced his wife or she divorced him, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.640 and he apparently was into crime. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.599 Kenneth was discharged from the military and later served some 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.760 time for a string of robberies. Just two months before 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.120 Bonnie's murder, Kenneth was released from prison in Alaska and 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.080 placed on probation. He then violated his parole and was 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.119 sent back to prison. After his release in nineteen ninety six, 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.120 Alaska for New Hampshire, where he got into more trouble. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.000 He had been addicted to oxy conton committed a string 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.080 of armed burglaries. He was serving time for that, and 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.080 they collected his DNA under this mandatory program. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.160 In two thousand and six, an Alaska lab worker did 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.920 a weekly check of the code AS system. That's when 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.680 Kenneth Dion's DNA matched the DNA found in Bonnie. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.480 New Hampshire was one of like a handful of states 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.680 at the time that had mandatory DNA collection for violent crime. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.000 They would not have caught him if not for that 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:39.440 law in New Hampshire. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.640 Alaska investigators immediately flew out to New Hampshire and questioned Kenneth. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.120 You know, the investigators didn't just come out and say, hey, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.359 we think you killed this girl. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.400 What these two Alaska State troopers did do was put 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.920 on a clinic on how to interrogate a suspect. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.320 They first asked him, you know, when he was in 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.840 Alaska and why he was in Alaska, and he talk 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.839 wasn't with the military, and he kind of mentioned that 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.320 he was into martial arts, and somehow that came up. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.400 He was like a black belt in karate. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:13.240 I think. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.120 I had noon chalks, you know, three sectional staffs. I 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.840 had all kinds of things because I'm a fifth degree 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:20.360 black belt. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.800 So you can hear he's got this kind of like 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.960 New Englander accent that I wasn't expecting. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.840 Along with his thick accent. Kenneth had red hair and 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.480 stood around five feet ten inches tall. He told the 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.920 troopers he grew up fighting his whole life, and then 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.760 the topic turned to Bonnie. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.480 There's a pretty pretty high profile case. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.080 So did you read the news or listen to the news, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:45.560 read the newspaper, bet and that back then? 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:47.520 Oh yeah, all the time. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.400 Okay, you may you've probably heard about about the situation 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.200 then about a young girl named Bonnie Craig. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.240 Bonnie Craig, eighteen year old college student. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.920 I can't rega, I can't remember she's this, you know, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.360 this teenage girl? Do you know her? And he said no, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:06.760 did you. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:13.840 Ever meet someone called Bonnie or anything like that? I 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:14.560 have no idea. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.800 And then finally, you know, they they show him this 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.360 picture of Bonnie Craig and ask him if he knows her. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.880 She's an eighteen year old college student, lived in South Anchorage. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.080 She left her home around you know, five ten, five 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.440 twenty in the morning. I had to go catch your 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.400 boss off Lake Oders. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.000 I think when the investigators sort of first presented this 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.840 photo of Bonnie Craig to Kenneth Dion, it was have 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.280 you ever met this girl? He said no, you'd never 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.640 seen her before, and then they left it sitting there, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.920 maybe as advice to see what his reaction was. Over time. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:50.920 Did you ever. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.839 Recall maybe you know maiden or through somewhere else, one 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:56.840 of your friends or anything? 0:08:58.360 --> 0:08:59.280 Eighteen years old? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:05.400 Oh no, my wife would have killed me, he said, no. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.840 You know, if I had known her, I've been hanging 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.520 out with her. My wife would have killed me, you know, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.559 because he was married at the time. I think it's 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.600 worth pointing out too that anybody who had been around 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.280 at that time would have seen this picture or a 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.200 picture of Bonnie Craig, even people that don't follow the 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.160 news very closely, would have seen these posters and would 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.520 have seen these photos on the side of a bus. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:27.640 You know. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.400 So for him to have said he had never seen 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.640 her before just seemed implausible. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.520 That's when the troopers flipped the script. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.560 And a sad thing about it. Later on that day, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.920 her body was found at the Q Creek. WHOA, WHOA, WHOA? 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:44.400 What are you trying to say? 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.040 He says something along the lines of what are you 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.839 guys trying to say here? Like why are you here 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.080 talking to me about her? 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.240 Your name has come up, you know, like hundreds of names. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.960 Why would my name come up? That's what I'm trying 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.600 to figure out. You know, you say you didn't have 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.480 no association with her. You know, that's good. You know, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.679 I'm trying to I'm just trying to get clarifying you own. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.600 And of course it's hard to get around the fact 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.840 that his DNA was found inside of her and she 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.240 was dead. There was just some good police work that 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.080 had to be done. To really nail this guy down, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:12.520 and they did it. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.560 Alaska State troopers charged Kenneth Dion was sexually assaulting and 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:23.280 murdering Bonnie Craig. Another five years would pass before Kenneth 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.920 Dion stood trial. By then, a key piece of evidence 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.960 would go missing and would impact the integrity of the investigation. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.400 Bonnie Craig was eighteen years old when she was mysteriously 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.480 found dead in a creek several miles from her home 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:53.360 and college. In twenty eleven, Some seventeen years later, her 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.840 accused killer, Kenneth Dion, was on trial for murder. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.040 I would have been twelve years old when this happened, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.520 and you know, I think I was maybe thirty or 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.760 something like by the time this went on trial. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.680 Journalist Casey Grove wrote about the case. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.880 I've thought about that a lot. I mean, the amount 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.560 of time that went by from when she was killed 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.280 to when Kenneth Dion went on trial was almost as 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:17.800 long as she. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:22.800 Had been alive that time. Difference became obvious when prosecutor 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.640 showed pictures of Bonnie during the. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.400 Trial, like just the way that she was dressed, tapered jeans, 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.160 you know, back in the nineties and her hair was 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.440 kind of in a holdover from the eighties, kind of 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.840 like that feathered somewhat bigger hair than people wear nowadays. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.880 It was kind of a throwback to that time too, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.800 where people didn't have a phone in their pocket to 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.640 take pictures of everything, so like a lot of the 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.480 photos were sort of like school photos or you know, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.680 family photos from gatherings and things like that. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.920 On the other side of the courtroom sat Kenneth Dion, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:00.440 whose red hair wasn't the only feature that's it out. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:06.400 He actually had knuckle tattoos that said lost soul, it 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.760 lost on one hand and sol on the other hand 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.720 on his knuckles tattooed. I've covered cases where they actually 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.160 use makeup to cover the tattoos up so that the 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.920 person looks better maybe to the jury. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:24.040 Prosecutors explained to the jury that this lost soul was 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.120 responsible for killing and sexually assaulting Bonnie Craig. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:34.120 There's a direct line there between him and her, and 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.280 it's impossible to get around that. But I think the 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.920 theory of what actually happened when Bonnie was murdered was 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.600 kind of muddy, or at least took a lot of 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.640 filling in of the blanks. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.400 There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, so the defense 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.600 adopted the original theory from the Alaska State Troopers that 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:59.520 Bonnie fell in a hiking accident, but with a twist. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.480 These two people had consensual sex and then you know, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.360 one of them just sort of fell off a cliff 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:05.439 and died accidentally. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.880 The defense reiterated to the jurors what the police first 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.040 told Bonnie's mother. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.839 The defense attorney he asked, well, so could somebody fall 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.520 off a cliff and strike their genitals in this case, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.880 on a sharp rock, and would that produce the kind 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.760 of injuries that you're saying are evidence of sexual assault. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.960 This is in front of Bonnie's mom and sister and 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.160 her other family, and just about everybody just kind of 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.480 like rolled their eyes, you know, like how I could 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.199 even say that, and you know what. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.360 I feel the same way. What the defense is proposing 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:49.000 happened to Bonnie is unbelievable. After the defense floated alternative theories, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.880 prosecutors pointed the finger directly at the defendant. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.800 Bonnie was walking to the bus stop, and the prosecution 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:04.720 theory was that Kenneth Dion saw her and somehow got 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.800 her into his vehicle. He, you know, sexually assaulted her 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:14.320 at some point, possibly at McHugh Creek, struck her at 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.199 the top of this cliff, And that was based on 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.080 a single drop of blood on a leaf that the 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:25.560 crime scene investigators found that was Bonnie's blood and then 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.320 pushed her into the creek down, I mean down this 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.200 cliff is pretty steep, big cliff, down into the creek, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.920 and that he then scrambled down there to finish her off, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.400 was what the prosecutor said. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.520 Bonnie took at least a dozen blows to the head, 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.160 and prosecutors believe Kenneth Dion used a weapon for the 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:46.800 fatal blow. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:52.400 They believed that Kenneth Eon had killed Bonnie Craig by 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.960 hitting her in the back of the head with like nunchucks. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.400 Prosecutors leaned heavily into that interrogation tape of Kenneth Dion 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.120 where he admitted to being into martial arts. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.600 They knew that he had these martial arts weapons like 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.800 nunchucks and those kind of things. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.640 But the defense said if Bonnie was murdered, there would 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.320 have been blood everywhere on the side of the cliff, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.680 not just the one drop they found on a leaf. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.440 And as for Kenneth's DNA. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.440 The defense attorney he insinuated that Bonnie might have been 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.320 promiscuous and might have had consensual sex with Kenneth Dion. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.120 The defense argued Kenneth and Bonnie had sex in the 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.960 week leading up to her death, but remember Bonnie had 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.880 a long distance boyfriend at the time. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.160 Bonnie's boyfriend at the time was brought back, you know, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.160 seventeen years later for this trial and testified. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.760 Bonnie's boyfriend, Cameron, was thirty four years old at the 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.640 time of the trial. He testified how Bonnie was his 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.240 first girlfriend and said the two had plans to marry. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.760 Everything that the boyfriend said about her and about their 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.920 reallyf reationship was not in agreement with the idea that 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.600 she could have been sleeping with other guys. They talked 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.480 on the phone all the time. They had like promise 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.600 rings that they were wearing. They thought that they were 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.880 going to get married and have a happy little life 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.080 with each other and go off and do great things. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.120 Cameron told the room that he and Bonnie spent there 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.920 last night together before he went away to school. It 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.520 happened in July of nineteen ninety four on the rocks 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.280 near Mchew Creek, the same place her body was later found. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.440 It was very sad to see her boyfriend on the 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:39.320 stand talking about what had been such a beautiful thing 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.840 in their lives, their love for each other. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.920 Testifying about his last night with Bonnie became too much 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:45.640 for Cameron. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.600 They paused his testimony at one point. They just kind 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.320 of overcome with the grief, and he went out in 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.280 the hallway in the courthouse and just kind of walked 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.320 up and down the hallway and kind of gathered himself. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.440 After that emotional testimony, prosecutors played the interrogation tape of 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:02.240 Kenneth Dion. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.080 You've probably heard about their situation about a young girl 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.000 named Bonnie Craig. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.560 I can't go, I can't remember. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.520 They're very clearly trying to pin him down on oh, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.440 you don't know her, Okay, how'd your DNA get inside 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.520 of her? You know, never seen her face before. Well, later, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.080 when you try to claim that you had consensual sext 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.639 with her, that's not going to make any sense. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.880 Kenneth Dion never took the stand in his own defense. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.600 He simply jotted down notes and made frequent eye contact 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.320 with Bonnie's mother, Karen. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.199 He looked at us very angry a couple times, and 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.840 it was seeing the face of evil. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:51.480 Other witnesses from Kenneth's past also testified about his dark side. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.560 We had more than one woman on the stands and 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.760 he had abused her, and I mean even his wife 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.320 ex wife at that time, had to testify about him 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.480 and his abuse and his drug abuse. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:15.400 Things were looking good for the prosecution until something happened 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.960 to a key piece of evidence. Back on the afternoon 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.840 of Bonnie's death in nineteen ninety four, investigators used a 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.840 camcorder to record footage at the crime scene, but suddenly 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.600 that tape was missing. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.040 You know, ultimately just it was an important piece of 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.360 the whole story. But the video from the murder scene 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:39.400 never showed up. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.600 Journalist Casey Grove I. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.960 Don't remember ever hearing a good explanation for why the 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:50.159 video was lost. The most detail about that was just 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.879 it had been checked out of the evidence for the 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:55.000 case and not returned. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.359 The defense attacked investigators for losing a key piece of evidence, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.920 but then on the second day of the trial, prosecutors 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:08.800 approached the judge. They explained that the missing tape had 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:15.840 mysteriously resurfaced that was bizarre. Suddenly the trial came to 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.320 a screeching halt. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:23.200 The fact that this video surfaced right after the trial started. Basically, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.840 I mean the defense of course fought that, vigorously fought 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:28.560 that being admitted as evidence. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.919 The judge stopped the trial for both sides to argue 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:33.520 whether to admit the video. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.440 I was with fear that he could walk. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.720 Not knowing what that meant for the trial threw Bonnie's mother, 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.480 Karen into a panic. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.600 It wasn't investigated real well. They don't have a lot 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:52.000 of evidence. All you need is one juror who could 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.200 end up throwing the case. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.520 Suddenly, the slam Dune case against Kenneth Dion took a turn. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.439 Oh my gosh, are we going to be able to 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:03.160 get a conviction. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.760 Kenneth Dion is on trial for the nineteen ninety four 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.320 murder of Bonnie Craig. But there's a problem. A videotape 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.479 of the crime scene that Alaska State troopers took was missing. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.920 Seventeen years had gone by since the murder, and then 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.760 this thing with this video comes up. 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.320 Journalist Casey Grove covered the trial. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.320 It's supposed to be you know, like the first day 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.880 of testimony, and they paused the trial for a week. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:46.000 The videotape disappeared and then reappeared two days into the trial, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:51.119 and after much debate, the judge allowed prosecutors to admit 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:52.280 it into evidence. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.520 It shot on like a VHS cassette tape with grainy 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.840 like home video footage kind of looked to it. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.399 As the dated footage flickered on the television screen, the 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.119 jurors leaned in to get their first look at the 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:09.920 crime scene. 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.920 This video, I like, really put you at that scene 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.320 at that time. You know, the leaves were all yellow 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.119 and things were kind of changing towards fall. The moss 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:22.160 or the lichen is kind of starting to turn red. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:23.520 It's very colorful. 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:28.359 The beauty of Alaska's changing seasons was broken by what 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.399 showed up next on the videotape. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:36.720 These investigators wearing like hip waiters, are wading out to 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.199 the body and they flip it over and you can 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:44.280 see her face and it's just very like pale white. 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.280 For Karen Bonnie's mom, it was tough because she had 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:48.000 never seen that. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.400 As you can imagine, seeing this footage of her daughter's 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:58.600 body floating lifeless Inmchu Creek was tough to see for 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:02.639 Karen showed a part of the investigation she had not 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.080 been privy to for the first time. 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.720 I'm finding out what they did when they arrived there. 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.959 When of the Alaska State troopers he had called on 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.720 his knees down paths looking for any kind of evidence, 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.560 He found just one leaf with a drop of blood 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.960 that they later determined was Bonnie's blood. 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:31.199 That video showed that one leaf that troopers found that 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:32.600 contained Bonnie's blood. 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:36.920 That was crucial to find that leaf with that one 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:43.560 drop of blood because that proved that Bonnie was injured 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:46.879 before she went over into the water below. 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:52.240 Karen hoped that video would help disprove the defense's theory 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:54.399 that Bonnie fell to her death. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:59.160 The defense immediately said, well, and how she had all 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:05.280 these headed, there would have been blood everywhere. The prosecutor 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:10.959 in rebuttals said that there was no blood anywhere because 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:16.359 Bonnie went over the cliff and Kenneth Dion ran down 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:22.360