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
cheated on their boyfriend and nobody knew? how many people had a different side to them that was different than what family and friends knew? you re saying this young woman had a different side? i m saying that s a definite possibility. but it would probably be a lot harder to believe it of this particular young woman than most other people. but you never know. maybe if she met him and got to know him initially she found him somewhat charming, was maybe enthralled with him, and then she never gets to know the history of who he is. is that what he said happened? you know i can t answer that because that s attorney-client privilege. in any case, bonnie s death was consistent with accidental fall. his defense expert testified. when a body tumbles we don t know how it tumbles. injuries can occur in micro seconds and not leave a blood on the rocks. what s more, the defense attorney pointed out, not one person could place kenneth dion with bonnie or at the creek that day.
do you remember the look on his face when you asked him that? he was devastated. he was completely devastated but i just needed to hear it from him because there was so much uncertainty in my life at that point. so much confusion, that to be able to have him tell me when he was talking me in bed was all i needed. the dna spoke as well. he was eliminated. but someone did it. troopers set about collecting dna from every man who may have crossed bodies pat the day that she was murdered. including some men who worked with her at sam s club. we had information that there was one employee there who bonnie complained to her supervisor about. evidently, this individual got bonnie s phone number off the sam s club computer and would call her. he was doing a little stalking. dna cleared him. they moved
bonnie s case in the public eye. we started handing out fliers. we got bumper stickers made. we started building up a reward. we had bus signs driving all around town. the first one said, who killed bonnie? and continue doing interviews. somebody out there knows what happened. and we just really need to hear from them. and there were lots of tips which went nowhere and only ate up the troopers precious time. they resisted karen s efforts to insert herself into the case and told her as little as possible. don t tell her for example, about that drop of bonnie blood at the top of the cliff. she was very demanding. i think she felt with her police background she should be privy to all the information we had. the troopers hated me. because i just kept pushing and pushing. i wasn t about to give up.
take care and were very competent at the scene. for all those years, she accused the troopers of being incompetent at the crime scene. and she was wrong. and they were down on their knees looking for evidence. they were in the water. looking for a weapon. that must have changed everything for you? it did. it s a big revelation for her? it was. it was. i went out as he left the courtroom and gave him a hug. told him thank you. 17 years of anger and tension just popped like that. pretty much. within a few minutes. but the prosecution s problem remained. could have bonnie picked up his dna from consensual sex? the conclusion led bonnie s character speak for her.