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and this is dateline. >> i cant 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 strangers dna. >> we no longer have some accidental death. this was a homicide. >> they had no suspect. but for ye...

keith morrison: it had been five months since 22-year-old 22-year-old chelsea bruck disappeared from big mikes annual halloween party. her costume had been found. it was found ripped underneath an abandoned building. this was interesting. it happened to be a hundred yards from the trailer park where harlan byrd had lived. >> what did you think when you saw that? >> the hair on the back of your head kind of stands up. >> coincidence? the detectives didnt think so. >> the first thing we ...

Leotard. but someone elses dna was there too. a man. a mystery man. >> we entered it into our codis system, and there was no hit. >> its a database of dna. >> correct. >> the crime lab assured us that it was-- it was a pretty good sample, the unknown male dna. and they said, its just a matter of time. and sooner or later, we think well-- well get-- a match on it. >> they checked, of course, the dna of erik kassab, who found the costume and harlan byrd. and both men were cleared. >> when we got t...

In fact her own blood was inside the front of the leotard. but someone elses dna was there, too. a man. a mystery man. >> we entered it into our codis system, and there was no hint. >> codis, the database basically. >> they said its just a matter of time and sooner or later well get a match on that. >> they checked of course the dna of eric who found the costume and harlen bird, and both men were cleared. >> when we got that information from the dna, it was almost like our investigation kind of ...

Eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldnt believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig. >> reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. a system provided by federal, state and local crime ...

Spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldnt believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig. >> reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. a system provided by federal, state and local crime labs. and codis got a hit. >> everybody was...

Eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldnt believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig. >> reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. its a national database of dna profiles provided by ...

And nothing came of it but frustration. the case grew cold, as cold as some of the winter nights up here. and four years became six, eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldnt believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig. >> reporter...

Dna samples. and nothing came of it but frustration. the case grew cold, as cold as some of the winter nights up here. and four years became six, eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldnt believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig...

And four years became six, eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldnt believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system for the sample on bonnie craig. >> reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. a system provided by fede...