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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 crusad...

keith morrison: it had been five months since 22-year-old 22-year-old chelsea bruck disappeared from big mike's 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 didn't think so. >> the first thing we did, we called harlan byrd in for another interview. >> you thought we've found our guy here. >> y...

Leotard. but someone else's dna was there too. a man. a mystery man. >> we entered it into our codis system, and there was no hit. >> it's 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, it's just a matter of time. and sooner or later, we think we'll-- we'll 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 that information from the dna. it was almost like our investigation kind of shifted gears. we we...

In fact her own blood was inside the front of the leotard. but someone else's 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 it's just a matter of time and sooner or later we'll 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 shifted gears. we were in recover dna mode. we were trying to collect dna from anybody and everyb...

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 -- >> couldn't 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 happy. >> reporter: the match was in new hampshire of a...