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Was an apparent match to a former bus driver on bonnie's route, a man now living in california. this was the moment bonnie's mother, karen campbell, had prayed for. but her agonizing wait for justice was far from over. here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: all that was left in the family now in the years after bonnie's murder was the collecting of memories of bits of things that reminded them of how good she was, how thoughtful. like a school paper she was to have turned in the day she died. she read it to her sister the night before, an english exercise in which bonnie wrote about saying...

What's happened. and we desperately need to hear from them. >> reporter: 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. didn't tell her about that drop of bonnie's 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. >> oh, man, the troopers hated me because i just kept pushing and pushing. i was so fearful that things were being missed. >> reporter: t...

That's when karen saw a dozen or so brutal head wounds. that's also when the medical examiner told her about one extremely important piece of news, horrifying, but potentially useful. bonnie had been raped as well. and as awful as that was, it left one sliver of hope. the killer left behind his dna. match it and they'd solve the case. so who was it? it couldn't have been the boyfriend, cameron. >> he was down in california going to college. >> reporter: troopers said they looked at karen's work as a undercover police officer and determined that the men in the drug buys were not involved either...

Little stalking. >> that put a red flag up right away. >> reporter: dna cleared him. they moved on to a second young man at sam's club whose behavior seemed suspicious. >> they had a meeting at sam's club that morning that she was murdered, and this individual, he did not sign in to the meeting. >> reporter: you went and checked him out. >> we come to find out he was at the meeting, he didn't sign in. others saw him there. we still got his dna and he was cleared. >> reporter: then there was a student, attended an english class with bonnie threw up all kinds of red flags, that is once the teach...

Home to anchorage from an out of town trip just the night before the murder, bonnie's step-father, karen's ex-husband, samantha's dad. >> and i remember that being a really unsure, scary feeling. in my mind it didn't make sense. my dad is not and never has been a violent man. so i remember just straight up asking him, dad, did you kill bonnie? >> reporter: do you remember the look on his face when you asked him? >> 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. there was so much confusion th...