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>> the amazing discovery of the long lost videotape could very well be grounds for a mistrial. the defense got after the start of the trial. for five days, the prosecutors researched case la, marshaled their arguments, and worried about yet more delays in the trial. then good news. the defense attorney decided that he would not request a mistrial. back in court, prosecutors played the crime scene tape. the public's first chance to see what the investigator did the day of the murder. >> i recall prior to playing their trade my dread on boy what is the family going to feel? >> it was the trooper...

Deal with it, or you decide to give up and stay a little boy. >> those were my two choices. are you going to panic, are you going to man up and try and get out of here? and i chose option to. >> and so he ran all day, and into the thick black of the jungle night. his feet raw, his clothes ripped by unseen hazards. bloodied now by 1000 thorns, tore into his flush. >> it was marsh, brush, the thorns, anything. i would get through it. i don't cost. even if it cost me my life, at least i tried. >> exhausted, he searched for a hiding place so inhospitable his pursuers wooden thing to look there. an...

Front deck. and that was about the first time i've ever seen that happen. >> their mother, karen, was on vacation. was on the seal off the coast of florida. it was 2 am when she docked, got the news. bonnie would not be okay. >> alaska state troopers had called and said that bonnie had died in a hiking accident. and you're thinking, they're nuts. what's going on? why would you say something like that? >> but it was true. at least that bonnie was dead. it was a hiker who found her body focusing in mchugh creek, a few miles from anchorage. at first, they didn't know who it was. no idea on the bo...

On the street. riding the bus. you know? for a week straight, just talking to all the people. >> for a week? >> yeah. to see if they saw anything. see if they heard anything. >> and nobody here anything? >> no, no one remember seeing bonnie that day. >> winter came. karen, consumed by grief, rage, guilt about her undercover drug part, he was now a single-minded crusader for bonnie. nothing else mattered. nothing at all. >> it's unbelievable. you know, as a mother i abandoned my kids and just started looking for a killer. >> and it was months before the troopers gave karen the rest of the news ...

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. >> there's no witnesses that say that they saw can and bonnie together that day. >> yeah. >> there were no witnesses placing her with him along corrupt. >> the case went to the jury in mid june. it was not for long. karen and the family were on their way to do a tv interview and -- >> as i'm pulling up to the interview i see the camera man and reporter taking off. and a ...