GUILTY AK - Bonnie Craig, 18, raped & murdered, Anchorage, 28 Sept 1994

[Kat]

A thread needs to be started for Bonnie JMHO. She is mentioned and her death/murder is discussed on at least one thread here on WS. The trial for her murder is in closing statements but this thread although late in the court proceedings is created as a way to honor her and her family. May justice be served.

A long list of articles to bring those up to date that have never heard of Bonnie.

http://www.adn.com/2007/04/30/46293/mother-says-abduction-only-answer.html
By S.J. KOMARNITSKY
Anchorage Daily News
Published: April 30th, 2007 04:22 PM
Last Modified: October 4th, 2007 07:03 AM

Mother says abduction only answer to daughter's death

http://www.adn.com/2007/04/30/46289/bonnie-she-left-before-dawn-to.html
By S.J. KOMARNITSKY
Anchorage Daily News
Published: April 30th, 2007 03:49 PM
Last Modified: October 4th, 2007 07:03 AM

Bonnie, she left before dawn to catch a bus.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2007/04/30/46289/bonnie-she-left-before-dawn-to.html#ixzz1PJedBqvE

Excellent coverage of the day Bonnie went missing and was found at the bottom of a cliff.

There was no doubt Bonnie died because of her fall, according to the autopsy -- either from hitting her head on a ledge on the way down, or from hypothermia or drowning after she hit the water. But things didn't add up.

For one, the knuckles on both her hands were broken, her mother said.

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http://www.adn.com/2007/04/30/46291/troopers-reveal-craig-was-raped.html

Troopers reveal Craig was raped


By RACHEL D'ORO
The Associated Press

Published: April 30th, 2007 04:16 PM
Last Modified: October 4th, 2007 07:03 AM

Bonnie Craig was raped and savagely beaten just before she toppled over a cliff and into a creek, Alaska State Troopers announced Sunday, the third anniversary of the unsolved murder.

http://www.adn.com/2007/04/30/46294/national-computer-file-more-precise.html

By SHEILA TOOMEY
Anchorage Daily News

Published: April 30th, 2007 03:40 PM
Last Modified: October 4th, 2007 07:03 AM

Four frustrating years after someone raped and killed Bonnie Craig, Alaska State Troopers were sure they had the man who did it. DNA tests by the state crime lab matched semen found on Craig's body to a possible suspect.

http://www.adn.com/2007/09/21/214310/bonnie-craigs-mother-faces-murder.html
By BETH BRAGG
Published: August 6th, 2008 11:58 AM
Last Modified: December 16th, 2007 04:33 PM

Bonnie Craig's mother faces murder suspect

said from the beginning of the trial that Dion and Craig had consensual sex and that Craig died in an accidental fall from a cliff, landing in McHugh Creek where she was found.

http://www.ktva.com/home/outbound-x...-Who-Killed-Bonnie-Craig-------123879554.html
By Grace Jang
Bio | Email | Follow: @GraceJangKTVA
Story Created: Jun 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM AKDT

Jury to Decide Who Killed Bonnie Craig

The state and the defense both made closing arguments Tuesday, ending the month-long trial of a nearly 17-year-old cold case

(note the dates of 2007 on some articles were when they were uploaded to the current paper, many were written much earlier into this case). There are great many other articles, this case helped push legislation in AK.



Prayers for Bonnie's Mother and family. 17 years is a long time to wait for justice.

 

[Kat]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20071685-504083.html
June 17, 2011 9:55 AM
By Barry Leibowitz

Guilty verdict in 1994 murder of Bonnie Craig, Alaska college student

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nearly 17 years after Alaska college student Bonnie Craig was beaten to death, a former army paratrooper has been convicted of her murder

Sentencing hearing is scheduled for 31 OCT 2011.

 

[Kat]

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-30/murdered-teens-memory-will-help-fund-search-other-killers


Murdered teen's memory will help fund search for other killers
Homicide Reward Fund will aid cold case investigations

Posted: June 30, 2011 - 10:00pm

“Now our reward money is no longer needed because he has been convicted,” Craig’s mother Karen Foster said. “So we are wanting to use it for other murder victims. It doesn’t have to be young girls.”

 

[OkieGranny]

From October 2011:

http://www.adn.com/article/20111031/bonnie-craigs-killer-sentenced-124-years-prison

Seventeen years after teenager Bonnie Craig was abducted from a South Anchorage street, raped, beaten and left for dead in a creek along Turnagain Arm, a Superior Court judge on Monday handed down the sentence for Craig's convicted killer.

Kenneth Dion, 42, was sentenced to serve 124 years for the killing, which haunted Anchorage...

Dion would be eligible for a parole hearing in a little more than 39 years, Smith said.