Bonnie Craig Murder

Bonnie Craig's killer sentenced to 124 years in prison

Adam Campbell gives his mother Karen Foster a kiss after Superior Court Judge Jack Smith sentenced Kenneth Dion to 124 years in prison on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, for the murder and rape of her teenager Bonnie Craig seventeen years ago in Anchorage.

Seventeen years after teenager Bonnie Craig was abducted from an 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.

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CRIME

Reward fund seeks new tips in Alaska cold-case murders

Seventeen years to the day after Anchorage teenager Bonnie Craig was found dead in McHugh Creek, and a little more than three months since a jury convicted her killer, Craig's family and the managers of an Alaska reward fund made a public plea: Help us solve other cold murder cases.
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Defendant guilty in Bonnie Craig murder

It took an Anchorage jury just hours Wednesday to find Kenneth Dion, 41, guilty of raping and killing teenager Bonnie Craig nearly 17 years ago. The conviction caps an Anchorage murder mystery that began when a hiker found Craig's body Sept. 28, 1994, in McHugh Creek.
BONNIE CRAIG MURDER

Bonnie Craig murder trial handed over to jurors

Nearly 17 years after a hiker found Bonnie Craig's body in frigid creek water south of Anchorage, the trial of her accused killer neared its end this week in a hot, cramped courtroom.
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Jurors see once-missing video of Bonnie Craig crime scene

Prosecutors on Thursday showed jurors a video filmed by troopers on the brisk, sunny day in 1994 that Bonnie Craig's body was found in McHugh Creek. The camera followed troopers to the top of a cliff. The lens zoomed in to a drop of blood on a light-brown leaf.
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Craig's boyfriend tells court of 'very serious' relationship

A state cold-case prosecutor called Bonnie Craig's boyfriend to the witness stand Thursday to testify about his relationship with the 18-year-old, who was found dead in McHugh Creek in 1994. Kenneth Dion, 41, is on trial, accused of raping Craig, killing her and throwing her body off a cliff.
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Defense disputes state evidence in Bonnie Craig murder case

A lawyer for Kenneth Dion, the man accused of raping and killing 18-year-old Bonnie Craig in 1994, told a jury Wednesday that Craig wasn't raped by Dion. The two had consensual sex, he said.
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Dion defense attorney attacks state's murder evidence

Kenneth Dion's defense attorney said today in his opening statement that Dion and Bonnie Craig, whom Dion is accused of raping and killing, had consensual sex elsewhere and that Craig later fell down a cliff to her death.
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Prosecution says DNA points to murder suspect

With a jury finally seated for what's expected to be a three-week trial, a cold-case prosecutor Tuesday laid out the state's murder case against Kenneth Dion, 41, and retold the story of the long-unsolved death of Bonnie Craig.