here again is keith morris.again is keith morris >>> strange how big events in life can arrive when you least expect them. karen was on vacation again a remote island in the philippines. an e-mail arrived from trooper hunyor, call me, it said. >> i tried calling him and i kept getting disconnected. >> reporter: but finally they had a conversation long enough for karen to learn one thing, one amazing fact. a dna match. after 12 years they had the man they believed murdered her daughter bonnie. and there on that island, karen felt afraid. >> you would expect that i would be thrilled. no. i'm immediately so fearful that, oh, my gosh, now we know who's done it. are we going to get him convicted? >> reporter: a few months later in 2007 kenneth dion was indicted and extradited to alaska. karen's anxiety only grew. >> i didn't trust the investigation. is the evidence still there? the investigators, the witnesses. can we get a conviction on just the dna? >> reporter: and to make it worse, dozens of pretrial hearings dra

here is keith morris. >> they kept pushing and pushing.pt on sitting back. >> reporter: the prosecutor at the time, larry crouch, told investigators he would not charge hawk even after it is obvious that this single mother had been murdered. after months searching around hanford, california, turns out no signs of her anywhere. prosecutor crouch would not budge, not yet anyway. >> we'll wait until we find the body, more time to come up. instead a year after debbie vanished, dave was charged with embezzling and stealing from his own children's trust funds. he pleaded not guilty. >> how does it feel to be out of jail. >> reporter: and waited for r the other shoes to drop. >> imagine this, the police and not to mention most of the time believed their father killed their mother. leaving three children caught in the middle. conrad had no doubt his dad killed his mom. a dad he referred to as dave. >> i tried to cut all ties that i had with him as much as i cou could. he's nothing to me now. >> chelsa has been her father's strongest defender. >> r

here's keith morris. >> it was among the afternoon, a baking sun, a school bus made its methodical way on the residential streets of punta gourda, florida. stop and start and stopped again. it was inland now. miles from the harbor, the river, the center of town whose warmth had drawn them to the gulf coast. the bus stopped in the middle of the neighborhood and the driver opened the door. it was 3:45 p.m. >> we got off the bus and walked home. >> we means veronica and then almost 14 years old and her younger brother, paul. >> halfway down the road, i remembered i forgot my key. the closer we got, i had seen my sister's car. i said cool, i don't need the key. she's home. >> then she noticed the door was not quite closed. >> it was closed, but not latched. you could pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. >> what did you assume when the door was open and the tv on? >> maybe she left in a hurry or went with a friend and didn't close the door all the way. >> she was tara. veronica's older sister, not quite 20 then. veronica called out and walked th

here again keith morris. >>> reporter: they took shelley nance's body back to italy, texas, not quite week after the murder. held her funeral at the family's church. and it seemed like the whole town was there, along with many of shelley's fellow students from the art institute of dallas. >> it's the most horrible thing we've ever been through. >> the day after the funeral, i was ready to kill somebody. >> reporter: the institute held a memorial, too. and it was there shelley's parents met nathan for the first time. >> he come up and wanted to shake my hand and i couldn't do it. i didn't wanna look at him, i didn't wanna touch him because if he had somethin' to do with killin' my shelley i didn't wanna pretend that it was okay. >> reporter: shelley nance was just 20 when she was attacked and killed in her off-campus apartment here in dallas. tiny, quiet, sweet, and defenseless. the last person anyone would want dead, everyone said that. but clearly someone did. the police already had ashley on their list of suspects. >> i've interviewed her. i'm satisfied that i can set her to the sid

here with the conclusion of our story is keith morris. >> there are few things in american life as dramaticighted with consequences as the moment a jury, verdict in hand, files into a courtroom. had they been persuaded that mike killed carol or even that she was dead? mike's family held its collective breath. so did the prosecutor and the police. >> you know, you don't know what to expect. >> and now, here was mike's fate. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, michael clark lubahn, sr., guilty. >> guilty of second degree murder. mike lubahn was going to prison. a long-time detective jim wallace found surrounded by a very unfamiliar reaction. >> i've had cases before where you get down and you walk out and the family throws their arms around you and they're so grateful. that's not this case. >> i was just very surprised the jury would convict him on such little evidence. and i don't think any of us are happy to see mike go to jail. >> and you still believe mike is a nice guy, believable guy? >> yes. >> what gale and the rest of the family wanted most were some answe

here's keith morris. >> it was cold the night it happened. so very cold. a night to be inside by a fireplace, tucked under a quilt. not outside in the frigid dark, not way up here, 9,000 feet up in the colorado mountains, snow thick already that late november night. and with the windchill, 24 below. >> i don't know enough to know what happened. still trying to figure it out. >> what in god's name was his wife doing, walking out into the brutal cold? more to the point, what happened to her? middle class married mother of three, where did she go? without a word to him or her friends. >> you can't imagine that this is happening to you and to your friend. >> she was just plain missing. >> yes, she was. it was terrifying. dreadful in the end. as events were about to prove, a shocking lesson on what can dwell hidden beneath a person's public skin. >> this is really a secret thing, as far as you know? >> a lot of it, sure. >> everybody has secrets, of course. stephanie roller-bruner's secrets lived as she did. in a skier's paradise. they met at the top of a mount

morris, and many others, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern righhere on >> that sounds great. speaki of greatconcerts, tomorrow on the plaza, star kobe keithnothingngends us run inside the house faster than a bunch of annoying mosquitoes. dr. azar is here with important tips on how to keep the pesky bugs away. >> then a special fourth of july menu with easy red, white, and blue recipes that leave you plenty of time t celebrate with friends and family. that's always a good thing when we have sunny here. >> but first, hdylan, about another check of weather? >> gorgeous out here. not as humid as when the day started. .> it will get humid, but it's t iter m're going to see the heat and humidity acrosst of the country, in fact, that heat and humidity will help spawn some storms laterda on toy, especially up and down the east coast, back through the midwest as well. tomorrow, we'll see the hot and humid weather up and down the east coast, back through the midwest, isolated storms pop up each afternoon. something to keep in mind. on saturday, more scattered storms. the forecast is very repetitive. it stays beautiful out west,th d as we go into su

morris and many others that's tonight starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on nbc. >> don't want to miss that speaking of great concerts tomorrow on the plaza country star toby keith, nothing sends us running inside the house faster than a bunch of annoying mosquitos dr. azar is here with important tips to keep the bugs away. >>> a special 4th of july menu with easy red, white and blue recipes that still leave you plenty of time to celebrate with friends and family that's always good when we have sunny here. >> looking forward to that she sure does. >>> but first, dylan, how about another check of weather it's gorgeous out there. not as humid as when the day started. >> it will get humid but, you know, it's summer. we kind of expect to sweat a little bit this time of year. >> we'll take it. >> we are going to see the heat and humidity across most of the country. in fact, that heat and humidity will help spawn some storms later on today, especially up and down the east coast, back through the midwest as well. tomorrow we are going to see the hot and humid weather up and down the east coast, back through the midwest, isolated strong storms pop up each afternoon. som