Brad Milkey

This week, I'm talking to Elena Athens, the anchor and reporter who covered this case for ABC station WTVD in North Carolina. She's going to help us break down all the details here. Hi, Elena. Hey there, Brad. How are you? I'm okay. Thanks for being here. This story has really evolved quickly in the last few weeks, right? Can you just bring us up to speed? Where does the story start?

I see. So then like cut off from people around it. So at this point, the university is called for a welfare check and Bunnell's girlfriend is called for a welfare check. It's still a missing persons case at this point, right? How are police approaching it and how does that change?

I see. So then like cut off from people around it. So at this point, the university is called for a welfare check and Bunnell's girlfriend is called for a welfare check. It's still a missing persons case at this point, right? How are police approaching it and how does that change?

So it sounds like at that point, they must think there's some sort of foul play. What do they find?

So it sounds like at that point, they must think there's some sort of foul play. What do they find?

Wow. So they find this body with, again, so gruesome. It's been dismembered. And then they make this arrest. You're at that first hearing, which I think is in late March. What is that like?

Wow. So they find this body with, again, so gruesome. It's been dismembered. And then they make this arrest. You're at that first hearing, which I think is in late March. What is that like?

Oh, like sitting to get on the same side of the room then?

Oh, like sitting to get on the same side of the room then?

Right. Like everyone's very much intertwined here.

Right. Like everyone's very much intertwined here.

And you said that investigators have to kind of lay out, here's the evidence we've got that we would be able to present at trial. What is that evidence? What are investigators actually pointing to that would connect Shanna Cloud to the murder of her husband?

And you said that investigators have to kind of lay out, here's the evidence we've got that we would be able to present at trial. What is that evidence? What are investigators actually pointing to that would connect Shanna Cloud to the murder of her husband?

This is my question, too. Looming over all this is clearly like the relationship issue. elements that are happening here. So what do we know about the relationship between the husband and wife in the days leading up to all this?

This is my question, too. Looming over all this is clearly like the relationship issue. elements that are happening here. So what do we know about the relationship between the husband and wife in the days leading up to all this?

So, to be clear, if she's confronting him, allegedly, about this note from a romantic partner outside their relationship, it's not like this was known or accepted in their marriage, right?

So, to be clear, if she's confronting him, allegedly, about this note from a romantic partner outside their relationship, it's not like this was known or accepted in their marriage, right?

Aha. And recently, ABC News spoke exclusively to that girlfriend. So we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to hear from that girlfriend. We're going to hear from Kelly Edwards herself.

Aha. And recently, ABC News spoke exclusively to that girlfriend. So we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to hear from that girlfriend. We're going to hear from Kelly Edwards herself.

We are back with Elena Athens from ABC station WTVD in North Carolina. So at this point, Clint Bonnell is married to Shanna Cloud, but he's also got this relationship with Kelly Edwards, effectively his girlfriend at the time that he vanishes. Well, recently, Kelly Edwards spoke exclusively to ABC News. She told us that Clint Bonnell was living separately from his wife the last couple years.