DNA testing confirms Ted Bundy killed Utah teenager Laura Ann Aime in 1974
Utah County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday that new DNA testing definitively linked the 1974 death of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime to serial killer Ted Bundy, officially closing the 51-year-old cold case. Aime disappeared after leaving a Halloween party in 1974 and her body was found about a month later by hikers in American Fork Canyon. While Bundy had confessed to the killing before his 1989 execution, authorities kept the case open until DNA evidence could provide definitive proof.
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