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Overview
- The Utah County Sheriff's Office, which announced the results Wednesday, declared the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime solved and closed.
- Investigators matched semen preserved from Aime's body to Bundy's DNA after entering the sample into a national database that linked to a profile held in Florida.
- Aime was last seen leaving a Halloween party in 1974 and was found weeks later in American Fork Canyon with signs of severe beating and strangulation.
- Bundy had confessed to killing Aime before his 1989 execution, but the admission lacked proof at the time; the DNA finding resolves that gap.
- Sheriff Mike Smith said the validated profile will make it easier for other agencies to compare DNA in open cases tied to Bundy.