Overview
- Utah County officials, who briefed reporters Wednesday, declared the 1974 Laura Ann Aime murder closed after forensic testing matched Ted Bundy’s DNA.
- Investigators used new methods to separate mixed and degraded DNA from bodily-fluid evidence, then entered the male profile into the national CODIS database.
- A hit in Florida led Utah and Florida labs to compare results, and the analysis confirmed the profile as Bundy’s, providing definitive proof long missing from the case.
- Preserved evidence and technology acquired by Utah’s state crime lab in 2023 made the extraction possible, overcoming limits that blocked testing in the 1970s.
- Aime’s family said the confirmation helps them heal, and authorities said Bundy’s confirmed profile is now being shared to aid other cold-case reviews.