Overview
- Utah County authorities said Wednesday that new DNA testing conclusively tied Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime and they closed the case.
- Forensic analysts used newer lab techniques to extract a single male DNA profile from preserved evidence and matched it to Bundy.
- Aime disappeared after leaving a Halloween party on October 31, 1974, and hikers found her bound and unclothed about a month later in American Fork Canyon.
- Bundy had claimed the crime shortly before his 1989 execution but gave no details investigators could verify, leaving the case unresolved until now.
- Officials said the profile and approach could help check other unsolved murders, highlighting the value of careful long-term evidence storage.