Overview
- Utah County investigators announced a definitive forensic link tying Laura Ann Aime’s 1974 killing to serial killer Ted Bundy.
- The confirmation followed a renewed cold-case review that leveraged new testing at the Utah Department of Public Safety crime lab.
- Detectives said preserved biological evidence from 1974 allowed analysts to extract usable DNA after more than five decades.
- Investigators developed a DNA profile now shared with other agencies to help resolve additional Bundy cases, with one case described as close to closure.
- Aime, 17, disappeared on Halloween 1974, and hikers found her body 28 days later off American Fork Canyon Road near Utah’s Lehi.