Ted Bundy DNA Match Laura Ann Aime’s 1974 Unsolved Murder
Ted Bundy has officially been linked to another murder decades after the crime took place.
More than 50 years after the body of Laura Ann Aime was discovered in Utah, leading to a decades-long cold case, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office determined that the infamous serial killer was responsible for the 17-year-old’s death.
Semen that had been swabbed from Aime’s body following her 1974 death was recently DNA tested and came up as a match for Bundy’s DNA in a Florida database, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The gruesome finding marks yet another killing that Bundy was responsible for. Prior to his 1989 execution, he had confessed to the murders of 30 women across Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Florida.
“Laura Aime is the quintessential daughter of Utah County,” Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Reynolds said in a news conference on April 1. “We felt the pain the family feels when she was taken. We felt the pain that you felt this whole entire time, and we’ve had the desire to deliver to you some type of healing, we can’t really say closure.”
Aime went missing on Halloween night in 1974, according to a press release from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO). Witnesses said she left a party in Utah County alone and went to purchase items from a convenience store but never returned.
