Decades-old cold case linked to Ted Bundy

DNA evidence has connected the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime to Ted Bundy, one of America's most prolific serial killers, more than five decades after her death. Aime disappeared after a Halloween party in 1974 and was found deceased a month later along a highway. The identification closes a cold case that had gone unsolved for decades and adds to the documented victim count of Bundy, who confessed to at least 30 murders across multiple states before his execution in 1989. Modern DNA technology, unavailable when Aime was killed, enabled investigators to definitively link her remains to Bundy's crimes. The case illustrates how advances in forensic science continue to solve long-dormant homicides and bring closure to families of victims.