New DNA testing links 1974 death of Utah teen to Ted Bundy, sheriff says - cnn.com

DNA testing has linked the 1974 death of a Utah teenager to serial killer Ted Bundy, according to a sheriff's statement, potentially resolving a decades-old cold case. Bundy, who was executed in 1989 after confessing to numerous murders across multiple states in the 1970s, has long been suspected in connection with various unsolved killings. The DNA match provides forensic confirmation of a connection that investigators may have suspected for years but could not previously prove. This development adds to the documented body count of one of America's most notorious serial killers and may help provide closure to the victim's family. The case underscores how advances in genetic testing technology continue to resolve homicides from decades past, even when the perpetrator is deceased.