New DNA testing links Ted Bundy to unsolved 1974 murder of Utah teenager

DNA testing has definitively linked Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of Laura Ann Aime, a 17-year-old Utah teenager who disappeared on Halloween and was found a month later on a highway, bound and beaten. Aime left a party alone to go to a convenience store on the night she vanished 51 years ago, and her death had remained unsolved until the sheriff's office announced the DNA match on Wednesday. The case adds to Bundy's confirmed or suspected murders across multiple states during the 1970s, though Bundy was executed in 1989. The identification provides closure to a five-decade-old mystery and underscores the evolving power of modern forensic technology to solve cold cases. Bundy's documented victims are now numbered in the dozens, with investigators continuing to examine potential links to other unsolved disappearances.