DNA links Ted Bundy to murder of 17-year-old Utah girl, sheriff says [View all]

Source: Reuters

April 1 (Reuters) - Utah officials announced on Wednesday that they were closing a five-decade-old case after finding "definitive proof" that American serial killer Ted Bundy killed a ​17-year-old Utah girl.

The girl, Laura Ann Aime, went missing on the ‌night of October 31, 1974, after leaving a party alone to make a purchase from a convenience store, the Utah County Sheriff's Office said.

Her body was found by two college students ​on Thanksgiving Day that year, according to authorities, who added that her ​body was found tossed several feet from the highway near State ⁠Road 92 in the American Fork Canyon.

"Case evidence similarities indicated that the ​manner of abuse and the likely cause of death was comparable to the modus ​operandi of Theodore 'Ted' Bundy," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

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