Advances in technology have linked the notorious serial killer’s DNA to the murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime.
Ted Bundy has been linked to the murder of a Utah teenager more than 40 years after her body was found. The victim was identified as Laura Ann Aime, 17 years old. Aime’s body was found bound, badly beaten and without clothes on Thanksgiving Day in 1974.
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Ted Bundy has been linked to the previously unsolved murder of a Utah teenager decades after her death, thanks to DNA tests.
On Wednesday, April 1, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced that Bundy was linked to the murder of Laura Ann Aime in 1974. The 17-year-old girl was last seen leaving a Halloween party on October 31, 1974.
Breakthroughs in technology and teams that “meticulously” went through the details helped crack the case, UCSO states in a press release.
“Existing evidence was sent to the Utah Bureau of Forensic Services so that we could make use of the various forms of advanced forensic science and professionals,” the agency wrote. “The results were amazing, as they irrefutably confirmed that DNA evidence found on Laura’s body confirmed that Bundy’s DNA was present.”
Approaching the 51st anniversary of Ameme’s disappearance in 2025 sparked renewed interest in Detective Superintendent M. Reynolds and cold case detective J. Hall, UCSO said.
Aime’s body was found less than a month after her disappearance by two college students who were on a Thanksgiving Day trip. Authorities described her remains as “thrown a few feet off the road, near State Road 92 in American Fork Canyon.”
Aime’s body was bound, badly beaten, and was found without clothes. Investigators also found a nylonging stocking that was used to strangle her.
Although Bundy was considered a suspect in Aime’s murder at the time, the case went cold with no definitive evidence – until now, according to UCSO.
Between 1974 and 1978, Bundy raped and killed dozens of young women and girls across the country, and the victims were women in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Florida.
Bundy was first arrested in 1975, but managed to escape from prison twice and continued to kill.
During investigations, he told police that he killed as many as 30 women, but authorities believed the number could be as high as 100. Bundy was later convicted of three murders and sentenced to death.
Bundy was executed at Florida State Prison at the age of 42 on January 24, 1989.
Ame’s family and friends described her as “a tall, beautiful, outgoing free spirit who enjoyed outdoor activities and had a passion for riding horses, hunting and caring for her multiple siblings,” the sheriff’s office said in its statement on April 1.
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