Spanish Fork, Utah
New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, the native sheriff’s workplace mentioned Wednesday.
Laura Ann Aime, 17, went lacking Halloween evening 51 years in the past after she left a celebration alone to go to a comfort retailer. About a month later, her physique was discovered on the facet of a freeway, sure, overwhelmed and a with out clothes.
Investigators lengthy suspected that Bundy was accountable — police mentioned he verbally acknowledged his culpability main up to his execution — however the case remained open till they might make certain.
Bundy was one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers, with at the very least 30 girls and women’ deaths linked to him in a number of states within the Seventies. His murders – which occurred in sorority homes, parks and elsewhere – set the nation on edge. Bundy’s arrest drew widespread fascination, partially as a result of many thought-about him to charming and good-looking.
At the time of Aime’s killing, Bundy was residing in Salt Lake City and finding out legislation on the University of Utah.
“Laura Aime is the quintessential daughter of Utah County. We felt the pain the family feels when she was taken. We felt the pain that you felt this whole entire time, and we’ve had the desire to deliver to you some type of healing, we can’t really say closure,” Utah County sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Reynolds mentioned in a information convention earlier Wednesday.
