DNA Breakthrough Identifies New Ted Bundy Victim In Utah

A more than 50-year-old Utah cold case murder has been identified as another victim of the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy using advanced DNA techniques.

The bombshell announcement represents a breakthrough that may lead to resolving other unsolved cases across the United States, and potentially Wyoming.

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The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced at a press conference last week that Bundy was responsible for killing 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime in 1974, a crime that went unsolved for 52 years.

Aime had been at a Halloween party in Utah County the night she disappeared after leaving the party on foot by herself to get some items from a convenience store. 

Aime’s body was discovered less than a month later on Thanksgiving when two hikers found her several feet from the highway in American Fork Canyon.

Her naked body had been bound, severely beaten and strangled with a nylon stocking, trademarks of Bundy, who wouldn’t be arrested until more than three years later, on Feb. 15, 1978.

Beege Welborn

A sharp-eyed Pensacola cop caught Ted Bundy here in Pensacola. He was in his VW coming out of an alleyway that ran behind the local landmark, Oscar's Restaurant. 

On February 15, 1978, shortly after 1 a.m., Pensacola Police Officer David Lee apprehended serial killer Ted Bundy after seeing his orange Volkswagen bug emerging from the alleyway behind the restaurant. Lee knew what most of the employees drove and was suspicious of the late hour; when he called to check on the license plate, it was reported stolen.[1] The incident is referenced in the song "Board of Tourism" by This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb: "Ted Bundy was caught behind the hot cake king / He had a busted head light behind the hot cake king."

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