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 a short distance from the highway near State Road 92 in the American Fork Canyon.
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“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.
“The Utah County Sheriff’s office has definitive proof that Theodore “Ted” Bundy murdered Laura Ann Aime in 1974,” the statement said.

Bundy, who once bragged he killed at least 100 women, was executed in Florida in 1989 for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach after his arrest in 1978.

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