Serial killer Ted Bundy linked to another Utah girl's cold case murder
Summary
Utah authorities say DNA evidence links Ted Bundy to the 1974 killing of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith. Investigators had treated Smith’s death as a cold case for more than 50 years; Bundy died in 1989.Key Facts
- Authorities said they are satisfied Bundy killed Melissa Ann Smith.
- Smith was 17 and disappeared in Utah in October 1974.
- Deer hunters later found Smith’s bludgeoned body.
- Bundy was executed in Florida in 1989 for the murders of two women at Florida State University’s Chi Omega sorority house.
- A vial of Bundy’s blood, drawn in 1978, was found in Florida in 2011.
- Investigators entered Bundy’s DNA profile into the FBI’s national database.
- Utah authorities said in April that Bundy was responsible for the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime.
- Authorities have linked at least 30 women’s and girls’ deaths to Bundy.
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