Ted Bundy has officially been connected to yet another teenage girl’s murder from the 1970s.
Authorities in Utah had long believed the prolific serial killer may be responsible for the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, but the death remained a cold case ever since her body was first discovered in the woods on October 27, 1974.
The breakthrough in the case finally came when investigators connected DNA found on Smith and Laura Aime, another Bundy victim whose case was resolved last April in Utah County.
In that case, police used a new genotyping technology that allows investigators to build a full DNA profile from degraded
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