An unknown murder by serial killer Ted Bundy was solved 51 years later, when science helped determine that the 17-year-old who disappeared after a party and was found dead in a remote location was one of his victims. Laura Amy was a 17-year-old teenager with dreams for the future, like all children her age. She saw herself as a future lawyer and had a passion for horseback riding. But everything turned dark for her loved ones when her trail vanished after a school party 51 years ago.
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The case seemed like a mystery as there was no evidence of what happened to Amy after the Halloween party in 1974 until, a month later, hikers found her lifeless body in American Fork.Last Wednesday, however, everything changed. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced that new tests “unequivocally confirmed that DNA evidence recovered from Laura’s body confirmed the presence of DNA belonging to a serial killer who in just four years had murdered at least 30 women.
Ted Bundy had confessed but no one believed him
Before being executed in Florida in 1989, Bundy confessed to Laura’s murder, but because he gave no details about his actual involvement in her death, “the Sheriff’s Department chose to keep the case open until investigators could prove, without any doubt,” that he was her killer, notes bbc.com.Now, according to the Utah County sheriff, “the case has now officially been closed.”Ted Bundy would still face the death penalty today, if the ultimate punishment hadn’t already been carried out against him for his heinous crimes.
Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in the USA with victims in Colorado, Utah and Florida.The infamous killer had a specific method of approaching young women, gaining their trust with his charm or by pretending to be injured. He would then lure his victims to remote locations and kill them.He was first arrested in 1975 for kidnapping a woman and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but two years later escaped through the open window of the prison library, and after escaping a second time, continued killing until 1978 when he was captured and sentenced to death.
Bundy remains a suspect in several unsolved homicides and disappearances, while in 1987 he confided that for “certain murders” he would “never speak,” because they involved victims who were very young.
