Law enforcement officials in Utah linked the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith to serial killer Ted Bundy on Tuesday, closing the cold case of the murder 52 years after her body was found.

Summit County and Salt Lake County investigators led the investigation into the murder since it first opened, but recently partnered with neighboring Utah County after the jurisdiction made developments in a related murder case. After Utah County closed the 1974 murder case of 17-year-old Laura Aime this year, linking it to Bundy using new DNA profiling, the neighboring counties were able to match Bundy’s DNA to the Smith murder.

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