2026年4月1日 / 美国东部时间下午5:26 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
当地警长办公室周三表示，新的DNA检测已将1974年犹他州一名少女的未解死亡案与臭名昭著的连环杀手泰德·邦迪明确关联。
17岁的劳拉·安·艾姆于51年前的万圣节当晚独自离开派对前往便利店后失踪。大约一个月后，徒步旅行者在美国福克峡谷的一条高速公路旁发现了她的遗体。艾姆生前被捆绑、殴打且赤裸上身。当局表示，证据表明她在被绑架后可能还存活了数天。
调查人员长期以来一直怀疑邦迪是凶手——警方称，在1989年佛罗里达州处决他之前，他曾口头承认自己有罪——但在获得确凿证据之前，该案一直处于悬而未决状态。
邦迪是美国最多产的连环杀手之一，20世纪70年代在多个州造成至少30名女性和女童死亡。2011年，佛罗里达州发现了一支1978年邦迪因一名12岁女童死亡案被捕时采集的血液样本。该样本的完整DNA档案被录入联邦调查局的全国数据库，为调查人员侦破可能与邦迪有关的案件提供了可能。
他的谋杀案发生在女生联谊会宿舍、公园等地，令全国陷入恐慌。邦迪的被捕引发了广泛关注，部分原因在于许多人认为他魅力十足且外形俊朗。
艾姆的家人形容她是一个热爱户外、热爱生活的自由灵魂。
“劳拉·安·艾姆是犹他县典型的女儿，”犹他县警长迈克·雷诺兹中士在周三早些时候的新闻发布会上表示。“她被带走时，我们感同身受地体会到了她家人的痛苦。我们一直都清楚你们这些年来所承受的痛苦，我们一直渴望能为你们带来某种程度的慰藉，尽管我们无法说这能带来彻底的了结。”
目前尚不清楚邦迪首次作案的时间，但到1974年，华盛顿州开始出现年轻女性——其中多为大学生——失踪的案件。当邦迪于9月搬到盐湖城并开始在犹他州、爱达荷州和科罗拉多州作案时，当局仍在调查这些案件。
艾姆遇害时，邦迪正在犹他大学攻读法律学位。
据历史学家琳达·西利托称，盐湖县16岁的啦啦队员南希·威尔科克斯被认为是邦迪在犹他州的首批受害者之一。威尔科克斯于10月2日失踪。同月下旬，高中毕业生梅利莎·史密斯失踪。西利托表示，猎鹿者发现了她被钝器击打致死的遗体。
1975年8月，警方拦下一辆车并在车内发现了包括绳索、手铐和滑雪面罩在内的 incriminating 物品，邦迪因此首次被捕。
次年，他因绑架和袭击卡罗尔·达龙奇罪名成立。
达龙奇是一名犹他州少女，她作证称自己当时正在逛街，邦迪伪装成便衣警察靠近她，谎称有人闯入了她的车。邦迪提出载她一程，试图绑架她，但她奋力反抗并成功逃脱。
邦迪因此项罪名被判处15年监禁，在狱中期间，他又因一起更早的护理学生死亡案被起诉。
1977年，他被带到科罗拉多州阿斯彭参加该案的听证会，在独自被留置期间，他从法院二楼的窗户爬出，逃脱了羁押。大约一周后他被抓获，但六个月后，他通过打破监狱牢房的天花板再次越狱。
此次越狱后，邦迪横跨美国逃窜，最终抵达佛罗里达州塔拉哈西。1977年1月15日，他闯入佛罗里达州立大学的基奥米加女生联谊会宿舍，用一根粗树枝将两名女子殴打致死，并造成另外两人重伤。随后他前往附近的另一户住宅，致使另一名女子重伤。
不到一个月后，他在佛罗里达州莱克城绑架、性侵并杀害了一名12岁女孩。金伯利·利奇被认为是他的最后一名受害者：邦迪在彭萨科拉驾驶一辆被盗车辆时被拦下并逮捕。
Ted Bundy’s DNA linked to unsolved death of Utah teen in 1974, sheriff’s office says
April 1, 2026 / 5:26 PM EDT / CBS/AP
New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, the local sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing on Halloween night 51 years ago after she left a party alone to go to a convenience store. About a month later, her body was found by hikers on the side of a highway in American Fork Canyon. Aime was bound, beaten and without clothing. Authorities said the evidence indicated that she had likely been kept alive for several days after her abduction.
Investigators long suspected that Bundy was responsible — police said he verbally acknowledged his culpability leading up to his execution in Florida in 1989 — but the case remained open until they could be certain.
Bundy was one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers, with at least 30 women and girls’ deaths linked to him in several states in the 1970s. In 2011, a vial of Bundy’s blood — drawn in 1978 when Bundy was arrested in the death of a 12-year-old girl — was found in Florida. The full DNA profile was entered into the FBI’s national database, giving investigators a shot at solving potential cases linked to Bundy.
His murders — which occurred in sorority houses, parks and elsewhere — set the nation on edge. Bundy’s arrest drew widespread fascination, in part because many considered him to be charming and handsome.
Aime’s family described her as a free spirit who loved the outdoors and found joy in everything she did.
“Laura Aime is the quintessential daughter of Utah County,” Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Reynolds said in a news conference earlier Wednesday. “We felt the pain the family feels when she was taken. We felt the pain that you felt this whole entire time, and we’ve had the desire to deliver to you some type of healing, we can’t really say closure.”
It’s not known when Bundy first began his attacks, but by 1974, young women — many of them college students — began disappearing in Washington state. Authorities were still investigating those cases when Bundy moved to Salt Lake City in September, and began killing people in Utah, Idaho and Colorado.
At the time of Aime’s killing, Bundy was studying law at the University of Utah.
Nancy Wilcox, a 16-year-old cheerleader in Salt Lake County, was believed to be one of Bundy’s first victims in Utah, according to historian Linda Sillitoe. Wilcox disappeared on Oct. 2. High school senior Melissa Smith disappeared near the end of the same month. Deer hunters found her bludgeoned body, Sillitoe said.
Bundy was arrested for the first time in August 1975, when police pulled him over and found incriminating items in his vehicle, including rope, handcuffs and a ski mask.
He was found guilty the following year of kidnapping and assaulting Carol DaRonch.
DaRonch, a teen in Utah, testified she was window shopping when Bundy approached her, pretending to be an undercover police officer and telling her a man broke into her car. Bundy offered DaRonch a ride and attempted to kidnap her but she struggled and managed to get away.
Bundy was sentenced to 15 years in prison for that crime, and while imprisoned he was charged in connection with the earlier death of a nursing student.
He was brought to Aspen, Colorado for a hearing in that case in 1977, and he escaped custody by climbing out a second-story courthouse window when he was left alone for a time. He was caught about a week later, but escaped again six months later by breaking through the ceiling of a jail.
That time Bundy fled across the country, eventually making his way to Tallahassee, Florida. On Jan. 15, 1977, he entered the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University, bludgeoning two women to death with a large branch and leaving two more badly injured. He then went to another house nearby, badly injuring another woman.
Less than a month later, he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed a 12-year-old girl in Lake City, Florida. Kimberly Leach was believed to be his final victim: Bundy was pulled over in Pensacola while driving a stolen vehicle, and arrested.
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