犹他州萨米特县10月27日宣布：DNA证据确认邦迪杀害17岁少女史密斯，52年悬案结案
犹他州萨米特县科尔维尔市消息，萨米特县检察官玛格丽特·奥尔森10月27日在萨米特县司法中心宣布，DNA证据确认连环杀手泰德·邦迪应对1974年17岁少女梅丽莎·安·史密斯的遇害负责，这起52年的悬案正式结案。史密斯来自盐湖县米德维尔市，是当地警察局长的女儿，1974年10月18日在探访朋友后失踪，9天后猎人在萨米特县与盐湖县交界附近的林地发现了她的遗体。案件的转机来自犹他县：2025年5月，犹他县调查人员就史密斯案与同年万圣节失踪的17岁少女劳拉·安·艾梅案的相似性联系萨米特县；犹他州犯罪实验室从艾梅案证据中提取的 DNA 图谱与邦迪在佛罗里达州存档的图谱相符，艾梅案已于2026年4月1日结案。实验室于7月14日认定，从艾梅遗体上提取的 DNA 图谱与史密斯案证据相符，相关证据于10月7日提交县检察官办公室。奥尔森表示，DNA 证据结合作案模式、动机、手段与机会方面的证据，足以认定邦迪应对史密斯的遇害负责；邦迪已不在世，无法再被起诉。
Utah's Summit County Announces on October 27: DNA Evidence Confirms Bundy Killed 17-Year-Old Melissa Smith, Closing a 52-Year-Old Cold Case
Coalville, Summit County, Utah — Summit County Attorney Margaret Olson announced on October 27 at the Summit County Justice Center that DNA evidence confirms serial killer Ted Bundy was responsible for the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, formally closing the 52-year-old cold case. Smith, from Midvale in Salt Lake County, was the daughter of the local police chief. She disappeared on October 18, 1974, after visiting a friend, and nine days later hunters found her body in woods near the Summit County–Salt Lake County line. The break came through Utah County: in May 2025, Utah County investigators contacted Summit County about similarities between Smith's case and that of Laura Ann Aime, a 17-year-old who disappeared that same Halloween. A DNA profile the Utah State Crime Lab developed from evidence in the Aime case matched Bundy's profile on file in Florida, and the Aime case was closed on April 1, 2026. On July 14, the lab concluded that the DNA profile recovered from Aime's body matched evidence in the Smith case, and the evidence was submitted to the county attorney's office on October 7. Olson said the DNA evidence, considered alongside evidence of pattern, motive, means and opportunity, establishes that Bundy was responsible for Smith's murder; Bundy is no longer alive and cannot be prosecuted.
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图片来源：图：泰德·邦迪1988年佛罗里达州惩教局登记照（资料图）。Florida Department of Corrections 摄，公共领域，来源：Wikimedia Commons / Photo: Ted Bundy in a 1988 Florida Department of Corrections mugshot (file photo). By Florida Department of Corrections, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
