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DNA links serial killer Ted Bundy to another Utah teenager's 1974 killing

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Summit County Attorney Margaret Olson's announcement comes exactly 52 years after Melissa Ann Smith's body was discovered. Bundy killed at least 30 women and girls in the 1970s. He was executed in 1989.

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