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BREAKING: Summit County to close 50-year-old murder case and name Ted Bundy as the killer

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BREAKING: Summit County to close 50-year-old murder case and name Ted Bundy as the killer
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Summit County has a single open homicide linked to Bundy in the state's cold case database: Melissa Smith, a 17-year-old from Midvale whose body was found Oct. 27, 1974, near Toll Canyon in Summit Park by a man who was hunting. Tuesday's press conference falls 52 years to the day after that discovery.

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