Ted Bundy expected to be linked to another decades-old homicide nearly 40 years after his execution

Utah authorities are expected to link notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to another decades-old homicide Tuesday, nearly 40 years after he was executed and months after DNA evidence tied him to the killing of a 17-year-old girl.The Summit County Sheriff's Office and county attorney are expected to identify the victim during a news conference Tuesday and reveal the evidence linking Bundy to the killing.Officials are also expected to explain why investigators are closing the decades-old case.CALIFORNIA AUTHORITIES IDENTIFY FINAL UNKNOWN VICTIM OF ‘HAPPY FACE KILLER’ KEITH JESPERSON AFTER 34 YEARSThe victim's identity has not been released, though the 1974 death of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith has long been listed as a cold case, The Associated Press reported.Ted Bundy sits in a courtroom in Miami, Florida on July 13, 1979.(Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)Tuesday's announcement comes about six months after authorities in Utah County used DNA evidence to link Bundy to the 1974 killing of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime.COLD-CASE FUGITIVE BUSTED SOUTH OF THE BORDER AS NEW DNA TECH ALLEGEDLY TIES HIM TO TEEN’S ROADSIDE KILLINGAime vanished after leaving a Halloween party to buy cigarettes on Oct.

31, 1974.Her body was discovered by hikers near American Fork Canyon days later.Investigators determined Aime had been raped, strangled and murdered.FORENSIC GENEALOGY UNMASKS COLD CASE SUSPECT AS STRANGLER, SEXUAL PREDATOR DECADES LATER: OFFICIALSFor decades, Bundy was considered the prime suspect in Aime's death.

He began studying law at the University of Utah just two months before she disappeared.The case remained unsolved for 51 years until investigators with the Utah County Sheriff's Office used new DNA technology to develop a male DNA profile from bodily fluids found on Aime's remains.DNA BREAKTHROUGH LEADS TO ARREST IN GRISLY 33-YEAR-OLD COLD CASE INVESTIGATORS NEVER GAVE UP ONTheodore "Ted" Bundy is seen here following the murders of FSU coeds Margaret Bowman and Li...