Laura Aime, a Ted Bundy victim, goes missing in Utah in 1974.
Laura Ann Aime was at a Halloween party with friends on October 31st, 1974. The 17-year-old left the gathering by herself later that night. This was the final time anyone saw her alive. On November 26th, over a month later, two hikers discovered Laura Aime's nude body on the edge of an embankment in Utah's American Fork Canyon. Laura's assailant battered, raped, and strangled her to death, according to authorities.
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