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Soon Officials Give Update on Cold Case and Ted Bundy Fe

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“1974 COLD CASE MURDER LINKED TO TED BUNDY”

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“UTAH INVESTIGATORS CLOSETEDBUNDY COLD CASE”

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Topic poll · all networksBefore his 1989 execution, how many murders did Bundy confess to?

  1. 12
  2. 30
  3. 47
  4. 68
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Topic poll · all networksIs closing a 50-year Bundy cold case still meaningful for victims?

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Forensic genetic genealogy DNA tests can cost $3,000–$5,000 each.

Labs like the Utah State Crime Lab use this method to build DNA family trees from crime scene samples. The technique cracked the Golden State Killer case in 2018 after decades of failure using traditional methods.

Bundy's Florida prosecution cost taxpayers ~$6 million.

Between his 1979 trial and a decade of death-row appeals, Florida spent an estimated $6 million — equivalent to roughly $26 million today — before Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989.

Topic poll · all networksWhat matters most for solving 50-year-old cold cases?

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  • Dedicated cold case detectives 0%
  • DNA & forensic lab advances 0%
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Bundy's 1979 Chi Omega trial cost ~$6M — steep for its era.

The Florida prosecution of Ted Bundy for the Chi Omega sorority murders was estimated at roughly $6 million, making it one of the most expensive criminal trials in Florida history at the time — before DNA evidence even existed as a tool.

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