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BY TRACY PFEIFFER
ANCHOR AUSTIN KIM
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Infamous American serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to 30 murders before his 1989 execution -- but authorities have always suspected him of more.
And now -- they could finally get their chance to prove it.
“A vial of Ted Bundy’s blood could help investigators close cold cases. ...he could be tied to even more killings thanks to a detective who came across the vial of blood taken in 1978. It was still on file. A complete DNA profile on Bundy will be uploaded to the FBI’s national database this week.” (CNN)
The News Tribune reports -- a detective working on a cold case in Washington started the latest push to find Bundy’s complete DNA profile.
It was discovered in the evidence from Bundy’s rape and murder of a 12-year-old Florida girl in 1978.
Tacoma’s KCPQ describes the case.
“Eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr vanished from her home in the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 1961. Her mother found a living room window open and the front door ajar. She was never seen again. Bundy lived in Tacoma as a boy and frequently visited his uncle, who lived in the Burr’s neighborhood.”
Ann Marie Burr’s parents have passed away -- but Seattle’s KOMO sat down with sister Julie Burr on the latest development.
JULIE BURR: “I haven’t always thought it’s Ted Bundy. I mean, there’s several suspects.”
REPORTER, KOMO: “Burr’s mom wrote Bundy on death row, asking for a confession.”
BURR: “I think my mother and father received more than one letter from him, but he, in those letters, always denied it.”
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BURR: “Even if this particular DNA doesn’t show anything -- will he still be a suspect? Probably. Because it wouldn’t conclude that he didn’t do it.”
REPORTER: “Burr says a match would help them move on.”
BURR: “Because if not -- we’re right back to where we were.”
Investigators tested the blood from the newly-discovered vial -- and found it matched a partial profile of Bundy’s DNA created in 2002.
“A private lab had developed the profile based on tissue taken from Bundy’s body before he was cremated. The profile was too limited to be uploaded into the FBI’s database but it could be used for comparisons when detectives called about unsolved slayings where Bundy was a suspect.” (The News Tribune)
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