Utah Investigators Link Teenager’s 1974 Death to Ted Bundy

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How to approach this practice

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1. Question 1 · Single choice

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   What did officials say made the present conclusion possible?

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   1. A confession discovered in the original investigation
   2. Recent developments and advances in science
   3. A newly identified eyewitness to the death
   4. A change in Utah’s criminal statutes
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   Recent developments and advances in science

   The narration explicitly identifies recent developments and scientific advances.

   Smith’s death occurred in 1974, but officials said recent developments and scientific advances made the present conclusion possible.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

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   According to the narration, what can forensic science include?

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   1. Examining physical evidence and assessing connections
   2. Determining guilt without examining material evidence
   3. Comparing only the locations of unrelated crimes
   4. Replacing legal procedures with laboratory procedures
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   Examining physical evidence and assessing connections

   The recording names both physical evidence and relational analysis.

   Its role can include examining physical evidence and assessing connections among people, places, and events.

3. Question 3 · Single choice

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   What may happen when techniques improve?

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   1. Earlier evidence necessarily becomes inadmissible
   2. Previously limited material may yield clearer results
   3. Investigators must discard all earlier interpretations
   4. Historical uncertainty becomes impossible to maintain
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   Previously limited material may yield clearer results

   Improved methods can yield clearer information from previously limited material.

   As techniques improve, material that previously produced limited information may yield a clearer result.

4. Question 4 · Single choice

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   What does the narration say can prompt authorities to reconsider another case?

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   1. A change in public opinion alone
   2. Developments in one investigation
   3. The passage of a fixed statutory period
   4. A disagreement between unrelated laboratories
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   Developments in one investigation

   A relevant development in one inquiry may affect another inquiry.

   Developments in one investigation can also prompt authorities to reconsider another, especially where the circumstances appear relevant to both.

5. Question 5 · Single choice

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   What does the announcement place within Bundy’s wider history?

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   1. The forensic techniques used in every Utah case
   2. Smith’s death within Bundy’s broader history
   3. The entire chronology of American criminal justice
   4. A separate investigation into laboratory standards
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   Smith’s death within Bundy’s broader history

   It situates Smith’s death within the broader historical record associated with Bundy.

   The announcement places Smith’s death within the wider history associated with Bundy.

6. Question 6 · Single choice

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   What value does the narration attribute to preserving evidence?

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   1. It prevents investigators from revising conclusions
   2. It supports later review as scientific capabilities develop
   3. It ensures that historical events can be changed legally
   4. It removes the need to document investigative decisions
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   It supports later review as scientific capabilities develop

   Preserved evidence can support later review when scientific capabilities expand.

   It also underscores the continuing value of preserving evidence and reviewing unresolved cases when new scientific capabilities emerge.

7. Question 7 · Single choice

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   What distinction does the final paragraph emphasize?

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   1. A recent conclusion does not make the underlying event recent
   2. An old investigation cannot produce a valid modern conclusion
   3. A historical event becomes recent when evidence is preserved
   4. Investigative conclusions are always contemporaneous with events
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   A recent conclusion does not make the underlying event recent

   A later conclusion concerns an earlier event without making that event recent.

   For C2 learners, the distinction is important: an investigation may reach a later conclusion about an earlier event without implying that the event itself is recent.

8. Question 8 · Single choice

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   What is the stated result of the new investigative understanding?

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   1. The event is legally reclassified as a recent occurrence
   2. The past changes, but the evidence remains uncertain
   3. What investigators can establish about the past becomes more precise
   4. The original case is replaced by an entirely different event
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   What investigators can establish about the past becomes more precise

   The past remains unchanged, while the evidentiary account becomes more precise.

   Such reassessments do not alter what happened decades earlier, but they can refine what investigators are able to establish about it.

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