Found Deceased UT - MacKenzie "Kenzie" Lueck, 23, Salt Lake City, 17 June 2019 #16 *ARREST*

[PommyMommy]

Ladd Egan on Twitter
BREAKING: Medical examiner says #MacKenzieLueck suffered fatal blunt force trauma to left side of skull. Formal charges against #AyoolaAjayi: -Criminal Homicide, Aggravated Murder -Aggravated Kidnapping -Obstructing Justice -Desecration of a body @KSL5TV @KSLcom @kslnewsradio

11:11 AM - 10 Jul 2019 from Salt Lake City, UT

 

[milkshakedonkey]

KSL Newsradio on Twitter
Evidence was later collected at the home that part of a human bone and scalp. DNA testing fit the profile of #MacKenzieLueck
11:06 AM - 10 Jul 2019

Chris Jones on Twitter
@SimGillDA gets emotional during press conference. I've known him a long time. This is the first time I've ever seen that from him. #MacKenzieLueck
11:06 AM - 10 Jul 2019

As have I. Never seen him quite so visibly emotional at a public press conference.

 

[liltexans]

These are stomach-churning details. It's hard to listen to this and to watch the DA break down in tears. I can't imagine how awful it will be if this goes to trial and Kenzie's friends and family have to sit in the same room and testify in front of the murderer.

 

[Jcscham]

LE and the DA just did an outstanding job on this case and moved as quickly as possible on this case. I'm just so impressed by how good SLC Unified Police have become in recent years. First Operation Rio Grande and now this case really give me so much confidence in them.

 

[DD8]

I could BARELY hear him. Everything on KSL has been like that.

Was not expecting to get THAT much info today.

Absolutely awful.

 

[crhedBngr]

KSL Newsradio on Twitter
Phone records show Ajayi was in Logan Canyon on June 25. When detectives searched the canyon @SimGillDA says detectives found a "charred human body" in a shallow grave in a grove of trees off the main road. Hands zipped tied behind back. DNA testing fit #MacKenzieLueck
11:10 AM - 10 Jul 2019

KSL 5 TV on Twitter
DA: #MackenzieLueck's body was found in a shallow grave in a heavily-wooded area. #ksltv
11:09 AM - 10 Jul 2019

Another dumba$$ criminal with the brain of a flea.

 

[Jessthinkin]

Andrew Reeser on Twitter
Ajayi’s phone pinged at Logan Canyon on June 25. Detectives located “disturbed area of soil, and a charred human body.” Mackenzie’s arms were bound by a zip tie and rope. Part of her left scalp was missing. Autopsy showed she suffered blunt force trauma to skull. #MackenzieLueck

11:04 AM - 10 Jul 2019

KSL 5 TV on Twitter
DA: #MackenzieLueck's hands were bound behind her back with a zip tie, and a portion of her skull was fractured. Manner of death has been deemed as homicide. #ksltv
11:04 AM - 10 Jul 2019

The blunt force trauma was to the left side of her head, and the DA said that it was the cause of death. I had a momentary hope that perhaps he blindsided her and hit her on the left side of her head right in the Hatch Park parking lot (to spare her any ongoing horror) but if she had died or been disabled right then, it wouldn't seem necessary to ziptie her hands behind her back.
Edited to add: Someone else suggested that AA didn't know the blow had killed her, so he ziptied her right there in the car fro when she "woke up", but she never did. This is a more comforting possibility, as at least this spares her continued contact with him.

 

[iamcurious9]

KSL Newsradio on Twitter
Phone records show Ajayi was in Logan Canyon on June 25. When detectives searched the canyon @SimGillDA says detectives found a "charred human body" in a shallow grave in a grove of trees off the main road. Hands zipped tied behind back. DNA testing fit #MacKenzieLueck
11:10 AM - 10 Jul 2019

KSL 5 TV on Twitter
DA: #MackenzieLueck's body was found in a shallow grave in a heavily-wooded area. #ksltv
11:09 AM - 10 Jul 2019

I simply have no f.....ing words.
What has happened to our culture

 

[PommyMommy]

DA officially charges Ayoola Ajayi with first-degree murder of MacKenzie Lueck
Ayoola Adisa Ajayi, 31, is now officially charged with first-degree felony aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a body and misdemeanor obstruction of justice.

[...]

Gill says no deal has been made, and the death penalty is a possibility, but it won’t be known until after the preliminary hearing.

Gill says the investigation is still "open" and "active."

[...]

While serving a search warrant at Ajayi's house on June 26, police found some of Lueck's personal belongings, human bone, part of a scalp among other charred items buried in the backyard. The DNA matched Lueck's.

A neighbor told police Ajayi was pouring gasoline on the burning site shortly after Lueck went missing.

Investigators later located her body, July 5, in a wooded area in a shallow grave with brush over it in Logan Canyon.

Cell phone records placed Ajayi in the canyon where Lueck's remains were found.

After a length search, detectives found a charred human body. Her arms were bound behind her back with rope. She suffered blunt force trauma to the skull "which could have been fatal," Gill said.

 

[Kadoober]

It is astonishing to me, how dumb murderers can be.
He took his powered on cell phone to the canyon? WOW.
I'm glad they are so dumb, but continuously stunned by it.

 

[PommyMommy]

KSL Newsradio on Twitter
A medical examiner says that #MacKenzieLueck suffered a fatal blunt force trauma to the left side of her skull. @SLCountyDA says that the death penalty is a possibility, but that it is too early to discuss further.
11:16 AM - 10 Jul 2019

KSL 5 TV on Twitter
DA: "We feel very comfortable with the charging decisions we have made." #MackenzieLueck #KSLTV
11:16 AM - 10 Jul 2019

 

[katydid23]

Blunt face trauma to the head. I wasn't expecting that part.

 

[wary]

As in any case, the presumption of innocence is there....we feel very comfortable with the charging decisions we have made.

Not going to discuss the communications between ML and AA (he implied that more will come out regarding their relationship, later.)

 

[Jcscham]

What did he say will most likely come between tomorrow and Friday?

 

[katydid23]

It is astonishing to me, how dumb murderers can be.
He took his powered on cell phone to the canyon? WOW.
I'm glad they are so dumb, but continuously stunned by it.

And he is supposedly an 'IT tech'?

 

[PommyMommy]

Andrew Reeser on Twitter
Does Ajayi have more victims out there> @SLCountyDA won't speculate, but he didn't say no. Says investigation is ongoing. #MacKenzieLueck
11:17 AM - 10 Jul 2019

 

[katydid23]

Buying the gas can early---is that going to be premeditation?

 

[SoCalGirl]

The blunt force trauma was to the left side of her head, and the DA said that it was the cause of death. I had a momentary hope that perhaps he blindsided her and hit her on the left side of her head right in the Hatch Park parking lot (to spare her any ongoing horror) but if she had died or been disabled right then, it wouldn't seem necessary to ziptie her hands behind her back.

I was hoping the same thing. Blunt force trauma to the left side of her head while in the passenger seat of his car - didn't see it coming. Then he took her phone and powered it down and brought her back to his house to dispose of the body. That last part doesn't make sense and of course, the zip tied wrists wouldn't fit with this scenario. Maybe he didn't realize he'd killed her in the car, just incapacitated, and then tied her hands and brought her to his house only to realize the blow to the head had killed her. I'm so saddened by this. My heart aches for her family.

 

[Kadoober]

And he is supposedly an 'IT tech'?

I know!! He's pretty low on the IT totem pole, but still.

He pinged at the canyon on the 25th? 8 days later?

 

[Jessthinkin]

These are stomach-churning details. It's hard to listen to this and to watch the DA break down in tears. I can't imagine how awful it will be if this goes to trial and Kenzie's friends and family have to sit in the same room and testify in front of the murderer.

I hope there's a way to get full justice for Kenzie without a trial, in order to spare her family more trauma...

 

[kgreg2529]

I want to swear, or cry

I was just shaking my head like omg that poor girl. What a monster he is.