Found Deceased UT - MacKenzie "Kenzie" Lueck, 23, Salt Lake City, 17 June 2019 #14 *ARREST*

[Gardenista]

We drive from Logan to Bear Lake on wednesday. Not too far up the canyon we saw a police car drive through crime scene tape on a side road right next to the main road. There were five or six police vehicles there as well and then another strip of crime tape at the other end of the little dirt side road. We thought it was weird at the time but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where they found the body.

I bet you are right! Could you pinpoint it on a map for us?

 

[ClaireNC]

It could have been, but if so, why did it take so long? Wouldn't they go there immediately. I honestly don't know and that's why I'm asking.

Finding her might have been related to those 2 search warrants they issued last Friday. Maybe it was for gps records or something along those lines. If those warrants gave them more data to sift through, Wednesday seems like a reasonable amount of time to execute the warrants, receive data, analyze it and act on the findings. It was reported on Monday this week that they still had 40 to 60 people working on the case.

 

[Gardener1850]

He apparently has enough to be able to con people on-line, although to what extent I have no idea.
I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to "wipe" a computer. Maybe it takes more determination than knowledge.

I'm not super tech-savvy myself, but wiping a computer is something you can google how to do if you wanted to learn. I don't think he had any knowledge on how to do things with technology on his own (without Google help). Or at the very least he was not aware how much the police can access computers and cell phone info. His IT jobs were probably the type where he read a customer service "script" that started with re-booting the device. There are many IT-related jobs that require very little actual IT knowledge to get by. MOO.

 

[Jealoushe]

We drive from Logan to Bear Lake on wednesday. Not too far up the canyon we saw a police car drive through crime scene tape on a side road right next to the main road. There were five or six police vehicles there as well and then another strip of crime tape at the other end of the little dirt side road. We thought it was weird at the time but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where they found the body.

Would you mind showing on a map where that was?

I can't imagine he confessed. He was a liar face when they first questioned him, I can't imagine he all of a sudden is going to be honest, this is a pathological liar afterall.

 

[PommyMommy]

Body of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck is found
[...]

Lueck's remains were discovered Wednesday in Logan Canyon, in Logan, Utah, nearly 90 miles north of Salt Lake City, where the 23-year-old student was last seen on June 17, the Salt Lake City police chief, Mike Brown, told reporters.

Brown said he personally called Lueck's parents on Friday to update them on the discovery.

"We recovered the body on Wednesday and were able to confirm it was her," Brown said. "I spoke with Mackenzie's family this morning, another devastating call. Despite their grief, we hope this will help them find some closure and justice for Mackenzie."

[...]

The announcement that Lueck's body was found comes a week after police said that investigators had dug up Ajayi's backyard, where neighbors said he had burned something with gasoline around June 17 or 18. Police said they found "charred material" that was "forensically determined to be female human tissue.”

[...]

"The police department has been diligent in following up on every little lead in this case," Biskupski said.

Logan, Utah, where Lueck's body was found, is home to Utah State University, which Ajayi once attended.

[...]

#JUSTICEFORKENZIE

 

[Krix76]

"Logan Canyon" is over 35 miles long from the mouth of the canyon in Logan to Garden City along 89. There are tons of hiking trails, the Logan River runs through much of the canyon, there are campgrounds throughout, and even a lake (Tony Grove Lake) that is several miles off of 89 that he could have driven to. I have hiked much of Logan Canyon and the cell service is non-existent in a lot of the Canyon. It is also breathtaking there along the Crimson Trail and the Wind Caves is a must see! Sad to see it will be forever tainted by this.

 

[Jealoushe]

Dutch, I'm with you. I think they may have gotten his Google records. He didn't willingly give them the password, but they got a warrant and got those record, which would even have shown when he stopped and how long he was stopped in various places.

Good police work, there.

Are you referring to Google maps, or just his google email? Does email track your location?

 

[ClaireNC]

We drive from Logan to Bear Lake on wednesday. Not too far up the canyon we saw a police car drive through crime scene tape on a side road right next to the main road. There were five or six police vehicles there as well and then another strip of crime tape at the other end of the little dirt side road. We thought it was weird at the time but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where they found the body.

It certainly sounds like they found something there. Would you be able to pinpoint the location on a map? Was this on Rt 89?

 

[Seattle1]

We drive from Logan to Bear Lake on wednesday. Not too far up the canyon we saw a police car drive through crime scene tape on a side road right next to the main road. There were five or six police vehicles there as well and then another strip of crime tape at the other end of the little dirt side road. We thought it was weird at the time but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where they found the body.

That's incredible - thanks for sharing.

Not familiar with area. Do you think you could map the approximate location and post here?

Thanks again.

 

[Ragnarok]

I do too and I wish it's not true, but what else could it be?

Perp talked to a jailhouse snitch.

 

[PommyMommy]

Mackenzie Lueck's body has been found, police say - CNN
[...]

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who earlier this week was granted an extension to file charges against Ajayi, said at Friday's news conference that his office would move forward with formally filing charges in the "early part of next week."

The investigation, Gill stressed, remains ongoing.

A suspect would typically only be allowed to be held in custody for 72 hours before charges are filed or they must be released. Because of the extension, Gill told CNN, his office has until Wednesday at 5 p.m. local time.

The Salt Lake Legal Defender Association said in a statement sent to CNN it had been appointed to represent Ajayi, and stressed that he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

"The facts in this matter will be established in due course through the processes of the criminal justice system," the statement said.

 

[MsBetsy]

I dont think they took the death penalty off the table. They found her through good investigative work.

Imo

I think so to. Also I'm not sure they would have stressed the importance of "presumption of innocence," if he had told them where the body was. Imo

 

[Gardener1850]

They might have broke him under interrogation. He didn't have an attorney until a couple days after his arrest from what I understand so they likely were all over him for that period of time. Definitely could have broke.

I thought he paid the blonde attorney on Venmo the day before he was arrested?

 

[MassGuy]

If he had told them anything they would have found her far sooner, and there's no way his attorney would allow any disclosures or even access to him after that. So they found her as a result of good old fashioned diligent police work. I think they knew that what they found in the yard was not simply the last remnants of her remains, and that there were remains in another location. And that was another reason for delaying charges. They were working hard to find her, I believe, and my personal fantasy is that he's on his knees crying like a baby, but I don't know if these people have tears, even for themselves.

That’s probably true, but I have seen it before.

With his client’s permission, his attorney could have approached authorities with that information (location of the body).

One part of the agreement would be that the DA not disclose what led them to those remains.

 

[Lillymac]

It could be phone pings and/or other digital teackinf data

It could have been, but if so, why did it take so long? Wouldn't they go there immediately. I honestly don't know and that's why I'm asking.

 

[mountainflower]

I’m not convinced the “female human tissue” was found in the burn pile. It only said that it was found in the backyard. They did not describe it as “charred”.

There is a shed in the back yard that bothers me.

It could be that he burned the personal items but had her in that shed in the back yard.

I keep thinking about the “hooks” that the contractor mentioned. If any kind of hook was used it would have tissue on it.

I just watched the PC from a week ago and Chief Brown says "other charred remains were located." Continues to say that they were determined to be female human tissue. A DNA profile of tissue obtained through Utah Crime Lab compares with personal items Of ML.

 

[Seattle1]

KFYR-TV‏Verified account @KFYRTV
Body of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck is found
Body of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck is found

11:24 AM - 5 Jul 2019 pst

 

[ClaireNC]

I'm not super tech-savvy myself, but wiping a computer is something you can google how to do if you wanted to learn. I don't think he had any knowledge on how to do things with technology on his own (without Google help). Or at the very least he was not aware how much the police can access computers and cell phone info. His IT jobs were probably the type where he read a customer service "script" that started with re-booting the device. There are many IT-related jobs that require very little actual IT knowledge to get by. MOO.

I agree, he wasn’t tech savvy. He could have been on the hardware side, which is basically following a diagram and plugging things in. Or reading a script to customers explaining to them how to plug something in.

 

[10ofRods]

USU is near Logan Canyon.

No cell service is needed for Google maps to continue to track a person. There was a California case (recounted in the podcast To Live and Die in L.A.) where it was used to locate a body.

I'm guessing that AA wouldn't have been able to find his way into a mountainous, deserted area without his phone. The stupidity of all the things he did post-mortem makes me unsurprised that he would have taken his phone.

I had no idea that unless I delete google maps, my whereabouts are stored in the cloud and I am fairly tech savvy, and my good friend is a specialist in internet privacy, so I should obviously have had a deeper conversation with her about such matters. I now regard it as a safety feature, for myself, as it's okay with me that google knows where I am.

 

[Seattle1]

KUTV 2News‏Verified account @KUTV2News
BODY FOUND: Here's an updated timeline of events surrounding the disappearance and murder of MacKenzie Lueck, whose body was found Friday in Logan Canyon.
Timeline: Events surrounding the disappearance, search for missing U of U student

11:10 AM - 5 Jul 2019 pst