Found Deceased UT - MacKenzie "Kenzie" Lueck, 23, Salt Lake City, 17 June 2019 #19 *ARREST*

[Peppery]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??!!

With the use of third party text apps, ML may truly not known who she was texting. She may have thought it was a fellow female college student? Would that make her more likely to meet at a park at 2am? IDK

I hope the other woman at the park has been accounted for. And if involved she is punished to the fullest extent of the law.

The actual murder had to be somewhat quiet for one, possibly two tenants to not hear anything.

Was the tenant standing on the porch just feet from where ML body was? Possibly covered by pallets?

How, how, how in the world did no one smell a burning body? This might be the most unfathomable part to me.

 

[justme11]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??!!

With the use of third party text apps, ML may truly not known who she was texting. She may have thought it was a fellow female college student? Would that make her more likely to meet at a park at 2am? IDK

I hope the other woman at the park has been accounted for. And if involved she is punished to the fullest extent of the law.

The actual murder had to be somewhat quiet for one, possibly two tenants to not hear anything.

Was the tenant standing on the porch just feet from where ML body was? Possibly covered by pallets?

How, how, how in the world did no one smell a burning body? This might be the most unfathomable part to me.

This neighbor did, but didn't know what the smell was.
It makes my stomach turn to read all of this.

SBM

A neighbor who observed Ajayi burning items in his backyard described to police, “the smell of the fire as ‘something I’ve never smelled before.’”

Court documents outline new details in Mackenzie Lueck murder case

 

[PixieStix]

Wow! Who is the unknown women?!? That is certainly a twist. So, a woman was driving AA's car and picked ML up at the park. That makes the narrative of why ML went to a park in the middle of the night make sense in that meeting a woman at that time of night would seem a lot less dangerous. It would seem this woman lured ML, total speculation on my part. I wonder why she has not been charged? Even if by chance she picked ML up not knowing what was going to happen, you would think we would still have heard of her. She would be a witness at the very least to picking ML up at the park in AA's car and driving her back to his house. I am a bit stumped in what to think about the new info!

 

[diggndeeperstill]

FEB 5, 2020
Court documents outline new details in Mackenzie Lueck murder case
Ayoola Adisa Ajayi claimed he was burning pallets in his backyard.

But the man who was renting the basement Airbnb in Ajayi’s house told police he couldn’t believe Ajayi ignited such a fire in the Fairpark neighborhood, according to newly released court documents.

“Ayoola had the pallets and what he described as a white door on fire behind the garage. He said he stayed on the patio and did not approach the fire. (He) said a neighbor lady then started yelling at Ayoola and telling him if he did not put the fire out she was going to call the fire department. (The renter) said he could not believe Ayoola had ignited the fire in his backyard and went inside because he did not want to be involved with the incident,” according to a search warrant affidavit filed in 3rd District Court.

[...]

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office could not comment Wednesday on whether investigators believe there was a second woman at Hatch Park, stating only that the warrants are based on preliminary information available to police at the time, and additional information will be flushed out during court proceedings.

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Other warrants state that at least one man and possibly two were staying at Ajayi’s house at the time Lueck was allegedly killed.

One man, from Texas, said he awoke on June 17 to find Ajayi already awake, the warrant states.

“(He) walked outside to the driveway from the basement Airbnb apartment. (He) said Ayoola was sitting on a trash can in front of his open garage next to his Kia Optima. (He) said Ayoola asked him if he knew how to get gas out of a vehicle. (Ajayi) went on to say he had been trying to siphon gas out of his car and had been unsuccessful. ... Ayoola told him he wanted to burn some pallets that were stacked against the fence in the driveway,” the warrant states.

“Ayoola then told him he had been up all night and was ‘going on no sleep.’”

[...]

According to the returns on some of those warrants, some of the items seized by police from Ajayi’s house as potential evidence included knives, razors blades, scissors, a stun gun, sweatpants and a hoodie with bleach stains, shoes and socks with blood stains located near a washing machine, and “multiple pieces of cut up bone, located in (an) upstairs bathroom garbage.”

[...]

On July 15, Salt Lake police announced that new items of evidence related to the Lueck case were found in the Jordan River. According to a recently unsealed warrant, those items included Lueck’s University of Utah student ID card and “multiple items of women’s clothing strung along the bank of the Jordan River.

“All of the clothing found was cut with a sharp cutting instrument consistent with a knife, scissors, razor blade, etc. Among the items recovered was a bra which had been partially burned and melted and is consistent with articles of clothing that were burned at the initial dig site,” police wrote in the affidavits.

[...]

Oh my gosh. I don’t know if I can read these details. That’s so horrid. I don’t want to imagine.

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 5, 2020
Court documents outline new details in Mackenzie Lueck murder case
[...]

When police interviewed the Lyft driver on June 21, he said Lueck was met by a woman who helped her put her luggage into Ajayi’s car.

[...]

In the third case, he is charged with aggravated kidnapping and three counts of forcible sexual abuse. Those charges were filed after a woman who claimed she was assaulted by Ajayi in his house in 2018 saw news coverage on the Lueck case, recognized Ajayi and contacted police. A two-day trial is scheduled to begin in that case on Feb. 25.

@Niner

 

[PommyMommy]

cristina flores on Twitter
NEW: this is the Lyft driver who gave a ride to U of U student MacKenzie Lueck before she vanished last June and was killed. He was one of the last people to see her alive. His story coming up on ⁦@KUTV2News⁩ at 5.

4:58 PM - 5 Feb 2020

Exclusive: Man who gave Mackenzie Lueck Lyft ride before she vanished breaks silence
[...]

The Lyft driver stayed out of the spotlight until he was cleared by police.

“It really tore me up,” he told 2News, nearly eight months after that unforgettable ride with the University of Utah student who vanished, then was found dead in Logan Canyon after a high-profile search that drew national attention.

[...]

MC said there was nothing unusual about the ride, until the small talk turned to a comment about something being strange. “and she said, ‘not as strange as where you are dropping me off in the middle of a park.’ She actually brought that up and said it was odd she was being dropped off there,” he recalled.

[...]

He parked in the stall next to the Subaru, grabbed Lueck’s bag from his trunk, and put it in the hatchback of the Subaru.

Then he noticed what he assumed to be a woman in the car. He saw one person with dark curly hair in the vehicle.

“I heard a faint voice,” he said assuming it was a woman’s voice.

Canada said the faintness of the voice also led him to believe it was a woman in the vehicle.

Days later, police interviewed him. After that, he learned the suspect was a man. He saw the mugshot of 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi in news coverage and did not remember seeing him in the car.

[...]

 

[kirk2010]

Why the hell would he be so cooperative with police?

 

[Seattle1]

The Luecks said they knew MacKenzie planned to use a ride share, such as Uber or Lyft, from the airport.

The Lyft driver who dropped MacKenzie off at Hatch Park — where police believe she was picked up by Ajayi — after she got back to Salt Lake that night also offered some unusual information.

A maroon Subaru was already in the parking lot when the Lyft driver pulled up to Hatch Park. He told police that he saw a woman get out of a vehicle to greet Lueck, and that Lueck and the unknown woman appeared casual and friendly with each other.

ETA: Uber driver later learned the driver of the alleged Subaru (Kia Optima) was the suspect AA (not a woman). This would ordinarily be a gift for the accused but glad that investigators collected much more evidence.

Warrant reveals new information about the last moments of MacKenzie Lueck's life

 

[Seattle1]

Wow! Who is the unknown women?!? That is certainly a twist. So, a woman was driving AA's car and picked ML up at the park. That makes the narrative of why ML went to a park in the middle of the night make sense in that meeting a woman at that time of night would seem a lot less dangerous. It would seem this woman lured ML, total speculation on my part. I wonder why she has not been charged? Even if by chance she picked ML up not knowing what was going to happen, you would think we would still have heard of her. She would be a witness at the very least to picking ML up at the park in AA's car and driving her back to his house. I am a bit stumped in what to think about the new info!

It seems the Uber driver's initial belief was that a woman was driving AA's vehicle described as a maroon Subaru (AA's vehicle identified by LE as dark KIA Optima).

KUTV/2 article does not make it clear if Uber driver changed his mind about not seeing a woman waiting for ML in the park after shown AA's photo but other articles seem to imply Uber guy agreed it was AA and/or a man that ML left with.

 

[PixieStix]

It seems the Uber driver's initial belief was that a woman was driving AA's vehicle described as a maroon Subaru (AA's vehicle identified by LE as dark KIA Optima).

KUTV/2 article does not make it clear if Uber driver changed his mind about not seeing a woman waiting for MK in the park after shown AA's photo but other articles seem to imply Uber guy agreed it was AA and/or a man that MK left with.

Thanks for clearing it up! I will have to go back and review all the details and evidence from the case. It's been a while since I looked at everything and with so many months gone by I think some of the facts fell from my memory.

 

[Seattle1]

I don't know. I'm hoping we'll see the actual document. MOO

I want to read that warrant NOW!!

 

[Seattle1]

Court documents outline new details in Mackenzie Lueck murder case

Feb 5, 2020

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office could not comment Wednesday on whether investigators believe there was a second woman at Hatch Park, stating only that the warrants are based on preliminary information available to police at the time, and additional information will be flushed out during court proceedings. bbm

Dating apps became a focus early in the investigation. On June 22, detectives learned that “Mackenzie is involved in groups such as Tinder, Seeking Arrangement, Call Her Daddy that include sexual conversations, photos, videos and date arrangements that Mackenzie has been involved in for quite some time,” according to the warrants.

Also on June 22, Lueck’s father told police he discovered his daughter had been using a credit card that he did not know she had, according to the warrants, as well as a separate bank account. He also discovered that his daughter was using TextMe, a third-party messaging application for mobile phones.

 

[janewall]

The reference to the Subaru seems to be gone from the article now. That confused the heck out of me.

The details about the evidence found are so stomach-churning. This guy is a depraved ghoul.

If MacKenzie was catfished by this woman, that adds a new level of grotesqueness to the crime. OTOH, I hope this other woman is not another victim of AA's.

edit: I confused the KUTV article (claiming AA's car was a Subaru) with the Deseret News article (claiming it was a Kia Optima). Does anyone know which car is the right one?

 

[janewall]

This is just heartbreaking. MacKenzie knew there was something wrong ... she just didn't know she knew it, didn't credit her instincts. Didn't understand the gift of fear.

Gavin deBecker must be shaking his head in anguish.

Exclusive: Man who gave Mackenzie Lueck Lyft ride before she vanished breaks silence

"Canada said there was nothing unusual about the ride, until the small talk turned to a comment about something being strange.

“... and she said, ‘not as strange as where you are dropping me off in the middle of a park.’ She actually brought that up and said it was odd she was being dropped off there,” he recalled.

Canada said he’d dropped off customers at strange places before. When Lueck told him she was meeting a friend at the park who would pick her up, he said he gave no more thought to the fact that it was a strange meeting place at 2 a.m."

 

[kirk2010]

The reference to the Subaru seems to be gone from the article now. That confused the heck out of me.

The details about the evidence found are so stomach-churning. This guy is a depraved ghoul.

If MacKenzie was catfished by this woman, that adds a new level of grotesqueness to the crime. OTOH, I hope this other woman is not another victim of AA's.

edit: I confused the KUTV article (claiming AA's car was a Subaru) with the Deseret News article (claiming it was a Kia Optima). Does anyone know which car is the right one?

AA definitely had a Kia Optima. But the Lyft Driver said he put her bag into a *hatchback* of a Subaru

 

[Niner]

@PommyMommy - thanks for the date for the assault case. Anything on the 19 counts of - I have "late March". TIA if you can find this!

 

[PommyMommy]

@PommyMommy - thanks for the date for the assault case. Anything on the 19 counts of - I have "late March". TIA if you can find this!

Not yet, but I'll keep my eyes peeled!

 

[Niner]

Not yet, but I'll keep my eyes peeled!

Thanks!

 

[Factoria]

AA definitely had a Kia Optima. But the Lyft Driver said he put her bag into a *hatchback* of a Subaru

This leaves me with more questions than answers... I'll be able to research a bit more at work, but my quick searches thus far haven't revealed any 'hatchback' options for a 2013 Kia Optima, leaving me confused about whether we're talking about two different vehicles. I also remain confused about whether there was a woman involved in the pick-up at Hatch Park, or if it was just AA ~ in disguise, perhaps? Has anyone found mention of a description of the 'woman' that the Lyft driver saw? So many 'YIKES!' here!!!

ETA: Even the reference to ML's personal cell number being listed in AA's phone under 'TextMe' is odd in my mind... Doesn't that app allow you to choose a new number to display? If she were using that app, why would she use her actual number?? Or, why would she use the app if she's going to choose her actual number anyway? Just for the free long distance? Don't most cell plans already include free nation-wide texting? Just one more bizarre puzzle piece.

 

[Niner]

Didn't the Lyft driver say at first that the woman got out of the car & helped put Mackenzie's luggage in the back - and then he says HE helped put Mackenzie's luggage in the hatchback - ??