MacKenzie Lueck is dead. Police seek aggravated murder charge against man arrested.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

MacKenzie Lueck is dead. Police seek aggravated murder charge against man arrested.

By Erin Alberty By Paighten Harkins By Nate Carlisle

Published: 1 hour ago
Updated: 7 minutes ago

Investigators say missing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck has died -- and they have arrested a Salt Lake City man who police say killed her and burned her body.

Ayoola Ajayi, 31, was being booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a body and obstruction of justice after a SWAT team took him into custody Friday morning at a West Temple apartment complex, said Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown. ... "I will not be saying the killer's name again," Brown said. ... Lueck's family released a brief statement thanking police and others who helped with the investigation.

Lueck, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, has been missing since June 17, when she arrived back in Salt Lake City from California, where she was attending her grandmother's funeral. Her parents reported her missing on June 20 and the search since then has drawn national attention.
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In an interview, Brown said, with Ajayi claimed he texted Lueck on June 16 at about 6 p.m. but had no further contact with her. He stated he didn’t know what Lueck looked like and said he hadn’t seen photos or online profile. despite having those photos himself. ... Witnesses observed him burning something using gas on June 17 and 18 in his backyard. Police conducted a forensic excavation. Brown said police found evidence, including human tissue and personal items tied to Lueck[.]
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Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/06/28/salt-lake-city-police/

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Hat tip, a TV set tuned to Fox News.

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I don't want this to turn into victim-shaming, but ... meeting someone in a park at 3:00 a.m.?

[MicaelS]

1. This whole case was strange from the beginning.

I am sorry for her family.

[jayfish]

2. "I don't want this to turn into victim-shaming, but ..."

"victim shaming."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Who meets someone in a park at 3:00 a.m.? NT

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. I've done it. Early days of internet dating, college town.

It's not even remotely unusual.

[stopdiggin]

7. just not thinking

"It's not even remotely unusual." Really? I think you're off base here. Let's have a show of hands from young college age women. Good idea -- or --NFW!

In any event -- heartbreaking.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. I'm retirement age. I asked a not-far-out-of-college woman in the adjacent cubicle if

she would meet someone in a park at 3:00 a.m.

"No."

The woman in the cubicle is only a few years older, if that many, than MacKenzie Lueck. She's college educated, like MacKenzie.

[obamanut2012]

27. And NOW triple downing on the victim shaming

Just stop, delete all of this.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

11. Not even remotely off base.

Hookup culture is a thing. 3AM rendezvous, especially amongst horny college kids is quite normal. It was normal in 2001 (when I was a horny college kid), it’s even more normal now.

The vast majority of people on dating sites aren’t scumbags.

[NewDayOranges]

16. Just because you meet someone in the middle of the night (booty call, perhaps?)

doesn't mean you deserve to be killed...

[obamanut2012]

26. Doubling down on the murder victim shaming I see

You should be sooooo proud of yourself.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

5. She didn't deserve to be murdered

I don't care if she was on Tinder or a Sugar Baby/Sugar Daddy site (as it appears she was).

However, using those sites does increase the chance of meeting a creep. I've got plenty of scary stories from both male and female friends who used Tinder, Bumble and other dating apps ranging from a whole lot of guys who happen to be in 'open marriages' to guys being extorted for money by their 'dates.'

[gldstwmn]

6. He asked a contractor to build a soundproof room in

his basement complete with trap door and wall hooks. Sick fuck. He was a predator.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. The details of the article get worse and worse as you keep reading. NT

[gldstwmn]

10. It is truly awful. He seems sociopathic.

Yet he managed to fly under the radar as they so often do.

[Blue_Tires]

19. Being able to fly under the radar is the very definition

of being a sociopath...

[gldstwmn]

20. Agreed

[dalton99a]

12. Murderous scumbag

https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/ayoola-ajayi/
Ayoola Ajayi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

[RobinA]

13. Sometimes

in college you just do stupid stuff. I am the most responsible, non-risk taker you’ll ever meet, and in college I did something so stupid I still cringe 40 years later. It was similar but not the same as what this girl did, and Yep, my burning body could have ended up in a ditch along a rural road. I was lucky, as I’m sure màny young woman are, after all most us us don’t turn up smoldering by the roadside. Unfortunately, this poor woman was not.

There but for the grace of god go a lot of us.

[Solanum dulcamara]

14. Obsession for perfection

A person who is obsessed with perfection is a non-social animal. This type of person does not see others per say, only the faults as perceived by him. Trying to get along with others in the 'normal' way causes friction in his head and ultimately leads him to do extreme things. I think.

[NutmegYankee]

34. exactly!

[kwassa]

17. She apparently had a secret internet life ....

advertising herself as a sugar baby looking for a sugar daddy on Tinder and another website.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7189255/Former-Army-specialist-31-gave-away-mattress-police-searching-Mackenzie-Lueck-case.html

[TeamPooka]

18. The point is that she probably died a horrible violent death. Nothing else matters.

[kwassa]

21. so, that disallows us from talking about anything else?

[TeamPooka]

23. i'm sorry, please proceed with your victim shaming and blaming...

[kwassa]

24. I am just seeking information. I am not making moral judgments.

You appear to be doing that.

[TeamPooka]

28. You shared a link about her personal history. Did you find what you were seeking by sharing it?

You shared the link.
That is victim shaming.

[kwassa]

31. Others here are also seeking information about this as well.

Seeking the truth is victim shaming? When did that happen?

[obamanut2012]

29. Yeah, you are

[kwassa]

32. Huh?

[Blue_Tires]

22. I don't get it... Did she know her killer or not?

[LisaL]

37. I don't think they have met in person until they agreed to meet in the park at 3 am.

[Blue_Tires]

42. She agreed to meet a total stranger at 3 a.m. in a park?

Do I have that correct?

[obamanut2012]

25. Nice shaming of a murder/stalking victim

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[ripcord]

30. Pretty disgusting isn't it?

I'm fully expecting someone to say her clothing was too provocative and she should have expected it.

[Lunabell]

33. "I don want this to turn this into victim shaming but..."

is the same thing as saying, "I'm not a racist, but... "

[Crabby Appleton]

35. RIP Mackenzie Lueck. nt

[Tracer]

36. People can hold two thoughts at the same time:

1. The guy appears to be a hideous, murdering monster and 2. meeting a stranger in a park at 3am isn't a wise idea.

[LisaL]

39. Sure isn't a wise idea.

This girl apparently had a lot going for her. A student, she also had held several legit jobs.

[oldsoftie]

38. Another good candidate for the needle. No doubt of guilt.

[cntrfthrs]

40. again, tell me why this is national news...

what with hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women and women of color....

[Demovictory9]

41. missing males or older folks or not attractive or brown skin...never get attention

[leftyladyfrommo]

44. It probably has a lot to do with Elizabeth Smart

Salt Lake will never get over that one. And here is a mother beautiful blond Salt Lake young woman kidnapped.

Salt Lake is a city with a lot of undergoing stuff going on. On the surface is this beautiful city full of moral dedicated church people.

But there is a dark underside . There was sex trafficking going on when I left in 1970. There was a healthy drug trade .

It sounds like this was a person who got sucked into some kind of really dangerous stuff. It happens there.




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[alphafemale]

43. ....but you are saying that some women deserve to be raped, tortured and murdered?

You can't possibly be saying that.

Can you?