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issued a statement the police are also providing new details about the last time the University of Utah senior was
seen Fox 13 CeMAT McDonald is live at hatch Park in North Salt Lake tonight to explain Matt what can you tell us well I
can tell you this hatch park behind me is where McKenzie Luwak asked to be taken and was dropped off by her lyft
driver one week ago tonight now after looking at surveillance video from the area and talking to that lyft driver
police believe she met someone there at 3 o'clock in the morning 1:35 a.m. June 17th Luke's flight arrives in Salt Lake
City she'd been in California for a family funeral early Monday morning the 17th of
June when she texted her mother at 2:01 a.m. mountain time for more than an hour she remained at
the airport where surveillance cameras are everywhere we reviewed that tape and we have we are now we're not gonna
release that right now at 2:42 a.m. McKenzie got into a lyft car at 259 in the morning she arrived at a requested
destination hatch Park in North Salt Lake detectives have spoken with the lyft driver and learned that McKenzie
was met at hatch park by an individual in a vehicle police believe she met with the person
at the park willingly the make of the model of the car has not been determined from here
McKenzie disappeared does McKenzie have an alternate phone that she is used or is using who did McKenzie meet in North
Salt Lake City does McKenzie have any social media accounts we don't know about what more question police are
trying to answer does she want to be found she has no obligation to call the police
department or anyone else and say here's where I went Chris Burbank is a former Salt Lake City
police chief he says police are doing the right thing calling looook missing but not necessarily in danger in this
circumstance it would certainly be tragic if this young woman is in fact in danger and we didn't do enough late this
afternoon the Loic family issued a statement it reads in part our primary goal is to find McKenzie and bring her
home her family is grateful for the concern prayers and the tireless efforts of the Salt Lake City police and members
of the community Salt Lake City police have said a dedicated tip line just for this case you can find that phone number
on our website matt mattox 13 News Utah Matt thank you as we just mentioned McKenzie looook is a senior at the
University of Utah a spokesperson for the school says the U is deeply concerned about her well-being the dean
of students at the university has been in contact with her parents and has expressed you know our our desired says
to the campus community for her safe return and offering whatever support we can
Nelson went on to say the university is cooperating with police the school is also offering counseling to students and
staff who may need someone to talk to in the trailer there that is fox news 13 out of utah this story was and remains
big news this is the missing-persons case of McKenzie looook and as you heard they're just after one week detectives
in Salt Lake have what looks to be some promising leads and an interesting timeline McKenzie looook was born in El
Segundo California in 1995 she grew up there with three brothers and her parents are Greg and Diana looook she
attended El Segundo High School and played on the water polo team after high school she went off to the University of
Utah where she studied nursing and other studies she's a member of the Alpha Chi
Omega sorority she worked for some time at a Starbucks and then at another coffee shop but per her LinkedIn account
she more recently was working at P R a Health Sciences lab in Mill Creek Utah even though she was living in another
state and busy with her studies and worked she maintained a very close relationship with her parents and both
sets of grandparents sadly last month funeral services were held in California for Mackenzie's grandmother for this she
flew home after a brief stay she returned to Utah the night of June 16th she took a red-eye flight from Los
Angeles to Salt Lake City arriving in Salt Lake at 1:35 a.m. in Salt Lake she texts her mother at 2:01
a.m. letting her know that she arrived safely she waited to collect her luggage from the baggage claim and then using
the lyft app she scheduled a ride to pick her up at the airport there are security cameras everywhere in the
airport and she can be seen texting waiting on her bags and walking through the airport at no time is she
seen talking to anyone the lift vehicle picks her up at the airport at 242 now we know 23 year old McKenzie looook
is later reported as missing and unfortunately this is really starting to sound like a terrible terrible tragedy
like so many stories that we have heard before you know recent stories of young women getting into a vehicle from a car
service and then going missing you know we've seen this movie before and unfortunately we know how it's going to
end in the ending is a bad one but very quickly we can move on from that theory because we get news that the Salt Lake
City PD they start looking into Mackenzie's life and her internet and social media activity digital detectives
sifting through data we learn a few very very important key elements to this case
one law enforcement they know who the lyft driver is and they speak with this driver and two there is evidence to
suggest that Mackenzie was delivered by the lyft driver to a location of her choosing and arrived at this location
unharmed would have that data from the lyft driver to let us know where her final destination was mmhmm yeah so from
the information collected through her phone and the lyft app and the eyewitness statements given to police
from the lyft driver here is what we learn Mackenzie did not schedule for the car service to take her home she
requested a drop-off at hatch Park this is this location is in North Salt Lake City and located 20 minutes from
Mackenzie's home which is near Trolley Square she arrived at hatch Park at 2:59 a.m. the lyft driver says Mackenzie was
very obviously she was meeting someone there right now as far as I could find the lyft drivers identity has not been
released I think in the beginning of this whole thing that may have thrown some more suspicion and
public eye toward the driver but the driver tells police McKenzie was meeting someone and whoever it was Mackenzie got
into that other car willingly the description of the vehicle of the person or persons she was meeting is reported
as unavailable but it could just be that the lyft driver was unable to provide one to law enforcement you'd think he'd
at least know what kind of cars she got into whether or not even what brand of car but like was it a sedan was it a SUV
yeah he he or she the driver probably gave a very vague description would be my guess there they're looking to move
on to their next drive looking to pick up their next fare right but again through information great hold on you're
meeting people at a park this is not a normal drop-off you know most of the time people are picking somebody up from
the airport maybe driving them to their car picking somebody up from the airport
driving them back to their house you're probably what we're talking about probably a very small percent that at
three o'clock in the morning is picking up a young female and driving her to a park to meet somebody I would guess yeah
incredibly small if not zero this might be eating the first of its kind right again through information deduced from
data on Mackenzie's phone we learn even more after texting her parents after she
arrived in Salt Lake City Mackenzie was texting someone else she's texting thirty one-year-old a Ola a je and the
police quickly figure out that both Mackenzie's phone and a je stone are pinging and are in close proximity and
their location is both hatch Park this is at 3:00 a.m. on June 17th 2019 all right so this gives us some evidence
that she's texting one this individual but two this is probably the person that she's gonna meet up with yes police
speak with a je and going into this they know he was communicating via text and likely
through other means as well with Mackenzie a jade is not deny communications with Mackenzie however he
says he last texted her at 6 p.m. the investigators have different information proof that Mackenzie texted a je at 2:58
a.m. now remember / lift she was dropped off at 2:59 a.m. just one minute after that text and her phone and a Jain are
in very close proximity and in hatch Park at 3 a.m. so right but just to play devil's advocate she's texting him to do
do they have evidence that he's texting her back after 6 p.m. that I don't know the only thing that I could find
reported was that she texted ie at 2:58 a.m. and again it's it's no coincidence there's no defense here it's
it's she's texting him and then 1 minute later she's dropped off and both their phones are in hatch park right at that
time so this is where you go ok we might have a gaudy moment but now it's the problem here that they're going to run
into and they don't arrest the jury after talking with them and we'll get into that and a bit but the other thing
here that we we need to go through is what law enforcement knows that took place shortly after Mackenzie arrived at
hatch park at some point her phone is turned off and once police started looking for Mackenzie they announced
that they had no known activity from her regarding her cell phone or internet as
they put it her cell phone is not ringing no calls no email no social media nothing right just like we heard
in the trailer they have former Salt Lake City police chief talking there and what he's saying is that at this time in
the investigation yes she is missing but the question is is she in danger right so we have evidence that her phone
is obviously there we evidence from the lyft driver that he took her to the park but once that phone
is turned off we're not gonna get any more pings no not from her so what what they are
looking for at this point in the investigation they very publicly say this they're saying hey look not only do
we need your help in locating this missing individual but we would like to know if anybody out there is aware of
her having a second cell phone that that we are unaware of right or if she has some social media accounts that we are
currently unaware of or if there's anything that she would have under a different name regarding internet or
social media but again the problem here is very simply this at that state in the
investigation yes Mackenzie is missing but is she in fact in danger because police are very suspicious of this guy
that they've talked to but Mackenzie missing is technically not a crime and without evidence that she was abducted
there's really no crime to charge this man with but that's not going to stop law enforcement from getting a search
warrant to search this man's home and property right it's not like McKenzie went running in the park and we just
never seen her she's a dolt she was a meeting another adult she has every right to do so she has every right to
turn off her phone so who knows where she's at mm-hmm and the thing here too is they don't
really understand they being law enforcement they can't get any confirmation from anybody in Mackenzie's
clothes life of why she would be speaking to this man that they that law enforcement is suspicious of they don't
know what the connection is between the two of them or you're going to find this
more and more with social media there's a lot of people that have kind of like pin pals online you know friends online
but you might not know each other in person I think so we have a bunch of reasons
here why I think they're able to get this search warrant fairly easily it looks like it's probably for a multitude
of reasons but of those some quick ones to point out is first a Jaya is not lining up with the facts that law
enforcement know to be true regarding this whole timeline right remember his texting timeline is significantly off
from what he's telling them to what they can prove what they can see on paper so
are they able to go I don't know this answer maybe you do are they able to go to a judge and say
we have evidence that this this individual was texting this other individual and when we asked them about
it there they are lying is that does that give them some kind of probable cause exactly that's exactly what it
gives them there they are going to get a probable cause search warrant for this man's property now keep in mind whatever
they've released to the public is probably the a much shorter version of what they know and what they're holding
on to we're you asked if did did a je text her after the time that he said that they last communicated right they
know that if he did or did not they've just not they're not choosing to release that information that money he
did his story yeah his story is very plain and simple the last time I text with her was 6 p.m.
the day before and they what they have released publicly is they're saying at 2:58 a.m. she texts you right so that's
your story's off there to begin with but then on top of that this is what's even
more disturbing is they have neighbors of his that come forward and they say he was out burning something in his
backyard on June 17th and June 18th and using gasoline to burn whatever it was the
that he was burning and on top of that there he also denied knowing what Mackenzie even looked like and denies
viewing her social media profile picture but they found at least one of those photos on his phone his neighbors are
coming out and saying because she goes missing their early morning of June 17th neighbors come out say he's burning
something on June 17th and 18th yes in his backyard using gasoline so it's with that information probably with some more
information that we are unaware of that they are able to secure this probable cause warrant to search his home and
property they don't make any buts about it I think that the words that they used
they being law enforcement was we believe that his home his property is the Nexus of this case is is where her
where this missing-persons case is going to lead us and we believe not only do we
believe we should get a warrant for there we believe we're gonna find something of significance there right
which they do they found within the ashes of whatever he was burning they found some of her
like remains of some of her belongings as well as some some flesh remains from Mackenzie which they do the proper
testing on this and they confirm very quickly through DNA that that whatever those remains were came from Mackenzie
looook right so who is this this a je guy who is this creep well he's not he's not 100% unknown to law enforcement he's
somebody that has been accused of rape in the past although the charges were dropped a je the Army National Guard
but apparently never attended any type of training so even though he signed up he was never really he never joined he
just signed up right right that's the wording should be used they're kind of like me
and gym memberships and after this he started studying computer science at Utah State University but never
graduated according to the college records that are provided to this newspaper that I'm reading from the the
thing here is his life really takes a turn and this is in 2014 when he a lot of people that study computer their life
state turns well this is when he became the suspect and a rape investigation yeah and this is from the North Park
Police Department the investigation itself was halted it was dropped because eventually this woman decided to not
press charges I've seen some sources that say that he that a je was not allowed on the campus
for either months or years after the fact right I don't know how that plays into that whole scenario but that could
100% play into him not ever graduating from the school right according to the Salt Lake Tribune a J's LinkedIn profile
indicated that he worked in IT for companies like Dell and Microsoft his account has since been deactivated so I
it seems to me like he was working in tech support or IT some form of that at the time of of this case he's also an
author publishing a crime novel called Forge identity this he published last year and according to Goodreads the
novel is about a man drawn to crime after witnessing gruesome murders at age 15 do not anybody go out and buy that
book I think you can there are ways to purchase that book online but let's not let's not give this guy anything credit
for anything at all because we're going to learn that this is a terrible terrible individual he is
because of what they found on his property he is arrested and placed into custody regarding these items in this
evidence when they arrest them are they charging him with Mackenzie's murder and
JE has been charged with aggravated murder aggravated kidnapping and obstruction of justice
so other than this evidence I guess in his fire pit well okay so there's a couple things going on there from the
different sources that I pulled yeah some sources indicate that there was there was ground that was freshly dug I
don't know if these items were burned and then placed in the ground or you know partially placed in the ground
sometimes people bury ashes or place them elsewhere it feels like the that these items that they collected it may
have come from that ground and or his burn site let's call it his fire pit house back yard so he tried to burn
stuff remove it from whatever fire pit and then bury it correct and there's a lot more to learn about this sick
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all right cheers mates Cheers captain well the Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said in a news conference
that he was quote relieved and grief-stricken to report that McKenzie loic's body was
recovered this was in Logan Canyon about 85 to 90 miles north of Salt Lake City north of a J's
property as well and investigators were subsequently able to forensic ly confirm
that it was the body of Mackenzie looook she from the very brief descriptions I could find of course there was some
evidence that the body or portions of the body had attempted to been burned at some point and her her hands were found
bound behind her tied behind her so it's what's unclear here is if in fact agile
to this location because it seems to be quite a ways away from the space that they were looking at but we do know that
he was arrested we do know that they found her body it would seem to me that they probably turned the screws on him
and they were able to get him to bring forth some information he was also eventually charged with desecration of a
body this may have this charge may have been added after in fact finding her body he is currently being held without
bail I couldn't find a price for his his bond it looks like they're not going to
let that even be an option here for this case well this is so recent that there's
still developments happening as we speak there was developments yesterday yes this was his first court appearance
where he appeared via video he was still located in the jail and he was not required to give a plea or actually say
anything during that court proceeding it's it's a little confusing as to what's going on I mean this was just
yesterday that he had his first court appearance we also don't have information regarding because police
have not released a motive for the killing I think you know you and I having done this for a long time and
listeners listening to the show you you don't have to doesn't take a great imagination to come up with a possible
motive here but they've also not released how the two first came into contact with each
other because this wasn't as you said this wasn't McKenzie Lueck she went went was jogging in a park and a je
an abducted her she was going to this hatch park to meet with him so there was some type of relationship friendship or
something going on there for her to meet him in the park that night and it wasn't
something that she was sharing with her friends or family because again per police statements to the public there
they were unaware right that there was any type of reason for her to know this 31 year old man where where I think we
this this is terrible to say because this is such a horrible thing for her family and such a a tragedy and just
really a horrific individual that carried out whatever took place but in some way I really strongly feel that the
there has been a bullet that has been dodged here and I say that because of some information that came out regarding
a je this was from a contractor the Jaya apparently hired a contractor to come out to his house and to look at a space
that he wanted to have outfitted he wanted this space to be a soundproof secret room and within this soundproof
secret room he wanted hooks and the contractor says these hooks were he wanted them above head height his war
his words the contractor found all this to be very strange and and weird and it really didn't want any part of it
so the contractor was smart enough to ask some questions you know what is this secret room for who needs a secret room
to which aje explains that he says I need a room to hide alcohol booze and wine from my girlfriend who's very
religious and the contractor wanted it zero cents well I don't know that it makes zero sense but it doesn't go along
with a secret room wasn't soundproof right right I don't mind the secret room what I have a problem with is when you
go yeah I just want to put some booze maybe some weed in there to hide it it's a bad lie that he had to come up with
this soundproof yes it's the soundproof yeah cuz the wine bottles aren't down there going he's drinking us depends on
how much you're drinking he wanted one of those thumbprint locks on the outside so so only he could enter it so think
about that for a second thumbprint lock that's that's not like that's so 100 percent like oh I can't accidentally
leave the key lying around and somebody stumble into this room or I can't accidentally yeah right down the
combination and somebody discover the combination and decide that they're going to go and access this room this is
they're going to have to have my thumb to get into this soundproof secret room the other horrible terrifying thing to
think about too is the the hooks the he wanted that's for me that's for the me he wanted them placed above
the contractor said was head height so the contractor says well what the hell are you gonna use these these hooks for
to which a je x planes could you imagine being this guy being the contractor oh man I mean I want some hooks uh we're at
a little bit above her head height well we we just talked on off the record this
week about the the company that was going to come out and clean a car and they find a bunch of blood in the car
yeah you know it's it's this weird weird thing a je veux guarding the hooks the the contractors like look these hooks
look terrible one and two I don't know why anybody would need them to be this height so what the hell are these hooks
for and a je says that he wants to hang wine racks on the hooks so he can put you know wine bottles on the wine rack
the contractor this is this seems to be like the deal breaker where they lied and said that's for meats she doesn't
eat meat either I got to hide the meat well this this seems to be the deal breaker for the contractor because of
course he says he's suspicious and weirded out by this whole project to begin with yeah but when he hear when he
hears all you want to use the hooks for wine racks the contractor just says look
instead of putting up these hooks I'll just put wine racks up for you so which Ajay he's like now I'm gonna get the
hooks and then I'll do the wine racks myself and so the contractor turns down the job he's like I don't want any part
of whatever this is that's going on it sounds to me like this took place months ago okay yeah but hold on a second
surah' he's right that's how you say his name a je je you know he had a saint uh
he had [ __ ] a je was married at one point and his ex-wife claims that he slashed her with a knife but it also
states here that Jaya's home was a air and B since 2016 yeah into which oddly enough he is quoted as being a an
intelligent respectful nice host for the Airbnb as he I mean that's good that makes me never want to stay in an
Airbnb ever again unless they want to sponsor some episodes and then I'll say differently
but he offered accommodations in the basement of his home mm-hmm right next right next door to the soundproof wine
room well and he had a he did have a roommate for some time as well and I believe this was after his marriage
I wonder regarding his the rape allegations if that's why the marriage fell apart or if there was abuse or
other things going on right with within that whole scenario I don't know it's it's it's he's a weird individual and a
scary individual and that's why I say I think there even though we have this horrible tragedy and it sends me to my
core what happened with this young woman who had her whole life ahead of her this
was a promising young lady you know she was doing a lot of the right things she maintained a close relationship with her
parents and grandparents even living in another state right this was a good girl
and right but even though this ended in tragedy and in horribly and as I said it
sands me to my core a bullet was dodged in the sense that this guy in my opinion
I know that these are just started the these are just alleged charges at this point you know these are just charges
he's not actually been found guilty he looks really freaking guilty to me and I'm sure to everybody else out there
this was a budding serial killer this was like you said early stages this is what this guy I think was pursuing this
doesn't mean that was the first neither we do it we don't know I'm dead that's a very good point you got he got
this guy setting himself up but put you know let's do it Airbnb in my homeless let's set up this you know secret room
that soundproof you know he's on a lot of these meetup sites - is he on these meetup sites and that's the the
cautionary tale you know surprise surprise anybody can be whoever they want to be online mm-hmm and he has a
bunch of pictures where he is in his army uniforms and and so what's strange is I don't know if he how much he did in
the army well you know I should be clear here I'm looking through my notes in it
and I do have it says after several months of service I don't know what that means because I have other sources
saying that he was never trained that he never technically did anything for the National Guard so I don't know exactly
what that means but yeah you're right the pictures of him in his his uniform well think about this you got this guy
that is telling you know hey on one site he's saying I'm a gym rat I I was in the
Army right I'm a buff guy I'm you know I'm a writer just these simple things that that you can put out there on these
dating sites or meet-up sites and all you have to do is be able to come up with a couple decent lies and then you
just have to come up with some decent pictures to back up some of those lies and that's kind of enough to get your
foot in the door that gets you texting somebody and and I think that's kind of what he did and I mean look he has a
self-published book on Amazon called for of forged identity mm-hmm and it's like is this a precursor you know like
that he's just gonna be you know creating whatever identity he wants and therefore they like I said that gets you
in the door and then people become vulnerable because here is this young lady that does not know who she's
meeting mm-hmm she all she can base it off of is [ __ ] information that he provided her right and that's what it is
it's it's not facts it's [ __ ] information it's stuff he came up with or however he chooses to present himself
one at one case that that has and will always fascinate me but I don't care what anybody says out there it would be
the chances of it being solved I think are so slim to none that I'm willing to go and say 0% here but the Jack the
Ripper case is one that you know that I I get wrapped up into it right for a few
weeks or a few months every year I get pulled back in I think I'm out and then they pull me back in but one thing that
I've always tried to point out to anybody when you know there's websites and books that you can go to regarding
the Ripper case where they'll list as many as 30 or 40 maybe even 50 potential suspects but a huge problem that you
have with that case is back in the 1800s even though this was the late 1800s in a
lot of places in this world you were whoever you said you were it wasn't like you had to walk around and show
documentation and in most three three forms of ID if I walked into an English pub in in 1888 and said that I'm John
Brown mm-hmm that's who I was and I could live under that assumed name for a long period of time in a sense that's
similar to what we're looking at here it's he's on the internet who knows what what websites or how the
they connected at any point but in a sense he he could have just been whoever he said he was to her or to anybody else
out there one also like I mean just with social media it's not even just meetup sites but you hashtag some things so you
start working out you hashtag you know fitness whatever people start following you there's several people that you know
I follow online or they follow me online and and we don't know each other I'm not
meeting up this person I'm gonna go to meet up with this person at 3 a.m. um that is risky behavior you know if
your meet up with somebody that you haven't met even like with online dating it's like you meet at a public place you
know meet up with friends what's so wrong with that but I think we have kind of two things going on now we have you
know who people think we are in real life and our friends and family and blah blah blah and then we have this other
world online and that too many times is actually kept a secret from the real world and I'm sure now that they have
her phone and they have or they're able to get into these social networks that the police were able to find other
things that they're connected with but it's a cautionary tale you need you know if you're speaking with people online
and you plan on meeting them maybe tell some people you know well in the other thing too is it's very obvious whatever
was going on there that the two that Mackenzie and a je did not have the same understanding of what that meeting was
for okay there's you know Mackenzie didn't know what this guy had planned had no clue who this
guy was and when we say that that law enforcement has not released how they believed the two were connected or what
the motive for these crimes were it may just be as simple as this individual a je is a sadist is a homicidal maniac and
that he was a budding serial killer I think that everything points to that and that is the the motive is he's an evil
individual and he was looking to kill somebody and he was looking to kill a woman in my opinion and and we can say
look there's some connection to the victim and the murderer but in a sense what he's doing is he's
trying to go out there and secure a stranger because we all know that stranger on stranger crimes are very
difficult for investigation well it's like yeah it's like Bruce McArthur up in Canada right it's the same type of thing
but instead you know it's very similar to Dahmer mm-hmm similar to Darlie as well yeah different different method of
securing a stranger who's going to be your victim who might want to be right back in the day like you said you could
walk into a bar who are you you John Brown you can be whoever the Freak you want to be right and now you can do that
online so it's it's a it's a place for predators and you have to be careful and and I I can't say this enough that
everybody needs to be on the understanding that there's always going to be a motive when there's a female
involved and when the when there's a female victim you know like you said you don't have to look too far to figure out
what the motive possibly was and you got to be careful you have to protect yourself you have to tell your friends
what's going on you gotta tell people who you're talking to and if you if you think this guy is cute
and you want to meet up with them say hey we're gonna bring a couple of my friends you bring a couple of your
friends let's meet up at a bar if they don't want to do that screw not worth your time well and
remember when we interviewed John Douglas what he was saying is in his opinion most of these guys and when he's
saying these guys he's referring to serial offenders and serial killers that he is interviewed real pieces of he says
he says that in his opinion what most of these guys want is to be able to hold their victim captive for a long period
of time and most of the time they the result is murder because they don't have that ability or cannot do that for
whatever reason right this is no different than what we saw with the Jamie cloths case yeah where she was
held captive for a long period of time that's what agile was attempting to do with the secret soundproof room accessed
only by a thumbprint lock and hooks on the walls above above head height so it's he's he's a scary scary individual
that was apprehended not early enough it's it's a little I mean it's very disturbing and I wish he really would
have got brought up on charges of rape I don't know what what fully made that case fall apart but I just worry that
even if he would have done some time for that he would have come out and picked up where he left off yeah he had edge
and and that agenda was gonna happen and I hope they're strongly looking into this guy's background in his his
whereabouts and if he has could be connected to anything else because what little we know about this guy is very
scary the the the attempting of building the secret room the abduction of a young
woman well again then the concealing going through all that efforts to conceal the remains yeah yeah well and
that's a big thing somehow this guy manipulated his way into a situation where he's meeting somebody that
for all we know this is the first time they met at a park very late at night and she's gonna get into his car he can
control that situation her body's then found pretty far from his property you wonder in like you said discarding of
some of the evidence he's kind of wonder is like is this his first time right and
that's why I say I think you're on to something there and I hope that they really look strongly into his background
and if he is currently talking see what else you can get him to talk about yeah and I have a little suggestion I think
they should make a little room and put hooks a little bit higher than head height stick him on the hooks get him
talking maybe you can confess to something that he did prior or some of the sick thoughts he's been having and
this guy should never be let out of jail no he he is somebody that regardless of
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Brief Summary

The episode details the disappearance and murder of McKenzie Luwak, focusing on the investigation and arrest of suspect Aje.

Key points

Police Investigate Lyft Driver. Detectives learn that McKenzie was dropped off at Hatch Park by a Lyft driver, where she met someone.
Mackenzie Luwak Missing. The family of McKenzie Luwak issues a statement as police provide new details about her disappearance.
Suspicious Behavior of a.J.. Neighbors report a.J. burning something in his backyard shortly after Mackenzie's disappearance.
Evidence Found in Fire Pit. Police find remains of Mackenzie's belongings and flesh in a.J.'s fire pit.
Charges Filed Against a.J.. a.J. is charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, and obstruction of justice.
Body Recovery. Police Chief Mike Brown expresses relief and grief over the recovery of McKenzie Lueck's body.

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