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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 1's Matt McDonald is live at hatch Park in North Salt Lake tonight to explain what can you tell us well I can
tell you this hatch park behind me is where McKenzie Leck asked to be taken and was dropped off by her lift driver
one week ago tonight now after looking at surveillance video from the area and talking to that lift driver police
believe she met someone there at 3:00 in the morning 1:35 a.m. June 17th Luck's flight arrives in Sal 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 we are not we're not going to release that right now at 242 a.m. McKenzie got into
a lift car at 2:59 in the morning she arrived at her requested destination hatch Park in North Salt Lake detectives
have spoken with the lift driver and learned that Mckenzie was met at hatch Park park by an individual in a vehicle
police believe she met with the person at the park willingly the making the model of the car has not been determined
from here McKenzie disappeared does McKenzie have an alternate phone that she has 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 one 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 luck 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 luck
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 saltt Lake City police have that a a dedicated tip line just for this case you can find
that phone number on our website Matt McDonald Fox 13 News Utah Matt thank you as we just mentioned McKenzie luck 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 desire to to the campus Community for her 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 133 out of Utah this story was and
remains big news this is the missing person's case of McKenzie Leck and as you heard there just after one week
detectives in Salt Lake have what looks to be some promising leads and an interesting timeline McKenzie luck was
born in Elsa gundo California in 1995 she grew up there with three brothers and her parents are Greg and
Diana luck she attended Elsa gundo 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 Kai 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 Health Sciences lab in mil Creek you
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 McKenzie's grandmother for this she flew home after a brief stay she returned to
Utah the night of June 16th she took a Redeye 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 21 a.m. letting her know that she arrived safely she waited to collect her
luggage from the baggage claim and then using the Lift 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 2:42 a.m. now
we know 23-year-old McKenzie luck 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 know we've seen this movie before and
unfortunately we know how it's going to end and 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
McKenzie'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 lift driver is and they speak with this
driver and two there's evidence to suggest that Mckenzie was delivered by the lift driver to a location of her
choosing and arrived at this location unharmed would have that data from the lift driver to let us know where her
final destination was mhm yeah so from the information information collected through her phone and the LT app and the
eyewitness statements given to Police from the lift driver here is what we learn McKenzie 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 lift driver says Mckenzie was very obviously she was meeting someone there right now as far as I could find
the lift driver's identity has not been released I think in the beginning of this whole thing that may have thrown
some more suspicion in the Public's eye toward the driver but the driver tells police Mckenzie was meeting someone and
whoever it was McKenzie 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 lift driver was unable to provide one to law
enforcement You' think he would at least know what kind of car she got into whether or 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 they're they're looking to move on to their next Drive looking to pick up their next fair right but again
through information D but 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 we're talking about probably a very small % that at 3:00 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 being the first of its kind right again through information deduced from data on McKenzie's phone we learn
even more after texting her parents after she arrived in Salt Lake City Mckenzie was texting someone else she's
texting 31-year-old aola aay and the police quickly figure out that both McKenzie's
phone and a Jay's phone 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 going to meet up with yes uh police speak with
aay and going into this they know he was communicating via text and likely through other means as well with
McKenzie aay does not deny Communications with McKenzie however he says he last texted her at 6 p.m. the
investigators have different information proof that McKenzie texted aay at 2:58 a.m. now remember her lift she was
dropped off at 2:59 a.m. just 1 minute after that text and her phone and a ja's phone are in very close proximity and in
Hatch park at 3:00 a.m. so right but just to play Devil's Advocate she's texting him do do do they have evidence
that he's texting her back after 6 p.m. um that I don't know the only thing that
I could find reported was that she texted ja 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 one minute later she's dropped off and both their phones are in Hatch park
right at that time so this is where you go okay we might have a got him moment but it's the problem here that they're
going to run into and they don't arrest a ja after talking with him and we'll get into that in a bit but the other
thing here that we we need to go through is what law enforcement knows that took
place shortly after McKenzie arrived at hatch park at some point her phone is turned off and once police started
looking for McKenzie 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
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 have evidence from the lift driver that he took her to the park but once that phone
is turned off we're not going to get any more pings right 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
mhm but again the problem here is very simply this that at that State in the investigation yes McKenzie is missing
but is she in fact in danger because police are very suspicious of this guy that they've talked to but McKenzie
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 adult she was
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 mhm and the thing here too is they don't really understand they being law enforcement
they can't get any confirmation from anybody in McKenzie's close 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 well you're going to find this more and more with social media there's a lot of people
that have it kind of like pin Pals online you know friends online but you might not know each other
person I think so we have a 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 AI story is not lining up with the facts that law enforcement know to be true regarding
this whole timeline right remember his 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 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 ask them about it they they are lying is that does that give them some kind of
profitable cause exactly that's exactly what gives them they're 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 where you asked if did did
a ja 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 6:00 p.m. the day before and they what they have released
publicly is they're saying 258 a.m. she text 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 that that he was burning and on top of that they he also denied knowing what
McKenzie even looked like and denies viewing her social media profile picture but they found at least one of those
photos on his his phone his neighbors are coming out and saying cuz she goes missing the early morning of June 17th
Neighbors come out and 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 butts about
it I think the 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 person's 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 going to find something of significance there right
which they do they found within the ashes of whatever ever he was burning they found some of her like remains of
some of her belongings as well as some some flesh remains from McKenzie which they do the
proper testing on this and they confirm very quickly through DNA that that whatever those remains were came from
macenzie Leck right so who is this this aay 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
aay joined 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
that should be used there kind of like me and gym memberships at 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 that the thing here is his life really takes a turn and this is in 2014 when a lot of
people that study computer their lives take turns well this is when he became the ECT 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 aay 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 ajay's LinkedIn
profile indicated that he worked in it for companies like Dell and Microsoft uh his account has since been
deactivated so I it seems to me like he was U working in tech support or it some
form of that at the time of of this case MH he's also an author publishing a crime novel called Forge
identity this he published last year and according to good reads 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 uh 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 a terrible terrible individual he is because what they found on his
property he is arrested and placed into custody regarding these items in this evidence when they arrest him are they
charging him with McKenzie's murder a jaay has been charged with aggravated murder aggravated kidnapping and
obstruction of justice so other than this evidence I guess in his fire pit um 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 around sometimes people bury
ashes or place them elsewhere it feels like that that these items that they collected may have come
from that ground and or his burn site let's call it his his fire pit out in his backyard 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 individual
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conference that he was quote relieved and grief stricken to report that McKenzie leck's body was recovered this
was in Logan Canyon about 85 to 90 miles north of Salt Lake City north of A's property as well and investigators were
subsequently able to to forensically confirm that it was the body of McKenzie Leck she from the very brief
descriptions I could find um of course there was some uh evidence that 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
MH so it's what's unclear here is if in fact aay LED them 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 uh 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 that he had his
first court appearance we also don't have information regarding because police have not
released a motive for the killing right I think think you know you and I having done this for a long time and and
listeners listening to this 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 luak she went went and was jogging in a park and a
jaay grabbed her up and 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 they
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 uh her family and
such a a tragedy and it just really a horrific individual that carried out whatever took
place but in some way I really strongly feel that that there has been a a bullet that has
been dodged here and I say that because of some information that came out regarding
aay this was from a contractor aay 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 is were his words the contractor found all of this to be very strange and 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 a jaay explains that he says I I need a room to hide alcohol booze and
wine from my girlfriend who's very religious and the contractor wanted to know zero sense well I don't know that
it makes zero sense but it doesn't go along with a secret room soundproof room right right I I 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 on it's the soundproof yes it's the
soundproof 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 um thumb print locks on the outside so so only he could enter it so think about that for a
second mm thumb print lock that's that's not like that's so 100% like oh I can't
accidentally leave the key lying around and somebody stumble into this room or I
can't accidentally yeah write 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 hook that he wanted that's for meat that's
for the meat he wanted them placed above what the contractor said was head height
so the contractor says well what the hell are you going to use these these hooks for to which a explains could you
imagine being this guy being the contractor oh man I mean I want I want some hooks uh where at uh a little bit
above head 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 um aay
so regarding the hooks the the contractor is 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 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 oh 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 I'm of course he's he's suspicious and
weirded out by this whole project to begin with yeah but when he hear when he hears oh 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 to which
a is like no I'm going to 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 so a right that's how you say his name aay aay
you know he had a uh um he had [ __ ] a ja was married at one point and his ex-wife
claims that he slashed her with a knife but it also States here that a ja's home
was a Airbnb since 2016 yeah and to which oddly enough he is quoted as being a an
intelligent respectful nice host for the Airbnb that's he I mean that's could you 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 um he offered accommodations in the basement of his home mhm oh 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 why I say I think there even though we have this horrible
tragedy and and it saddens 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 and horribly and as I said it sens me to my core a 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 it was the first one either we we don't know I mean
that's a very good point you got you got this guy setting himself up but put you
know let's do a Airbnb in my home let's let's set up this uh you know secret room that's
soundproof um you know he's on a lot of these Meetup sites too is he on these Meetup sites and and that's the the look
cautionary tale you you know surprise surprise anybody can be whoever they want to be online mhm and he has a bunch
of pictures where he is um in his army uniforms and and so what's strange is I I don't know
if he how much he did in the Army well you know what I should be clear here I'm looking through my notes and 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 right for the National Guard so I 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 hey on one site he's saying I'm a gymrat I I was in the Army
right I'm a a buff guy I'm um you know I'm a writer just these simple things that
that you can put out there on these dating sites or Meetup sites you 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
forged identity mhm and it's like is this a precursor you know like that he's just going to be you know
creating whatever identity he wants and therefore um 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 MH 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 of one case that that has 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 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 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 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 three forms of ID if I walked into a an English pub in
in 1888 and said that I'm John Brown 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 that they connect 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 well 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 uh there's several people that you know I follow online or they follow me online and we don't know each other
um I'm not meeting up this person I'm not going to meet up with this person at 3
a.m. um that is risky Behavior you know if you're going to meet up with somebody that you haven't
met even like with online dating it's like 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 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 um
online and that too many times is actually kept a secret from The Real World and uh I'm sure now that they have her
her phone and they have or they're able to get into these social networks U that the police are going to
be 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 and the other thing too is it's very obvious whatever was going on there that the two that McKenzie and aay
did not have the same understanding of what that meeting was for okay there's you know McKenzie did
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 believe the two were connected or what the motive for these crimes
were it may just be as simple as this individual a jaay is a 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
investigators well it's like yeah it's like Bruce McArthur up in Canada right it's the same type of thing but in you
know it's very similar to dmer MH similar to Bundy as well yeah just a different different method of securing a
stranger who's going to be your victim who you're going to Vic back in the day like you said you can walk into a bar
who are you you John Brown you can be who ever the Freak You Want to Be Right mhm and now you can do that online so
it's it's uh 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 don't 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 got to tell people who you're talking to and if
you if you think this guy is cute and you want to meet up with him say hey I'm going to 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 them 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 has 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 or cannot do that for whatever reason right this is no different than what we saw with the
Jamie Claus case yeah where she was held captive for a long period of time that's
what a ja was attempting to do with the secret soundproof room accessed only by a thumb print
lock and hooks on the walls above above head height so it's he's he's a scar 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 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 an agenda and that agenda know was going to happen and I
hope they're strongly looking into this guy's background and 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 of building the secret room the Abduction of a young woman well here's what we do and then
the 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 going to get into his car he can control that situation her
body's then found pretty far from his property you wonder and like you said discarding of
some of the evidence you just kind of Wonder it's like is this his first time right and
that's why I say I hope 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 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 he 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
if he's done or been guilty of anything before what took place last month he's somebody that should never
ever be let out of prison this guy will always be a threat if he is in society join us back here in the garage
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Brief Summary

The episode details McKenzie Leck's disappearance, investigation, and the arrest of suspect Aay for her murder.

Key points

The Disappearance of McKenzie Leck. McKenzie Leck, a University of Utah senior, goes missing after arriving in Salt Lake City.
Suspicious Circumstances. Details emerge about McKenzie's last known whereabouts and her communication before disappearing.
Search Warrant Issued. Law enforcement secures a search warrant for the suspect's property, believing it holds key evidence.
McKenzie Leck's Body Found. Police confirm the recovery of McKenzie Leck's body, bound and showing signs of attempted burning.
The Arrest and Charges. The suspect faces multiple serious charges, including aggravated murder and kidnapping.
The Secret Room Plans. The suspect's bizarre request for a soundproof secret room raises red flags for a contractor.

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