definitely. on her own ashley and her cousin called lyft and uber, to see even if either one of them had picked up mackenzie at the airport. and that s really when this began, because somehow they let it slip lyft did. that she got in me lyft that night. what did you do at that point? we contacted law enforcement about the lyft. a big break for sayes and wiley. because it gave them probable claws to serve lyft with a search warrant. and find out where her destination was, where she was dropped off, will time she was picked up? where did she go? so so, we were able to get the destination from the airport all the way up to north salt lake address and she was dropped off at hatch park in north salt lake, just before 3 am. a park? at 3 am? why would mackenzie come here? and just as important, why would a driver leave a young woman alone, burdened with luggage, at a park in the middle of the night? who would do such a thing?
aircraft services nearby. now back to dateline. aircraft services nearby welcome back to dateline, i m natalie morales. where was mackenzie? the college student took a lyft to meet someone at a park at 3 am. but who? mckenzie was active on dating sites, making police wonder if her late night rendezvous was a hook up, and her radio silence was intentional. now a tipster was about to share troubling details of his encounter with mckenzie shortly before she went missing. here s keith morrison with the waiting car. it was a few weeks before mckenzie vanished, a meeting at a bar, with this man rob joseph. she seemed like a very
vegas to los angeles to attend a friend s wedding. she wouldn t miss that. so, we contacted los angeles police department and they had officers waiting for that flight to land. they waited for all the passengers to de-plane. mackenzie was not among them. then they learned this. it wasn t mackenzie who d been logging into her social media accounts. that had been her friends. they obtained her email password and they were doing it to try to ruin things or anything, they were trying to go on there to monitor the sites as well to see if any information could come up. and the activity on mackenzie s bank account? it was the left transaction on the 17th and then an automatic payroll deposit from her work. and then the detectives got a tip from the sky. who, just maybe, could bring all of those blurry details into sharp focus. coming up i got on the computer and
lewis heard it is there being story. from a neighbor who said aj had sent a suspicious fire. the neighbor had found debris in her backyard. so they looked in aj s backyard and found something else disturbing, a freshly dug patch of soil. they called in a cadaver dog, which gave the unmistakable evidence, human remains. aj calmly watched it all from his driveway was taken into custody. a team from the crime lab spent the night digging up the backyard. they found more burnt clothing, versus impact backs, and then, down towards the bottom of the site, there was a burned and damaged iphone.
mackenzie, they showed him a photo and he he said he had never seen that lady before. so, why then, the police asked, did mackenzie get tex routed to aj s wi-fi system? he says i have an open wi-fi because i run an airbnb business. and so it could be anything, anybody from here. did he run an airbnb business? yes he rented out the two bedrooms in his basement for airbnb. they looked around, saw nothing amiss and left. and then, that same evening aj stopped by the police station to say that he discovered something. and that he had texted with mckenzie lueck the night she disappeared, he had forgotten because mckenzie was the one who reached out to him without identifying herself. maybe, he said, she had seen his seeking arrangement profile. so i think that s how she met on my profile.