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

[doyoulovemepfg]

Not a business or a residence. Interesting. I'm stumped.

Could be a school, church, landmark, bus stop etc. I could see it being a public park.

 

[margarita25]

Is the Legacy Nature Preserve considered North SLC? I know it’s in the northern part of the city but not sure it would be considered as such.

@perfectingpink, I messaged you about a specific green area on the map, what was it you said it was, Mueller or something like that?

 

[MissMalowe]

Any locals have any idea what it could be? Where was that park they were searching?

BBM
Did I miss an important development/search of a park?

 

[otto]

Not a business or a residence. Interesting. I'm stumped.

Has her car been located? Maybe her car was parked at that location.

What do we know about how she got to the airport?

 

[doyoulovemepfg]

How far is the SLC airport from the mountains? I'm thinking that that could be an option as well.

 

[margarita25]

Not a residence and not a business means its a landmark or public accommodation. A rest stop, a bus stop, a park, a corner/intersection. An earlier description by LE suggested they didn't need to extensively search the area where she was dropped off. Perhaps its an open area where it would be obvious she isn't there anymore.

This makes zero sense. I really wonder if the “not a business” part is entirely correct.

 

[Peppery]

Has her car been located? Maybe her car was parked at that location.

What do we know about how she got to the airport?

Car has been verified at her home and not touched since she flew home.

 

[PommyMommy]

Has her car been located? Maybe her car was parked at that location.

What do we know about how she got to the airport?

Her car is at her home. It has not moved. AFAIK, we don't know how she traveled to the airport.

 

[bestill]

Hopefully wherever she was dropped off has cameras. For LE to rule out the driver they may have her on camera being dropped off and the Lyft driver going on their way. jmo

 

[margarita25]

Has her car been located? Maybe her car was parked at that location.

What do we know about how she got to the airport?

Iirc her car is at home.

 

[Peppery]

Mods

Can we open a new thread for MacKenzie?

 

[na19]

BBM
Did I miss an important development/search of a park?

Search continues for U of U student Mackenzie Lueck

It says they handed out flyers at the park, not searched. My mistake. Apologies!

 

[PommyMommy]

Any locals have any idea what it could be? Where was that park they were searching?

BBM
Did I miss an important development/search of a park?

They were not searching the park. They met in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City, to distribute flyers.
MOO

 

[yellowmoose]

I am so stumped. Not a business or a residence. That doesn't leave much other than parks? There are a lot of parks in NSL including some hiking trails.

 

[margarita25]

Any locals have any idea what it could be? Where was that park they were searching?

Volunteers assembled at Liberty Park was it called to distribute flyers as a centralized location, not to search. This is the only mention of “park” that I recall.

 

[PommyMommy]

This makes zero sense. I really wonder if the “not a business” part is entirely correct.

I want to see that in quotes. Haven't seen "business" anywhere else. MOO

 

[1&2&3]

I was just coming to ask if the person at the address the Lyft driver dropped MacKenzie had been interviewed.
Wow, now it comes out it wasn’t a business or a residence!
This is not good news IMO!

Makes one wonder if It was just a pick-up point? Had she done this before and was aware of what she was doing?

Are there any cameras in the area? Does the Lyft driver remember if she got into a car or started walking?

With this new information, it sounds more ominous! Where are you MacKenzie?

 

[margarita25]

I am so stumped. Not a business or a residence. That doesn't leave much other than parks? There are a lot of parks in NSL including some hiking trails.

There was a poster upstream that mentioned something about the Jordan River, swampland iirc and hiking trails?

I would certainly search any of the landscape type areas. Anywhere in that vicinity. Why no organized searches, HOW DO THEY KNOW SHE LEFT THE AREA? There must have been another vehicle?

 

[yellowmoose]

Despite most businesses not being open at that hour, she could have been dropped off in a business parking lot if she was meeting someone.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

I am throwing no shade on the driver or Lyft who are said to have been fully cooperative with Lyft.

I just want to say I know for a fact there are apps that can throw the GPS or play with it in Lyft, Uber, for food delivery drivers, etc. Often a driver needs to be near the mall, the bars, etc. to get the most traffic or fare options because fares are offered to those in the vicinity. Yet they want to be home for instance, not sitting in their car alone hoping for fares. They use this app that can be found quite easily to mess with it and show they are, for instance, at the mall, when they are really home.

If you ever have a ride scheduled that you watch driving along on the little map/your phone screen and you are waiting for them, but it seems to take awhile to start out on the drive to begin with, then seems to hang, the little car on the screen seems to get stuck for seconds here, then seconds there, etc. then a minute there, then the app hangs... Yep.

When all is said and done if you try to figure out why it took 1/2 hour for the driver to get there in an at most 5 minute trip, now you know why. Again, I know this is a fact, not because I have used it but I know of it through someone else. I also have had it happen and we knew that was what the driver did. He should have been in total sight per the map (was not) and it took him 10 minutes to come the last half block a few houses down--he was not there is why, he was a few miles away yet playing catch up.

In other words, time can be fudged with this app that messes with the company GPS etc. I guess. It allows the driver's location to show otherwise.

I am not saying that happened here, but that there are such ways of throwing things off. I am sure though they have checked this and are likely aware of such things--like if his next fare was ten minutes away, did he get to the next fare in about ten minutes after KL's payment was processed? At that time of night, I doubt heavy traffic would be an issue.

I personally do not think it is the ride/driver if she is the one who actually had this destination entered and was not going home. I think it is more likely something due to where she was going and who she was meeting, seeing or what she was doing there.

Jmo. Longer than I intended. Sorry. I also think since it was said the driver and Lyft were cooperative, the car was probably volunteered to be searched and checked--just a guess though.

Thank you for this! I never knew!

David Begnaud on Twitter
.@slcpd police wont tell us what address in north Salt Lake City Mackenzie Lueck went to. “It’s not a business & it’s not a residence” a police spokesman told me. She took a @lyft there; police say they don’t think the driver had anything to do with Mackenzie’s disappearance.
12:05 PM - 24 Jun 2019

CBS This Morning on Twitter (VIDEO includes interview w/friend JC)
Family and friends of a missing University of Utah student are pleading for information about her mysterious disappearance, shortly after taking a Lyft ride. Mackenzie Lueck was last seen one week ago.
7:47 AM - 24 Jun 2019

Has to be a park..,
Are we allowed to share Facebook pages that are “missing person type pages” or reference them?

Has her car been located? Maybe her car was parked at that location.


What do we know about how she got to the airport?

Car at her apartment...
Good question on how she got there.

I can’t imagine a scenario where you have been gone a few days to a funeral yet have an exam on Monday when you return and don’t go home to study the night before? Is that the understanding—exam was Monday? Had she arranged to take exams later?