i refused to say this person s name. she is referring to the suspect s name here. this tragic story began as a baffling missing persons case that turned into a murder bludgeoning. the police have not revealed how mckenzie and the suspect knew each other but they said her cell phone stopped working as soon as she met him at a park in the middle of the night. the search of the sub specs property turned up human bones, a school and muscular tissue that matched mckenzie s dna. fox news confirmed that earlier today investigators found additional evidence linked to the case along the jordan river parkway trail. what that evidence is we don t know but it was found a mile away from the suspect s home. the family continues to grieve in private while her friends are honoring her legacy by mckinsey s voice a nonprofit to find missing people and provide counseling to victims of violence. the serious charges filed against the suspect could make
mike: the man accused of murdering utah student, mckenzie lewis and setting her body on fire appearing in salt lake city courtroom for the first time tonight. correspondent has the reports. mike, mckenzie lewis disappeared five weeks ago today and that man accused of brutallg to say at his first court appearance. 31-year-old appeared on a closed circuit tv monitor alongside public defender to hear the judge read the charges against him from a murder, kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of a human body. the hearing lasted over one minute and he did not enter a plea. some of mckenzie s friends set in the front row holding hands. we immediately lost our breath and holding hands.
lock and sound-proofing it and putting hooks on the concrete, up 7 feet, it was just weird what he was asking me. jon: live in salt lake city, utah with more. matt. this is the murder suspect s home where the contract e we just heard from asked to build eerie room in basement and we have fresh aerial footage of backyard, the video shows a large amount of burnt or dug up soil, investigators were digging for evidence and they found burned belongs of mckenzie lewis and even her flesh, the loose soil on the backyard possibly where the gruesome evidence was found. police arrested on aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and aggravating kidnapping charge indicates that this young college female might have been held with a weapon against her
of rape but the adult female did not pursue charges and also contractor in utah telling fox news that the murder suspect recently asked him to build a sound-proof room with hidden room in basement. contractor said he was weirded out and said, no, expected to be charged with aggravated murder and aggravated and first appearance in court sometime early next week and so far mother and father of mckenzie lewis have not spoken out, you can only imagine what they are going through, it s not clear why mckenzie met up with this murder suspect but police say cell phone records do indicate they were communicating and they both ended up meeting at a park, not far from here at 3:00 o clock in the morning last monday. eric. eric: just oh so tragic. how will that play out in the campaign trail, we will take a
mckenzie lewis belongs and even some of her flesh from the property, neighbors say that in the days after mckenzie went missing, the suspect was lighting fires and the fires created a stench that hit them in the face, detectives have wrapped up the property and salt lake city police department tells fox news that since murder suspect s arrest the apartment has submitted more evidence from this property to crime lab but now family, friends and neighbors are left with trying to process the unfathomable act. no one saw this coming from this guy and i felt very betrayed and blindsided by him and his behavior, his actions. we now know the murder suspect was previously accused