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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 di...

Phone came up into these moments. >> about two months north of here and then goes partially up to the canyon, then returns back to salt lake city a couple hours later. that was not to us. >> had he, a nervous killer, exhumed her body from the backyard fire pit to rebury her appear? they set off the search logan canyon. >> it took us the better part of a day until we found her. >> that has to be another part tough part of your job? >> it was horrific, a sight that none of us wanted to see. >> the search for mckenzie was over, but the investigation was not. >> in the weeks following, a woman cam...

Through a dating app, a religious one. aj was charged with aggravated kidnapping and forcible sexual abuse in that case. the evidence was tightening around him, evidence of what he did to mckenzie was growing. finally, october 7th, 2020, a.j. pleaded guilty to murdering mackenzie lewis. as part of his plea deal, he admitted that he thought about killing mackenzie, and then he planned the killing of mackenzie, a thoroughly premeditated murder. >> that he knew that he was going to murder mckenzie before she even touched down at the airport -- >> he selected her as his victim, right? >> right. >>...

That as been consistent with mckenzie. >> the swat team took aj into custody. police called a press conference to announce his arrest. >> we are filing charges of aggregated murder and homicide on mackenzie lewis. >> her friend was watching on her cell phone. >> i almost blacked out, or something. i dropped my purse, my phone, and then i drop to the ground on the street. i was just balling. >> i could not even believe it. i still can't believe it. >> but the detective work was not done. although they found human tissue in the fire pit that linked it to mackenzie, they had not found her body. s...

That before, they just had that bogus two zero six number used by the texting app. so now, with aj's personal cell number, they could get a search warrant for his calls, and two days later. >> we got the confirmation back from the fbi that mckenzie's record for showing her going from the airport to hatch park and a. g.'s records were showing going from his residence and also meeting up at hatch park at the exact same time. >> and that was enough to get a warrant to search a. g.'s home, where investigators noticed a mattress was missing from the bedroom, and there was a strong smell of bleach. ...