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320: Utah Student Abducted By Sugar Daddy to Be Held Captive in His Torture Chamber?! | Mackenzie Lueck

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Daily News, Documentary, News, True Crime

4.710.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

23-year-old college student Mackenzie Lueck texted her mom after landing safely in Salt Lake City — but she never made it home. Hours later, she vanished after meeting a man she’d been talking to online. When Mackenzie’s burned remains were discovered in a shallow grave, the truth about her killer sent shockwaves across the country. From a fake online persona to a secret t0rture room and a horrifying cover-up, this case is one of the most disturbing we’ve ever covered.

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0:00.0

Hi, Malashta Campbell from the rest is politics.

0:02.0

Nishkeh Maher here from Pod Save the UK.

0:03.9

And Christiana Figueres from outrage and optimism.

0:06.8

Rising inequality, conflict, climate disaster is very hard to find reasons to be hopeful about the future.

0:12.3

That's why we're teaming up this September during the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations.

0:17.4

Along with political currency, Pod Save the World, the Week Jr., and more.

0:22.2

We'll discuss the stories that give us hope and answer the question, how does hope turn into

0:26.7

action? Look out for the Be Hope takeover this September.

0:30.3

Yeah, I'd like to get, if it'd possible, have a wellness check done on my daughter. I've been trying

0:34.9

to get a hold of her a week. Last time I heard from her, she got off the plane.

0:38.3

The police listed McKenzie as a missing person.

0:42.3

Kenzie Lueck's family and friends trying to reach her on social media.

0:47.3

We just immediately lost our breath, I think.

0:51.3

We were holding hands.

0:52.3

And I was in complete shock.

0:54.9

Are you saying you don't know or you don't remember?

0:57.9

Because those are two different things, AJ.

1:04.0

Hey, true crime besties.

1:06.0

Welcome back to an all new episode of serialistly.

1:32.2

Okay. to an all-new episode of Serialist Lee. Yeah, I'd like to get, if it's possible, have a wellness check done on my daughter.

1:36.4

She flew in from California, Sunday night.

1:38.8

She got in about one, and it was the last time I've heard from her,

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