Episode 50: Mackenzie Lueck

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

At 2:00 am on June 17th, 2019, 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck got off a plane in Salt Lake City, took a Lyft to a suburban park, and then vanished. Police followed the digital breadcrumbs left by Mackenzie to a house where a slew of nightmarish clues were discovered—clues that told the story of Mackenzie's fate and lead to the arrest of a suspect. On episode 49, Jac, Alexis and Billy speak with a first degree connection—a woman who encountered the suspect on a dating app and actually met him for a date. They detail his chilling characteristics, his reported need to build a sound-proof dungeon in his home, and explore the complex dichotomy of straddling dating and safety in an ever-evolving world of technology. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast contains graphic content.
0:05.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.0	And listener must also be advised and reminded that all parties are innocent until proven guilty.
0:14.8	First degree.
0:18.8	First degree.
0:22.3	The first degree.
0:25.5	The thing is, there's supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:36.0	It does seem very premeditated and a little of my friends and I have been talking about
0:39.6	that after the fact that was he going on different dating sites to try to find someone, was
0:45.5	this a process that he was going through to find the right person for this?
0:52.8	And who knows?
0:54.5	Hey guys, welcome to the first degree.
1:01.5	The true crime podcast that you might end up on.
1:03.9	My name is Jack Vannick.
1:05.0	I'm sitting across from Alexis Linkletter and next to Billy Jensen that it has a very
1:09.9	festive shirt on today and socks and socks.
1:14.0	They don't match the socks match.
1:16.1	No, the socks don't match the shirt.
1:17.8	It's like a Japanese sea.
1:21.2	It's a shirt from Aloha, Western.
1:23.3	It's like a modernized Tommy Bahama look.
1:26.1	Look at Japanese.
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