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48 Hours

The Life and Death of Nikki Kuhnhausen

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A young woman disappears after a Snapchat rendezvous. Her murder inspired a new law. "48 Hours" contributor Jamie Yuccas reports.

Transcript

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1:12.5

What do you think the most striking part of her young personality was to her confidence?

1:16.6

Her confidence in who she was. She could bring light to any situation. She was just full of beauty.

1:28.0

She was just like, huh, I'm unstoppable. She stood out.

1:36.9

She's here full carrying down for adventures.

1:41.2

She had hopes and dreams and aspirations for her life that there was a big future ahead for her.

1:53.8

I was getting ready to go into work. Someone texted me called the police, Nikki's gone.

2:01.3

In the first week, I figured she was just hanging out somewhere, lost her phone or something.

2:08.6

We started making fires and putting up fires. I just knew that she was being held against her well or worse.

2:23.1

One of the first clues in this case came from 17-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen herself.

2:29.6

When investigators discovered messages on Snapchat, a social media platform,

2:34.8

about someone she had met that night, a man named David Bogdanov.

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