Nigerian Tech Worker Pleads Guilty to Murdering Mackenzie Lueck

A Nigerian tech worker who held a green card to work in the U.S. legally pleaded guilty in court on Wednesday to strangling a Utah college student to death in June 2019, leaving her charred remains in his backyard.

Ayoola A. Ajayi, who first arrived in the U.S. on a student visa, admitted he had planned the death of Mackenzie Lueck, 23, whom he met on a dating app and planned to meet in person at a park… {snip}

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Lueck met Ajayi on “Seeking Arrangement,” an app where wealthy “sugar daddies” meet young women known as “sugar babies.”

After the two went to his home, he strangled her to death, then burned and hid her remains in his backyard while the police and loved ones set off a frantic search party for her.

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