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Jun 23, 2022 · Nikki Kuhnhausen's friends say she left their apartment in the early morning hours of June 6, 2019 to meet someone she'd messaged on Snapchat. She never returned.
- Overview
- "SHE WAS ALWAYS NIKKI"
- THE SEARCH FOR NIKKI
- AN UNSETTLING DISCOVERY
- BOGDANOV TAKES THE STAND
- JUSTICE FOR NIKKI
[This story previously aired on December 18, 2021.]
Prosecutors say Nikki Kuhnhausen, 17, vanished from Vancouver, Washington, in June 2019, just hours after meeting David Bogdanov, then 25, and exchanging messages on Snapchat.
Four months later in a meeting with police, Bogdanov told them the last time he had seen Kuhnhausen was when he asked her to get out of his car, after she told him she was transgender.
He told police he was "shocked to find that out. And just uncomfortable and really, really disturbed." Bogdanov told police he had no idea where Kuhnhausen went after she left him.
"This is a narrative and a story that plays out … all the time," says Devon Davis Williamson, a transgender activist and co-founder of the Justice for Nikki Task Force. "When trans people go missing, they're usually found deceased."
Six months after she disappeared, Kuhnhausen's body was discovered by a hiker on Larch Mountain. Bogdanov was arrested after cell tower data placed his phone where Kuhnhausen's body was found.
Lisa Woods will never forget the day her life changed forever. It was June 6, 2019. That's when her daughter Nikki Kuhnhausen seemingly vanished. Woods says they talked daily before work.
Lisa Woods: I would call her every day and talk to her before my shift. … She stopped answering.
Immediately, her mother's intuition kicked in. Woods had a bad feeling.
Lisa Woods: That first day I took her sweatshirt and I made it into a pillowcase. And I slept with her picture and my Bible.
Jamie Yuccas: Did you fear that something had happened?
Lisa Woods: I knew something had happened.
In June 2019, Lisa Woods had just one goal: finding her daughter Nikki Kuhnhausen. All of Nikki's social media accounts had gone silent.
Lisa Woods: We start making flyers.
Clark County prosecutor Kristen Arnaud.
Kristen Arnaud: I remember there were flyers everywhere. You couldn't go to the grocery store without seeing that flyer.
News of Nikki's disappearance in Vancouver, Washington, started to get more attention.
Police talked to Nikki's roommates and learned the last time they'd seen her was the day she vanished. Nikki was heading out the door to meet a man she'd met just hours before. But who was he? Clark County prosecutor Colin Hayes says her social media messages provided investigators with their first clue about who Nikki was seeing that night.
It was nearly Christmas 2019 and Lisa Woods was aching for one miraculous gift – the safe return of her 17-year-old daughter, Nikki Kuhnhausen. She'd been missing for six unbearable months.
Lisa Woods: I prayed and prayed to bring my baby home, just bring my baby home to me.
But the unsettling discovery of a human skull on December 7, 2019 brought a swarm of local authorities to thickly wooded Larch Mountain, including Detective Joe Swenson from the Clark County Sheriff's Office.
Det. Joe Swenson: This was the trail that we actually entered into the area, and there were items found immediately inside the tree line.
Underneath the dense canopy of trees, the remnants of a human life had been scattered by animals down a steep ravine.
Det. Joe Swenson: There were a bunch of clothing items found down there … specifically, a green jacket, some underwear…
Vicki Matsuk, David Bogdanov's niece, does not believe her uncle is capable of the murder he is accused of committing.
Vicki Matsuk: He would always get along with everyone. … Always there for everyone, no matter what.
Just days before the trial he reassured his sister, Lily.
Lily Bogdanov: I just remember him … telling us not to worry. … He was ready to just face whatever is coming.
And Woods was also ready.
Lisa Woods: I just prayed. I prayed for God to have his hands in it.
Lisa Woods: She just loved the camera, you know?
Jamie Yuccas: It seemed like the camera liked her back.
Lisa Woods: Mm-hmm.
Lisa Woods: Nikki was just Nikki. She kind of led the way. I just followed.
Devon Williamson: She was very empowered and very steadfast in her identity and I think very strong, probably in a way that society struggles to handle.
After two weeks of an emotional trial – and more than two years after Nikki Kuhnhausen's death – would jurors believe David Bogdanov's claim of self-defense?
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