SODIUM LAKE CITY — a computer employee pleaded embarrassed on Wednesday to strangling a Utah student whoever disappearing over this past year stimulated a look that ended making use of the finding of the lady charred stays in the yard.

Ayoola A. Ajayi known he in the offing the death of 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck, who the man came across on a going out with app and organized in order to meet in a playground. When they went back to his homes, he or she destined and strangled this model, consequently used and hid the torso while authorities and nearest and dearest searched their, his own attorney stated in judge.

Ajayi pleaded mortified to aggravated killing and desecration of a corpse in a contract with prosecutors that shed the possibility of the death punishment. Prosecutors fell rates of irritated kidnapping and preventing justice.

Ajayi also pleaded accountable to sexually harming a different wife he or she came across on an internet dating software. She’s supposed to staying sentenced to life in imprisonment without the chance for parole.

Salt water County region Attorney Sim Gill claimed the responsible pleas let Lueck’s father and mother in order start up to find shutdown and a “measure of fairness.” Gill explained the family unit has actually asked for convenience.

Lueck is remembered as a bubbly, nurturing person who belonged to a sorority and had been a part-time elder on college of Utah studying kinesiology and pre-nursing.

She went omitted in June 2019, after returning from a journey made up of El 2do, Ca, on her behalf grandmother’s funeral. Lueck have met Ajayi, 32, on the internet site Seeking setup, which costs alone for wealthy “sugar daddies” to get to know females known as “sugar infants,” his own lawyer stated. She obtained a Lyft in order to reach your in a park, prosecutors say. The telephone is switched off a minute as soon as the latest text and never turned back on.

Ajayi designed the slaying before the fulfilling at recreation area and deterred the clip in the home-security method before the man handled by see the, his lawyer Neal Hamilton mentioned. After they went back to his or her Salt river City homes, Ajayi connected the girl up-and begun to fail this lady. She made an effort to cease him, followed by they put a belt all over her neck, forced this lady onto this model belly and strangled the, the attorneys said.

Ajayi after that used the woman body and tucked they in his garden, Hamilton stated. After detectives came to his or her entrance to inquire him or her, the man dug the woman up-and buried the girl in a shallow grave in a canyon about 100 long distances north of sodium pond area.

The research Lueck went on for almost 2 weeks before some of the keeps are discovered in Ajayi’s lawn and then he was apprehended. The guy eventually announced the location of this lady human anatomy in Logan Canyon, in which she was found together weapon guaranteed behind the woman.

a native of Nigeria, Ajayi used a green credit which permits him or her to lawfully manage and inhabit the U.S., prosecutors have said. He had been an information technologies employee who had stints with high-profile enterprises and ended up being briefly inside military state Guard.

Authorities have-not talked about a reason for any killing.

Ajayi said bit of at Wednesday’s learning and sometimes hung their head. He had been wear an orange prison jumpsuit, glasses and pink medical masks. He could be anticipated to getting officially sentenced Oct. 23.

Ajayi furthermore pleaded guilty to intimately hurting another woman this individual satisfied on a matchmaking software in 2018. These people went along to their residence for supper, plus the misuse gone wrong even though they comprise watching tv, the man known. He pleaded sinful to forcible erectile abuse therefore.

In the plea contract, prosecutors sacked 19 matters of sexual victimization of a slight pertaining to youngsters porn presumably found on their instruments throughout review into Lueck’s death.