This is a disturbing story in so many ways.

23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck appeared on the surface to be a typical attractive female college student.



Lueck, a University of Utah student, had an innocent, sweet-looking face, and a clean-cut look. You'd never have guessed what she did in the background to make money.

In reality, Lueck was a "sugar baby" -- a growing trend online which is essentially prostitution with repeat clients.

Rather than gold dig in the traditional sense, where a young woman has a relationship or marriage with an older, rich man in exchange for financial support, gifts, marrying into money, etc, "sugar babies" cut out all airs of legitimacy by simply making it into a business relationship.

They post ads online or through apps like Tinder, referring themselves as "sugar babies", and claim to be seeking "sugar daddies" to take care of them. Often they exclusively seek older men, figuring they are far more likely to be wealthy, as well as less likely for the men to get emotionally attached.

Lueck was doing this for awhile, even posting tips on Facebook to other girls looking to get into the scene.

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Then, last week, she met up with a man late at night, and vanished without a trace.






Shortly after flying back to Salt Lake City, Lueck took a Lyft to a park at 2am, and got in the car with a man there.

That was the last time she was ever seen.

Turned out that man was Ayoola Ajayi, who was only 31.




Shortly before meeting with Lueck, Ajayi tried to get a secret, soundproof room built in his basement, presumably to use for holding Lueck after kidnapping her. The contractor he contacted refused to build it, feeling "weirded out".

Ajayi was later arrested for Lueck's murder, with her DNA found in charred remains in his house.

Also, Ajayi apparently wrote a book he self-published on Amazon a few years ago, which is a fictional account of a murder similar to this one.

Ajayi was once in the US Navy.


I remember running into these "sugar babies" when I was in chat rooms in the late 2000s. I always marveled at how they didn't believe they were prostitutes.

If you want to look at a "sugar baby" site, go take a look at SeekingArrangement.com, which specializes in that. Lueck was on that site, as well.

Some men prefer the "sugar baby" model to a typical hooker, both because it's not as cold of a transaction as with a hooker (there's more to it than just sex), and the girls are typically with a lot fewer men than regular hookers. Lueck, however, had at least two "arrangements" with other men simultaneously, at the time she met Ajayi, who was presumably going to be the third.

I am guessing that Ajayi lured her to meet him by claiming to be a rich guy who wanted one of these arrangements.