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[Music] what do you think the most striking part of her young personality was to you her
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confidence her confidence in who she was she could bring light to any situation she was just full of beauty
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she was just like i'm unstoppable she stood out cheerful caring down for adventures
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she had hopes and dreams and aspirations for her life that there was a big future ahead for
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her i was getting ready to go into work someone text me call the police nikki's gone
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in the first week i figured she was just hanging out somewhere lost her phone or something
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we start making fires and putting up fires i just knew that she was being held against her will or
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or worse one of the first clues in this case came from 17 year old nikki kunhausen herself
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when investigators discovered messages on snapchat a social media platform about someone she had met that night a
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man named david bogdanoff all right this is detective david jensen with vancouver police and i have with me uh
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david bogdanoff do i have your consent to record this conversation i saw her walking i
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walked up to her asked her why she walking alone in the middle of the night and she said that
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she had some big fight with her boyfriend and she's really upset and uh i was just trying to be a nice guy you
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know so you're the last person to ever see her after she left with you no one ever saw
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her again i don't know what i can tell you david is kind david is caring they had made everyone laugh he
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was everyone's friend [Music] i try to keep my hopes high but after six months it's a little hard for that
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when you heard that her remains were found what was your initial reaction it was devastating
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investigators say david bogdanov killed 17-year-old nikki kunhausen after suspected killer david bogdanov
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made his first court appearance by the time we got to trial now we had three different versions of what
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happened mr bogdanov will testify to what happened that night the whole time i was just yelling for
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her to stop he was lying and he was full of anger she's trying to fight me and just
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reaching back and scratching at my face he had no regard for her life at all there's a struggle going on here trying
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to gouge my eyes there's a life or death struggle going on his actions and his words show that he
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intended to kill nikki and he intended to kill her because of who she was a transgender young woman
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this is a narrative and a story that plays out all the time when trans people go missing they're
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usually found deceased [Music] you