Nikki Kuhnhausen — 17-year-old transgender girl from Vancouver who went missing last summer was found dead in the forests of Washington. Currently, the County police is leading the investigation, the suspect is 25-year-old David Bogdanov.
According to Slavic Sacramento, Bogdanov met with Nikki at the party, but after learning that she is transgender, attacked the teenager.
Kuhnhausen went missing in early June, and shortly after the disappearance of the 10th of the same month, her mother went to the police. The alarmed woman told me that the last time you talked with Nikki 5 days ago.
According to friends of the murdered, they have not seen Nikki since June 6. Then she came to him with a bottle of vodka and was dressed in a sweater. Kuhnhausen said that he met with some Russian-speaking man. After the girl left, her never to be seen again. Police found out that before her death, Nikki spoke on SnapChat with a certain man, agreeing on the meeting and to establish his identity.
The suspect was a 25-year-old immigrant David Bogdanov. The police searched the house of his brother, but no leads found. Then, having studied the correspondence of Nikki and Bogdanov in SnapChat, the experts learned that the suspect was in the same area where the murder occurred, 6 June. Earlier, Bogdanov denied it.
By words a press-the Secretary of the Vancouver police Department, the suspect admitted that he met with Nikki in the house of mutual friends, and then volunteered to drive her, but allegedly dropped the teen midway.
The Prosecutor’s office believes that between Bogdanov and Kuhnhausen the conflict occurred after the suspect learned about the transgender victim.
«Probably David was furious when he learned that he engaged in sexual contact with a woman who used to be a man, and strangled Nikki», — the statement says, published The Columbian.
During the investigation, detectives found out that a few days before the murder, the man was in the video store for adults in Portland, also tried to call the prostitutes on the phone. In addition, Bogdanov drank a lot.
According to the newspaper OregonLive, the suspect also told the police that in Russia «the phenomenon of homosexuality is unacceptable».
Representatives of the LGBTQ community concerned about the incident and urge authorities to bring the killer to justice.
