SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
The Latest on a missing Utah college student (all times local):
9:20 a.m.
Utah police say they have spoken with a person of interest in the disappearance of a college student missing for 10 days and are trying to find a mattress that had been at the man’s home.
Salt Lake City police chief Mike Brown released a photo of the mattress on Thursday and asked for whoever might have taken it to call police.
The homeowner is not in custody and his name was not made public.
The announcement came after police searched the man’s home for about 19 hours and were seeing going inside it with shovels and police dogs.
Mackenzie Lueck, 23, disappeared on June 17 after taking a Lyft June 17 from the airport to a park, where police say she met someone at about 3 a.m. and did not seem distressed.
The man’s home is about five miles (8 kilometers) from the park.
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9 a.m.
Police have completed their search of a Salt Lake City house as part of their effort to find a missing University of Utah student, after spending about 19 hours at the home five miles (8 kilometers) from the park where the 23-year-old woman was last seen 10 days ago.
Neighbors said that the officers took police dogs and shovels inside the home and removed undescribed items.
Salt Lake City police have said they believe the house has a connection to the disappearance of 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck but have not said why.
Lueck disappeared after taking a Lyft June 17 from the airport to a park, where police say she met someone at about 3 a.m. and did not seem distressed. They have said the Lyft driver had no connection with her disappearance
The home that was searched is in a middle-class neighborhood of mostly older homes on Salt Lake City’s west side.
10:15 p.m.
Police are searching a Salt Lake City house as part of an investigation into a missing University of Utah student.
Salt Lake City Assistant Police Chief Tim Doubt said Wednesday night that detectives were serving a search warrant at the home in relation to the case, but refused to provide any more details.
Doubt says police were expected to be at the house through the night.
Lueck disappeared after taking took a Lyft car June 17 from the airport to a park located miles from her apartment. Police say she met someone there at about 3 a.m., and didn’t seem distressed.
Police had said there was no evidence of foul play, but they were worried she has missed classes and flights. The Lyft driver has been cleared.
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5:14 p.m.
Police say a missing University of Utah student was texting with someone shortly before she disappeared, but that person is not considered a suspect.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports investigators said Wednesday that 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck was texting someone as she left the airport shortly before she was last seen June 17.
Salt Lake City police say investigators have found that person, but don’t consider them a suspect in her disappearance.
Lueck disappeared after taking took a Lyft car from the airport to a park located miles from her apartment. Police say she met someone there at about 3 a.m., and didn’t seem distressed.
Police say there’s no evidence of foul play, but they are worried she has missed classes and flights. The Lyft driver has been cleared.
