Nikki Kuhnhausen
Seventeen-year-old transgender girl Nikki Kuhnhausen was murdered by David Bogdanov after he discovered she was transgender. Her body was found months later. Bogdanov was convicted.
On June 6, 2019, seventeen-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen, a transgender girl, disappeared from Vancouver, Washington. She was last seen getting into a car with a man identified through social media as David Bogdanov.
Bogdanov initially denied knowing Nikki but cell phone records placed them together. He later admitted they had a sexual encounter and he killed her after discovering she was transgender.
Nikki's remains were found in a wooded area of Clark County in December 2019, six months after her disappearance. She had been strangled.
Bogdanov was convicted of second-degree murder in 2021 and sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison. Prosecutors were unable to charge it as a hate crime under Washington state law at the time.
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