David Mogdanov, from Washington, was found guilty of killing Nikki Kuhnhausen, a transgender teenager, in 2019. He was given a jail sentence of 19 and a half years. Six months after the 17-year-mysterious old’s disappearance, her body was found on Larch Mountain.
Since the beginning of the investigation, people have been curious about David because he was the last person Nikki saw on June 6, 2019, before she went missing. The first person tried to hide his tracks by giving the police false information. But when cell tower records put his phone in Larch Mountain on the day the victim went missing, the police were able to catch him.
Reports say that a jury found Bogdanov, who was 27, guilty of second-degree murder and malicious harassment, which is a hate crime in Washington. This happened more than two years after the horrible crime. He was sentenced to 234 years in prison for second-degree murder and 12 months in prison for malicious harassment, both of which were for the same crimes.
Nikki’s memory lives on three years after she died. The NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists is proud to give the “48 Hours” show the “Excellence in Network Television” award for 2022.
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, the show 48 Hours will tell the sad story of the murder of transgender teen Nikki Kuhnhausen and David Mogdanov’s trial for it. This will be part of Pride Month.
Nikki Kuhnhausen
Exploring the whereabouts of Nikki Kuhnhausen’s murderer David Mogdanov
Detectives found that Nikki Kuhnhausen had seen David Bogdanov the last time she was seen before she went missing. He said that when he found out Nikki was transgender, he asked her to get out of his car. He said that she had left and that he had never seen her again. Bogdanov was arrested after the body was found because cell tower records show that he was at the scene of the murder on the day it happened.
Even though his first conversation with the police, in which he admitted to having met Nikki that night, didn’t give them much to go on, he found it hard to defend himself once the police started using the evidence against him. Bogdanov was arrested right away and charged with killing the teenager.
During his trial in court, the accused said that Kuhnhausen had reached for the loaded gun he kept next to the driver’s seat when he told her to leave his car. He said he put a rope around her shoulders to stop her from taking his gun, but the rope wound up around her neck instead. A medical examiner had said before the trial that Nikki’s death was caused by being strangled.
The prosecution said that David threw away the dead body on Larch Mountain and then went to Ukraine. Six weeks later, he came back to the US. They also said that he killed Nikki Kuhnhausen because he was angry about the fact that she was a transgender woman. Bogdanov lied to officials more than once, which didn’t help his case at all.
David, who was 27 at the time, was found guilty of killing Nikki Kuhnhausen in 2019 and given a prison sentence of nearly 20 years. He is still in jail at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Mason County, to this day.
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