Nikki Kuhnhausen, a 17 year old transgender girl from Vancouver, Washington, went out to “stay with a friend” on June 5. She was never seen alive again.
On December 7, her body was discovered in Larch Mountain in the Clark County area of the state, a few miles north of Portland, Oregon. The Human Rights Campaign reported her as the 24th known transgender or gender non-conforming person to be killed in 2019.
Vancouver Police’s investigation led them to 25-year-old David Y. Bogdanov, who corresponded with the victim over Snapchat. In October, he told police that he met with Kuhnhausen on the night she was last seen, but he left her alone after they had a “conflict”. Authorities stopped believing him when his cell phone data from the morning of June 6 led them to the location of Kuhnhausen’s body.
Prosecutors charged him with second degree murder and he was initially not given bail. They also added on charges of malicious harassment, the former name for hate crime stipulations in the state of Washington.
At a hearing on January 2, however, Judge David Gregerson not only set a bail amount for Bogdanov, he set the amount at $750,000 – less than 1/6 of the $6 million that the prosecutors asked for, if bail had to be set at all.
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