guilty of second-degree murder and malicious harassment — a hate crime charge — for strangling Kuhnhausen, who was 17, to death and then burying her remains in a wooded area near Larch Mountain, in a remote part of northeast Clark County, in southern Washington.Kuhnhausen went missing on June 6, 2019 while crashing at a friend’s house.
Six months later, on Dec. 7, 2019, her remains were found by a person collecting bear grass who reported finding a human skull.
Police later found the rest of Kuhnhausen’s remains, along with her clothing, jewelry, and hair extensions.Social media and phone records led police to arrest Bogdanov, who had been messaging with the teen on Snapchat on the night she disappeared, a few days following the discovery.