The Columbian previously reported that Bogdanov had told police, after his arrest, that he first ran into Kuhnhausen in downtown Vancouver, and invited her to join him and his brothers at a bar.
He gave her his coat because she was cold, and supplied her with vodka to drink, letting her keep the bottle.Kuhnhausen’s friends claimed she returned to the house where she had been staying, and proceeded to use a friend’s cellphone to access her Snapchat account, where she exchanged messages with Bogdanov, ostensibly because he had promised to get her a cellphone later that morning.
She then left in a white van with Bogdanov.At some point, Bogdanov learned that Kuhnhausen was transgender, which made him uncomfortable.