Seventeen-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen left a friend’s apartment in Vancouver, Washington, in the early hours of June 6, 2019, to meet a man she had been messaging on Snapchat. Nikki, a Caucasian male who identified as female, did not return and was reported missing on June 10 after her mother, Lisa Woods, grew unusually concerned. Volunteers and family circulated flyers in Vancouver and Portland as the search continued.

On December 7, 2019, a hiker found a human skull on a remote logging road on Larch Mountain; additional remains and personal items recovered there were later identified as Nikki’s. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death strangulation with a cellphone charger cord. Detectives had identified David Bogdanov as the last person to see Nikki; his phone was placed at Larch Mountain the morning she disappeared. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and malicious harassment, a hate crime under Washington law. At trial he said he acted in self-defense after learning Nikki was transgender; the jury convicted him of second-degree murder and malicious harassment, and he received a 19½-year sentence.

Does anyone who knew Nikki, frequented that area of Larch Mountain, or has information about her movements on June 6, 2019, have details to share?