Anastasia Nicolazzi
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1,398 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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But Nikki was still a month shy of her 18th birthday, which meant she was a minor. And her mom was convinced that Nikki had not intentionally cut off communication or run away.
Three weeks later, Nikki's mom turned up what would prove to be some very useful information. Nikki had borrowed a friend's phone the night she disappeared.
Using that friend's phone, Nikki had logged into her own Snapchat account.
And so, Scott, here you know some of the obvious questions for investigators and maybe her own family and friends. It's like, who was this person that she may have gone to meet? Was it a date? Was it—we know that, unfortunately, she had some narcotics going on in her background. So did it have something to do with that? All things investigators would need to look at and see if they could rule out.
So for whatever the reason for meeting up with this at least supposed stranger, it did give investigators an important next step in the search for Nikki, a name.
Investigators even pursued warrants for his cell phone data, but like Nikki, the 25-year-old seemed to have vanished.
Then in late September, nearly four months after Nikki went missing, a detective finally got a response from Bogdanov on Snapchat. And Bogdanov said he was willing to meet with police, just as the detective had requested.
But according to Bogdanov, the reason he had been unreachable for months was simply because he had failed to pay his bills.
Detectives believed that he was the last person to be in contact with the missing teenager, so they had been trying to find Bogdanov for weeks. What he said, and more importantly, how he said it, would provide investigators with their first big lead.
Bogdanov also claimed that his cell phone had been shut off because he couldn't pay the bill, which would explain why the police had trouble contacting him for weeks.
According to Bogdanov, he'd been out bar hopping in Vancouver with his two brothers when he spotted Nikki walking down the street alone. Here is part of the recording of Bogdanov speaking with the detectives in the interview room.
And then he claimed that after leaving Nikki, he and his brothers went to his sister's house in downtown Vancouver. And that's where he and Nikki exchanged their first messages over Snapchat.
But instead, the adult and the minor teenager headed in the direction of his family's home just outside Vancouver. Whether he had expectations of a sexual encounter, he didn't say. But he did admit that it was here that their night took a dramatic turn.
Bogdanov repeated his version of that night for 20 more minutes until the detectives decided to end the interview and send him home.
You know, Scott, while everyone seems to already be tilting their head, you know, he happened to be the last person who actually saw Nikki. And then all of a sudden he's gone for a while. His statements, they don't seem to make a lot of sense.
But as we know, it is far from being in a place that he could be charged or certainly prosecuted just because he is piquing their interest the more and more they learn.
Again... morally repugnant to be prejudiced against anyone for one reason or another. But his transphobia, what it does do, at least maybe, it might start to be providing a motive about whatever happened to Nikki. And even though they couldn't hold Bogdanov, the Vancouver police weren't about to let him out of their sight.
On the night he claimed to meet Nikki, Bogdanov's phone records showed him driving to Brush Prairie, a 20-minute drive north of downtown Vancouver, just as he told the detectives he had.
Larch Mountain is about 15 miles east of Brush Prairie and in the opposite direction of Portland. So if the Vancouver detectives were already suspicious about most of Bogdanov's story, now they had pretty good proof that he was lying.
Bogdanov's trans and homophobic comments had more than raised eyebrows. They provided a plausible motive for a possible assault or worse. But while his lies about his location were extremely suspicious, a secret trip out into the wilderness still didn't give police enough cause to make an arrest.
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