Lauren McCluskey was worried about how long University of Utah police would take to respond to her reports that she had received harassing messages and an extortion threat. She decided to reach out to Salt Lake City police.
“Hi, I’ve been blackmailed, um, for money,” Lauren McCluskey said during the start of her Oct. 13 phone call to the Salt Lake City Police Department, which released a recording of the call Friday.
McCluskey explained she already filed a report with the police at the University of Utah, but she hadn’t heard any update. “I was just concerned because I wasn’t sure how long they were going to take to file an arrest,” McCluskey told the Salt Lake City police dispatcher.