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Utah police investigating MacKenzie Lueck’s killing got 28 search warrants. Here’s what they were looking for.

In a list released late last week, prosecutors detailed for the first time what evidence they will use in forming a case against the man charged with killing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck.

Though none of those warrants have yet been released, the list from the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office provides some idea of what officers were looking at as they started investigating Ayoola Ajayi, 31, who now faces four felony counts for Lueck’s disappearance, death and the desecration of her body.

The warrants listed in a court document filed Friday include short captions showing what the search was for: social media profiles for both Lueck and Ajayi, more than 2,000 photos on Lueck’s cameras, phone records, Ajayi’s electronics and other items found in his home, the contents of a garbage bag he discarded, his car, and a receipt for a gas container and fuel at Smith’s.