Ayoola A. AjayiAPThe Salt Lake City home where investigators believe murder suspect Ayoola Ajayi burned the body of 23-year-old sorority sister Mackenzie Lueck is on the market — and it’s touted as “the cutest house on the block.”
The listing, posted to Zillow on Tuesday, is asking $349,000 for the 1,862-square-foot home.
The home is described as “an investment opportunity” that “needs some work in [the] basement due to water.”
Charred human tissue belonging to Lueck, as well as some of her personal items, were discovered in the backyard of the home in late June.
Ajayi, 31, has been charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of a human body in connection with the cold-blooded slaying.
Lueck’s body has since been discovered in a canyon about 85 miles from Ajayi’s home.
A local contractor revealed in June that Ajayi reached out to him two months earlier to request a secret, soundproof room in his basement — including “a secret door” and hooks on the wall.
The contractor said he turned down the offer, claiming he was too busy — but he was really just “weirded out.”
Mackenzie LueckFacebookLueck, 23, had just returned from a trip to her California hometown for her grandmother’s funeral when she took a Lyft from the Salt Lake City Airport to meet Ajayi in Hatch Park around 2 a.m. June 17.
Tom Camomile, who lives next door to Ajayi’s old home, told KJZZ that he can’t imagine anyone wanting to live there.
“It’s a very creepy feeling,” Camomile said. “I still struggle being next door to that house.”
Scot Barraclough, who lives two doors down, told FOX 13 that the home is a painful reminder of the grisly crime.
“Every time I come by, you can’t help but remember what happened there,” Barraclough said. “There’s a black mark in your mind when you look at the house, that kind of just reminds you that something horrible happened.”
But he says he hopes a buyer will come forward — adding that time and cosmetic updates might help make a difference.
“Some new life, some positive energy and positive activity going on there,” Barraclough said. “That would make a change.”



