Days before she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Lauren McCluskey told campus police he was blackmailing her using explicit photos. One of the officers allegedly kept those photos, and showed them off to his colleague
Campus protests marking the one-year anniversary of Lauren McCluskey’s death. Photo: Rick Bowmer/AP/Shutterstock In October 2018, college student Lauren McCluskey went to the University of Utah campus police to report that she was being blackmailed by an ex-boyfriend. Someone, she said, had accessed nude photographs she’d taken of herself and was threatening to share them if she didn’t pay $1,000.
“There was a culture of misogyny in the police department that the university controls,” McConkie told the Times, “and that caused them to take Lauren’s complaint less seriously than a man’s.” The university apparently confirmed to the Tribune that Deras, who was working on her case, had the photos sent to his cell phone and showed at least one of them to another officer who wasn’t assigned to the case, who said that Deras “bragged about getting to look at them whenever he wanted.” Speaking to KSL News, an attorney for Deras subsequently called the paper’s report a “deliberate misrepresentation,” adding that some of its details were “absolutely untrue.
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