Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations · Kim Davis, Adam "Tex" Davis, Jerry Kolber; True Crime Podcast

A Case of ‘Rough Sex’ in Budapest

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His searches include “Do pigs really eat dead bodies?” and “How do police handle missing person cases?”

1. Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations covers the Budapest, Hungary disappearance and death of Mackenzie “Kenzie” Mikulski. 2. Hosts Adam Tex-Davis and Kim frame the case, with Jerry Colbert joining as the third voice in the room. 3. The episode asks how a vacation night in Budapest’s District 7 ended with a missing American traveler and a contested explanation. 4. Kim describes Budapest’s Danube split, the 691-room parliament building, thermal baths, and the ruin bars of the old Jewish Quarter. 5. The most famous ruin bar named is SimpliKert on Kazinci Street, set in abandoned buildings with mismatched furniture and graffiti. 6. Kenzie is identified as a 31-year-old neurosurgery nurse practitioner from Fredonia, New York, working at Providence St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Portland. 7. The hosts mention her honors master’s degree from Daemen College, her work in Buffalo General’s neuro ICU, and her medical missions to Haiti and Ghana. 8. They also describe her tattoos, gauged earlobes, and friends’ view that she “fills a room.” 9. Kenzie and her friend Gretchen Tower arrive in Budapest on October 31, 2024 and stay in an Airbnb in the 6th district. 10. Gretchen leaves for Italy on November 4, and Kenzie spends her final night alone in the Jewish Quarter and at SimpliKert. 11. On November 5, Gretchen learns Kenzie never checked out of the Airbnb, and the owner says Kenzie’s belongings are still there. 12. Gretchen contacts the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, and the missing-person response quickly spreads in the United States. 13. Friends create a Facebook group called “Find McKenzie Michalski,” and it grows to more than 3,300 members. 14. Congressman Tim Kennedy writes to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and urges coordination with the U.S. Embassy and Hungarian police. 15. Police review CCTV from the Jewish Quarter and track Kenzie with a man leaving multiple nightclubs and walking toward a District 7 apartment. 16. The man is later identified only as LTM, a 37-year-old Irish citizen who had arrived in Budapest on October 28. 17. After his arrest outside the apartment on November 7, LTM says Kenzie died during rough sex and that it was an accident. 18. The hosts describe searches including “Do pigs really eat dead bodies?”, “What does a corpse smell like after it decomposes?”, and “Budapest webcams.” 19. The tone mixes true-crime narration with joking banter, while the hosts repeatedly interrupt each other and read sources aloud in a conversational style. 20. Listeners who like vacation true crime, digital evidence, and police timelines will likely follow this closely, while listeners wanting light travel talk may skip it.

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