The Murder of Sydney Loofe

 

After a first date with a woman named “Audrey” after meeting on a social media site, Sydney Loofe text her friend, “just got done chilling with a super cute girl.”

The 24-year-old Menards clerk was wary after past relationships matched via Tinder with women with requests that involved men, “I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend.” Loofe texted her friend.

But Audrey, later known as Bailey Boswell, did have one. The trial testimony of the boyfriend, Aubrey Trail, revealed the first date led to a second were Loofe was accidentally choked to death in a sex game involving Boswell, Trail and Loofe.

Texts from Boswell's cellphone became part of the trial, as Boswell, 26, was charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and improper disposal of human remains in the death and dismemberment of Loofe, who'd gone missing after a November 15, 2017 date.

Trail, 53-year-old ex-convict, was found guilty of first-degree in his trial in Wilber. The Tennessee native as yet to know if he will be sentenced to death or life in prison.

Boswell, a Leon, Iowa native, faces the death penalty if convicted of the murder of Loofe. Boswell's trial was moved to Lexington, Nebraska due to publicity of Trail's trial.

Pleading not guilty, Boswell's attorneys have made suggestions that Trail was “controlling” her actions.

Prosecutors say that Boswell “got off sexually” of killing and torture, and say that she and Trail have conspired for months to lure females to their Wilber apartment to murder them.

Courtroom testimony focused on the flight of Trail and Boswell who disappeared after Loofe's remains were found scattered on country roads between December 4 & 5, 2017.

Trail and Boswell's movements were tracked via their cellphones and documented in video surveillance tape, when they were staying at Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs, motels in Grand Island and Kearney, and motels in Spencer, Iowa and Ames, Iowa, before being apprehended in Branson, Missouri on November 30, 2017.

A cellphone video by Boswell just before being apprehended—which was never posted on Facebook unlike others by Trail and Boswell—showed Boswell complaining that she had nothing to do with Loofe's disappearance, “they were still on my back.”

“I’m not trying to hide anything at all. I really do hope that they find her,” Boswell said on the video.

Testimony by a Lincoln police investigator that they were looking into Loofe's slaying and dismemberment and inquiry of “other bodies.”

Investigator Chris Milisits testified that after Loofe's disappearance, there was a picture of a cornfield posted on Trail's Facebook page, and investigators in Saline County, were probing suspicions of “other bodies” in the area.

Unable to discern the field's location, according to Milisits, several missing persons cases were reviewed, but no other bodies have been found.

Jurors saw surveillance from a Lincoln Home Depot store showed Boswell and Trail buying several items before Boswell's final date with Loofe—items that included a hacksaw, utility knife and tinsnips, but were never recovered.