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~ Aubrey Trail, (NE) ~
By: BuzzC Date: June 12, 2021, 3:57 pm
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Nebraska man sentenced to death for strangling, dismembering
Tinder date--
Saturday, June 12, 2021
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LINCOLN, Neb. - A Nebraska man who murdered and dismembered a
young woman he met on Tinder and then slashed his own neck in
court during his trial was sentenced to death this week.
Aubrey Trail, a 54-year-old thief and con man, was convicted of
strangling 24-year-old Sydney Loofe with an electrical cord in
2017, then cutting her body into 14 pieces that he dumped in
various rural roadside ditches.
At trial, witnesses testified that Trail and his girlfriend,
Bailey Boswell, 27, had solicited them for group sex and talked
of the occult and gaining "powers" through killing.
A friend of Loofe showed investigators her final social media
post, which helped them track down the suspects. It was a selfie
shared to Snapchat captioned, "Ready for my date." She was
expecting to meet Boswell for a second date.
The murder showed Trail had "a mind totally and senselessly
bereft of any regard for human life," Judge Vicky Johnson read
during the sentencing hearing Wednesday.
During the hearing, Trail recanted his claim at trial that Loofe
had died accidentally of "erotic asphyxiation" and admitted to
tying her up and killing her because she "freaked out" after he
told her of his criminal scheming, which involved drug use and
selling stolen antiques, as well as his penchant for group sex.
"I had no doubt she would tell people if I let her go," he told
the court.
He and Boswell had multiple arrest warrants at the time and were
actively profiting off of their fraud schemes.
"I was willing to do things to protect that," he said.
He told Loofe’s parents that he was not going to apologize
because "it would be an insult for what I’ve put you through"
but said killing their daughter was the only thing in his life
he regretted.
Prosecutors said during the trial that Trail and Boswell had
planned to kill someone and lured Loofe to her demise by using
the Tinder app.
Hours before Loofe’s death, surveillance video at a Lincoln Home
Depot store showed Trail and Boswell buying hacksaws, tinsnips
and other tools used in the crime.
Trail has maintained that Boswell was unaware of the crime,
although in his shifting stories about the incident he implied
that the couple drank some of Loofe’s blood.
Boswell is still awaiting her sentencing and could become the
first woman in Nebraska to face the death penalty.
In calls to the Omaha World-Herald newspaper, Trail gave
shifting accounts of how Loofe died and said he believes he
deserves the death penalty, although his case will be
automatically appealed. At one point he claimed that Boswell had
taken drugs and passed out before the murder.
During his trial, he snuck a razor blade into the courtroom,
slashed his own throat and yelled "Bailey is innocent, and I
curse you all!"
Loofe was a clerk at a Menards hardware store in Lincoln.
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