SYDNEY LOOFE: Nebraska v Aubrey Trail & Bailey Boswell for murder, dismemberment after Tinder date *GUILTY*

Just before Sydney Loofe went on her first Internet-arranged date with a woman named “Audrey” on Nov. 14, 2017, she texted a cautionary question.
“Just going to be me and you, right?” she asked via the dating app Tinder.
“OK. Yes. Of course,” responded Audrey.

“Audrey” turned out to be Bailey Boswell, the girlfriend of Aubrey Trail.

Before her first date with Bailey Boswell, Sydney Loofe asked: 'Just going to be me and you, right?'

WILBER, Neb. — Just before Sydney Loofe went on her first Internet-arranged date with a woman named “Audrey” on Nov. 14, 2017, she texted a cautionary question.

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July 10 --
Jury finds Aubrey Trail guilty of first-degree murder
Jury begins deliberations in Aubrey Trail trial

July 9 --
Aubrey Trail recants original story while on the stand

July 8 --
Pathologist that performed autopsy on Sydney Loofe testifies in trial

July 3 --
Sydney Loofe apparently unaware Tinder date may include Aubrey Trail

July 2 --
Three women testify of sex, money and a "witch cult" in Aubrey Trail trial

July 1 --
FBI shares bizarre details involving witches from Aubrey Trail's interrogation

June 28 --
Aubrey Trail absent from courtroom as jury hears his police interview

June 24 --
Aubrey Trail to be in handcuffs for remainder of trial following attempt to slash his own throat

June 21 --
Prosecution builds case in first week of Aubrey Trail's murder trial

June 18 --
Officials: Planned seduction to kill somebody, or consensual sex fantasy gone wrong

June 17 --
Aubrey Trail pleads guilty to improper disposal of Sydney Loofe's body

Timeline of Aubrey Trail court appearances

A breakdown of Aubrey Trail's court appearances.

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[GrandmaBear]

One dissenter wasn't it? I don't know every last detail on this case but... Take heart at least even in this climate that most of the judges on the panel thought it WAS depraved and death was deserved it sounds like. Haven't read it all but if these are elected judges and if I was a voter, the dissenter would not be getting my vote... It is however disgusting it should even be a question of death here but these days... Of course maybe he was pleasing his political base/votes, one never knows these days...

I have read just enough to know some of what they did to this victim and it was enough for me.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Boswell's attorney argues for new trial in Loofe slaying over gruesome photos

Assistant Nebraska Attorney General Stacy Foust asked the Supreme Court to affirm Boswell's conviction, saying: "Boswell did not get to sanitize her crimes by picking the state's evidence for it."

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Lori Pilger
Feb 1, 2023 Updated 2 hrs ago

Bailey Boswell’s attorney made his case Wednesday for why she should get a new trial for the killing and dismemberment of Sydney Loofe, pointing to the number of gruesome photos prosecutors showed to the jury and testimony at trial about witchcraft and torture.

Todd Lancaster said the Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that such photographs may be relevant to show the condition of the body or extent of the wounds or to establish malice and intent.

But in this case, he said, the state put into evidence more than 50 photos of Loofe’s dismembered remains, including five of a tattoo on her forearm that helped investigators to identify her and 10 of her severed head.

“And it’s horrific,” Lancaster said. “They are hard to look at.”

 

[Kimster]

Boswell's attorney argues for new trial in Loofe slaying over gruesome photos

Assistant Nebraska Attorney General Stacy Foust asked the Supreme Court to affirm Boswell's conviction, saying: "Boswell did not get to sanitize her crimes by picking the state's evidence for it."

journalstar.com

Lori Pilger
Feb 1, 2023 Updated 2 hrs ago

Bailey Boswell’s attorney made his case Wednesday for why she should get a new trial for the killing and dismemberment of Sydney Loofe, pointing to the number of gruesome photos prosecutors showed to the jury and testimony at trial about witchcraft and torture.

Todd Lancaster said the Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that such photographs may be relevant to show the condition of the body or extent of the wounds or to establish malice and intent.

But in this case, he said, the state put into evidence more than 50 photos of Loofe’s dismembered remains, including five of a tattoo on her forearm that helped investigators to identify her and 10 of her severed head.

“And it’s horrific,” Lancaster said. “They are hard to look at.”

Yeah, well that's the evidence that Sydney was brutally murdered. Keeping those pictures out of the trial puts a vanilla coat on the truth.

 

[Guess Who]

Yeah, well that's the evidence that Sydney was brutally murdered. Keeping those pictures out of the trial puts a vanilla coat on the truth.

I'm sorry, but evidence presented of their "deviant behavior" seems pretty relevant to the case, whether they needed to provide all those pics or not.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Aubrey Trail loses automatic appeal to state's high court

The district court "found Trail’s act of self-harm was 'a calculating gesture,' and we will not disturb this finding on appeal," the Supreme Court said.

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• LORI PILGER Lincoln Journal Star
• Nov 10, 2022 Updated Mar 23, 2023

Aubrey Trail will not get a second murder trial for the killing and dismemberment of Sydney Loofe.

The Nebraska Supreme Court in a decision Thursday — just shy of the five-year anniversary of the 23-year-old Lincoln woman's disappearance — affirmed Trail's conviction and death sentence for the murder.

"The district court, after considering all the evidence submitted by the parties at the hearing on the motion for new trial, found Trail’s act of self-harm was 'a calculating gesture,' and we will not disturb this finding on appeal," the Supreme Court said.

Trail's appeal was automatic, because he was sent to death row. Though, he said he didn't want one.

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And in September, Trail sent a motion to the Supreme Court from the Tecumseh prison asking them to set an execution date. He said they refused to let him file it because he's represented by counsel.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Court upholds a Nebraska woman's murder conviction, life sentence in dismemberment killing

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a 30-year-old woman in the 2017 death and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store clerk.

apnews.com

BY MARGERY A. BECK
Updated 12:58 PM EDT, May 10, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction and life sentence of a woman in the 2017 death and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store clerk.

Bailey Boswell, 30, was convicted in 2020 of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and improper disposal of human remains in the death of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe. Boswell’s co-defendant and boyfriend at the time of the killing, 58-year-old Aubrey Trail, was convicted of the same charges in 2019 and sentenced to death in 2021.

Prosecutors said Boswell and Trail had been planning to kill someone before Boswell met Loofe on the dating app Tinder. Boswell made plans for a date with Loofe, a cashier at a Menards store in Lincoln, to lure her to the apartment where she was strangled.

The FBI and other law enforcement spent three weeks searching for Loofe before her dismembered remains were found in December 2017. Loofe’s body was found cut into 14 pieces and left in garbage bags in ditches along rural roads in southeastern Nebraska.

In her appeal, Boswell challenged the admission of evidence by prosecutors in her trial, including photographs of Loofe’s dismembered body, arguing the gruesome photos served only to turn the jury against her. Boswell also objected to the the testimony of several women who said Trail and Boswell had talked of occult fantasies and had expressed a desire to sexually torture and kill women.

Boswell’s defense attorney argued at her trial that she was forced by Trail to go along with the killing and dismemberment of Loofe.

Justice Stephanie Stacy wrote for the high court’s unanimous ruling Friday that “there is no merit to any of Boswell’s assigned errors regarding the trial court’s evidentiary rulings.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'm going to leave this one alone for the moment with m thoughts....