After a first date with a woman named"Audrey" after meeting on a social media site, Sydney Loofe texther friend, "just got done chilling with a super cute girl."
The 24-year-old Menards clerk was waryafter past relationships matched via Tinder with women with requeststhat involved men, "I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend."Loofe texted her friend.
But Audrey, later known as BaileyBoswell, did have one. The trial testimony of the boyfriend, AubreyTrail, revealed the first date led to a second were Loofe wasaccidentally choked to death in a sex game involving Boswell, Trailand Loofe.
Texts from Boswell's cellphone becamepart of the trial, as Boswell, 26, was charged with first-degreemurder, conspiracy to commit murder and improper disposal of humanremains in the death and dismemberment of Loofe, who'd gone missingafter a November 15, 2017 date.
Trail, 53-year-old ex-convict, wasfound guilty of first-degree in his trial in Wilber. The Tennesseenative as yet to know if he will be sentenced to death or life inprison.
Boswell, a Leon, Iowa native, faces thedeath penalty if convicted of the murder of Loofe. Boswell's trialwas moved to Lexington, Nebraska due to publicity of Trail's trial.
Pleading not guilty, Boswell'sattorneys have made suggestions that Trail was "controlling" heractions.
Prosecutors say that Boswell "gotoff sexually" of killing and torture, and say that she andTrail have conspired for months to lure females to their Wilberapartment to murder them.
Courtroom testimony focused on theflight of Trail and Boswell who disappeared after Loofe's remainswere found scattered on country roads between December 4 & 5,2017.
Trail and Boswell's movements weretracked via their cellphones and documented in video surveillancetape, when they were staying at Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs,motels in Grand Island and Kearney, and motels in Spencer, Iowa andAmes, Iowa, before being apprehended in Branson, Missouri on November30, 2017.
A cellphone video by Boswell justbefore being apprehended—which was never posted on Facebook unlikeothers by Trail and Boswell—showed Boswell complaining that she hadnothing to do with Loofe's disappearance, "they were still on myback."
"I'm not trying to hide anythingat all. I really do hope that they find her," Boswell said onthe video.
Testimony by a Lincoln policeinvestigator that they were looking into Loofe's slaying anddismemberment and inquiry of "other bodies."
Investigator Chris Milisits testifiedthat after Loofe's disappearance, there was a picture of a cornfieldposted 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 LincolnHome Depot store showed Boswell and Trail buying several items beforeBoswell's final date with Loofe—items that included a hacksaw,utility knife and tinsnips, but were never recovered.