GUILTY NE - Sydney Loofe, 24, brutally murdered, Lincoln, 15 Nov 2017 #4 *Boswell appeal 2023*

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Johnson is recounting the facts of the case, which include how Trail would tell women he had supernatural powers and could gain strength by inhaling the last breath of a dying person, which she notes was taken from a Stephen King novel.

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Johnson says the panel reviewed the transcript of the 2019 trial and evidence entered, as well as evidence and witness statements made at the March sentencing hearing.
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A sentencing panel must consider if the aggravating circumstances justify a sentence of death, Johnson says, and if further mitigating circumstances are present and if a death sentence would be excessive.

 

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Johnson: The murder of Sydney Loofe meets the definition of exceptional depravity.
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Johnson says Trail selected his victim based on specific characteristics.

The case law includes Carey Dean Moore, who was put to death in 2018 for the 1979 killing of two Omaha cab drivers.
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"The murder of Ms. Loofe was planned in advanced, with only the victim's identity unknown," Johnson said.

Trail and Boswell recruited other women with the idea they would kill someone. Those women backed out, so Trail and Boswell went forward alone.
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"The murder of Ms. Loofe was planned in advanced, with only the victim's identity unknown," Johnson said.

Trail and Boswell recruited other women with the idea they would kill someone. Those women backed out, so Trail and Boswell went forward alone.
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The "cold, calculated planning" exhibited by Trail matched previous killers who received a death sentence, Johnson says, including Carey Dean Moore and John Joubert.
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Johnson says the murder meets exception depravity standards because it met 4 of 5 standards.

1. Relishing the murder: Trail said he would get off watching torture, and had a kill bag. He also talked of mutilating Loofe's body during interviews with law enforcement.
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Johnson notes Loofe's tattoo, which read "Everything will be wonderful someday" was framed with a series of shallow cuts.

Trail said earlier he attempted to remove her tattoos in order to make her body unidentifiable.
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Trail cutting Loofe after she was dead marked the same state of mind as Joubert, who carved up his victims after killing them.

Johnson says that fact weighs heavily against Trail.
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Loofe's wounds were so severe it has difficult for doctors to determine how and when she actually died during an autopsy, Johnson said.
12:03 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

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"The evidence overwhelmingly suggests" Trail intended to mutilate Loofe's body before she was dead. The hacksaw, tools and bleach wouldn't be necessary for a simple strangulation, Johnson says.
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Johnson: The murder of Sydney Loofe meets the definition of exceptional depravity.
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Johnson says Trail selected his victim based on specific characteristics.

The case law includes Carey Dean Moore, who was put to death in 2018 for the 1979 killing of two Omaha cab drivers.
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"The murder of Ms. Loofe was planned in advanced, with only the victim's identity unknown," Johnson said.

Trail and Boswell recruited other women with the idea they would kill someone. Those women backed out, so Trail and Boswell went forward alone.
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It is reasonable to conclude Trail thought no one would immediately miss Loofe, Johnson says. Loofe lived alone in Lincoln hours away from her family in Neligh, and was interested in dating Boswell, which made her their ideal target.
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The "cold, calculated planning" exhibited by Trail matched previous killers who received a death sentence, Johnson says, including Carey Dean Moore and John Joubert.
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Johnson says the murder meets exception depravity standards because it met 4 of 5 standards.

1. Relishing the murder: Trail said he would get off watching torture, and had a kill bag. He also talked of mutilating Loofe's body during interviews with law enforcement.
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Johnson notes Loofe's tattoo, which read "Everything will be wonderful someday" was framed with a series of shallow cuts.

Trail said earlier he attempted to remove her tattoos in order to make her body unidentifiable.
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Trail cutting Loofe after she was dead marked the same state of mind as Joubert, who carved up his victims after killing them.

Johnson says that fact weighs heavily against Trail.
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Loofe's wounds were so severe it has difficult for doctors to determine how and when she actually died during an autopsy, Johnson said.
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"The evidence overwhelmingly suggests" Trail intended to mutilate Loofe's body before she was dead. The hacksaw, tools and bleach wouldn't be necessary for a simple strangulation, Johnson says.
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George Loofe's head sinks and he started rubbing his forehead as Johnson reads the mutilation and damage done to Loofe's body.

Trail and Boswell dismembered her, but went to gruesome lengths to do so, Johnson said.
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"Ms. Loofe was needlessly mutilated by trail in order to satisfy his intellectual and sexual curiosity," Johnson said.

It was more than would have been needed to dispose of the body, and reveals his state of mind, weighing heavily against him.
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"Sydney Loofe posed no threat to Aubrey Trail or Bailey Boswell," Johnson adds.

She had no prior connection to them, and simply enjoyed Boswell's company and believed she was going on a date.

"She was completely harmless and her murder completely unnecessary."

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Johnson notes Loofe was a helpless victim. They took her phone, outnumbered her and tied her up in an apartment before killing her.
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"There is no reasonable doubt that this aggravating circumstance against Aubrey Trail justifies an imposition of a sentence of death," Johnson says.

Now she's reading the mitigating circumstances.
12:15 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

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One mitigating circumstance would be if Loofe had participated in the act which led to her death.

As we heard Trail say earlier, Loofe was not part of any kind of group sex with he and Boswell.
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Johnson said the evidence also doesn't match up with Trail's earlier assertion that Loofe was killed accidentally. That mitigating circumstance doesn't exist, the panel found.
12:22 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

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Johnson also said Trail has a criminal history dating back to 1983, but said he was not experiencing any kind of "extreme mental disturbance" during the time of the murder.
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"The panel finds no statutory mitigating factor or circumstance exists."
12:25 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

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For non-statutory mitigating factors, Johnson says Trail grew up in a troubled household. His mom was 17 when he was born and he had a 2-year-old brother. When he was 2, his mom sent he and his brother to live with their grandparents.
12:27 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

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Trail later moved back in with his mother and her new husband, who abused him. He would stay with his grandparents as much as he could until his grandmother died, then he went back to live with his mother. He skipped school often and stole cars.
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He later entered foster care, but ran away often from his foster family, and then was put into a facility. After unsuccessful attempts to escape, he was moved to a maximum security facility, where he dropped out in 10th grade.
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Trail spent time in prison (83-89) on a robbery charge. When he got out, he continued to get in trouble on a slew of theft-related offenses, and did time again for having a gun, and later after a barfight. He was charged with rape in 2004, but did time for a lesser charge.
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During that prison stint, he was stabbed. Johnson said he later married a jailer he had met as an inmate, but they divorced after he had an affair with a coworker.
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Trail did time in Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa, mostly for fraud involving bad checks. He met Boswell in 2016, and she joined him in con jobs, which led them to Wilber in 2017.
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The standard for non-statutory mitigating circumstances are based on Erik Vela and Jose Sandoval, who are on death row for a murderous bank robbery in Norfolk.
12:35 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

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"The weight of this mitigating circumstance does not approach or exceed the overwhelming evidence of exception depravity found in this case," Johnson says.
12:39 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

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BREAKING: Aubrey Trail is sentenced to death for the murder of Sydney Loofe.
12:47 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

[kaen]

Rest well, Sydney. My heart goes out to her family as they had to sit and listen to this monster and have the horrors of her death recounted by a liar and manipulator who is still trying to save his partner's skin.

I am so sad that Sydney did not get a chance to be who she wanted to be. She deserved peace and love.

Everything will be wonderful someday ~Sydney's tattoo

 

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Rest well, Sydney. My heart goes out to her family as they had to sit and listen to this monster and have the horrors of her death recounted by a liar and manipulator who is still trying to save his partner's skin.

I am so sad that Sydney did not get a chance to be who she wanted to be. She deserved peace and love.

"Everything will be wonderful someday" ~Sydney's tattoo

Yup same thoughts. I think we got a little bit more of the truth today, but only for his own benefit of trying to protect BB.

It'll be interesting to see how hers goes.

 

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Aubrey Trail sentenced for gruesome murder, dismemberment of Nebraska store clerk Sydney Loofe

 

[JenniD]

Watch now: Aubrey Trail speaks before he's sentenced to death for Sydney Loofe's murder

 

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Tinder sex cult killer, 54, is sentenced to death for murdering Nebraska woman | Daily Mail Online

"On Wednesday, he was sentenced to death after telling a court in Omaha that he 'couldn't care less' what kind of punishment he received.

He did not apologize to the victim's family, saying it would be an 'insult' to do so. He also repeated earlier claims that Boswell is innocent and didn't take part in the killing.

She has not yet been sentenced but she also faces the death penalty and could become Nebraska's first female death row inmate.

During his 2019 trial, three women testified about how Trail would lure women into his sex cult via the dating app , then convince them he was a vampire who could fly and read minds.

The women said they were all recruited via Boswell's Tinder account between July and November 2017.

They described how Trail made them call him 'daddy' and how they engaged in group sex with him, Boswell and other women.

The women said Trail also referred to Boswell as the 'queen witch'.

One woman testified that Trail had a group of witches and that for her to become one of them she had to kill someone and 'take their last breath', the Omaha Herald reports.

She would gain more 'powers' if the person killed was tortured for hours beforehand, the woman testified."

 

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Here's a bit more about capital punishment in Nebraska. I suspect at Aubrey Trail's age this verdict is mostly symbolic and that Trail will die of old age.

"In 2015, the state legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, overriding governor Pete Ricketts' veto. However, a petition drive secured enough signatures to suspend the repeal until a public vote. In the November 2016 general election, voters rejected the repeal measure, preserving capital punishment in the state.

Nebraska currently has 12 inmates on death row.

On August 14, 2018, Nebraska executed Carey Dean Moore, who was convicted of murder, in what was the state's first execution in 21 years and the first by lethal injection. This execution was also notable for being the first in the United States performed using fentanyl, the powerful painkiller at the root of the country's opioid epidemic."

Capital punishment in Nebraska - Wikipedia

 

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Wednesday, June 30th:
*Aggravation & Mitigation Hearing (Day 1 of 3) (@ 9am CT) - NE - Sydney Loofe (24) (Nov. 15, 2017, Lincoln; found Dec. 4 & 5, 2017) – *Bailey M. Boswell (23/now 26) charged & indicted (6/11/18) & arraigned (8/6/18) with 1st degree murder & improper disposal of human remains & charged (3/1/19) & recharged (8/9/19) with 2 counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Plead not guilty. No bond. DA will seek DP.
Trial began with jury selection on 9/23/20 & trial began on 9/25/20. (thru 10/16/20). Saline County to Lexington, Dawson County for trial. Jurors: 8 men & 7 women. After alternates dismissed-Jurors: 8 men & 4 women for deliberations. Verdict reached on 10/14/20 with guilty on all charges.
Court info & Jury Selection (thru Day 2) & Trial (thru Day 13) 3/3/20, 9/23/20 thru 10/14/20 & court info from 10/21/20 thru 1/15/21 reference post #608 here:
GUILTY - NE - Sydney Loofe, 24, brutally murdered, Lincoln, 15 Nov 2017 #4
5/28/21 Update: Motions hearing on 6/2/21 @ 3:30pm. And aggravation & mitigation hearings begin on 6/30, 7/1 & 7/2/21.
*Aubrey C. Trail (51/now 53) – Found guilty of all charges 7/8/19. A 3-judge panel will hear penalty phase. 11/15/19: Judge denies Trail’s death penalty challenge. Judge denies motion for new trial. Sentenced on 6/9/21 to death.

 

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Attorneys begin presenting evidence on whether Bailey Boswell should be sentenced to death
Mostly recap of her trial and Trail's sentencing.

"... a three-judge panel began hearing evidence here Wednesday to determine if Bailey Boswell, his co-conspirator, should get the same punishment.
Boswell would be the first woman in Nebraska to get the ultimate sentence."

 

[Niner]

Attorneys begin presenting evidence on whether Bailey Boswell should be sentenced to death
Mostly recap of her trial and Trail's sentencing.

"... a three-judge panel began hearing evidence here Wednesday to determine if Bailey Boswell, his co-conspirator, should get the same punishment.
Boswell would be the first woman in Nebraska to get the ultimate sentence."

Hey Scoodyboo - I can't access the article - is there any names in the article - prosecutors & defense attorneys? I'd like to put those in my notes.
TIA!