A woman shared a chilling final post with her friends just hours before she was murdered on a Tinder date.
In November 2017, Lincoln, Nebraska police launched a search for 24-year-old Sydney Loofe after she went missing under what they described as "concerning" circumstances, as reported by CBS News.
Sydney, a cashier at a local hardware store, was last seen on November 15.
Family members told local media that Sydney had been planning to meet someone for a date after connecting online.
This story was corroborated by a Snapchat photo she sent to her friends, showing her with a smile, straight hair cascading around her shoulders, and the caption: "Ready for my date," accompanied by a heart-eyes emoji.
Tragically, this photo would be the last one Sydney ever sent. She met then-23-year-old Bailey Boswell, who, along with her 51-year-old boyfriend Aubrey Trail, is believed to have orchestrated her abduction and murder.
Surveillance footage captured the pair purchasing tools that police believe were used to dismember Sydney's body after luring her to their apartment.
Weeks later, Sydney's remains were found in garbage bags dumped in a field near Edgar, approximately 90 miles southwest of Lincoln.
It was later confirmed by a medical examiner that the young victim had been cut into 14 pieces and all of her internal organs were removed before her remains were scattered by Trail and Boswell.
Trail, then in his 50s, confessed to strangling Sydney with an extension cord and, along with Boswell, dismembering and disposing of her body.
In 2019, Trail was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Boswell was sentenced to life in prison in 2020 for her active participation in the crime.
"There is no reasonable doubt that this aggravating circumstance against Aubrey Trail justifies an imposition of a sentence of death," Saline County District Judge Vicky Johnson said, the Norfolk Daily News reported. "Ms. Loofe was needlessly mutilated by Trail in order to satisfy his intellectual and sexual curiosity."
"Sydney Loofe posed no threat to Aubrey Trail or Bailey Boswell," she continued. "She was completely harmless and her murder completely unnecessary."
Trail later appealed his sentence, arguing for a mistrial due to his self-inflicted throat injury during the proceedings. However, in 2022, the high court dismissed all his appeals, labeling his act of self-harm as a "calculating gesture."
Last month, the Nebraska Supreme Court also upheld Boswell's conviction and life sentence.
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