LINCOLN, Nevada (TCD) — The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the conviction and sentence of a woman who tortured, killed and dismembered her Tinder date with the help of her boyfriend in 2017.
The state Supreme Court announced its decision Friday, May 10. Bailey Boswell appealed her conviction in 2020 after being found guilty of premeditated first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and improper disposal of human remains. Death of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe. Boswell's boyfriend and co-conspirator, Aubrey Trail, was also found guilty on the same charges. He is on death row and Boswell is serving a life sentence.
At Trail's trial in 2019, he reportedly shouted, “Bailey is innocent. I curse you all,” before slitting his own throat, according to WOWT-TV. He survived his injuries.
Prosecutors alleged that Boswell and Trail “conspired to murder someone for sexual gratification,” which led to the charges against Loofe. They also allege that Boswell and Traill engaged in dominant-submissive sexual relationships that included grooming women through physical and sexual punishment and regular discussions of witchcraft and the occult to plan and participate in torture and murder for sexual gratification. They said they recruited women.
Loofe and Boswell, who went by the name “Audrey,” matched on Tinder in November 2017. They went on a date on November 14, 2017, and had a second date a day later. Lupe was reported missing on November 16 when she did not show up for work at the hardware store.
Surveillance video reportedly shows Boswell and Trail working along Loofe on Nov. 15. That same day, Boswell and Trail purchased hacksaws, hacksaw blades, drywall blades, knives, chemical drain cleaner and other items from several stores around Lincoln. Boswell bought bleach, trash bags and cleaning products on the morning of Nov. 17. Police spoke with Boswell on November 17, and Boswell admitted that he had been dating Lupe, but said he had dropped her off at a friend's house.
On November 18, 2017, Lincoln police conducted a welfare check at Trail and Boswell's apartment, where they “observed a strong odor of bleach.” Investigators used cell tower data to track Boswell and Trail's movements when Loofe disappeared.
In December 2017, investigators began searching remote areas and eventually discovered trash bags containing dismembered remains. They found other bags scattered around and collected 13 body parts.
In addition to the human remains, investigators found other evidence nearby, including an extension cord, Lupe's severed license, credit cards, a plastic tarp “with what appeared to be blood and bodily fluids,” and a sauna suit with holes in his genitals. area, sex toys, etc. It was reported that the DNA of Loofe, Trail, and Boswell was found in the items.
The medical examiner took photos from Loofe's autopsy that were used at Boswell's trial to illustrate the pathologist's conclusions.
According to the court opinion, Boswell objected to the photographs being used, testimony about “magic and the occult,” evidence of sexual fantasies and sexual torture, and other comments Trail made during the trial.
Boswell claimed the photos were “irrelevant, more prejudicial than evidence and needlessly cumulative.” However, the court held that photographs in first-degree murder cases “may provide visual evidence from which a jury could reasonably infer that the murder was committed intentionally and with 'deliberate and deliberate malice.'”
“We agree that while the photographs of Lupe’s recovered body were graphic and gruesome, so was the crime,” the judges said. The photos accurately depict the stark reality of the horrific crime, including strangulation, torture and the dismemberment of the body into 14 parts. We do our part with plastic waste bags discarded in rural ditches and fields.”
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