The Nebraska Supreme Court has affirmed the murder conviction and life sentence of a woman for the 2017 death and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store clerk.
In 2020, Bailey Boswell, 30, was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and improper disposal of human remains in the killing of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe. Boswell’s boyfriend at the time, 58-year-old Aubrey Trail, was convicted in 2019 of the same charges and was sentenced to death in 2021.
Prosecutors revealed that Boswell and Trail had plotted to kill someone before Boswell encountered Loofe on Tinder. Boswell arranged a date with Loofe, who worked as a cashier at a Menards store in Lincoln, intending to lure her to the apartment where she was subsequently strangled.
Following three weeks of search efforts by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, Loofe’s dismembered remains were discovered in December 2017. Her body had been cut into 14 pieces and left in garbage bags along rural roads in southeastern Nebraska.
In her appeal, Boswell contested the admission of certain evidence by prosecutors during her trial, particularly photographs depicting Loofe’s dismembered body. She argued that these graphic images unfairly prejudiced the jury against her. Boswell also objected to testimony from several women who recounted conversations with Trail and Boswell about occult fantasies and a shared desire to sexually torture and kill women.
During her trial, Boswell’s defense attorney asserted that she had been coerced by Trail into participating in Loofe’s killing and dismemberment.
Justice Stephanie Stacy, writing for the unanimous high court, concluded on Friday that “there is no merit to any of Boswell’s assigned errors regarding the trial court’s evidentiary rulings.”
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