01x01 - Sydney

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(Sirens wailing)

Sydney: Tinder, I
met her on tinder.

I told you about those
sites, aren't you scared?

Narrator: Sydney loofe, 24,

a cashier at menards
home improvement store

in north Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sydney swiped right and matched
with a woman named Audrey.

For the next three days,

Sydney texted 140 messages
in her tinder app with Audrey

in anticipation of
a possible hook-up.

Sydney's recent romantic
reports posted online

reflected her loneliness
and longing for love.

As a 24-year-old
looking for love online,

Sydney was doing what her
generation does to meet people,

this way of meeting is a
standard in today's dating scene.

There is nothing weird about it.

People are an open book online.

They chat with strangers.

They chat with strangers.

But from a public
safety perspective

this can be a very daunting
and challenging task.

People, in general, have no
idea how far their reach is online.

The amount of people who
have exposure to their lives,

locations and places of work.

It's important to know

that once you agree to
the terms and conditions,

it's up to you the user to
discern what is safe or a risk.

And in this case,
Sydney loofe agreed.

So, she was all-in on going
out with a complete stranger.

The attraction between
Sydney and Audrey was strong,

including a mutual love for
smoking marijuana and sex.

Sydney suffered from
bouts of depression.

So, naturally, the
exchange with Audrey

could have been a real
boost for her self-confidence.

Sydney's family was very concerned
about her chronic marijuana use,

and missing days at work.

She had family and
friends who did love her,

but she needed a lot
of external validation,

or she knew who she was

and that she had self-worth.

Sydney and Audrey
spoke via tinder messaging.

Audrey pressed
Sydney for a date.

Audrey pressed
Sydney for a date.

Sydney was reluctant
to give up her address

and then she asked a
very important question.

♪ I'm a bad girl
I'm a bad girl... ♪

They drove through
Lincoln, Nebraska for hours,

getting high and getting
to know each other.

♪ I'm a bad girl I'm a bad girl

♪ I'm a bad girl... ♪

Cell phone data indicates

that Sydney and Audrey
spent several hours together

at various locations.

Audrey: What's this?

My tattoo.

"Everything will be
wonderful someday, it will be."

Yeah.

Do you want to take a
photo? No, no, I don't.

Don't do it.

Why not? I just
don't like photos.

Ok.

Just, I just want to
have a moment with you.

Ok, sorry. Audrey: It's ok.

Yeah.

Is that ok?

The date by all accounts
seemed to genuinely go well.

Sydney sends her friend
Brooklyn mccrystal a screenshot

of Audrey's tinder profile,

and details of their great date.

Sydney protected herself

by letting her friend
know what she was doing,

and who she was with.

She had a lot of messages
and phone records,

it all seemed very
legitimate with Audrey.

Sydney gets a text message at
12:53pm from Audrey the next day

during her break at lunch.

During her break at lunch.

Audrey wants to hook up again.

Phone records indicate

that the text message
for the second date

came from the parking lot at
menards home improvement.

Audrey finished texting Sydney

and got into a car with an
unidentified, much-older man.

The last message between
Sydney and Audrey was here,

Audrey texted Sydney outside
of her apartment at 6:54pm.

This was the last transmission
from Sydney's cellphone.

Sydney loofe went on
a date with a stranger

and never made it to
work the next morning.

She was reported missing
on 16 November 2017.

The Lincoln police department
reacted fast to gather information.

Sydney went missing on
the evening of 16 November.

On 17 November,

Sydney's mother contacted
the Lincoln police department,

and then shortly after that,

it was determined
that she was missing.

It was determined
that she was missing.

Sydney informs several people
that she was going on a date,

as well as posting
about it on Snapchat.

In looking at Sydney's
lonely online life,

she posted often about
being attracted to women,

needing support,
and being lonely.

It was all out there

for people to see
and take advantage of.

Sydney was a hopeless romantic,

one look at her
public Twitter profile

portrayed Sydney as lonely.

She texts me and told me
about the date she had been on,

the night before with this girl.

The most troubling fact

was that Sydney's phone was
no longer transmitting a signal,

and there was zero communication
from Sydney since her date.

Clearly, finding out
who her date was,

was key to finding Sydney.

We are still seeking any and
all information from anybody

regarding the knowledge
of where Sydney could be,

and ask for their assistance.

Sydney loofe was
a missing person.

The Lincoln police department
needed to get data from social media

or her cell phone provider.

The first 48 hours
are absolutely critical.

The first 48 hours
are absolutely critical.

The Lincoln police
department acted quickly.

According to Sydney's phone,

the last ping to a cell tower was
at 8:31pm on 15 November 2017,

in wilber, Nebraska.

Searches engage
and saline counties

turned up no new evidence,

but authorities
continued to insist

that there was hope
in finding Sydney loofe.

The loofe family,
who are very private

and really do not
speak with the media,

stepped forward to alert the public
that Sydney was in fact missing.

In my opinion, someone
knows something.

Please, please
do the right thing.

The loofe family issued a poster

displaying Sydney's
distinctive tattoos.

Including a tattoo that read:

Or Sydney's family very
desperate to find her.

Woman: They've been
doing what they can,

but they're asking
for your help.

Sydney's tinder
date was a mystery,

and the local
community was tense.

I heard from her family,

our whole community is really,

our whole community is really,

they've come together
so well through all of this.

Brittney: Sydney is a
beautiful young responsible girl,

and she has a lot of family
that loves and cares about her

and we just need her
home because we miss her.

Rumours began to spread
about persons of interest.

A woman, possibly
Sydney's tinder date

and a mystery man.

Where was Sydney loofe?

The investigation team suspected
Sydney's female tinder date

and a male accomplice,

but they were running into
dead ends trying to find them.

Sydney's friends, brittney
and Brooklyn, wanted to help.

The girls set up a
phoney tinder profile,

as they knew Audrey's profile
from Sydney texting it to brittney.

Brooklyn matched with Audrey
and asked for her phone number.

And Audrey actually
gave Brooklyn her number.

Brooklyn gave Audrey's phone
number to the Lincoln police department.

Investigators now had their
lead suspect's phone number,

investigators now had their
lead suspect's phone number,

which meant they could
now track their location.

We believe that Aubrey
trail and Bailey boswell

were two of the last people to
have known to been with Sydney

prior to her disappearance.

The investigation's lead suspect
Aubrey trail and Bailey boswell

were tracked down to a
motel not far from Lincoln.

But investigators
arrived too late

and the suspects had
already fled the hotel.

The FBI just missed
them at a local hotel

were they left
behind four sex toys

and maps of Iowa and the
texas/mexico border area.

Giving them possible places
their suspects might be heading.

As the mystery, unravelled
surveillance footage from the motel

revealed a third female suspect.

Law enforcement was on the
trail of two women and one man

who may know the
whereabouts of Sydney loofe.

Law enforcement prepared to
release the surveillance footage

to the public.

When suddenly the persons
of interest beat them to it.

When suddenly the persons
of interest beat them to it.

Man: Good morning Lincoln and
Omaha and probably several other places.

This is Aubrey trail and
this is Bailey boswell,

I guess you also
know her as Audrey.

The video was uploaded to
the loofe family Facebook page

called finding Sydney loofe.

This is 'Batman
villain' level stuff,

normal people don't proclaim
innocence on social media,

they turn themselves in.

I'm Bailey, Audrey on
tinder and a few other names

because I have warrants,

but this really isn't about me,

this is about Sydney.

I met her on a Tuesday,
we drove around Lincoln,

smoked weed,

I went to take her home

and she asked me to drop
her off at a friend's house,

so, I have not
heard from her since.

I just,

I guess I just want the family
to know that I'm truly sorry

and I didn't have
anything to do with this.

And I didn't have
anything to do with this.

And I hope that Sydney
is found very soon,

she is a sweet amazing girl,

I don't know,

babe, do you have
anything else to say?

But as far as I'm concerned

what they chasing
us around like dogs.

I wish the family the best.

I wish Sydney the best.

But as far as the police
department, (bleep) You.

Reporter: Now two weeks since
the 24-year-old's disappearance,

Lincoln's police chief saying

there's absolutely still
hope that Sydney is alive.

We believe Aubrey
trail and Bailey boswell

were two of the last people to
have known to been with Sydney

prior to her disappearance.

With the help of Sydney's family

and tips from the
local community...

Recent information that we
have received from the public

has really helped our
investigation tremendously.

At 6am on 30 November 2017.

Aubrey trail and Bailey
boswell aka Audrey,

were arrested in
Branson, Missouri.

Were arrested in
Branson, Missouri.

Aubrey trail and Bailey
boswell were arrested

for outstanding warrants
for fraud and scams,

that conned people of more than
$400,000 of antiques and coins.

The pair are now
in police custody,

reportedly being held on a
federal person of interest warrant,

in the disappearance of Sydney.

Bailey's cellphone
data was turned over

to Lincoln police
detector, Robert Hurley.

Hurley, a former police
accident reconstructionist

who would attempt reconstruct
where the pair had driven to,

to ultimately find,
Sydney's whereabouts.

Sydney's phone number was
pinged to the wilber apartment location

on 15 November 2017, at 8:31pm.

So, basically a cell phone
tower can locate cell phone data

and by doing what
is called a ping

you can locate the last time that
cell phone data was last accessed,

and now that the
Lincoln police department

had Audrey's phone number,

they could get cell
phone tower info.

Capture the information
from the cell towers

capture the information
from the cell towers

and use it to triangulate
and locate the last position.

The last ping that accord.

A search warrant was issued

for the wilber apartment of
Aubrey trail and Bailey boswell.

Upon arriving at the wilber
apartment to collect evidence,

the landlord, Alan
koll and his family

reveal unusual activity

on the night of the
Sydney's disappearance.

So, yeah, here's where I was,

sitting here on my
bed, texting my friend.

Dayton koll, Alan's son,

who lived in the
apartment next door

described the sudden and
overwhelming smell of bleach

on the night of the 15th.

There was suddenly
this terrible smell.

It was like bleach.

Definite bleach smell?

Dayton: It was, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Jennifer koll, Dayton's
mother, had allergies

and the smell of bleach was so
bad that she texted her husband Alan.

I told him.

Alan koll then said something
that got the attention of the detective.

This air conditioning unit,

they ran it for three
days at 60 degrees,

they ran it for three
days at 60 degrees,

it was totally frozen over.

Koll said that he had to enter
the trail-boswell apartment,

to fix the air-conditioner.

The coils were totally frozen,

I have no idea why,
why did they do that?

Three whole days? Yeah.

Detectives were quickly
putting the pieces together,

to find the whereabouts
of Sydney loofe.

Thank you for all
of your prayers.

Reporter: Those prayers and support
have come in a huge outpouring,

from prayer vigils
help for Sydney,

in her hometown, of neligh,

to wilber, her last
known location.

Investigators found phone data

from Bailey boswell's cell

and three women believed to
know the couple were contacted

directly by the Lincoln pd.

The women all told the same
story to FBI special agents,

that they met Bailey Audrey boswell
on tinder in the summer of 2017.

They mostly had sex with
Audrey, aka, Bailey boswell,

sometimes with trail
or both trail and boswell.

The women were
terrified of trail.

Trail wanted to be called daddy

and he would give the
women $200 a week allowances

to join their coven of witches.

In exchange for the money,

the women also helped set
up scams and steal antiques.

Trail and boswell conned
a coin-collecting couple

in hiawatha, Iowa, for $400,000.

Using the $400,000 stolen
from the coin collector,

trail and boswell lured
women online with the money

to create their coven
of thieves and witches.

There were allegedly
13 witches in the coven,

there were allegedly
13 witches in the coven,

although only four
have been identified,

and Bailey Audrey boswell
was the queen witch above all.

The women believed
Aubrey trail was a vampire

that could read minds and fly.

They were required
to k*ll someone

and take their last
breath to take their soul.

No, no!

A fascination Aubrey
trail seemed to have

from a Stephen King
novel, 'doctor sleep',

taking someone's dying breath

is referred to as taking the
steam, or breathing in the steam.

All three women say
they left the coven

two months before
Sydney loofe disappeared.

And then, a bombshell
hit on 4 December 2017.

Based on cell phone tower data
sourced by detective Robert Hurley,

investigators searched
an area of interest

90 miles southwest of
Lincoln in Clay county.

Detective Cory townsend was
sent to the area to investigate.

Townsend made
a grizzly discovery.

Body parts in black
plastic trash bags

and the distinctive tattoo
belonging to Sydney loofe that reads,

"everything will be
wonderful someday."

Officer: Yesterday afternoon,

a body was discovered
in rural Clay county.

At this time we believe it to
be the body of Sydney loofe.

Sydney was dismembered

and placed in 17 trash bags

across a rural area in
Clay county, Nebraska.

Woman: There are so many questions,
so many unanswered questions,

that that's what makes
this harder, I think,

'cause that we just don't know.

Court clerk: The court
is taking up the case

as the state of Nebraska
versus Aubrey trail.

This is case cr18 232.

Bailey would be tried separately

and Aubrey's trial
would happen first.

And Aubrey's trial
would happen first.

Opening statements begin in
the trial against Aubrey's trail.

He is accused of murdering
Sydney loofe in November 2017

trail claimed it
was an accident.

However, surveillance footage
from home depot showed

that trail and boswell
bought the k*ll bag contents

including saws, and cutters,

the morning of the
second tinder date

on 15 November 2017.

The picture of Sydney's
last night became clearer.

Bailey picks up
Sydney from her house.

She calls you and tells
you that she is on her way.

This is true. Back to wilber.

This is true.

And Sydney never leaves
your place. This is true.

Except in six garbage
bags? This is true.

Dumped in the
trash? This is true.

Sydney put up a
tremendous fight.

I k*lled her. I mean,
I didn't mean to.

But I did.

Trail admitted that the end
was sloppy and poorly planned.

Claiming he wasn't a
k*ller, just a con-man

and that the electrical cord
was part of the sex play.

The last thing Sydney
loofe ever said to me

was, "do you
promise I will be ok?"

It's the last thing
she ever said to me.

Bailey is innocent,
and I curse you all.

There was pandemonium in
the saline county courtroom

on day six of the trial

where the accused k*ller
Aubrey trail cut his own throat.

The trial for Aubrey trail
was an absolute circus.

Today, testimony resumes
in Nebraska, m*rder trial,

today, testimony resumes
in Nebraska, m*rder trial,

after a bizarre series of
events in the courtroom.

Judge Vicky Johnson
has instructed jurors

to disregard
yesterday's outburst,

and not consider it as evidence.

The trial included
groundbreaking technology

as Robert Hurley tracked
the phone of Bailey boswell

via cell phone towers
and call activity.

Investigators could
accurately monitor

the speed that boswell's
phone was travelling at

and where the phone stopped.

Each stop directly
corresponded with a drop-off point

of Sydney's remains.

The duo left a digital trail

where all signs lead to them
being Sydney loofe's K*llers.

The information from
horizon that was received

was that the phone had been
inactive for about 24 hours.

But had last pinged
in wilber, Nebraska.

Chilling testimony
from the three women

who joined the
trail/boswell coven

included that the couple
wanted to k*ll another woman

on 22 November 2017,

one week after Sydney's m*rder.

Aubrey had a real talent
for collecting people

Aubrey had a real talent
for collecting people

to be part of his covenant.

Basically to be his cult followers
that were generally disenfranchised.

He was able to control them

and get them to do
really grotesque things

with just the smallest
amount of money.

They heard all of this
stuff, about the witchcraft,

they heard all of this stuff

about us plotting to
k*ll and t*rture people.

I'm gonna share something that
I've never shared with anyone,

and I sure as hell
didn't admit it to the FBI,

my goal was all
six of these women,

was to have them
k*ll one person,

that way, I would
have filmed it,

I wanted to hide the
video somewhere,

and then I own these girls,

because I would have them
on tape murdering someone.

On 10 July 2019,

Aubrey trial was found guilty
for the m*rder of Sydney loofe.

The state of Nebraska

and Aubrey trail the defendant

guilty of m*rder
in the first degree.

Guilty of m*rder
in the first degree.

Trail was given the death penalty
for the m*rder of Sydney loofe.

Boswell found guilty
of the m*rder of Sydney

faces sentencing
on 8 November 2021.

A three-judge panel will rule if
the death penalty is warranted.

Sydney loofe met
her m*rder*r online.