The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 2020 conviction of a woman sentenced to life in prison for the death and dismemberment of a hardware store clerk.
Bailey Boswell, 30, was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and improper disposal of human remains in the death of Sydney Loofe nearly seven years ago.
The dismembered body of the 24-year-old victim was found stuffed in garbage bags along rural roads in southeastern Nebraska in December 2017.
Prosecutors said Boswell met Loofe on Tinder and then lured her to an apartment where she was later strangled with an extension cord. Boswell and her then-boyfriend, 58-year-old Aubrey Trail, then cut her body up into 14 pieces, authorities said.
Boswell and Trail were planning to kill someone even before the two women met on the dating app, prosecutors said at the time, describing the gruesome murder as part of a conspiracy involving witchcraft and sexual fantasies.
In October 2020, a 12-person jury in Nebraska took less than four hours to find Boswell guilty in Loofe’s murder.
In her appeal, Boswell’s defense attorney objected to the testimony of women who said the then-couple had expressed a desire to kill and sexually torture women. Boswell also challenged the admission of evidence by prosecutors during her trial.
But on Friday, a unanimous ruling by the Nebraska Supreme Court found “no merit to any of Boswell’s assigned errors regarding the trial court’s evidentiary rulings.”
Trail, who was convicted of the same charges, was sentenced to death in 2021.
With News Wire Services
