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Death Row Inmate Aubrey Trail’s Bid To Act As His Own Lawyer Has Been Rejected By A Nebraska Court
Aubrey Trail and his girlfriend lured hardware store clerk Sydney Loofe to their apartment on Nov. 15, 2017, then killed her and mutilated her body.
A man sentenced to death for the killing and dismemberment of a Lincoln woman he met on the date app Tinder will not get to serve as his own attorney in his automatic appeal.
The Nebraska Supreme Court last week rejected Aubrey Trail’s plan to fire his team of attorneys and represent himself in his appeal, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Trail, 55, had argued that his court-appointed attorneys have refused to support his request to sell some $25,000 in antiques and rare coins and give the money to a memorial fund set up for his victim, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe.
Trail and his girlfriend at the time of the killing, Bailey Boswell, already are under court order to pay $400,000 to a Kansas couple who fell victim to a rare coin scam pulled off by Trail and Boswell.
Trail was convicted in 2019 of first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder in the 2017 murder of Loofe, whose body was cut into 14 pieces with the help of Boswell, wrapped in garbage bags and dumped in ditches along country roads in rural Clay County. Trail was sentenced to death earlier this year.
Trail and Boswell lured the hardware store clerk to their apartment on Nov. 15, 2017 after Boswell had met Loofe through Tinder.
The couple had carefully selected her based on certain characteristics—including the fact that she had no nearby family and was interested in dating Boswell— then found sexual gratification in killing her and mutilating her body.
Boswell, 27, also was found guilty last year of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in Loofe’s death. She’s scheduled to learn on Nov. 8 whether she’ll be sentenced to death or life in prison.
