Missing Tinder date woman, 24, found cut into 14 pieces, court hears as murder suspect blames ‘rough consensual sex’
A WOMAN who was murdered and found dumped in garbage bags after failing to return home from a Tinder date was cut up into 14 pieces, a court has heard.
Sydney Loofe, 24, was savagely murdered and dismembered before she was found dead and dumped in a field in December 2017 near Edgar, south-west of Omaha, about a month after she disappeared.
Aubrey Trail, 52, and his girlfriend Bailey Boswell, 25, have been charged with her murder.
In a trial that's been ongoing for more than a year, a court heard on Monday that Loofe had been cut into 14 different pieces.
SIGNS OF STRUGGLE
Her body also showed signs that she had struggled prior to her death, a forensic pathologist said.
Dr Michelle Elieff said she found Loofe's earlobe was torn and she had bruising on her wrists, the back of her head and on her inner thighs, The reported.
The bruises on her wrist showed Loofe had been restrained and that she struggled before dying of suffocation, she added.
However, defence attorneys argued that the injuries could have resulted from 'rough, consensual sex' - an idea that Trail's attorney had previously argued.
DENIALS
Trail and Bailey both deny killing Loofe, and instead say she died during an orgy gone wrong.
The couple said the 24-year-old was choked during sex, which they say led to her death.
They maintain Loofe willingly agreed to participate in a 'sexual asphyxiation' fantasy that would be filmed in exchange for money.
COURTROOM DRAMA
It's another dramatic twist in the case which saw 52-year-old Boswell slash his own throat in court last month amid claims he lured women into a sex cult, telling them he was a vampire who could read minds.
Trail screamed “Bailey is innocent and I curse you all,” before cutting his neck with an unidentified object.
Three women have given evidence this week about how he would lure women into his sex cult via Tinder, telling them he was a vampire that could fly and he could read minds.
All three claim they were recruited via Boswell’s Tinder account between July and November 2017.
They said Boswell made them call him “daddy” and how they engaged in orgies with him and Boswell as well as other women.
One woman claimed Trail had a group of witches and in order for her to become one she had to kill someone and “take their last breath”.
She added that she would get more “powers” if the person that was killed had been tortured for hours before hand, the reported.
The woman also detailed going to a Walmart with Trail and Boswell for groceries when they asked her if she was ready for her first “kill”.
She said a potential Tinder date showed up but they eventually ended up leaving her at the supermarket with Trail later saying they would “save her for another time”.
Another woman claimed Trail and Boswell made her follow strict rules which included not wearing any clothes in Trail’s home.
She was also made to make contact every three hours to let them know where she was.
The woman was told she was punished if she broke the rules, saying Trail once chocked her with a belt and on another occasion he slapped her around the head more than ten times.
She also testified the pair would often speak about killing and torturing people as a way of strengthening their “powers”.
They are said to have discussed cutting out people's eyelids, scalping them, cutting holes in people during sex, pouring acid on them and setting them alight.
Both women left the group before Loofe was killed.
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Loofe, from Lincoln, went out with Boswell on November 15 after meeting him on the app weeks before.
But Loofe's mum reported her as missing as she failed to turn up at work the next day, sparking a huge manhunt and appeal on social media.
Cops found her mobile 40 miles away from her apartment, and the following month her dismembered remains were found near Edgar, south-west of Omaha.
Police knew the recovered body was Loofe because of a distinctive tattoo which read "Everything will be wonderful someday" on what was left of her arm.
Trail and Boswell were quickly named as people of interest in the case and were arrested in late November in Branson, Missouri, on unrelated fraud charges.
They have been held in the Saline County jail since then.
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