What started as an innocent online date ended in unimaginable tragedy. Sydney Loofe was a young woman looking for connection—but instead, she walked into a carefully planned trap. As investigators uncovered disturbing details, the case took a shocking turn. Who was responsible? What really happened to Sydney? In this video, we break down the full story, from the chilling setup to how justice was finally served. Watch till the end and share your thoughts in the comments.
Chapter 1: What happened to Sydney Loof?
She also always wanted to tag along on the fishing trips that her father and her brother went on. Her brother went on to say that whenever he would start liking something, she would like that same thing too. She was also very athletic in her childhood years. She was on the junior high basketball team, being described as a great baseline jumper.
She also loved golfing and excelled in that sport as well. However, as she got older, she developed a scoliosis, which made it very painful to participate in basically any sport. So when she reached her teenage years, she was no longer as active in sports as she was when she was growing up. Sydney was also incredibly close with her siblings.
Every Christmas Eve, Sydney would go and sleep in her big brother's room until her younger sister started joining them and it became their Christmas tradition. Kenzie and her spent so much time together that they actually had a lot of mutual friends. So they'd often drive around the town together and hang out at different friends' houses.
Sydney went on to graduate from Neely Oakdale High School before working as a cashier at Menards and North Folk for two years. She then transferred to another Menards and Lincoln so that she could be closer to her siblings who also had moved there. Even as adults, Sydney maintained her close bond with her siblings.
Kenzie would often come over to watch Netflix, make dinner, and Kenzie would help Sydney tidy up her place because Sydney hated cleaning.
she could also depend on her brother to come and get her and help her out anytime she had car issues she also had a cat named mimsy who she had for about four years and she absolutely adored him she raised him since he was a kitten and the two were so attached to one another now sydney did face her own internal struggles with depression and anxiety but this did not stop her from being a truly giving and kind-hearted person
There were three occasions that her parents recalled where Sydney helped people who were down on their luck by letting them come and stay at her place while they worked through their own issues. One person in particular was one of her co-workers from Menards.
She let him stay with her, helped him find his own apartment, and taught him how to save money and take care of himself until he found his own place. She truly cared about others even more than she cared about herself. So on November 15th, 2017, 24 year old Sydney decided to go out on a date with another woman named Amber, who she had met through Tinder.
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Chapter 2: Who were the key players in Sydney's case?
She had already previously met this woman on November 14th. So this date on November 15th would have been their second date. She was so, so excited about this new girl that she had started dating. even texting a friend after the first date to say, I just got done chilling with a super cute girl.
But even though Sydney was really excited for this date, she had had past issues with meeting girls through Tinder. She had past experiences where the girl that she was meeting through Tinder wanted Sydney to join with, you know, the girl and her man who the girl was with. But this was not something that Sydney was into, so she was cautious.
She had even texted a friend before the date saying, I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend. I didn't ask. So before going on the second date, Sydney had messaged Audrey through Tinder to say, it's just going to be me and you, right? And Audrey replied with, okay, yes, of course. So she posted a selfie online to Snapchat with the caption, ready for my date.
However, by November 16th, 2017, so a day after this date, Sydney did not show up for her work shift at Menards. When she didn't show up for her shift, her coworkers immediately knew that something had to be wrong. Sydney was responsible. She would never no-call, no-show into work. Their concerns grew even more when they tried contacting her via phone calls and texts, and she just didn't answer.
This was very out of character for her. So the coworkers contacted her family, and they realized that she wasn't answering them either. So right away, her parents reported Sydney missing to the Lincoln police. So the first thing that police did was to go over to Sydney's apartment to see if anything looked out of place and nothing did.
Everything seemed orderly and in place and there was no sign of a struggle. They then went ahead and looked at her digital records and they found out that the last thing that she had posted online was this selfie to Snapchat saying that she was ready for a date. Police did immediately find this as a red flag, the fact that she went out on a date the night before and just didn't return home.
But for the time being, they didn't have much more to go off of. But still, right off the bat, police knew that Sydney probably was in danger.
Susie, Sydney's mom, posted to Facebook to say, Police also went ahead and shared pictures of her and information about her case, and they also said that she had a distinctive walk because of her severe scoliosis, and they showed pictures of her distinctive tattoos. One tattoo said, and then she had a yin-yang sign. As time passed with no answers in the case, the FBI soon got involved to help.
They were soon able to gain access to her cell phone records and her Tinder account which did show that she had been messaging back and forth with this girl named Audrey and shown that they had gone on a date together. They were then able to track her cell phone pings, which showed that her phone last pinged in an area about 40 miles south of Lincoln in a small town called Wilbur.
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Chapter 3: What were the details of Sydney's last date?
And then she said after this, she dropped Sydney off at her friend's house after Sydney had asked her to. She added that she had given Sydney her phone number and then they had plans to go to the casino together where, again, Bailey would provide Sydney with money to go ahead and gamble with. But she said after the second date, she had not heard from Sydney.
She said that she doesn't know what else to say. Both Bailey and Aubrey said that they hope that Sydney is found soon and that she's a sweet and amazing girl. They went on to say that their lives have been destroyed because of the media reports, because of the way that police are mishandling this case.
Good morning, Lincoln and Omaha and probably several other places. This is Aubrey Trail and this is Bailey Boswell. I guess y'all also know her as Audrey. But we've spent the last few days watching ourselves being slammed and crucified in the newspapers and the news and everything else, so we thought it was time we had our say. We're not trying to defend anything. We're not trying
side since everyone else gets to say theirs. Unlike the Lincoln Police Department and Saline County Police Department and all those folks, everything we're going to tell you, you're going to be able to pick up the phone or have a newspaper pick up the phone and very easily verify it.
I am going to talk for a minute and Bailey here is going to tell you about her two dates with Sydney and we'll go from there. Police Department apparently wants everyone to believe that we're hiding, that we haven't talked to them, that we're avoiding them. Actually, we've spoken to the Lincoln Police Department a couple of times.
We also, through my attorney, Doug Mertz in Falls City, Nebraska, please verify, we both wrote long statements and sent to the Lincoln Police Department telling them everything we know. We also, the day before Thanksgiving, which would be the 22nd, we repeatedly called the Lincoln Police Department when they were trying to contact us.
After about 10 phone calls, please have a newspaper, ask for their, their record, everything. We were told to quit blowing up their phone, even though we told them, hey, do you understand that we're the people you're looking for? They said, you've called here several times. We will get back to you when we can. So that's how that went.
They're telling you that they have all these leads that Sidney was last seen. and such, what they're not telling you is that we are the two people who gave them all these leads. Several other things, I guess the FBI and the U.S. Marshals and all that good stuff and a lot of other people with a lot of initials that I have no idea what means is investigating, looking for us or whatever.
We were at our house four days ago. No one showed up. We've been to Wilbur twice. We have the young lady with us for a week, which is Bailey's sometimes girlfriend. As we know stuff, you will know stuff because we're not cutting, editing, or anything. If we make a slip on this video and say something that you find incriminating, please let us know. You've already crucified us in the newspapers.
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Chapter 4: How did the investigation unfold?
You've already crucified us on Facebook. You know, in America, I sure thought it was a trial first, but I guess not. You've heard all of this stuff about my criminal history. All true. Been convicted of bad checks and forgery and all that good stuff, but never been I guess I'm a person of interest on now.
And oh yeah, the Lincoln Police Department failed to tell you that me and Bailey do about $100,000 a year of business in antiques on eBay, the antique malls in Lincoln, Omaha, all this stuff. They will have you believe that I'm still just a criminal running around. But you know, I don't really need to explain all of that because as far as I know, I'm not wanted for anything.
I'm a person of interest and I'm not really running from anything. I mean, naturally I can't go home now because my house has been swarmed, searched, and I'm being looked for. And I assume that I have a warrant out of state somewhere now. So that kind of cancels that out. So this has pretty much cost me my life.
And I appreciate that from the Lincoln Police Department and the FBI and all those other agencies. But I pray for Sydney. I hope she's found soon. I wish the family the best. I'm sorry that she wasn't with you on Thanksgiving.
and that's pretty much all i can say for now here's bailey to tell you whatever she wants to i'm fixing to step aside and get out of this thank you for listening hi good morning 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 and i'm just kind of want to tell you
what I've already told the Lincoln police more than one time. I met her on a Tuesday. We drove around Lincoln, smoked weed, had a great time. We hit it off. I dropped her off at home, picked her up the next night at her house. We drove around, smoked weed again, made our way to my house where we smoked wax and shatter and I gave her a quarter ounce of some really good weed.
I went to take her home, and she asked me to drop her off at a friend's house, so I did so. I gave her my number. We were planning to go to the casino that weekend. I mean, I haven't heard from her since. I just, I really don't even know what else to say. seeing all this stuff on the news presses and the magazines and the news.
And 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 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?
I hope also that Sidney's found some. We wish the family the best. We're sorry you're going through this. As far as all this stuff that the police department is putting in the papers, putting on the news, what they're feeding to the media, what they want the media to know, there's nothing I can do about that.
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Chapter 5: What evidence was found in Bailey and Aubrey's apartment?
So, like I said, police were able to use Bailey and Aubrey's cell phone data to track and arrest them in Missouri. But they were also able to use this cell phone data to track their movements in the days before and after Sydney's disappearance.
Police discovered that on the same day that Sydney was reported missing, Bailey had driven around 200 miles on various dirt roads in rural areas of Clay County, Nebraska. They used this data to go ahead and search around this area. And here their worst fears came to fruition. They came across a ditch in the rural area on December 4th, 2017.
They looked in a ditch next to an isolated dirt road and they noticed what looked like a human arm sticking out of a trash bag. When they looked further in and around the ditch, they discovered more human remains. which were all scattered within 13 different trash bags. All of these human remains were found near roads that Bailey's cell phone had pinged from.
However, they noted that not all of the remains of a human were found within these bags. The left upper arm had never been found and neither were the internal organs, including the tongue, heart, esophagus, and most of the left lung. With the remains, they also found latex gloves that were pretty much covered in blood.
Of course, these remains were sent to the medical examiner for an autopsy, and using the distinctive tattoos found on the body, these remains were positively identified as belonging to 24-year-old Sydney Loof. The autopsy found that her cause of death was actually strangulation. They also found a lot of defensive wounds that showed that she fought off her attacker.
Additionally, they found bruising on her hands and wrists, which occurred before death, which were signs of her being restrained. Upon toxicology screening, they found that she had traces of antidepressants in her system as well as small amounts of alcohol. They said that her body had been dismembered with a thin, fine-toothed saw such as a hacksaw.
After it came out that Sydney's body had been discovered on January 3rd, Aubrey had called into a World Herald newspaper reporter to tell him that he had information about Sydney's death, but that does not mean that he's necessarily guilty. But then after this, in just a few days before his hearing for his theft charges, he admitted responsibility for Sydney's death.
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Chapter 6: What led to the discovery of Sydney's remains?
He told police that he, Sydney, and two other women who were not Bailey had engaged in consensual BDSM. Then he said that the other two women had paid him $150,000 to film them in these acts. He initially admitted that he had strangled her in an act of erotic asphyxiation during consensual rough sex.
He said that the whole thing got completely out of hand, that of course he accidentally killed her, so he panicked, and he cut up her body and hid it so that he wouldn't get in trouble. But he maintained that Bailey had absolutely nothing to do with Sydney's death, saying that all she did was help him hide her body and then wash off the walls of the apartment with bleach.
Then when police went ahead and spoke with Bailey, she also said that she had nothing to do with it. She said that she had actually fallen asleep on the couch while Aubrey, Sydney, and the two other women engaged in sexual relations in the bedroom without her being there. She maintained that this was all an accident and an otherwise consensual act.
However, police uncovered even more evidence that showed that this probably was not true. So first of all, we know that Sydney had texted who she thought was Audrey trying to make sure that it was only going to be the two of them and that nobody else was going to be there. She had texted her friend saying, I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend.
So that already shows that Sydney did not want to participate in sexual acts with anyone other than her. and not with this nasty 51-year-old man. They also said that there was absolutely no evidence of anyone else besides the three of them being in that apartment at that time.
Then there was more evidence that came out that showed that not only was Bailey a willing participant, but that this entire thing was a premeditated murder. So, like I said, police had used their cell phone data to show their movements around the time that Sydney was known to have been murdered. They also used a local surveillance video that they found based off of these cell phone pings.
So one video shows both Bailey and Aubrey going into a local Home Depot just a few hours before the date at 10.35 a.m. on November 15th. They were seen on this video purchasing various items such as a hacksaw and blades, a drywall blade, plastic sheets, and a box cutting knife.
They were also seen at the Aardvark Antique Mall, which is somewhere that they frequented since, like I said earlier, they told others that they were antique dealers. At this store, they purchased two meat grinders, a hand weed cutter, and a folding saw. Cell phone records showed that Bailey's phone was also near Sydney's home just before noon on November 15th,
around the same time that Sydney had been home indicating that they had been following her. Later, Aubrey was seen on surveillance video at the North Lincoln Menards store that Sydney had been working at. Video shows him walking right past her as she walked outside to go work in the outside lumber area.
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Chapter 7: What were the outcomes of the trials?
these women have chosen to keep their identities anonymous. So all three of these women were in their early 20s. They all said that they first met Bailey through Tinder, but then they said that after meeting her, she later introduced all of them to Aubrey, who she described as being her sugar daddy and her boyfriend.
They all said that each of these three women all met up with them separately, so the three women didn't really actually interact with each other very much, only really, you know, separately with Aubrey and Bailey. They said that Aubrey had given them manicures, expensive clothes, cell phones, drugs, and weekly allowances of $150 to $200.
They said that in exchange for all of this, they had group sex with both Aubrey and Bailey, They were also expected to help Aubrey with their scams involving selling and stealing these antiques. But as time went on, things got really bad in these relationships, as you can pretty much expect.
These women were not allowed to see or interact with other men, even though both Bailey and Aubrey were seeing other women. And then they had to ask them permission to pretty much do anything. and there were times where they were locked inside of their home or different motel rooms for extended periods of time.
Then, when these women were not with them, they were expected to check in with them via text message every three hours. If they were to disobey their commands or act out of line, they would be punished by things such as being forced to wear no clothes in the apartment and accept whippings.
These women also said that when they would participate in sexual acts with them, Bailey liked inflicting harm on them. This is about to be very cringy, but they were also ordered to call Opry daddy and Bailey mommy. I feel awful and dirty just saying that. It's weird. Really weird and I cringed really hard when I read that.
These women testified that both Aubrey and Bailey spoke on more than one occasion about their desire to torture and kill someone. These women said that Aubrey would describe himself as a vampire and called the women his witches who all belonged to his cult.
Aubrey claimed that he had supernatural powers and said that they should all participate in killing someone with him so that they too could become real witches and gain powers such as reading minds and being able to fly.
The women said that they often heard the two of them talk about how they wanted to dismember a body and said that they wanted to break someone's fingers one by one as a form of torture.
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