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talk some True Crime. [Music] [Music] It was November 15th, 2017, and 24year-old Sydney Lof was excited.
She was going on a second date with someone she liked very much. She sent a Snapchat to a close friend,
which was a photo of her face and shoulders with the caption, "Ready for my date." Sydney went on the date. Her
friend expected to hear from her afterward, to hear all about how much she liked the person, and that it went
as well or better as their first date. But unfortunately, that's not what happened. Sydney did not call or text.
Sydney did not come home. This is true crime garage. [Music] [Music] Sydney Lof was born on August 21st, 1993
in Broken Bow, Nebraska to parents George and Susan. She has a younger sister, McKenzie, and an older brother,
Levi. Her father, George, was the assistant football coach and the principal at Nei Oakdale High School,
where Sydney's mother was a special education teacher. Both parents were very involved in the community, and
Sydney had the benefit of having involved, caring parents. The family was very close with movie nights, Christmas
Eve sleepovers, bike rides, church, and so on. Sydney was in a church youth group and was an excellent fisherman and
was involved in band, Future Business Leaders of America, and played golf, volleyball, and basketball in high
school until a devastating scoliosis diagnosis sidelined her. As a result of this condition, she had a distinctive
walk, but she made the best of it, graduating from high school in 2011, where her teachers saw her as
responsible, quiet, and diligent. Two years later, Sydney moved to Lincoln where she worked at Menards. Now,
Menard's is a DIY type of big box store. there. She made very good friends and was considered to be one of the kindest,
most polite cashiers. She was the kind of person who took people in when they were struggling to pay their rent or
between places to live. She helped out three different co-workers in this way. Sydney hoped to start a family of her
own, but that dream sadly would not come to fruition. By 2017, it seems Sydney was not in a great place. Personally,
first of all, Menard's was not her dream job. As much as I like the store, it was
not her career. She wanted to work in a veterary clinic and she was actively job
hunting around this time. But it was also more than that, Captain. Her mom Susie told the media that Sydney had
some mental health struggles. specifically. She had anxiety and depression, and she had been managing
these conditions since high school, but it was getting worse. But then she vanished. In fact, the very week that
Sydney disappeared, her mom took her to a doctor's appointment in Lincoln, Nebraska. This to obtain a new
prescription for anti-depressants. This was the last time that Susie saw her daughter alive. Yeah, we talk about
this topic a lot, mental health, especially in your late teens and early 20s, but every anti-depressant
has some side effects, and that affects everybody differently. And so, she was going down this journey to figure out
what medication was going to work best for her. It's trial and error in a lot of those cases. Let's go to Thursday,
November 16th. Sydney did not show up for her regular shift at Menard's. She didn't tell her friends and family that
she was skipping work and her phone, well, it's going straight to voicemail. This was unheard of for Sydney. She was
very responsible, very workoriented. Her worried co-workers and friends of Sydney's called her sister McKenzie, who
they knew as well. And then in return, her sister calls the parents. So George and Susie called and text, here's one of
the texts from Susie to Sydney that read, "Please, Sydney, you're scaring me." By 5:00 p.m. on the 16th of
November, George and Susie had reported their daughter missing to the Lincoln, Nebraska Police Department. Well, this
would be extra scary for a parent because you know that she's now taking a new drug and how is that drug going to
affect her daughter? You don't know. And some of these anti-depressants can make
people suicidal even if they weren't suicidal before. >> On Friday, the following day, they
decided to go to her apartment. This is a 2-hour drive for them. It's not clear whether they had a key or if the
landlord let them in. But they do get access to the apartment. Once inside, they're saying, you know, nothing seems
a miss here with the exception of three things. One, Cydney's cat, Mimsy, had no
food or water and appeared to be hungry, so this would be not common. Two, Cydney's car was parked outside of her
apartment. Three. Sydney's glasses and purse were in the apartment as well, and the lights were left on. The car and
purse and glasses of course are going to be startling. You're you're expecting to
if you don't find your daughter, you're expecting to not find the car would be would be the scenario here when you're
arriving. >> Exactly. And again, she didn't show up for work and she's not answering her
phone. And I think the other problem is Okay, so you get there, you see the car.
Okay, the cat's hungry. No big deal. Maybe she went on a walk or maybe she's out with somebody, but after 30 minutes
to an hour or so, you have to be thinking the worst at this point. And this will be the same day that things
are going to go from 0 to 60 very quickly in this case because we have after the parents visit the apartment.
Lincoln police issued a statement that they didn't know for sure that Sydney was in any real danger, but they wanted
to check on her welfare given her aw status. the police here are reaching out to the public to look for
this young woman. And if they're doing that this quickly, I have to you have to believe that there's something there
telling them to do this cuz this doesn't seem to be standard police protocol. Not
only had Sydney vanished without her car and her personal items, left the cat unfed, but her bank account was
untouched, and police IT personnel verified that Sydney's phone had been powered off. So, they're doing some work
behind the scenes to figure some of this stuff out to confirm that, you know, she's off the grid. She's gone dark
here. >> Question for you. Does this mean that they know somebody shut the phone off or
is it just her phone is off and we don't know if somebody turned it off or if the
battery's dead? >> The statement is that it had been powered off. Now I I don't I don't think
that there would be clear indication of >> why >> what method was used to do that but I
but the one of the problems here is her normal life her her daily she was always
on Snapchat posting stories according to friends and family. So, she's one of those types that like if she's not
posting anything, it's a safe assumption to assume that the the phone is off or she's sleeping or something of that
nature. But we have law enforcement, IT personnel that have determined bank accounts not being activated or accessed
and the phone is is off and not being used. And then they track her phone through her cell phone provider and
found that the last ping before her phone was turned off was a tower in Wilbur, Nebraska, which is about 40
miles away from Sydney's apartment. Immediately, the reaction is, hey, there's no reason for this young woman
to be in this tiny town. She knows no one there. Plus, they find her car at home. It was
evident that she that Sydney or at least her phone got to this location 40 miles
away via someone else. Yeah. I think some of the confusing things especially for these cases when we have a young
adult. They're not living with their parents. The parents don't know every detail of their daughter or son's life.
They don't know their weekly schedule at that point. Like you said, she's she was
posting a lot to Snapchat. She missed work. She hasn't fed her cat. Her car is there. But there's one good thing about
her posting on Snapchat. She posted that she was going to go out on a date. >> Yeah. The local media was reporting a
heavy police presence at a home near the 600 block of West 7th Street. This was a
home that was owned by a husband and wife who were in their 60s at this time. Police wouldn't comment on what they
were doing there or why they were there other than acknowledging that they were looking for a missing person whose final
phone ping was in Wilbur. So, it was a quick connection to the missing person Sydney case from the onlookers. Police
had quickly learned that they needed to talk to someone specific, someone who may have been the last person to see or
hear from Sydney. So, getting into what you're talking about here, Captain with the Snapchat, her friend Tara was able
to produce a text from Sydney that was sent to her on that Wednesday. And like you said, she was raving about a date
that she had gone on on Tuesday night. She and her date were going to see each other again on that Wednesday evening.
>> Her and her date dummy. >> On that Wednesday, Sydney went to Snapchat, sent her friend Tara a photo
of herself that was captioned, "Ready for my date." Right? >> Tara had either screenshotted this or
saved it in their chat, which is how she was able to show the police. She showed
the this to the police. Police needed to talk to whomever Sydney had planned to meet on that Wednesday night because
their trail for her ends there. They're tracing, retracing her steps, tracing her movements, and this is where it
ends. So now we need to figure out who this person was and communicate with them. They learned from Tara that it was
a woman that Sydney had met online named Audrey, someone Sydney called her dream
girl. The two had a very successful first date, like we said, and Sydney was excited to see her again on Wednesday
night. But police were mum about the details, confirming only that they had actually spoken to this date. But
Sydney's father, George, told local news, "We are afraid that she has been abducted."
>> Yeah, I think she was pretty open. Sydney was pretty open with her friends that she was on Tinder, I believe, and
that she was, you know, seeking out dates through Tinder. The police released a description of Sydney, 5'7 in
tall, 135 lbs, blonde, last seen wearing a white Columbia jacket and a cream blouse. The family also released some
photos of Sydney's tattoos, hoping they might help someone recognize her. My Antelopee County News reported,
quote, "We feel that she could be anywhere, so we've decided to post her tattoos because they're easily
recognizable. Please let us know if you have any information that may be useful in
locating her. We're asking for you to please continue to share these posts and pray for her safe return. Thank you for
all of your kind thoughts and prayers. This was from Susie Lof, her mother. >> I see a lot of similarities between
Sydney and Amy Bradley. I understand the c the circumstances are different, but I
see similarities as far as victimology. >> They're similar in age as well. And like
you said, there are some things that that match up in both of those cases as far as victimology goes. Susie also
posted on Facebook, "We just wanted to let everyone know that Sydney still hasn't returned home despite outstanding
efforts by the Lincoln and Wilbur police departments. We've had very few leads, but haven't lost our hope that she will
return safely soon." Sydney's friends organized a vigil, desperate to bring attention to her case. In her hometown,
green light bulbs and ribbons sprang up on porches and trees. By the 21st of November, with nothing from Sydney in
five days, Susie Lof told WOWT that she was having a hard time putting her feelings into words. Of course, the
lack of any new information must have been incredibly devastating, frustrating, and disheartening for Susie
and the the rest of the family. >> But if there's one thing that people should take away from this case, tell
people what you what's going on in your life. She talks to her friends about that she's seeking dates through Tinder.
She is posting a lot of her activities on Snapchat. And that might seem a little silly to some, but these are
going to give us some leads because it's not a situation where it's just Sydney didn't show up for work and we have no
clue about her whereabouts or what she was planning on doing. We at least know. And you and even though she's been
missing for 5 days, like you said, at this point, you go, "Well, we know that she was planning to go on a date with
somebody." That is a solid lead, and we now have to talk to that person, scrub that person for information, and
and to see, did they go on the date? If so, where did they go? Yeah. Both the Lincoln Police Department and the Selen
County Sheriff's Office worked the missing person's investigation along with Nebraska State Patrol, the US
Marshalss, and the FBI. So, we have a big presence here, a collaboration of work being done by these different
agencies. Searches for Sydney were intensive. Ponds were being drained. Every inch of Wilbur was being searched.
Meanwhile, Sydney's family raised money for a billboard near Interstate 80 with photos of their daughter and their
information. There was also a name page that was set up rather quickly, two Facebook pages, and lots of local media
coverage that would begin to fan out from there. Sydney had snapped her friend Brooklyn Mcrist about her second
date with Audrey. She'd sent Brooklyn a snap with a photo of an attractive brunette and her Tinder profile, which
said that Audrey was her name and she was 32 miles outside of Lincoln. Brooklyn got on Tinder and created a
profile for herself that indicated that she liked women. She used the same hashtags or interest, whatever people
use on Tinder to find dates. She's using all the same stuff that Sydney had in her profile. So, she's trying to mimic
Cydney's profile as much as she can. >> This is very smart. >> Yeah. She specifically made an account
to try to match with this Audrey person. And indeed, this fishing expedition worked. Audrey found her and Brooklyn
was able to message her and get her phone number. She learned that she hailed from Missouri and she worked at a
financial institution. according to her profile. Anyway, >> you can be whoever you want to be
online. >> Yeah, there's a lot of people that are doing that on the streets of the country
as well. Uh and look, and it creates a a whole huge long list of problems. >> Yeah, definitely. But if I was going to
create a character online, I mean, first his name would be the captain, but I'd also my occupation
would be starting point guard for the Chicago Bulls. >> Yeah, cuz there's no way for people to
figure out if that's incorrect. The vigilant friend Brooklyn fed all of this information to the cops. Mhm.
>> Police days before learned that the phone ping in Wilbur, approximately 30 m from Lincoln or so. And guess what?
Bingo bango jingo jango. Audrey lived there and she lived there with her boyfriend.
>> Yes. >> Investigators went to the home where the couple were renting a basement. So they
basically had a basement apartment that they were renting. This has got to be from that 60-year-old couple that we had
mentioned earlier. The couple had lived in this home since June of 2017. >> Yeah. But I think that shows you the
technology that they got a ping on this house, not not just within that area. >> This couple presented themselves as
antique dealers. When police entered the apartment in the basement of the home, they found
everything was neat and tidy, but it rire of bleach. >> And even when police returned the
following day, this time armed with a search warrant, they found nothing necessarily incriminating. Later, when
the apartment was cleaned out, among the items collected were 56 Beanie Babies, antique toys, a lion rug, a pair of
shackles, and over 20 phones. Then on November 28th, we've got some big news. Two people were publicly named persons
of interest in Sydney's disappearance. Police named them publicly because they could not find them and needed the
public's help in tracking them down. Lincoln PD said they are asking for the public's assistance searching for Aubrey
Trail, 51 years old. Trail is 6 feet tall, 284 lbs with brown hair and blue eyes. And Bailey Boswell, age 23.
Boswell is 5'8 in tall with brown hair and hazel eyes. Lincoln PD said the two people have connections in multiple
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So, let me get this straight. We have a cell phone ping to this house. There's owners of that house. They live
upstairs. We have a couple that lives in the basement. >> Mhm. >> We believe that the female is possibly
the individual that was talking to Sydney on Tinder and possibly went on a date with Sydney before. They searched
their house. You say it's clean. It's neat. They have some items. They claim they're antique dealers. They sound more
like garage sale dealers. But then these two individuals, this couple now are missing.
>> Yeah. They cannot locate this couple. They've been to the apartment at least twice. You know, they returned with the
search warrant and then publicly announced that they're looking for these two individuals and that they they
publicly say that they're persons of interest in this missing person's case. diving into some of the details of this
and we're going to try to sort this out the best we can because remember we have
Tara and Brooklyn who are Sydney's friends and they're the ones that informed police that the date was with
this so-called Audrey and now police are looking for two people but they're not looking for anyone named Audrey they're
looking for an Aubrey who's not a woman he's a man and they are looking for Bailey Boswell and this has to lead back
to the date even though the the names are not lining up. So once once they got the name Audrey and the phone number
from Brooklyn, police investigated this Audrey, a Lincoln detective called the number and after a couple of tries got
Audrey to call him back. this air quotes Audrey was evasive, saying she didn't want to talk to the police because she
had warrants and did say that she had gone on a date with Sydney, but had actually dropped her off at a friend's
house in Wilbur afterwards. But a little >> Yeah, a little digging by police into
this Audrey revealed that her name was not Audrey at all. It was in fact Bailey Boswell. Her Tinder date with Sydney was
confirmed by social media post made by Bailey and 140 plus messages on the Tinder app between Bailey and Sydney. In
one of the final Tinder messages confirming their first date on the 14th, Cydney messaged Audrey. Just going to be
me and you, right? Okay. Yes, of course, responded Audrey. Police tried to talk to this Audrey/Bailey
person, but she was missing an action. Police declared her and her 51-year-old boyfriend Aubrey Trail, also missing an
in action, official persons of interest. The two apparently split town immediately after they were labeled as
such. >> That's not suspicious or anything. >> Oh, no. Aubrey and Bailey denied that
they had suddenly left Nebraska because they were on the run from the cops. Aubrey posted online, "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." He said, "Well,
yeah. Well, listen to this." He says, "I'm this quotes from from Aubrey. >> I'm a crook. I'm a thief. Have been my
whole life, but I'm not what you are trying to make me out to be. I've never killed anyone in my whole life." End
quote. Yeah. So, I've been a piece of [ __ ] my whole life, but um I didn't do this one.
>> From tracking their movements here, Captain, what they're doing is the two are they hastily leave town, which
cannot be a coincidence, >> right? >> They're out on the road. They're staying in cheap motel and they are working
their way down south. But these two like felt the need to talk about what was going on. In fact, they posted two the
two of them posted a 9-minute Facebook live stream complaining about being chased around by police like dogs. In
their live stream, a close-up video filmed in a vehicle. Aubrey said it was time for them to share their side of the
story. This video was posted for just about two hours before it was deleted >> and was posted on none other than the
Finding Sydney Lof Facebook page. So they they went right to the Sydney Lof Facebook page and posted this. In this
video, Bailey admitted to going on the date with Sydney, but said that she was innocent of any wrongdoing and that she
had simply driven around and smoked some pot. that the two they were hanging out,
driving around smoking pot. And she said, "I gave her a quarter ounce of really good weed. She asked me to drop
her at a friend's house. I did so. I have not heard from her since." She said the two women had planned to go to a
casino that weekend, but Sydney had never contacted her since then. Aubrey claimed he like chimes in during the
video. He's saying that he was praying Sydney would be found safe. And then Bailey concluded with quote, "I
just want the family to know I am truly sorry. I didn't have anything to do with
this. I hope Sydney is found. She is a sweet, amazing girl." Yeah. I don't know how much these two are antique dealers.
I I think they opened up a canning operation where they're canning tuna because this is fishy as fishy gets, my
friend. Well, and to add to it a little bit, like this this stream, this live stream.
>> Yeah, >> it looks like they're deliberately trying to obscure their faces, which is
all kinds of weird because, you know, we know who you are from the live stream, but I maybe it's possible that they're
on the run and their look is a little different at the time and they kind of want to keep it that way.
>> They want to voice it. They want to voice it out there and throw that out there, but they also don't want police
to catch up with them at the same time. >> What a guy have like 21 different charges against him.
>> That might be conservative. Yeah. >> In like a 50-year period, like you're a lifetime loser. You're a lifetime piece
of [ __ ] That's what you are. Of course, we're going to look at you. And by the
way, the cell phone ping puts her at your house. So this story of you driving around and smoking pot and you dropping
her off somewhere just doesn't make a lot of sense. >> Well, we know some of their movements
during this time, right? So Bailey and Aubrey travel to Omaha. They picked up a woman whom they say Bailey was seeing.
Her name is Caitlyn Brandell, but we'll learn more about Caitlyn and and some other people that they were associates
with. Let's say they had checked into a Holiday Inn at the Amerar Casino in Council Bluffs. They stayed until
November 19th using Caitlyn's vehicle for what they told her was a cocaine drop from a plane.
>> On Grand Island that would net them about 25K. >> Jesus. >> Surprise, surprise.
The drop never happened. Sorry, that's my impression. It's from a Pink Floyd album and the the cool folks will get
it. And there the three moved to onto Carney where Bailey and Aubrey wanted to abduct and kill an exchange student.
They told Caitlyn, we know this because Caitlyn tells us about this. They told Caitlyn that she had to participate or
Aubrey threatened her family. But at the motel in Carney, Caitlyn receives a message from the Lincoln Police
Department because her mother had filed a missing person's report on her. >> She's gone. Her car's gone.
>> Yeah. >> This seemed to scare the couple that were on the run, Bailey and Aubrey, who
told her that another young woman was missing and that Bailey was being falsely blamed because she was the last
person seen with this missing woman. According to this, Caitlyn, Bailey cried and insisted she did not hurt the
missing woman. Caitlyn left the duo and returned to her home. Smart move by Caitlyn.
>> Yeah, but let's pause for a second. Okay, so they're at this hotel motel Holiday Inn. Caitlyn's around these two
awful pieces of [ __ ] people. They're going to go to an island to get some cocaine that's going to be dropped
from a plane. And oh, by the way, you have to be involved in killing this exchange student. And if you don't,
we're going to harm your family. Bailey has the nerve to put on a Oscar winning performance of crying
and saying, "Well, there's this other girl missing and well, I have nothing to do with that." I mean, think about how
nuts that is. The the craziness that they're trying to get this girl involved in and then to have the the the nerve or
the balls or whatever to then cry and say, "We're not involved in this other stuff." There's no way that Caitlyn is
believing anything coming out of their mouths. >> Yeah. And it may not have had to have
been much of an act. I mean, you can spin it and say why you are crying or why you're upset, but she is very likely
crying because she knows that the police are after her, >> right, >> for a very serious crime, murder, and
they are closing in. And so I I think she's just spinning it. And you're absolutely right there, Captain. It's
It's pure insanity. It's insane >> the the juxaposition between their movements and what they're saying
publicly to what's going on behind closed doors with this third wheel here. After Caitlyn leaves them, Bailey and
Aubrey continued on their odd journey, checking into motel in Spencer and Ames, Iowa, and then they moved on to Branson,
Missouri. The cops seem to be about two steps behind them all the while. They're
trying to track a digital trail left by the two, but the two are using burner phones. So, they're speed bumps for the
police that are behind them and on their trail. >> Well, I have a question. So, when
Caitlyn gets dropped off, is she talking to police at this point or is she just too scared? Because I mean, like like
you said, they said you're going to help kill this exchange student and if you don't, we're going to harm your family.
So, I wonder when they dropped her off, did they say, "You better keep your mouth shut or we're going to harm your
family?" >> That's a great question. I don't know. We know that Caitlyn communicated
everything or we believe everything >> to law enforcement. >> Yeah. To her knowledge about these two
to law enforcement. We just don't we don't know when that happened, right? >> Place. And if they're moving city to
city then state to state, it it still leaves them leaves law enforcement behind. But see, the FBI, they're able
to use that Facebook live stream video to hone in on the digital source because they're using these phones, but the the
Facebook live stream video, they they used a phone registered to Bailey Boswell. That phone had called a number
at the Windmill Inn in Branson, Missouri. Naturally, you're going to go there hoping to either A find this
couple there or B sitting there waiting for them when they arrive. And that is where the two of these the
two will be arrested on November 30th. So, they're nabbed on federal persons of interest warrants as well as charges
unrelated to Sydney Lof's case. completely. So, Aubrey was wanted for possession of a firearm by a felon.
Bailey was wanted on failure to appear on a minor drug charge in Lincoln, Nebraska. When the two were arrested,
found in their possession were maps, hiking and camping gear, a supply of bottled water, sleeping bags, and so on.
Every indication is that they were on their way to Mexico. Bailey and Aubrey agreed to speak with police
investigating Cydney's case. The short of it is they're going to stick to their story that was on the live stream video,
right? >> That Sydney was last seen by them alive and well in Wilbur. Bailey had dropped
her off at someone's house and went about her life. She had no idea what happened to Sydney. Neither did Aubrey.
You know, at the top of the show, we were giving out some toast. I should probably mention here the shout out that
is in order. We we could not have written this episode without the incredible reporting by the Grand Island
Independent in cooperation with the Lincoln Journal Star and the Omaha World Herald, all on omaha.com's
website. Using phone tracking information from two of Baileyy's cell phone accounts and a flip phone
registered to Aubrey, Lincoln police detective Bob Hurley and the FBI track the movements made by the phones on
Wednesday, November 15th and Thursday, November 16th. So keep in mind this is this is at the time when Sydney is first
missing, >> right? This is 14 to 15 days before the two who are seemingly on the run are apprehended
in another state. They looked at the pings and considered the length of time it appeared the phone spent in different
locations. They started looking at a very specific location, then methodically did a foot search 25 miles
of remote roadways using cadaavver dogs. So Sydney's missing. Two weeks later, these two are apprehended who said they
had nothing to do with her, even though it appears at least Bailey may have been
the last person to see Sydney. But then it's on December 4th. Body parts were found in in spilling out of black trash
bags scattered in overgrown ditches along a gravel road outside of Edgar. This is in rural Clay County. The
location was an hour's drive from Wilbur and had been visited by Bailey's and Aubrey's phones
on November 16th. Then more remains were found the following day. The the total number of body parts recovered was 14.
The body was not complete. An upper arm was never located and it was Jesus. at the time. Obviously, it's not yet
confirmed to be Sydney, but the cops were pretty much >> Yeah. >> sure that she had been disposed of and a
lot of this basing a lot of this on phone locationational data. >> Yeah. I'm guessing the FBI, like you
said, they're able to track down these pings, look at the location, look at the time spent. the chances of them. I mean,
this is somewhat of a Hail Mary, but obviously there was some detective work, some Sherlock Holmes stuff going on
here, but then to find body pieces like like you said, it's not confirmed, but what are the chances? It's going to be
somebody else or just some random person. Well, that wasn't the only thing found in the ditches. Wrapped inside
30gallon trash bags were sex toys, a cat leash, a size seven women's boot, duct tape, tarps, a sauna suit with the
crotch missing, a glove, men's underwear, two socks, and a size 4XL green shirt with a bleach stain on it.
Also found were Sydney's slip bra and shirt. The shirt was the one she was wearing in the last Snapchat photo she
sent to her friend saying, "Ready for my date." The cops told the media, quote, "By their own statements on social
media, we believe that Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell were the two of the last people to see
Sydney before her disappearance. Thus, they remain persons of interest." End quote. Remember, they had not been
arrested for anything related to Sydney at this time because they had outstanding warrants, but that's going
to change. >> But it's good that they have these other charges because it it places these
suspects in holding basically. >> Yes. The autopsy told us that she had been cut into 14 pieces by at least two,
possibly three different instruments. The doctor, a forensic pathologist said there were indications of a struggle
before death with deep bruises on the back of her head, down the middle of her back, and on her inner thigh. She had
been restrained at the wrist and had freshly torn a freshly torn earlobe at the piercing site. As for the cause of
death, Sydney's hyoid bone had been crushed. Other evidence concluded that she had been strangled. Sydney's body
also showed indications that around the time of death, she experienced blunt force trauma. The autopsy was
complicated by the absence of most of the organs of Sydney's torso and abdomen, as well as the absence of other
body parts such as the upper part of the trachea, windpipe, linex, and veins and
arteries of the neck. These appear to have been removed postmortem by the use of a sharp blade. None of these items
were ever found. Well, the thing about this ruse we're going to get on a dating website were a couple. They're
essentially looking for a female, but they this female doesn't have to be willing. But hey, I go on this date. I
try to present myself as best I as I can to the version of the person I'm telling
you I am online >> that will drop your guard a little bit trust. Hey, you don't need to drive.
I'll come pick you up. And we don't know if they drugged to her when she got in the car. Hey, I got I picked up a drink
for you at the gas station. Here you go. And all of this was just a ruse to find
a victim. >> Well, and yes, let's talk about what we do know happened because there is a
digital paper trail here, >> right? >> So, Sydney met this Audrey on Tinder on November 11th. They exchanged
140 plus messages on the dating app in which Sydney relayed that her family lived two hours away, that she lived
alone, and she worked at Menard's in Lincoln. It was evident she was lonely and alone. On Bailey's half of the
conversation, posing as this Audrey, no mention was ever made of a male in Audrey's life. The two arranged for this
first date on Tuesday the 14th. So Cydney gave Audrey her home address and within moments Bailey had searched the
location and found a hotel. On the 14th, Bailey and Aubrey, her bow, checked into
that motel or that hotel. Bailey picked Sydney up and they drove around and smoked some pot and they
>> Yeah, they smoked some pot and then she dropped her off back at home. >> Aubrey never made an appearance on this
date. Now, after the date, Bailey met Aubrey at the hotel. They spent the night together. Then, the two women
agreed to meet up the next evening after that first date. On the morning of Bailey's second date with Sydney, so
remember this is November 15th. Bailey and Aubrey went to a Lincoln Home Depot. They're captured on video. There's no
disputing this. and purchased tin snips, hacksaws, and tarps. Then they went to the Menards where Sydney worked. She's
actually working at this time. It's unclear if this was so Aubrey could check Sydney out, but what we figured
out is there's no sign that Bailey ever went inside, but there's security video from Menard's showing Aubrey walking
past Sydney in the other direction as she walked outside. She was going to do a shift at the lumber yard shack. So the
video captures this Aubrey walking past the victim. >> Yeah. Almost stalking their prey.
>> Yeah. And so right after the victim passes him, he turns around and looks at her, maybe does a double take, and then
he makes a call on his cell phone. We now know that that call went to Bailey Boswell. So, after stalking Sydney at
the Menards, Aubrey went to a hardware store and bought chemical drain cleaner and an extension cord. Meanwhile, Bailey
purchased bleach, trash bags, duct tape, and roasting pans. Throughout the day, Bailey texted Sydney to ask how her day
was going and to communicate that she was looking forward to their date. Later that day, after Sydney got off work and
got home, Bailey messaged Sydney at 6:54 saying, quote, "I'm outside." So, she picked Sydney up and brought her to the
Wilbur apartment. Aubrey was, we're guessing, waiting inside this apartment. Some of this can be sorted
out through cell phone records, >> right? Sydney's phone shut off at 8:32 p.m. They're communicating at 6:54.
Let's call it 7:00 p.m. They make they drive this distance. It's a considerable distance to get to the apartment in in
another city in in Wilbur in the town of Wilbur. Sydney's phone shuts off at 3 at
8:32 after pinging in Wilbur at that location at 8:30. >> Yeah, this is a setup. And there would
be no way of Sydney knowing. We have to speculate because we don't know. Like I said, did
did did they give Sydney a drink to incapacitate her before she got back to this uh basement apartment? Or was it
just a complete ambush once they got her back? Because she wouldn't have known what she was walking into or who she was
going to walk into. Well, if if the pings and the cell phone information is accurate to the second is it's 2 minutes
from arriving at that location to the phone being turned off. And I can't believe that the victim walks into a
place and goes, "You know what? I'll turn off my phone while I'm here." I I think that the that the trauma to her
back and head are, like you said, probably an ambush takes place and the phone goes off right away. And it wasn't
Sydney that turned it off. Now, as far as torture or whatever that that followed, we don't know anything about
that, but based on what we have learned since about the proclivities of these two, we can sort out that that's
probably part of it. The bruises and the restraint marks on Sydney's body spoke for themselves. Then, one or two, one of
the two, Bailey or Aubrey, held Sydney down while the other strangled her with an extension cord.
Then they drove the parts 60 miles away to Klay County using Aubrey's Ford 500 sedan. Cell phone records placed them in
remote Klay County on the afternoon of November 16th, leaving the parts and trash bags behind when they leave. Back
at the apartment, 621 West 7th Street, Bailey and Aubrey went crazy with the bleach. They even wiped down the walls
with it. They use so much bleach to clean up the basement that the owner remember so the owners are living above.
>> Right. That's my question is they're in the basement apartment. We don't have
any eyeball witnesses or earball witnesses. >> Well, you can access the basement. You
don't have to go through the main home. >> It's essentially a a like a duplex. >> But what I'm wondering is like do they
do they hear somebody scream? Do they hear any commotion? Do they hear anything?
>> We don't have statements from them indicating that they heard anything or saw anything that was suspicious.
>> They might not have even been home at the time. While they were at home for part of this
because before the couple goes on the run between the killing and going on the run, they they wipe down the entire
basement with bleach. And the the smell is so bad that the act that the wife actually had a physical reaction. She
got sick from the amount of bleach that was used. And the odor of that will can cause people to to get sick,
>> right? And when news of Sydney's disappearance made headlines, made news, and these two
are named persons of interest, they left town. So much more to get to. Join us back
here in the garage. Same bat time, same bat channel. Until then, >> be good, be kind, and don't litter.
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This week we take a look at a very strange case out of Lincoln, Nebraska. This is a case that caught everyone’s attention late in 2017. 24 Year old Sydney Loofe failed to show up for work. Friends and family could not get in contact with the usually very reliable young woman. After alerting police and reporting her missing, it was discovered that her last known communication was that she was ready for her date. Sydney was going out on date number two with a woman that she met on the Tinder app.

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Brief Summary

Sydney Lof vanished after a date; investigation led to suspects Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell, ultimately revealing a tragic outcome.

Key points

Sydney Lof's Disappearance. 24-year-old Sydney Lof goes missing after a date, leaving her family worried.
Family's Desperate Search. Sydney's family and friends rally to find her, organizing vigils and raising awareness.
The Disappearance of Sydney Lof. Sydney goes missing after a date with Bailey Boswell, leading to a police investigation.
A Shocking Confession. Bailey admits to going on a date with Sydney but claims innocence in her disappearance.
Body Parts Found. Remains are discovered in rural Clay County, leading police to suspect foul play.
Stalking Behavior. Aubrey's actions at Menard's raise alarming questions about her intentions.

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Ready for my date.

Sydney's last Snapchat photo before her disappearance.

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