In honor of the fourth anniversary, & a sentencing occurring only earlier this month, I thought it would be good to inform people about this case.
The day is November 14th, 2017, in Lincoln, Nebraska. 24-year-old Sydney Loofe who worked as a cashier at Menards had just matched with a girl named Bailey. They talk on Tinder back & forth & share roughly 140 messages before deciding to meet up that night. They hung out, smoked a bit, but in all, they hit it off & had an amazing time. The next day they decide to go on another date. She is extremely excited to go on another date & is telling her friends all about the first one & how happy she is. The last message from Bailey to Sydney is at 6:45 pm stating that she is outside waiting to pick up Sydney Loofe.
The next day, November 16th, 2017, Sydney doesn’t show up for her shift at Menards. Friends & family begin to worry & panic as no one can get a hold of her. It was all so unlike her & everyone knew something had gone wrong. Sydney’s mom reported her as missing after no one in Sydney’s life had heard from her since before the date. With not much to go off of & Sydney being an adult, her family didn’t know what to do. No one knows the name of the tinder date she went on but it seemed like a good place to start since that was the last time she had been seen. Since Sydney had shown some of her friends a picture of the girl she was going on a date with one of them thinks maybe if they were to see the picture again they could identify her so the way they do that is by making a tinder account & swiping until they see the picture.
This is when they find 26-year-old Bailey Boswell. They take her contact info & give it to the police since Bailey is the last known person with Sydney before her disappearance. Upon investigation, they find out Bailey has a 51-year-old boyfriend named Aubrey Trail whom she lives in Wilber, Nebraska. They try to locate Bailey after seeing that Sydney’s phone last pinged in Wilber but it seems as though Bailey & her boyfriend have taken off. This is seen to law enforcement as suspicious behavior; they are granted a search warrant to the couple’s home after the landlord stated there was an extremely strong bleach-like odor coming from the home. They find the apartment has been cleaned with bleach on every surface & even bleach smears throughout. The police then decide to announce that they are suspects in the case. News outlets start sharing this information. Aubrey & Bailey then see these news stories.
While still in hiding, Aubrey & Bailey post a series of videos on social media stating their involvement with the case. They seem to be in a car in the videos wearing black hoodies with the hood on & Bailey is wearing large sunglasses. They talk about how their names are being slaughtered because of Sydney’s disappearance & think they get to have their side of the story shared. They say they aren’t hiding out from police like what is being said & have spoken to the police several times (which was untrue). Bailey says she dropped Sydney off late that night at a friend’s house due to request after having yet another wonderful time & hasn’t seen or heard from her since. They also mention how they have other warrants out for them which would mean they could get arrested for those offenses since you can’t get arrested if you are just a person of interest. People are confused as to why they kept saying they weren’t in hiding even though they basically had disguises on, were not living at home, & even brought up the fact that they could be arrested if the police found them. At this point, the FBI gets involved in the case.
