Court upholds a Nebraska woman's murder conviction, life sentence in dismemberment killing

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree execution condemnation and beingness condemnation of a 30-year-old pistillate successful the 2017 decease and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store clerk

OMAHA, Neb. -- The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the execution condemnation and beingness condemnation of a pistillate successful the 2017 decease and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store clerk.

Bailey Boswell, 30, was convicted successful 2020 of first-degree murder, conspiracy to perpetrate execution and improper disposal of quality remains successful the decease of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe. Boswell's co-defendant and fellow astatine the clip of the killing, 58-year-old Aubrey Trail, was convicted of the aforesaid charges successful 2019 and sentenced to decease successful 2021.

Prosecutors said Boswell and Trail had been readying to termination idiosyncratic earlier Boswell met Loofe connected the dating app Tinder. Boswell made plans for a day with Loofe, a cashier astatine a Menards store successful Lincoln, to lure her to the flat wherever she was strangled.

The FBI and different instrumentality enforcement spent 3 weeks searching for Loofe earlier her dismembered remains were recovered successful December 2017. Loofe's assemblage was recovered chopped into 14 pieces and near successful garbage bags successful ditches on agrarian roads successful southeastern Nebraska.

In her appeal, Boswell challenged the admittance of grounds by prosecutors successful her trial, including photographs of Loofe’s dismembered body, arguing the gruesome photos served lone to crook the assemblage against her. Boswell besides objected to the the grounds of respective women who said Trail and Boswell had talked of occult fantasies and had expressed a tendency to sexually torture and termination women.

Boswell's defence lawyer argued astatine her proceedings that she was forced by Trail to spell on with the sidesplitting and dismemberment of Loofe.

Justice Stephanie Stacy wrote for the precocious court's unanimous ruling Friday that “there is nary merit to immoderate of Boswell’s assigned errors regarding the proceedings court’s evidentiary rulings.”