A man was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing and dismembering a Nebraska hardware store clerk who refused to commit to his lifestyle of group sex and fraud. Aubrey Trail was convicted in 2019 of 1st-degree murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder in the 2017 murder of Sydney Loofe. A three-judge panel sentenced Trail Wednesday at the county courthouse in Wilber, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of Lincoln. Prosecutors said at trial that Trail and his girlfriend, Bailey Boswell, had been planning to kill someone before Boswell met the 24-year-old Loofe, a cashier at a Menards store in Lincoln, on the dating app Tinder and lured her to them. Loofe’s body parts were found in garbage bags, cut into 14 pieces and left in ditches along country roads in rural Clay County. In his statement to the court, Trail, 54, recanted his earlier claim that Loofe died of erotic asphyxiation during rough sex and admitted that he strangled her with an electric cord, as prosecutors had a...
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