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Thank you folks so much for joining us today. I'm on an absolutely insane edition of smalltownmurder. It's crazy every week, but I don't know if you noticed at the opening when I mentioned a flying vampire sex cult, but... Flying? Flying, yeah, there's some weird stuff going on in this episode. It's just some very strange stuff and some absolutely awful murder. We will get into all of that first. I wanna say, head over to shutupandgivememurder.com. Tickets for the live shows all year long. They are available. A couple of them are already sold out and they're selling quick, so get in there. Minneapolis, you can be our biggest show ever if you sell that thing out. Whenever anybody asks us what's your biggest show, we're gonna go Minneapolis. I love New Place. A lovely place with lovely people. So sell that bad boy out. We're very excited for that. April 5th in Sacramento. You're up first on the tour. April 6th in San Francisco. Tickets still available. 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Oh, for sure. Yeah. Jimmy Hill mispronounced your name. He wants to get it right. He'd love to, but let's face it, it's probably not gonna happen. So check all that out. Quick disclaimer. This is a comedy show. We're comedians. Jokes are gonna get made. But, you know, that happens, yes. But when nothing's made up for comedic effect or anything like that. And what we do here is we go out of our way not to make fun of the victim or the victim's families. Why, James? Because we're assholes. Yes, sir, but we're not scumbags. That's how that goes. Yes, there's plenty to be there for the taking for comedy. Lots of fodder. People go, I think I can get away with a murder. That's funny. No, police force screws up with, you know, a investigation for a year and a half and let's murder, walk free and making fun of those guys. And that's something you can do there. They deserve it. They deserve it. So we're gonna do all that. If you think that true crime and comedy should never ever go together, though, I don't know when we might not be for you. Maybe not. But I think maybe you should probably check it out and make sure. But no bitching later. That's the thing here. That's the main point we're trying to make here. And that said, I think it's time everybody. Let's do this. I think it's time to clear the lungs. That's all arms to the sky, everyone. And let's all shout. ♪ Shut up and give me murder ♪ Let's do this, everybody. What do you say, Jimmy? Let's go on a trip, shall we? Yes. Let's do this. We're going to Nebraska. Okay. Very exciting Nebraska. We've been there. It is a whole lot of corn and wheat and just driving and going. Everyone looks the same. This is in South Eastern Nebraska. 'Cause things start to change when you get toward the Western end there, toward Colorado. It gets a little different. It's still the plains, 'cause we don't have the mountains yet, but-- There's no mountains till you hit them. No, no, no. This is a while. But it's still, you know, it's a little different. But this is over in the Eastern part. It's about 45 minutes to Lincoln, which we've been there. And then on hour and a half to Omaha, which we've done shows there, and then it's two hours and 10 minutes to Lyons, Nebraska, which was our last Nebraska episode, episode 426, the chief, the fluzy and the church lady. That was a twisted one. I remember that. Nebraska, you guys always bring it for weird twisted murders. Let me tell you something. Weird place, yeah. I'm going to put them up there in the annals of Florida and West Virginia and Maine and just these weird, creepy murders. You guys have a lot of them here. This is in Saline or Saline County, however it's said. Not sure. I'm sure it's Saline or Saline or Salina or something weird. Salina. I don't care anymore. I don't care. I don't care. Hit me up and tell me. It's fine. I don't even care. I don't even get mad anymore. Don't give a shit. Knock yourselves out. Area code 402 motto here. And this is probably the last motto you expected. You expect like a good place to live, work, and play. You know, that kind of shit. This is very specific. The Czech capital of the United States. Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia. Oh, is that right? C-C-N-C-H. Not C-H. Yeah. Not weak. All the Czechs are made here. All the bank Czechs are made in one factory. Yeah. Nope. So that's what it's about. A real light history. We're going to go quick on the town stuff this week because this episode is crazy and steep and we need time for it. So it was platted in 1873 by a man named C.D. Wilbur. So. C.D. That's why it's called Wilbur W-I-L-B-E-R. It's named for him and the seat of Céline County. It was the seat and then it was transferred, it was transferred here from Pleasant Hill. So it became the county seat. Very exciting. It was declared the official Czech capital of the United States on July 10, 1987 in a decree signed by then-President Ronald Reagan. Is that right? It wasn't the mayor who just said we're the Czech capital. It's the president said it. Wilbur knows. The Czechoslovakian is in Nebraska, then fucking New York City? You never know. I guess per capita probably. It's probably, I mean here if you got, it's not that big. So if you got a thousand Czech people you're like, "Holy shit. That's a lot of the town here." They have the Czech Days Festival, which is their big deal here. We'll talk about that as you might imagine. Reviews here very quickly. Here's five stars. I've lived in this wonderful small community since 1989. Oh. Wow, they've seen some. That's shortly after the proclamation. That's why they came here. We heard. Once you hear about the Czechness of a place, you pack up and you go. That's how it works. The town has old world charm since it's the national Czech capital of the United States. Even they bring it up. It's definitely a palpable thing here. It is a great place to raise a family and learn how to speak Czech probably, I would imagine. They are hot. Who knows? I'm sure, yeah. That's fine. I'm sure. Yeah. Three stars. Wilbur is a small town, so it does not have many larger stores. Wilbur does have a large amount of hair salons and places to eat for such a small town. Weird thing to have a lot of hair salons. You got to keep those Czech people hot. Those Czech broads. They need their hair done very often. They're not taking no for an answer. It happens. You can't leave the house looking like shit. There is a subways, a Casey's, two meat markets and several bars. Oh, well, it's overwhelmed with commerce, apparently. What are the chances? Casey's is just called Casey. Subway's? Yeah. Subway and get case, Subway is what they want. Subway. Oh, and they say there's a subway. No, a subway. And then there's Casey's, a Casey's. And then two meat markets, several bars. Wilbur also had it has also had a great grocery store. I don't know if it's gone now or if the D is just next to the S. So that's the problem with that. I'm not sure. The prices are much higher than Walmart, but it is much more convenient. A person can get anything they need in Wilbur except clothing and electronics. So not everything they need, apparently. But Wilbur's only 40 minutes away from Lincoln. This makes Wilbur an ideal place to raise a family because you can get your electronics 40 minutes away. So ideal. 40 minutes. Store. Yep. People in this town population, 1,984. So very small, very small, very small, way more males than females, which is odd. It's 53 and a half percent male. I don't know if those checks are just, they're a little heavy on the Y chromosome. Apparently it's a little, a little denser and they're, they got IT around there. It's a IT area. That's the problem. The Indian age here is like right at the national average of 37 family. It's about the, about a lot of average, 52% married. It's normally 50, 50, nothing crazy. Race of this town, 89.6% white for a 0.4% black, 0.2% Asian, 7.9% Hispanic religion here, 52% so just over the national average and it's spread around pretty good. Methodists and Lutherans and a few Catholics here and there and some Presbyterians. No Jewish people. What happened in here? But the rest of them are all spread around. In this county here, the median household income is $71,389 a year, which is a couple thousand higher than the national average, which is not bad at all, especially considering the cost of living, 100 being at regular average here. It's about 78. So it's low. Fantastic. Median home cost here, $181,400. That's great. Not bad at all. And maybe you're going to, you know what, you're looking to slow it down a little bit. Let's go have a look, see. Have a look. See, have a nice dinner at Casey's and then you stroll the meat markets. We check fucking culture. We have for you the Wilbur, Nebraska real estate report. Okay, your average two bedroom rental here goes for about $940, which is well under the national average, about $1,200 there. Here is a two bedroom, one bath, 946 square foot thing. Starter home. Yeah, I think it's a, it's weird, man. It's not a nice house. It looks like a little shack. It's the starter, James. The roof. Well, your starter should be able to keep the elements out and the roof is not good. This is my main problem with it. That's what makes a house. You've got a different environment. If you had to pick a roof or walls, I think I'd pick a roof. You know what I mean? Keep out the sun and the rain. I feel like that's good. I can get under that. So the roof not doing well, one of the rooms is very heavily water damaged. It looks like, which is not great, but it's only $52,000. So they're affordable. Yeah, maybe you got a bunch of buddies that know how to do roofing and you bring them over and have a big party one weekend. I don't know. Or you don't care about something like furniture. You go, well, don't care about, let's just kind of warden off that room. We'll just put up, we'll put up the police tape and go in there. Yeah. Here's a four bedroom, two bath, 2956 square foot house. It is actually in the town proper of Wilbur here. It is, it looks like shit. It looks like a church basement, essentially. It looks to me like the worst VFW hall on earth inside. That's what it looks like. Oh, inside. Inside. That's the outside looks like a murder trailer. It's not a trailer, but it looks like a trailer. That's a 3,000 square feet of this, a 3,000 square foot VFW trailer is what it looks like. 225,000 bucks for that though, so I mean, it's ugly, but if you need its base, it's not a bad price. There it is. It's a three bedroom, seven bath, tea bowl for each and every bee hall and some neighbors and whoever else comes over. What is happening there? Well, it's an 8,120 square foot house, so that's each bedroom has a bathroom and then there's four other bathrooms spread up among this giant house. You'd need them. You need one by the kitchen. You'd need one over on the other side. Yeah. That's so much square footage for three bedrooms. It's insane. It's on a lake. There's an island that you can cross a bridge to. Very weird. It's like a party house. It thinks exactly what it looks like. It looks like a country club kind of. It's like a weird, it looks like it's almost part of a golf course. This is like off the 10th hole, there's a place to go have some burgers and hang out and get some drinks before you finish out the round. $3,200,000 for that though. Okay. Little pricey. I mean, it's got... How much land? It's got like 100 acres. A lot. Oh, okay. Yeah. You're going to pay for it. Yeah. But it's... I don't know why you... That's awesome. It's pretty cool. You're like, wow, if this wasn't in Nebraska, it'd be awesome. Yeah. This wasn't so far from everything. Yeah. It's kind of weird. It's just outside Lincoln that place. Okay. This here. Things to do. Let's find out. Yeah. The Czech Festival, as previously mentioned before here. Tell me about it. Previously alluded to Czech Festival. They will be celebrating... last year they celebrated 150 years of Czech heritage in 2023. Let's see what they had here. Oh, this is good. It's a dance group. The Chaluski brothers came out there. Oh. That's awesome. I've been looking for... We've been talking about seeing them, Jimmy. I know we have. We've been thinking about... We've tried to match it up with like where are our tour dates crossed with theirs. We can never hook up with the Chaluski's. So the flying Chaluski brothers, if you're out there, we gotta do something together. Five years of this and we haven't run across to you. Never. I'm trying so hard to line up our schedule. Fucking ridiculous. Czech Bingo takes place. What is that? I have no idea. What's the difference? I think they yell out the numbers in Czech maybe. Is the only difference? Some of the numbers have a line through them for no reason. I don't know. A costume exhibit. A Czech sing-along will take place. Memories of Christine Janda. I don't know who the fuck that is. We're gonna talk about her. Right after that's over, there's Chik-Tik. Bring the spirits back up again and accordion jamboree. So this is the weirdest fucking festival ever. This is fucking bizarre. This is awesome. Gary Moore Amusements will be there for a couple of hours. I don't know what the hell that is. Gary Moore Amusements. Also, the Dan Bruja band will be playing. And then, just for no reason, a gold star martial arts exhibition. When I think Czech, I think martial arts, the Barry Boyce band will also be there. More accordion exhibits, a sand volleyball tournament, which again screams Czech culture to me. Sand volleyball, where are they trucking sand into this place? We don't know this. But in the Czech Republic, Top Gun was the most popular movie that's ever come out. They've been idle ever since then. Top Gun. It's just on loop. Ever since then, all the people got into beach volleyball, they all wear jeans and no shirt. It's very weird. Beach volleyball. The furthest city from any beach in America. No beach. No beach. Malick's fisherman band will be there. Okay. I don't know why. There's a Stein holding contest. Okay. I've seen that before. Ken Sebel will be performing. The Barry Boyce band gets a second set there. Oh, they're going to get a fucking encore. Oh, yeah. And the Leo Lonnie trio got to have them a long, there's three of them, obviously. And then, of course, the quilt show will close it all out because you got to have a quilt show. What a festival. That is a festival. What a festival mark a bunch of people. You've never heard of. Pretty much in Tommy Wiseau's accent too. That's the accent they have pretty much. Oh, Mark. What a festival, Mark. Crime rate in this town. What we're interested in here, property crimes about half the national average. So no. Pretty low. And then violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, and, of course, assault is about a quarter of the national average. So should be zero. Very safe. This is a safe. Yeah. People walking around doing their thing in this town. Very safe. And check. Yeah, just being all check and, you know, singing songs and check and doing things. That said, let's talk about horrible murder here and just one of the weirdest twisted tales going. First of all, I must say that we know this story has been done by some other shows before. Normally, we, if we see it's been done by people, we kind of avoid it. But we've never had one that's been recommended to us more. Okay. And it's just a popular demand episode like it got to the point where it's like, okay, that's like the 50th person that's recommended this case. It's getting to be like, you know, three of these recommendations for every other of any case. So we said, okay, if you if you want it that bad, we'll give it to you. So the good news is I've never heard a podcast that does true crime. So I'm going in the dark. I mean, either. That's the other thing. I don't listen to a crime podcast generally because we make one. Okay. Let's talk about some people here. Let's talk about a young lady first. Yeah. Okay. Here is Sydney Luf is her name, L O O F E Luf Sydney. She's 24 years old in 2017. So we'll start out there. She was born in Broken Bow on August 24th, 21st, 1993. And she's Sydney Irene Luf and her parents are George and Susie who sound like parents, George and Susie. Yeah. I mean, sounds like good parents to me. It's crazy that those were children at one point. But yeah, George Susie, something like that. Well, when they got together, people were like, yeah, I mean, you should even if they got together when they were 12, people be like, well, you're getting married someday. We assume George and Susie and probably tomorrow because you're going to be 35 tomorrow. You have good parental names of to say that. They moved when she was seven. She's the middle child. There's three kids. She's the middle child. Her family moved to a knee lie. I guess it is. No lie. No league. I don't know how the hell to say that. Like I said, I'm sure I'll be told I don't care, I don't care anymore. Listen to last week and you'll understand. So an L or yeah, an E L I G H is how you spell it. So oh, that could be like 45 different pronunciations. Either way, it's not important because we're not going to mention it that often. She lives there and grows up there after she's seven. Her dad, George is a high school principal and her mom is a teacher. So oh, one of those families with the educator parents and yeah, these probably usually make smart kids scandalous scandalous. Yes. Look at them hooking up hooking up in the teachers lounge. Yeah, we're not to kiss here, but you guys do it. Ooh, look at you. So Sydney graduated from high school there where her dad was principal. She graduated from that high school in 2011 and she works at Menards. Oh, yeah. Menards is a midwest drug store? No, I think it's more sporting goods type. Oh, yeah, you're right. And they have like, like home improvement stuff there too and shit like that. Really? Yeah. I know that he's hardware with basketball. Kind of. Yeah, it's like at all encompassing from what I can gather from the commercials that I've seen. Okay. You can get more at Menards and all that shit. Yeah. It's a very popular Midwestern store. And I know that every product that's advertised on TV, get it at Menards. Yeah, they get it whenever you got. So I think they have everything there. Basically, yeah. Basically what it is. Yeah. It seems like a, that sort of store here. So she works there. I think her, her brother and sister also work at Menards. Oh. So in Lincoln, so she ends up transferring later on to the, the 27th Street and Cornhusker Highway Menards location near Lincoln. Okay. So that's where she goes from her hometown. This is after high school. And it's, it's a transfer with Menards. They transferred her to another store. Oh. Yeah. So she's, you know, young. She's a kid there. And she said, this is a quote from her brother Levi, who's her older brother. Her older brother said, if I started to like something, so did she except the Lakers. She gave me so much crap about Kobe as much as she could. So yeah, I think she might've read some stuff about Kobe and was like, fuck that. I'm not liking the Lakers. Jesus Christ. All right. So here's how her cousin describes her, her cousin grew up with her and spent a lot of summers with her and all that kind of shit. And they, they went to a vacation Bible school together, that's those don't go together. That's going to say, isn't that a vacation, what you're getting vacations from, things like Bible school? I would hope. Vacation is so you don't have to go to Bible school. I would hope so. So they said that one time her cousin said that she was riding a scooter being pulled by a jump rope, Sydney had the rope attached to her bike and was pedaling and was pulling along with scooter. And obviously there's a when the downhill part happens, physics take over and the kid falls down. So the cousin fell off the scooter, scraped herself all up on the street. She said that quote, I was in so much pain and she just scooped me up and took me up the hill to my aunt. They said she was very nice. Also she saved, she saved one of her cousins, or she saved her sister's life who was choking on candy. And she, she fucking grabbed her and hind licked her and shot the big thing out and saved her. So yeah, so her family likes her in terms of not just cause they're related to her. They actually think she's a person. That's what I mean. Like, they're not just like, I mean, yeah, she's a shithead, but she's our shithead. Like it's nothing like that. They actually like her as a person. Seems like a decent person who does nice things. She's kept in touch with her family all the time, kept in touch with her cousin, her mother and her. They talk all the time. Even when she moves to Lincoln, her cousin went and lived in the Pacific Northwest. And in 2017, she was talking to Sydney on the phone. Her cousin was and her cousin was trying to convince her to come and visit her and her husband in Washington, and they're saying she might like it here. Maybe she'll want to move here, you know, rather than just working at Menards and Lincoln. Probably not. But she might give it a run. Yeah. She likes to hike and she's a big outdoors person and like, yeah, the mountains up there. Get yourself a North Face sweater and come on home. Oh, they're talking about exploring Patagonia up there, Jimmy. There's some Patagonia. Shut up there. Yeah. Come on. They'll spit on your North Face in the Northwest like, no, no, this is all Patagonia. Yeah, Patagonia and fucking Pendleton, Patagonia fleece with a Patagonia puffer right on top of it. God damn it. That's how we do things up here. They said she would have, you know, they wanted her to come explore like the Mount Rainier area and all that kind of thing. So they were trying to plan a trip where they could persuade her to maybe check out the Pacific Northwest and maybe start looking for jobs up there. So George also coached Sydney's junior high basketball team as well. He's the principal and he's also the coach and he'll coach. He said she was naturally athletic. She had a great baseline jumper. Oh, so Sydney could hit some J's from the baseline and she was also a golfer, which is nice. But during her teenage years, she's diagnosed with scoliosis shit, which is rough. And at that point, she started to get pain. That's why she got checked out and even swinging a golf club would hurt her back and play sports. Oh, I can't imagine. You're already twisted. You can't twist. No, that really, that really sucks too. Yeah, that really sucks. So Sydney, as of 2017, she's working. She lives in the Havlok area and works at the Menards at 27th and Cornhusker Highway there. So she's got a cat here named Mimsie. She got it. That's adorable. Mimsie never thought of that as an option. Little Mimsie. That's a great name. It's a fits a kitten too. Yeah. Sure. The fun does. It sounds like a drunk lady. Mimsie. Come on, Mimsie. And cats are like drunk ladies. This serves your cocktail, Mimsie. Get out here and drink it before the ice melts. Genius name. Mimsie. It is a good name. She bought it from a guy on Craigslist for $20. $20. Oh, bargain. I didn't realize cats were that cheap. I bet it was a farm cat. Oh, great. Yeah. I thought cats are free mostly, too. You can get free cats a lot, but $20. Yeah, you can get a cat for a can of cat food. You just put it by your front door. Yeah. Yeah. $20 is about as much as people pay for like a, like an on-pet store cat, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Just like an accident. Just like, please help take these cats and $20 makes it, it gets you that honest person that's willing to put money for monetary value on this animal. They might not be taking it home to sacrifice it. Right. Right. They might not be collecting them for a burlap bag to throw off a bridge somewhere or just being a crazy cat person that collects cats or whatever the health. Yeah. So if there's monetary exchange, then maybe this person is going to be a normal person. We'll care for this thing. Yeah. Now, Sydney is into, she likes crystals also. Okay. Yeah. Her mom would come visit her and they go to a place where they browse for Christmas. She's got crystals. Yeah. And he said she liked amethyst the most because purple's her favorite color. And also those quartz crystals were believed to have healing powers for physical ailments and emotional issues. Yeah. She's also got some depression issues. Sydney, as we'll talk about here, she's got some, some depression issues. She's on some medication as, I mean, it's 2017, there's a plenty of people on some sort of mood regulating medication. Incredibly. I mean, it's, yeah, it's, it's a lot of people. So her mother said, although Sydney struggled with depression and anxiety, she was a beautiful person. So she kept, she kept her crystal collection in a box and she'd occasionally put them out and look at them. She'd dump them all on her bed and look at her crystals. So there are a lot of people that yank them out and rub them while they're laying in bed, reading a book or whatever. Yeah. And that centers them and it's a very common thing now. Whatever keeps you fucking insane is great. Yeah. 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Get into social work. You are doing a great job. Here's your bank book and here's the thing though, normally that never works out. That guy. Oh, that guy. That's the murder storming. Yeah. Sorry normally. So come home and her apartment's empty. One of the two, but this actually worked out. He ended up be getting better and finding a place of his own and changing his life completely. So they said that her brother said Sidney was the poster person for caring more about others than herself. She had a lot of friends at her job. She wanted to work with animals at a vet. That's that was her her goal. She wanted to get out of Menards and do that, which those are usually nice people that work in the vet stuff. I'd love to until one shows up that you can't save. I'll quit that day. Oh, it's horrible. I'm walking the fuck out. Those and the fact that they can stay on the job after that means that they're probably damn better people than us. We would run away, whereas these people are like, well, those animals need help too. The ones that are dying, you know. So I those are always a nice people are vet that we take our dogs to there. They swarm around them. Oh, it's Betty. You know, it's Oscar and they come and run and they love them. The vet should not get enough of on. It drives me nuts. I'm like, just fucking express the gland so I can go home. It's horrible. Benny is the superstar of the vet, man. They all call him their boyfriend is he's a big, he's a big hundred fifty pound kind of course. But he acts like an old Italian man. That's the best way to describe. He comes in all casual walks behind the counter, says hi to everybody. The one time he was getting the thing done, so they had him in a cage and they must have forgot to lock the cage. So he just walked out and he said he walked out into the main area there and one of the girls just went, Benny. And he put his head down, turned around, walked back in the cage. He walked back across, found the cage again and went in and oh, sorry, my bad, everybody was allowed out. He just comes in ladies. How we doing? Good. All right. That's for lunch today. Hey, how's the sauce today? Hey, you got the gravy as the gravy working today. What's going on, sweetheart? So he pinches somebody's essay. She told her sister, Sydney did, that she wanted to either go to Colorado or maybe somewhere down south. She wasn't sure yet thinking about different places. Her sister said she never followed through with it though because being close to her family is very important to her. So November 11th, 2017, she's on Tinder, by the way. And she likes girls, by the way, that's another thing I should probably mention because that's what she's looking for on Tinder is girls. So she starts, she finds a young lady named Audrey on Tinder and both of them swipe right and they're both talking. So they have their first conversation, November 11th, 2017. And it's introductions, talk of what kind of food do you like, what do you like to do. You're normal, yeah, the smallest of small talk. Oh boy. Minuscule. Which is how you have to get to know people. You don't want to-- So annoying. Yeah. But you don't want to get into something with someone and then find out that they're the opposite of you in every day thing. You never asked about their favorite meal, you big dummy. That's the thing. You like to fuck the same way, but nothing else works. So that's going to be a bad relationship, you know what I mean? You got to have a balance there. So apparently the Audrey person said that she just made cornbread and black eyed peas in this conversation. Oh. So she's cooking. And Sydney said that she was eating currently at Applebee's at the moment. So she is eating good in the neighborhood and the other one is eating cornbread and black eyed peas. One's eating good in the neighborhood, the other one's eating at Applebee's. At Applebee's. The other one is eating appetizers for dinner. You're pretending like that's good. F right. F price. Well, I got these Apple Apple Apple Tizers. I almost called them. That's what they have blown it since they don't call them. No, they really should call them Apple Tizers, but Applebee's is a place where I don't know if I've ever ordered an entree there, just got the nachos, you're like give me like seven of your shit, you know, you're like, I mean, pretzel sticks and there's some of these things and a weird and rolls that have corn in them for. I won't eat those nuts. I'm out on those potato skins. Yeah, sure. I can throw out my way. What do you got? Riblets this week? Yeah, I'll take them. Great. Second wings. Let's go. That's all everybody eats there. I think the rest of the menu. They don't even have that stuff. It's just the menu is just decoration. It's for decoration. What do you think? They have steaks there? Fuck out of here. There's no steaks in the back. There's an appetizers list and then Laffy Taffy jokes. Nobody knows that because they don't get past the appetizers. No, you order the 12 ounce sirloin and it's just a bazooka joe joke on there who comes with a giant wrapper with a joke on it. They're like that's a banana Laffy Taffy on a plate and they bring you some spinach dip and Riblets and that's your real dinner. You knew that to begin with when he came in here. Didn't you? There you go. You are shamed to the egg rolls have a weird egg roll cut diagonally there enjoy with shit in it that doesn't go in an egg roll. Yeah, have that. So they're going. Applebee's taking some fucking shots this week taking some taking some fire here. So Audrey asks Sydney if Sydney likes casinos. So that should have been the end of the conversation. Yeah. I got to go. Sydney tells her she's only been to a casino once on her 21st birthday is like a, you know, go out and party thing, but they discuss maybe going to a casino in a future date. Maybe I'll take you to a casino. So November 13th, two days later, they start, they start to set up their first date here. And Audrey, the young lady that Sydney has found on Tinder suggests, quote, maybe meet somewhere in Lincoln, cruise and smoke, smoke weed. They both smoke weed. Audrey's apparently a weed smoker and Sydney is definitely a weed smoker. And get to know each other a little bit. And I'll take you on a date to Riva, which is a steak and seafood restaurant. Oh, that's a nice joint at the casino, which is always the best steak food. Yeah. All right. Nebraska reservation casino. Usually. I'm locked. Yeah. Get your serve and turf there. Obviously. Hopefully they have raw oysters, fingers crossed because I know they're going to be fresh. I know they're going to be fresh. So good. It's like whenever we're in Seattle, we always go to the one place and we get, they have a huge oyster selection. We're like, this is our, we're treating ourselves and we eat a bunch of oysters. Same thing. Very similar. That's like on the ocean, you know, they just pull them out. Same thing. So similar. The brass and oysters, the brass can oysters. So I'll take you on a date to the casino fucking steakhouse and pay for as much gambling as you want to do. As much. So this Audrey checks like, I'll smoke you out. Yeah. I'll smoke you out. I'll buy you a big steak and, you know, rotten seafood dinner. And then you can lose my money. I'll stake you. Count to 21 while the dealer beats us there all night. I'll stake you. What's up? Let's do it. Yeah. Sydney replied, ha, ha, okay. And then a smiley face with a colon and a parentheses. Thank you. I'm death down to cruise and smoke first. I haven't smoked in six days. So she's looking, she's looking to smoke here. She later explains Sydney that she was trying to quit, but didn't want to pass up the opportunity to smoke with a gorgeous girl as she apparently likes the way Audrey looks and offers to pay her. Like I'll chip in on the weed. Like I'll, I'll throw it on the weed. Yeah. Exactly. But Audrey said, quote, I have plenty of money, dear and plenty of weed. Well, I can give you some bomb ass shit. Audrey's a baller. Audrey is. I got bomb ass shit, steaks, fucking rank seafood and I'll throw down some chips for you. What up? We'll get food poisoning together. Let's get after it. She's like Frank Sinatra in 1963. This fraud. She's fucking. Come on, sweetheart. We'll go to the casino. Go ahead and throw down. Now you can use my dough tits like I think she's probably talks like that. We'll walk into the kitchen. We're going to walk in through the kitchen. They all know me here, sweetheart. I lose tons of money. So Audrey tells Sydney she needs her address and Sydney said, okay, tomorrow. And later on, Audrey messages her back and says, well, I need your address so I can see how long it'll take to get there so I can plan. So Sydney within a minute sends her address then like, oh yeah, that does make sense that she wouldn't need to plan that. So the Audrey apparently did a Google search of the address and made a reservation at the best Western in Lincoln as well. She's not from Lincoln. So they were scheduled a time to meet on the evening of November 14th for their first date. Yep. And Sydney asked just going to be me and you, right? Which I would hope so on a fucking date. That'd be weird otherwise. You know, I brought like, you know, two cousins, my grandma's here, this is a dog or anything. Chick I used to hang out with in the sixth grade, we're all here. And Audrey responded, okay, yes, of course. I don't know why the okay, but November 14th comes around and Audrey picks up Sydney. They drive around Lincoln and they smoke some weed just before 6 p.m. They, you know, do their thing. A couple hours later, Audrey drops Sydney back off at home and they make plans for it to go out the following night as well. Day two. Yeah. So went well the first night. They got to know each other. They smoked. They probably had some giggles in the car. Sure, sure. And now they're ready for, you know, another enough for a real date here. They know that they like each other. So November 15th, the next day, there's messages back and forth in the morning. Sydney went to work or shift at Menards just before noon at 12 23 p.m. Audrey asks her via Tinder. How's your day going? And you know, all that sort of thing. And the Sydney replied back around 2 p.m. Going fine. She messages with her friends here or there's a friend named Tara Garreg who they message back and forth with. They talk about the date she had the previous night and in the conversation, Sydney told her friend that she had a good time with Audrey and she hopes Audrey single because on Tinder, you don't know what you're getting. So you don't know if this person's great point. She could be married with three kids at home and just doing this on the side. You have no fucking idea. So these TV shows that are out now about single people. Oh, my God. 40% of them are in relationships. Oh, my God. They're all in relationships. It's so crazy. It's a fucking landmine field out there. They're doing that on TV. Yeah, sake, for everybody to watch the bad people doing all kinds of shit behind people's back. Lord, that's a nightmare. I swear to God, I hope I'm never single again, but if Sarah decides she doesn't want anything to do with me anymore, I'm just going to go stand on a corner with a sign just I'm. Here I am. I'll have my stats and just anybody, please. I'm not. I can't do it. I can't do it online. I just can't do it. Just please. Anybody wants to talk to me. I don't care anymore. If you want to chat, I'm right here. I'm here. Don't mess. No, right now, just stop the car. Talk to me. I don't need money from you. I'm doing fine. Just please. This is chat about whether or not we like each other. The only guy with a job was on the corner going, please. So her the text from Sydney to her friend said she's she said she's down for anything. So I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend. I didn't ask. So yeah, she's hoping this isn't just like a on the side, whatever thing. You shouldn't have to ask, but I get it. She talked with her mom. She posted a selfie on Snapchat in a dressy shirt. She's normally kind of a jeans and t-shirt kind of check, but she's in a dressy shirt that she wears like for, you know, Christmas or something. And she said, ready for my date. So her mom, and this is a little bit nosy, I think, her mom's 24 years old. She's not 16. Her mom took a screenshot of the photo and sent it to her and said, why didn't you tell me about your date? I mean, that could be confrontation or it could be a hey, I'm excited for you. The screenshot makes it like what the fuck like. Yeah. What is this shit? She just said, oh, you got a date. I saw awesome where's your date? That would be. But like you could just hear it. You could just say it. Yeah. I know. I know that I got a date. That feels very parental for 24 is all I'm getting at. Not in a bad way. I just be concerned about her career or whatever, but saw you've got a date you want to talk about anything. That was me. I'd be like, green grab. Yeah. If it was me, I'd be like, what are you screen grabbing my shit? None of your fucking business. I had a date. That's why I didn't tell you. Yeah. I know we're friends on Facebook, Ma. Yeah. Price sake and on Snapchat, she's following. So snapchat snapchat. She took. Oh my God. Her daughter's phone got the message, but then she didn't reply to it. And then she tried, mom tried to call Sydney later, but it went straight to voicemail. So here's the date, Audrey picks Sydney up shortly before 7 p.m. And she typed here on Tinder and that meant I'm here to pick you up. And that's the last Tinder conversation they're going to have here. So they're going out and she's picked up for the dates and he gets picked up. Phone records indicate that they traveled to an apartment in Wilbur at that point. And then at 8.08 p.m., there's no more records for Cindy's phone. Yes. There was a between, I guess, between 8.08 that night and when her phone connected with a cell phone tower near Wilbur and 8.40 when her mom sent a text message that was never received. So at 8.08 she pings a tower near Wilbur and then her phone is now off and not receiving a text message at 8.40. So sometime in there, something happens. So the next morning, November 16, 2017, Sydney doesn't show up to work at Menards and she doesn't call in at all. And this is highly unlike her. I mean, she's a good employee. She got transferred to another Menards store. She's her brother and sister work there. This is a Menards family. They're not fucking around. You know what I mean? So they're loyal to the cause here. So they said it was very out of character for her not to arrive at a shift there. Their family then couldn't get ahold of her either. They're calling her. They're calling her. Nobody can get through. It's going right to voicemail. So 5.08 p.m., her family reports are missing to Lincoln police saying she hasn't been heard from since 7 p.m. the night before and she didn't show up for work and it's not like her. So it's... They take that seriously. They took it. Yeah, they're taking it pretty seriously at the moment based on the fact that her mom said she had a date and now she's not coming home. It's a little more than just, I don't know, she just didn't call me. Right. You know, it's a little... And she's 24, which obviously as an adult, she can go wherever the fuck she wants and not call anybody that she doesn't want to fucking call. That's absolutely right. This is a girl that does that and that's what she was talking to her. Yeah, that's what's weird. And she had just been... Her daughter had just visited her parents on the weekend of November 10th, which is just the previous weekend. Sydney had told her mom that she didn't think her medication for her depression and anxiety was working. That previous weekend. Yeah. Yeah. It's a recipe. You got to sometimes it needs a little more salt. A little extra garlic. Yeah. You know, it's the way it is. Besides, it doesn't give a fuck about paprika anymore. Exactly. That's pretty. Yeah. It has to be adjusted. It happens all the time to people. It's a big deal. It's not just like, "Well, that works. Take that for the rest of my life." Yeah. And this dosage and everything will be perfect. That's... That really how it goes. Yeah. Because your brain chemistry changes too over time, which is messed up. So they made a doctor's appointment for Monday of that week and mom rode to Lincoln with her daughter then, and her dad followed in the truck, and they helped clean up her apartment on Colfax Street. By the way, she hates to clean. She would hire... She would pay her sister to do her dishes for her, like she was just hated to clean. Not a big cleaner, Sydney. Not into it. More into cat petting and weed smoking and chilling than fucking not a cleaner. Man, do I fucking relate. Yeah. She'd be like, "Fuck." I'll give you 20 bucks if you wash my dishes. Like shit like that. Well, at least she's not just leaving the dishes. She will pay somebody to clean them, but she just doesn't feel like doing it herself. I got a washing machine, and I will still pile them up in my fucking... I put in a giant single bin sink just so that I can fit all my dishes. Just everything in there. Farm sink just for that. I'm literally... Yeah! I've got out of my way to make doing dishes even fucking easier than to skip. I just picture you standing there like fists on your hip like Superman going, "Ah, now I can be an even bigger slob." Yes, yes. Yes, yes. I'm a slob. I can delete the last word. That's fucking great. For some reason, washing dishes is like a... I love it. It's a mind clearing. Weird. Weird. I need... Every once in a while, I need to do monotonous weird tasks like that that are like in my mind clears. It's a strange thing. I like that. I just... I like watering plants. I'm weird. I'm just dirty into the dishwasher and trusting that to clean them. So I wash them before I put a minute. You're supposed to. And then it washes them again. So it's like... And then... And then I'll put that shit away. Well, I would always then rinse them out of the dishwasher because I didn't trust that it wiped all the soap off. So I'd wash it. They didn't wash three fucking times, so I don't use the dishwasher for that reason. I can't relate harder, man. These... Oh, do not do the dishwasher. I don't trust a fucking thing that thing. I just closed the door and it does shit that I don't know. I don't know. No noises. Yeah. It's thumping and... It's making grinding noises like it's... Well, that's... Hopefully it's scraping some of us up there. I don't know what's going on. It's grinding. Yeah, there's no fucking arm mechanism out there. It's what's happening. It's just a fucking whirly bird that sprays water. I don't know where the grinding's coming from. How does that... What is that? What's going on in there? Our little arms popping out. Are there gremlins that... Little cleaning gremlins that come and scrub shit that I don't know about? They're fucking better because otherwise I don't want to eat off this shit. Yeah, otherwise I don't know how that's possible. Anyway, so they go to the... They bought her groceries. Her parents clean up her apartment. Now you hook your kid up and here you go. I'll tell you. I'll reset again. They go to the doctor. They pick up Sydney's new meds and then her parents head home and then this all happens. So her mom said she and I texted pretty regularly and she said that she had her... Sydney said she was feeling better Tuesday of that week saying that she felt a lot better and that it must be working, the new meds. So good deal. So they got to find her obviously. She's not responding. Nobody can find her. So her mom and her dad and her younger sister meet police on Friday morning at her apartment where her SUV is in the driveway and her cat's inside with no food or water. So cat inside of that food or water is not gonna happen. She wouldn't leave the cat without me because it's been like two days. So they said when the police sergeant said when he got into the apartment her purse was on the counter also but they didn't find a wallet or keys or a phone which if you were going out like that night you might just take your wallet and keys and phone and leave your purse behind. You might just take an ID and a credit card and that's it. That's what I mean exactly especially if someone's gonna pay for your gambling. So from that they assumed, the cop assumed that either Sydney had never made it home or she left willingly. Right. That was what they thought. So they start trying to piece this together. One of her friends, she had sent one of her friends a picture of this Audrey person. She went out. Oh, yeah. This is from Tinder. So that gets moved to her sister, that friend sends that picture to her sister and they're like, okay, so they're trying to do this. Another friend of hers set up a Tinder profile to try to get a hold of this Audrey person. Oh, she's on. She's on Tinder names Audrey. This is what she looks like. So if I can find her, I can message her and I can fucking get her to tell me what's up basically. You got to be able to search people on Tinder, right? I guess. I mean, it's it's an idea anyway. Certainly. Yeah, something put in the parameters of what she is and hope she pops up because I mean would have her profile info. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I picture it. I picture it like in a movie like when they're in like, you know, like a CIA computer room and they pull up a like an international terrorist and they have like his picture and his statistics under it and the height weight and what he's been arrested for and all this whole like little sleeve. I picture that's what Tinder profile would be. I don't know. It should be. It should be. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's great, you know, suspect card basically. That's what that's what it should be. So they're searching around. They're searching around. They can't find her November 19 comes around. They're searching. They now it's Lincoln police and county sheriff's deputies are searching Wilbur where she was last seen. Right. They're looking at Wilbur. They're looking in Lincoln. The family is searching too. They take to social media and they have a find Sydney Luft page that they put up as well. And they're trying to, you know, have people help look for the search. They put her picture on billboards on I-80 and interstate in Omaha and in central and downtown Lincoln and, you know, to say, how fast did they do this? Very fast within a few days within a few days. This family is on it. Yeah. Everybody's focused from the second this starts here. So within like a week, this is all going on front page articles and it's the lead story on all the local news. Wow. Where is she? The boys of the Valentine high school basketball team, which her brother Levi coaches put green ribbons on their shoes and their opponents wore green warm up gear too to show. That's great. Because green was the color here, even though her favorite color was purple. I don't know. That's weird. Yeah. So the Levi said, I'm a teacher and a coach and it almost felt like all the moms of the boys that I coached started to treat me as one of their own, they felt bad. November 21 comes around now is almost a week that she's gone. The Lincoln police chief, Jeff Blymeister calls her disappearance, quote, concerning Mr. Blymeister. I think you're underselling the concern here a little bit concerning. You've got billboards up and no response. Yeah. This is panic, man. What would be what would be more beyond concerning? What would it take for you to be more than concerned? Like the alien ships need to be within like eyesight, or can we just pick them up on radar before you're going to be concerned? Yeah. Would your marriage be concerning if you caught her blowing somebody? Yeah. That's where we're at, man. That you caught her making a date or blowing somebody, which would be concerning for you. And when you caught her, she didn't stop because that's where we're at. Yeah. She was like, hold on. I'm going to finish up quick. He's almost. That would be weird. That would be very disrespectful at that point. That's where we're at. That's where we're at. That's where we're at. That's the level of concern you should be. You should be. It should be in the red at this point. It should definitely be mumbling dick mouth concern. That's that level of concern. Mumbling dick mouth is a, that's a level of concern that we need to reach here. So November 28th, 2017, now a week later, even after it's concerning, they named two people the police do publicly name two people as persons of interest in the case they like to talk to two people. And they are a Bally Bally M Boswell, Bally Boswell, double B. That's a young lady. She's 23 and a man named Aubrey C. trail who is 51. What? Those are the people of interest they'd like to talk to. That's an odd coupling. Well, yeah, let's talk about them and how they ended up as even in the same sentences each other. What about Audrey? They would be. Well, that's that's what we're going to find out here. Now, Bally Boswell grew up in Iowa in a town called Leon. I'm sure that's not how you pronounce it, even though that's how it's spelled and said in the entire world in a community of about 2,000 people. So small town up there, just north of the Missouri state line. Everybody said she's a friendly kid from a good family. She was a really good athlete, once scored 25 points in a high school basketball game, and is listed as a member of the fastest 200 meter relay team in central Decatur Community School history. Oh, some sort of, some sort of record setting team. She was known as a girl who liked to dress up very girly, wear false eyelashes and all that kind of shit. She had one criminal concern in high school and that was failure to use a seatbelt was a ticket. She got the worst. So a good kid, one of her friends here in neighbor said everyone thought she was going to go to college and play basketball. But after graduating from high school in 2012, shit went a little sideways for her. Yeah, she started to get involved with drugs. Her friend here, who works at the local Casey's convenience store, by the way, so now we know what Casey's is, said that quote, she got into a bad crowd. She kind of went on a bad path. So after high school, she moved to northern Missouri, which is ill advised always for anybody. I mean, that's, that's just southern Illinois. It's southern Illinois or, you know, Iowa, Eastern Iowa. Yeah, eastern Iowa. She ended up having a child when she moves there with a former high school football player that she knew. Yeah. In February 2016, she filed a protection order against this former high school football player and father of her child, who was living with her in Trenton, Missouri, alleging emotional and physical abuse. Now as of 2017, the toddler was living with her parents in Iowa. So neither of them are good for this kid. Neither of them has been deemed to be worthy of raising this child. Perfect. Welding instructor Alex Declare knows VR training platforms like Forge FX help students master their skills. There's a big learning curve with welding, virtuality, simulates that exact muscle memory that they need. Learn more at meta.com/metiverseimpact. 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So far you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that. The queen of the courtroom is back. I didn't do anything. You wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face. I see it's not intimidated by anything. I can fix that. New cases. She wanted to fight me. Leap or? Alon. Okay. So... Matt, this is not a soul. This is a period. Classic Judy. Did you sleep with her? Yes, Your Honor. You married his cousin. His brother. That's not him. Yes, ma'am. I would make a beeline for the door. The Emmy Award winning series returns. How did I know that? I have a crystal ball in my head. It's an all-new season. It's streaming. You can say anything. Judy Justice. Only on freebie. In April 2016, Boswell was arrested for possession of marijuana and use of drug paraphernalia in Lincoln and then a failed to appear for court hearing after that. Oh? Yeah. One also is a young woman fascinated by serial killers and torture who sometimes likes to act like a cat and wear a collar and nothing else, just a cat collar, while eating out of a pet dish on the floor. Okay. It's just got a little weirder for old belly Boswell here. She took a hard left turn. Yeah. We've come across a couple of these leash people. We've come across a couple of them. And I'm not going to say anything to or for all on that. That's whatever, but she's just nude eating, nude wearing a collar, eating out of a dish on the floor. It's a little weird. I'm sorry. You're not pretending to be a cat. You're just naked eating out of a bowl on the floor. It's aberrant behavior, let's just say. You can say, oh, it's fine or something. Great. I'm sure. If someone's like fucking you from behind, that makes you come great. But if you just do that for no reason because you feel like doing it, I'm going to call you a tad bit fucking weird. Sorry. You can't do that with my kids over. Hold on. Hold on. Judging it. Weird. There you go. Not small town murder approved behavior. Stop eating the turkey like that on my grandma's here. It's Thanksgiving. Stop it. It is Christmas Eve. That is not one of the seven fishes, okay? I'm just going to say that. Let's move on. Put your clothes on. This is not one of the seven. No, it's not. That's wild. That's what's going on here, basically. Yeah. It's the beating out of the pet dish on the floor that makes it weird. You just want to wear a collar and get naked. Hey, fuck it. Whatever you do. Whatever you want. But when you're like, no, no, put mine down on the floor so I can eat it on all fours. I'm going to call you a little strange. Each step was like just going further and further. You know what I mean? Yeah. She's only 23. Arrested for weed. Okay. Don't show up for the hearing. Come on. Just fucking figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Get it out of here. Get the penalty out of your fucking mouth. Hey, you're $100 and move on. Right. And then just everything just further and further down until there, from Lincoln's. Don't show up to cat dish. Lincoln's a college town. I can't imagine the penalties for first time weed position or that fucking harsh. You know what I mean? I don't know. Couldn't be. If you, if you like weed, get out of the center of the country. Get out of there. Also go to fucking Illinois. It's legal right there. There's Missouri. It's legal. Also. You just got to get to the edges. You can't be right in the middle. Or Missouri or Illinois or there's a bunch of Michigan. There's a fucking bunch of them that are illegal. That's the edge. It's beyond geography now, obviously, besides the south. We're talking about logic here. So that's a different story, but it's basically the edges. It's the edges. So the man who's a person of interest is Aubrey C. Trail, trail T-R-A-I-L trail. He's 51. He's from Tennessee originally here. He's been together with Boswell for about 14, 15 months, 51 and 23. Oh, it's a weird one too. They've been living in a basement apartment, of course, in Wilbur. Oh my God. Yes. Boswell from the basement, who likes to eat from pet balls as we are. People who saw them together in Wilbur just assumed they were father and daughter at first. Yes, you should. A town of 1700 people, they just assumed, oh, some father and daughter just moved in until they saw them holding hands. And then everyone was like, what the, is he making out with his daughter? Jesus fucking Christ. That's in public. People just assume that. People thought they were engaged in Pennsylvania. He has a lengthy criminal record here. Tells me. A weird, right? Strange. For this show now, we're going to be an angel. He's 51 year old dating a 23 year old? In a basement? Right. In Wilbur. Questionable past. Who wears collars and eats off the floor. Yeah, that's normal. I'm sure she does. Yeah. Sure, it's all very normal. A prison for the first time for armed robbery at 17, 30 something years ago. Yep, he's done stints in Nebraska prison for forgery and passing bad checks. And he's also had crimes in Minnesota, he was in jail for, he's been in and out of jail his whole life, basically, he's a scumbag prison long before she was even born way before she was born. Yeah, he was out of prison by the time she was born and he's already with a, with a fucking stretch under him, which is wild. So the Pierce County sheriff here said he remembered trail, he remembered Aubrey, Aubrey trail quote and not in a good way. Is that right? That's what he said. Didn't like him. Now, people from antique shops and malls in Omaha, Lincoln, Falls, City, Nebraska, and also Hiawatha, Kansas said that Aubrey trail frequents their shops all the time. Pierce said they were aware of his record of using bad checks and his favorite things are antique toys and advertising signs. And others, others said he used to show up with two young women in tow. Just a couple of young, two, two young women. In recent months, it looks like he's been working with Bailey Boswell doing antique stuff. So they buy antiques and sell antiques is what they're doing here. So they, apparently they're wanted for crimes involving passing bad checks. What they did in April of 2017, same month she was arrested for weed. Maybe this is why she didn't show up in court. She was busy. She went to Pennsylvania. The two of them went to Pennsylvania, Boswell and trail and acted like they were big rich people. They acted like high rollers here. Yeah. Yeah. One person said they quote, put on a pretty good show at an antique coin auction in York County, Pennsylvania here. She showed up in high heels, stylish slacks and a nice blouse and all this type of shit. She's got tons of tats all over on her. They're all covered up and, you know, she's trying to look very professional Audrey who initially portrayed himself as her father came in with a sweater vest, a chauffeur's hat and a walking cane. She just tried to dress like Mr. Peanut and he was like, they'll think I'm rich. He twirled it and he was like, that'll fucking do it. I twirled it. There's no way. People aren't rich. Don't twirl. I just see Peter Griffin trying to be a rich guy. That's exactly what he is. He's like 300 pounds too. He's a big fat 50 something year old guy going, I'm rich. Look at my walking stick and my hot daughter. Just weird. Yeah. Are you adorable? Is she a cute chick? No, she's cute. Yeah, yeah. She's cute. And he's not. How the fuck does he do this? You'll find out. There's way more than meets the eye here. This is we haven't scratched the surface here. This person who at the auction said they presented themselves as high rollers and they produced a letter from a bank in Leon, Iowa indicating they had money to bid and that they were quote players. So later on here, he ends up writing checks for $28,298 for antique gold and silver coins. And of course, they were good checks. They were frauds. He just took 30 grand off of these people. Yeah. And the auction person said they were very professional. I bet they sold the coins and had a heck of a party there also suspected and theft and bad checkcases from several states totaling between $300,000 and $500,000. This is a professional operation. What is going on? This is not, you know, every once in a while, they do this and pay the rent. This is what they do. They stack in money this way. Yeah. This is like a that's what they're like the antique wing of the mafia basically. Yeah. This is how, you know, would you get out of them fucking lamps this week? Is you envelope? Is it got? So. And Boswell, there's charges waiting for Boswell. She's wanted for three felony theft and bad check charges in Pennsylvania. She had posted $7,500 in bail and took off there. So the file in Pennsylvania indicate that the farmers bank and Leon also reported Boswell passed a fraudulent check of $15,391 in Kansas. So they say they've crisscrossed the country and they visit casinos and Vegas and council bluffs. They buy antique coins in Gettysburg and they go see shows in Branson. Wow. They said we love Branson. That's they're partying like it's in 1986. They say they're partying like they're 86 is what it is. They're partying like they got to get home for golden girls later. So in Wilbur here, uh, their rented basement apartment here was, uh, it's right by the town's high school. They've lived there for about six months and everyone in town's been talking about them. First they were mother and father and daughter. Now they're holding hands. One neighbor said he noticed the two that they were arguing a couple of times and they hurried to leave one time. He also said that they didn't return his friendly waves. They don't wave back those weirdos. He said, I just thought that's not very Wilbur like in this town we wave. Not very Wilbur like is a great fucking quote. We are checking friendly about it. No shit. The local convenience store people said that Bailey would come in alone, uh, Boswell most of the time to buy cigarettes and pay for gas. She dressed nicely and had manicured nails. They all said. There is a hotel manager here, uh, the Grand Island Hotel manager, a Kearney hotel, which she and, uh, here they have detailed surveillance footage of Aubrey and Boswell and a friend of theirs checking in and out of hotels three days after, uh, after, uh, Sydney went missing. Okay. So we know they've been around there. They said they trio checked in about one 19 p.m. on November 22nd, 2017. If that was me, they would have made me wait till fucking five o'clock. How dare they thought check in time, not check in time yet, chief. But they, they said they left the hotel literally 20 minutes later with all of their luggage. Huh? And they said it was the day before Thanksgiving. We honestly thought it was a dad and two daughters. We thought maybe they had a fan, they had family in town and just didn't trust leaving their luggage, but then they never came back. Okay. So yeah, they said that they were moving around going to Iowa motels and going to Missouri in the next couple of weeks. So while they're searching for Sydney, this is what's going on while they're being announced as, you know, people of interest here. So they also stay get cell phone data that tracks Aubrey trail and Bailey Boswell on the day that Sydney disappeared showing that they, it looks like from the way the footage of the way the everything comes out, the GPS stuff that they basically followed Sydney to work that day where they were trail went in, not, not Bailey. She stayed in the car trail went in and bought. This is quite the fucking package, a hacksaw, a utility knife, boxes of trash bags, duct tape and four roasting pans. What the fuck man? I don't like where that's going. That is a horrible kit to buy there. So November 29th, 2017 comes around and they post a social media, they post two social media videos, Boswell and trail here, Boswell posts one claiming that cause it's been announced publicly that they're persons of interest. Yeah. So they're like wanted and they're floating around. So she claims that she and Sydney drove around Lincoln, smoked some weed, actually wax and shatter concentrates. She wrote this, she put this video online and said she posted the net one to the finding Sydney Lou fucking Facebook page. The next one. I'm going to talk about it. This is smooth things over. Oh, wow. Does it not? Oh boy. She said we smoke some wax and shatter at her apartment and then she went back and dropped Sydney off at a friend's house and she said she hadn't heard from Sydney since that was the video. Somebody tell the cops for me. I got to go. It's all good. I'm just posting it here. Pass this along. Idiot. Then they post a new video denying any involvement in her disappearance. This is the one where Bailey says, I'm Audrey. I'm Audrey. I'm the one who said I was Audrey. I hung out with her, she smoked sort of just with her name while also at her intentions and everything else. It's weird. It's the opposite catfish. Like her appearance is the only thing that's sort of real. Everything else is fake. Everything else is bullshit, which is the opposite of usually catfish. Which is basically what Tinder is now. That's essentially that's Tinder, the opposite of catfish. So authorities are searching creek beds and ponds in the Wilbur and Clotonia areas. Oh my God. Clotonia. Not Clotonia. Clotonia sounds like a planet of just porn women. Welcome to Clotonia. That's a porn movie from 1983. Welcome to Clotonia. It's all naked women. You know, Greg Girodo joke, it's just women that give blow jobs for nickels and you've got a pocket full of nickels. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. You're the only guy and they just give you nickels. Tons of nickels and it rains nickels as Clotonia. That's Clotonia. This is different. So all these investigators spent hours combing roadside ditches and corn fields in southeastern clay county searching for any sign of Sydney here patrol state police patrol helicopters all are all over the place looking ponds, creeks, you name it. They're just they're they're doing this. And while they're doing this, this Facebook video that she posts that Belly Boswell posts, she denies she's denying any involvement. It was removed after two hours, but it was then saved and posted obviously people saved it. This trail Aubrey says, quote, they're chasing us around like dogs. Ew. It's a nine minute clip where yes, not it's not just a quick thing. Belly Boswell is wearing dark clothing. She's wearing sunglasses. She's in a vehicle and they don't know where it is or where it's taken. She identifies herself as Boswell said she went on dates, dropped her off at a friend's house, hasn't heard from her since the trail says he and Boswell issued a statement to police and tried reaching out to investigators in the days following the disappearance, but their calls went unreturned, you know, people of interest, you'd never call them back. I've been leaving messages for y'all. I left my phone numbers. I left it like a my room number at the best Western gave me my Yahoo email. They had they claimed they haven't turned themselves in because they're wanted on warrants for other crimes. So they're like, we haven't come in to talk to them and clear the whole thing up because then we're just going to get arrested for the other shit we're wanted for. So what do you what you fucking plan, man? Well then at another part of the video, Aubrey trail says, 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. This has pretty much cost me my life. I pray for Sydney. I hope she's found soon. I wish the family the best. I'm sorry she wasn't with you on Thanksgiving. But then he says he dismissed a bunch of theories saying that, you know, we're the killers and he said, quote, not saying I'm a nice guy, I'm a it's how he starts. Not saying I'm a nice guy. Yeah. He said, I'm a crook. I'm a thief. Have been all my life. Okay. But I'm not what you're trying to make me out to be. I'm a thief, but I'll be God damned. I've never killed anyone in my whole life. That's their video. So see you around. So that should clear it on up now and post that to the fucking Facebook page that her family put up. Wow. So if I'm her dad, I'm like, well, I'm hunting this man now. So that's the guy I'm going to get something that he's touched and I'm getting a blood hound. I'm not stopping till I catch him. I will kill him. So the Lincoln's public safety director said, quote, blows my mind. Wow. Are you in panic mode yet, man? They said closest to now, yeah, we're concerned. Are you concerned? Any concerns growing? They said closest analogy I can make would be the access reporters sometimes got to interview criminals suspects in the pre 1963 era. So pre Miranda reporters would get to talk to subjects before their court cases and they'd really talk a lot. Another guy here said, this is a guy who teaches forensic science courses at the University of Nebraska said to me, they were kind of acting like Bonnie and Clyde or James Dean. A rebel without a cause type of thing said he's never seen such brazen posts in any case ever. This is wild. New frontier of assholery here. Yeah. So gross. They said they wouldn't say if police are able to trace the video and wouldn't confirm a rumor that they found Sydney cell phone buried in a yard. Okay. So they're looking everywhere they're they're like digging up with with big backhose and I mean they're they've started to dig now because they don't know where else to look anymore. They feel like they've kind of searched all the surface areas. So police say they've received an overwhelming amount of tips from social media and phone calls and everything else. But they still don't have the two idiots they're looking for and they still haven't found Sydney's body as well or anything about her. They say that she has a yin yang tattoo on one of her forearms. The word believe with the cross on the inside of her wrist and the phrase everything will be wonderful someday on her right bicep. Those are cats. That's a cool thought. She's five seven one thirty five last scene wearing a white Columbia jacket. Yes. She wouldn't work at all in Washington. Columbia's not so bad. At the airport. I feel like at the airport you could trade that in for a Patagon. You'd be like I'm moving here and they'd be like oh okay hold on. Columbia's headquarters is there though. Yeah yeah yeah but still they're getting crushed. They're just getting crushed up there. They get their ass kicked by the Fatagony. God damn it. This Patagony is the whitest fucking clothes ever made. It just sells like wildfire up there. It's got pink and blue on every piece and they buy it. Rappers used to wear Columbia in the 90s. That's right. Not for you. So she's wearing that in a cream colored shirt last time she was seen. And so they put out a warrant for Aubrey Trail. The outstanding warrant. He is accused of being a felon in possession of a firearm and a habitual criminal. So just an everyday just a huge asshole. We need to get in here. He's an actual scumbag. He's a huge scumbag. So he's lived in different Missouri towns recently. They said they're trying to find him. He's known to the antique dealers. So they're talking to the antique dealers and the one says that he came in about a month ago. And yeah other people say that Boswell and Aubrey rented several display cabinets to sell vintage glassware and toys beginning in June. Another one said here. November 28th 2017. Wow. Blimeyster's out there again, Mr. Concerned. Oh boy. And he said they're looking at social media and cell phones and debit and credit cards. And he said all those different avenues that we're looking at and should be looking at in order to identify where Sydney was where Bailey Boswell and Aubrey Trail may be. I'm concerned. November 30th, Bailey and Aubrey are arrested on unrelated warrants and they start to question them. Where'd they get them? I think it's near Lincoln here. So they went for when they came back because they were in Missouri before that. So he's held on a misdemeanor warrant for missing a court date or she is. That's the weed case there. And he's being held on a newly filed case where he's being accused of being a habitual criminal with a gun. So they said that they're trying to work out the details. The police said we'll still work toward the end of the murder thing. But again, the amount that's not what he said. That's what I said. He left that part out. He didn't say the murder thing. He's trying to work out the murder thing. This murder thing. He got going on. We'll figure that out. And I don't know. They said the analysis. We got a piece of shit. Not a real scumbag, habitual scumbag. The analysis of the digital records is what led us to the discovery of who we have maybe people who know where Sydney is. So yes, they were charged with when they were arrested, by the way, they were charged with unlawful transportation of stolen goods valued at $5,000 or more from Hiawatha, Kansas. And there's all sorts of jurisdictions digging in with we have charges for them. We have charges for them. Still no Sydney though. Oh my God. The father is pleading George Luf said, in my opinion, somebody knows something. Please do the right thing. But yeah, they they asked the Lincoln police chief, Blimeyster, Mr. Concerned there. Jeff Concerned Blimeyster. If there's if there's any hope she could be found alive, right, and he says, yes, absolutely. Jeff, let's let's let's all let's treat everyone like four year olds now. At this case, two weeks, our hope is waning. We'd love it. That'd be great. That'd be fantastic. Sweet, predictable girl has been missing for two weeks and didn't come home for Thanksgiving. You. Yeah. Fucking moron. Come on. Not not like that. Just say hope is dwindling, but we've got we're retaining a little bit for the family sake. Yeah. Just say just say her mom and dad aren't in the room, right? Yeah. Look over your shoulder. Yeah. See if you see her parents around ear ear muffin quick, George and Susie, would you and then say we're we we're not looking selling looking good. It's not looking great. We're trying our hardest. So December 4th, 2017, Sydney's body is found. Oh, God damn it. It is an open area of Clay County. It's described as a very cold day, very windy. So windy. They're having shocked. They're having trouble hearing each other. The cops. Wow. Blindmeister is like, well, we're still have some hope. Fucking moron. We could maybe bring her back. We're doing CPR and giving all lifesaving measures at this time. And they're going to need it because there's this is not just a body that they find. It's worse than that. Oh, God. They were trying to cover a 30 square miles area by foot searching for clues that they swept out 30 square miles to try to find. So the the the officer was sent officers were sent north of country or county road 308 and road south near Edgar, where based on phone records, it looks as if Aubrey and and Bailey had slowed or stopped in this area based on their phone records. So they said they found something nearly right away at that point, really. They found first a black plastic trash bag with arms protruding. Oh, what the fuck? Having part of a right arm with a tattoo that said it will all be wonderful some day on it. Jesus Christ. So that's not good, obviously. They said what they asked is that the first body part found and they said, yes, Sydney's been dismembered in a horrible way here in an extra horrible way. This isn't like a mafia way like for easiest transportation. This is just cutting to 14 pieces. Why? That's overkill. There's no need to know what the hell is happening. There's no need for that unless it's to put her in two cases. That's the only thing I could think of. So she's stuffed into many garbage bags in a field out here. Nearly a dozen trash bags dumped along a gravel road. It's fucking disgusting. They search. They said they had to stop searching because of the wind is that they couldn't even hear each other. They found also in this, they found some body parts in the first bag. Also a portion of a map, a sheet or a shower curtain with stains that look like blood on it as well. So they said that one cop said this is what I saw. It's a bag that was partially torn open with human remains protruding from the bag. So the next morning they went out there and found they found 17 separate scenes, they said is what they called where they found body parts or evidence like clothes, garbage bag boxes, a tarp, all this shit, body cut up into two 14 pieces. They recovered all but one piece as well. I don't even want to know. Upper upper left arm. Oh. Weird. I think maybe an animal took it. There's also organs missing that they don't know why they don't understand. They don't understand that at all. The autopsy shows signs that she was killed during some kind of struggle. She didn't explode in the 14 pieces, so we assume there was something. They said there was a small bump on the back of the tops of her wrists that are from restraints and scrapes on her back as well. And one of her earlobes had been torn. They said soon before death as well, like how earring ripped out of it. Yeah, so they said they were able to conclude that the death was a homicide, obviously, meaning that she died by another's hands, they said here, and they brought in a forensic anthropologist who specializes in saw and knife mark analysis in dismemberment cases. Imagine that guy. That's a depressing job. Yeah. Every day it's like, well, this is worse than yesterday. Here's a. Wow. Another bone with saw marks in it. He said, the reason I know it's a hack saw is I'm getting very fine teeth. Tiny teeth, tiny teeth. So they said a lot of the findings too, and their totality would be consistent with strangulation. There's a hyoid bone issue as well. They said that she described hemorrhaging of the eyes all over the face, back up of blood in the head and the bleeding and bruising of the tissues of the lower half of the neck strangulation. They also described injuries that would have happened in the minutes or hours before her death. There was a tear on the ear lobe. Like we said, where the earring would have been, small bruise on the back of her head, three contusions on her upper back and a deep bruise on her inner left thigh. They also found pattern injuries, patterned injuries on the pinky side of her hands, like those commonly seen when a restraint of some kind is used. They also found in the area sex toys, a dog leash, a plastic sauna suit were found among the shit there. Oh, one of those. Yeah, like you'd covered, like you'd wear to dismember somebody. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And sex toys and a dog leash. What is this? Yeah, this is fucking disturbing here. The next day after they found this, yeah. Police chief fucking Blimeyster. Oh, obviously concerned here announces that foul play is suspected in her death. My God, sir, this guy is mister. Let's take it slow. Let's take it slow. He's been dating his wife since 1974. Just dating. Yeah. No kids. One of these days. I'm going to get a little more serious. I was going to say if this guy, if the Charles Manson case was in his jurisdiction, he would have gone like, I want to talk to a few more people first. He seemed, he seems like a little weirdo. Don't get me wrong. But I mean, the one beach boy said he wasn't too bad a feller and there's some things we need to talk about really before we start putting labels on him, like murder and cult leader and things like that. He's awfully small. I don't think he could do much. I don't think he had the little feller had it in him is what I don't think. So this is why Aubrey trail leads them to Sydney Loof's phone. Oh. Uh oh. Yep. It's snapped in half near a cemetery just outside of town and thrown out a car window, he said, as they headed west to Clay County to dump her remains. They tossed himself on boy. He knows. He knows how bad it's. Oh, it's. Oh, yeah. Um, they, a lot of this they said was through electronic shit. This is how they found everything. What did he think that's that he really think you're going to get away with that? That's the wealth. He's going to use that to his advantage and go, well, obviously I didn't do it because I wouldn't have done that and done this. He's got excuses. Uh, yeah, they said that, um, wow, they, they looked for everything digital footprint cell phones. Yeah, you know, when it dinged on towers, but also online apps, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, all these different shit, credit card purchases, ATM visits, then video cameras, video cameras, have everything's on video in 2007. So if you, if your cell phone says you stopped here, then they go, well, let's find the video of that. And they find them walking into a fucking store and they do all that shit. Um, they watch them go out into gas stations and inside businesses. Um, they used to have to get warrants for landline phones and they pieced together dates and all. It used to be a really hard thing, but this digital shit is super easy. It's all wide. If you watch, if you watch the first 48 from the last few years, they don't even ask you shit. They sit you down and go, give us your phone and then they go dump all your phone, find out exactly what happened and then come in and tell you, we saw exactly what happened on your phone and then the people go, oh fuck and they either deny it or admit it. But there's no, they don't even question people anymore hardly. They just go show us your phone. You weren't there. Give us your phone. Oh shit. Ah, damn it. Can I not? No, you can't. Give me my goodness, they also said another dumb thing here. Usually it's not just one thing. This is in this case, don't use this verbiage, please. It's a lot of little pieces that all start coming together. Who the fuck said that? That is, is that blind? No, no, it isn't. That's Barksdale. Barksdale. Avon Barksdale. Fuckin dipshit. A different, a Larry Barksdale, a former Lincoln police investigator who retired in 2012 with 40 years of experience said that 40 years, 40 years and didn't tell him in the last five years in the last five years since retirement, you've forgotten to have a little bit of fucking sensitivity. You dickhead. Maybe he retired because he was forgetting stuff. Let's just put it that way. 40 years on the job, he opened his mouth a few times and was like, maybe I'll just retire. He was going a little fucking student so he retired. Now, he's all who bots at home just fucking fucking asshole. So somehow after her arrest, Bally Boswell makes a Facebook video. I don't know how this happened, but after she's, after she's arrested, she explained that she met Sidney on Tinder. They drove around. Same thing. Had a great time. We're planning on going to the casino. I gave her my number, haven't heard from her since. So she's sticking to that story. She's literally, she's trying to proclaim innocence like yeah, tell the cops. The family was grateful that Sydney was found anyway. They were very grateful and they wanted, they said the entire state and beyond tried to help. And in our minds, a lot of good people exist in this world. Sydney just happened to run into someone that wasn't, which is an incredibly healthy attitude to have during this like, not just healthy, but the strength in that statement is crazy. That's, I mean, they saw that there are decent people and just because one person's a scumbag or two people in this case, maybe, you know, don't don't judge the world view of the world basically. So they, uh, 1500 people came to a memorial for her. They said cars were lined up around the block of the church. It's a small town. You know, the town is the Neelai town, very small and no room for 1500 people, but they go in there anyway and, uh, you know, everybody still had fine Sydney written on their cars and shit like that. It was, it's fucking horrible. Um, so Aubrey trail decides, okay, I'm looking pretty bad here. I should get, I'm going to clear it up. I'm going to give a media interview. That way that'll clear everything up. What's the dumbest thing I could do right now? This case is like dumb, dumber, dumbest, who's the fucking, it's a competition for who's the biggest idiot. Yeah. Yeah. So Sydney George and Susie are the only people who aren't complete morons in this whole case. Everybody else. Everybody else is a fucking amazing idiot. So, uh, he makes a video. He says in this video that he's given three statements to the FBI, but that having information about a case doesn't necessarily mean you're guilty. You knew where her cell phone was. That's pretty good sign. Yeah. On the way to dump her body. That's incredible information. He then said, quote, did I have information? Yes, I did. Did that mean I killed someone? No, it does not. Yes, sir. It does. As a matter of fact, in this case, I'm sorry. Yeah. Um, so he said that he expects charges to be filed against his girlfriend, Bailey Boswell as well. And he insisted more than once during this that she was not involved in the death at all. He said we're probably a lot more than people of interest, but Bailey Boswell was not involved. He said, if we're charged, that is something that will be discussed in court. My involvement, but Bailey was involved here. He said that all the news about him and his girlfriend has been, quote, very one-sided. It's like, it's like you guys haven't even been listening to us. It's like we dumped a dismembered beloved girl in a field and, you know, we've been scumbags and I've been in prison since I was 17. It's like, there's nothing good coming out about us like what the fuck? They said that we're just two young kids in law. Yeah, it's silly. We're just a couple of, a couple of crazy kids out there trying to navigate the world. Yeah. You ever seen Benny in June? We're like that. What a fucking jerk. No, he said, for instance, he said that Boswell faces charges of using a bad check in Pennsylvania and all these bad checks is negative. He said, we're getting so much negative publicity that's something has to be done. Aubrey needs a publicist. We need some spin here. I feel like Exxon, after we dump some fucking oil in a bay, this isn't good. Right. Sure. There's some drowning ducks at the moment. I mean, yes. There's a penguin that's covered in oil, but look. But there's going to be nice people coming to clean them off with dawn. So it's fine. We'll make it down. You're going to buy a bottle of dawn with a little clean penguin on it. He said, people should have an open mind, an open mind. I'm not a nice person. Thanks. Okay. People should have an open mind. Now that it's open, let me tell you what a piece of shit I am now that you're ready for my information. Did you hear that with a wide open mind? Wow. People should have an open mind. I'm not a nice person. I'm not innocent of a lot of things. I can't defend my past. I can't defend my lifestyle, but don't believe everything you hear. I don't make excuses for what I've done. I am a criminal. That's nice. He said, yes, Sydney had been at his apartment where he shares with Bally in Wilbur and that before the discovery of her body, he and Bally had traveled to West to York in the general area of where the body was found. That's what he said. So I don't know before anybody found her. So they said, do you have something to say to the Lou family? And he said, quote, I could say a lot of things. How about, no, would be the answer. Hope they're okay. No, he said, no, he's like, what's the worst thing I could say? I got it. This. I'm a criminal. He said, I could say a lot of things, but with the things going on about us, it would probably be more disrespectful for them. Probably good call. A couple of days later, he said, quote, we've never denied that Sydney came back to the house. And unfortunately, that is where all the questions come in. Yes. You're the last people to be seen with a fucking dead girl you met on Tinder and lied to her about your name. Looks bad. Wow. Her dad, by the way, was honored in early 2018 as the Nebraska Rural Community School Association's principal of the year, which is like Hamlin winning comeback player of the year. You know what I mean? It's ridiculous. Jesus Christ. I mean, he's not dead. And I can't believe you're still walking around. So here they can please. Right. I can't believe you're working still. You poor bastard. You shouldn't have to do. You shouldn't have to endure. And he does. He retires that year when the school year ended. He said, the last year taught me that all the things I tried to fix or take care of at work were pretty, were petty compared to losing my child. I no longer wanted to deal with other people's problems. Yeah. They're not going to deal with this person. I think it's like this person, this teacher took my parking space type shit. He's like, I don't fucking care about your parking space. My daughter was taken apart. Fuck your parking. Yeah. How many pieces is your daughter in one? Okay. Shut the fuck up. What pieces is your parking space in? Fuck you. Fuck off. Get away. Office trail says he's responsible next a few days later, sort of, sort of responsible. Okay. He said he spent months sharing his side of the story since authorities named him a person of interest with the authorities. He in November, he said I wasn't involved at all. In December, he denied Bailey was involved, but said I was sort of, you know, it's a little mushy when it comes to me. Then he claimed that he's accountable and responsible for Sydney's death. He just says that. It doesn't say he actually killed her, just so he's accountable and responsible. And he made several calls to media outlets telling the journal star and the Omaha World Herald that he had given investigators all the information they need and that they should charge him with the death already. He's telling them, where are my charges? He said, I'm responsible and I'm accountable. He said he has not provided an explicit confession during the calls or detailed an explanation of what happened to Sydney after she got to the apartment. The authorities say they found evidence of foul play at the scene and all that sort of thing. But he says, Aubrey says, if they want justice for Sydney, somebody charge us. Okay. Now he's begging to be charged for murder. Charge me or let me out? Is that what he's trying to do? No, no, no. He's just saying charge me. He's going to be in there anyway. He's got tons of fraud charges, habitual criminal with a fucking firearm. He's fucked anyway. So yeah, he said that the investigate that his directions led investigators to the cell phone. He's like saying, what the fuck? I obviously killed this broad. What more do I have to do to get arrested? He said that, um, and prove to them that he could deliver, I guess, information and he insisted that having information and committing a crime are different. But then moments later, he made vague comments about responsibility and accountability and then he said, investigators don't know what happened. They don't know why it happened. He said, let's make Wilbur famous for more than just the check fest. If they're accusing me of doing something, let's see if I did it. Charge us. He called up the check fest. He fucking name check the check fest. He said, let's make this more famous than the something dancers. What the fuck the bell with brothers dancers or whatever the fuck they were, more famous than that. Wow. So then he talks more with investigators. He then said, he tells the FBI that he gave Sydney $5,000 to appear in a sexual fantasy video, but then they say there's no evidence of such footage or ever agreeing to it. So they're not sure he's telling the truth. When he was arrested though, they did find a list of 12 or 13 women inside Bailey's purse when they were arrested, Bailey had a list of women listed next to each of their name was their supposed magic specialty, including healer, sea danger and fire. What the fuck is happening? Okay, it's getting real weird now and it's going to get way to hear about this next thing. During his conversations with investigators, trail often discussed the group sex in his apartment. On one occasion, trail told FBI agents he wanted to share something away from the video cameras. He said, can I just tell you guys something? And then he leaned in and during they went to the restroom and he whispered, quote, which is kill, which is kill a life for a life and they gain more power when they kill. It was like a big secret that he didn't look like now that you have that information. Obviously you'll solve this. Okay. Okay. Let's talk about some vampire cult people. All right. What? Okay. This dipshit Aubrey trail had been convincing tons of young women, not tons, but at least a dozen young women over time here to join his cult where he, and they all believe that he is a mind reading vampire who can fly, he can fly, Jimmy, I mean, even if fucking twilight the guy didn't fly very fucking easy to prove, but yeah, fly. Yeah. All right, asshole. What am I thinking? And say it while you're levitating you fly around and tell me what I'm doing right now. So and also that he's got a coven and of a dozen witches and he claimed that he, that they would gain powers by killing people, a 22 year old woman who claimed to be a follower of his cult will later testify and tells investigators early on here that she joined Aubrey and Bailey Boswell's depraved world the summer before Sydney was killed. She says that Aubrey convinced her she'd need to kill someone and to take their last breath. Like Stephen King's doctor sleeve thing. Yes. You have to take that's how you gain their power in order to obtain her magical powers. You're a witch, but if you want magical powers, you have to kill someone, suck out their last breath. Then your magic. Oh boy, she said that Aubrey showed her photos of women he claimed that had witch powers and that Bailey was called the queen witch and that every, all the witches had to refer to Aubrey trail as daddy. Yeah, there was 51. Yeah. There was rules in the house like you weren't allowed to wear clothes and Bailey's the bottom witch. She's the bottom witch. Yeah. She's absolutely. That's awesome. Well, no one's allowed to wear clothes, yeah, either in the house. And they said that this woman said she met Aubrey the same way Sydney did by communicating with Bailey on Tinder. So Bailey Boswell gets on Tinder gets these girls in here. The woman said she was drawn to Boswell who suggested that her sugar daddy could take care of this woman as well. And she was one of three women to talk about lots of detail saying Aubrey and Boswell together had a kill bag with a hammer and pliers and fantasized about torturing people by ripping off their fingernails and cutting out their eyelids. Dear Christ. In the 1980s, Frank Farrion was riding high as a successful German music producer, but he was bored. German pop was formulaic, dull, and oh so white. Frank had bigger dreams, American dreams. 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They said that Sydney wasn't one of the young women, said Sydney was not the first young woman that Aubrey and Bailey had targeted. They said that she and Aubrey had their sights set on two different people, but their plans for murder weren't carried out. Aubrey told the woman that she'd gain more powers if she tortured her murder victim for a few hours first, and he also claimed that some of his witches could leave their bodies as well. So you'll get that power as well. If you're interested in that, you want to just like, you know, your body gets to be a hindrance after a while. You want to take off, leave it behind. Then the women, the women, all the women said they believed him back then, they described him as convincing and hypnotic. He's at 300 pounds scumbag with a arm-length criminal record. What is so fucking hypnotic about these people? 50 plus overweight fucking nothing. Guys out there can't find a lady. You're not fucking trying hard enough. Let me tell you something because this fat fuck is pulling girls in the early 20s left and right. Oh, man. Oh, wow. she said, quote, it all made sense. How the fuck did that make sense to you? Holy fuck. That made sense. That is fucking amazing. She also said she helped Aubrey and Bailey swindle people through their antique businesses as well. Oh, God. Yes. At one point, they said that one of them brought brought a woman to his basement, or to Aubrey's basement in Wilbur, and offered to cover her rent and car payments and pay for nursing school for her really trail gave her a $200 weekly allowance as well. She said she would have sex with him and Boswell and another woman as well would join in. Wow. So they'd have it would be him and like three four women young women and he never proves that he can fly and he never never has to fly. She's like, I'm a little heavy to fly right now, I got a knee problem with my knee heels up. I fly better. You got to launch just right or else it doesn't work. They said the orgies would sometimes involve choking too, which is a big deal that comes up later. And we talked a lot about that last week. So trail told the women he'd killed multiple people and now encouraged them to do the same. One woman who joined them at a Walmart in Beatrice in August 2017 to meet a potential victim said that Aubrey asked me if I wanted her to be my first. The girl they met there and then she said she meant her first kill. So wow, the rules included not wearing any role any clothes in the apartment and mandatory checks with with Aubrey every three hours, you had to check in with them, make sure you were still around and frequent discussions about killing and torture. One girl said that about three weeks after matching with Boswell on Tinder, she learned that her true identity wasn't what she said she was and that her sugar daddy relationship was trail extended to another girl as well and all this shit. They said at the first meeting trail began to show her pictures of anywhere between 10 to 12 women on his phone saying these are all chicks that I hang out with members of my group here. Usually this woman agreed to a sugar daddy relationship with trail in which he would give for $2,000 a week to go on shopping sprees with Bailey. Dude, you got to steal a lot of antiques. Wow. She said, quote, I enjoyed being taken care of eight grand a month. You have to fuck a fat 50 year old. Is that working? How is that not? How is that not worse than work? I'm sorry. I'd rather go to work than fuck this guy. Imagine how fucking sweaty he is. Sweaty. You don't want to know barbecue fucking music from his fours from a he's a piece of shit. Like he's a terrible person. Unbelievable man. Yeah. Unbelievable. He's no way he smells nice, right? He's I mean, he's a fat fucking scumbag criminal. I am a criminal. His words. Not mine. Yeah. I am a criminal. Yeah. Not a nice person. Piece of shit. You know, me huge piece of shit. So they all the women said that Boswell was understood to be the queen of the coven, the bottom witch there and had a dozen witches under her. She told the one girl by Bailey did told the one girl that she was the healer in the coven and that this girl could only get her power by torturing and breathing in someone's final breath. She said that she and Boswell talked multiple times about wanting to torture people, even describing her preferred methods and graphic detail. Wow. Um, this is fucking weird. She said she spoke about a ritual during full moons trail did spoke about a ritual during full moons in which witches would go into an open field to leave their bodies, an act that would apparently take care of the bad in their worlds that would cleanse them. They do that. This woman also said that trail said he was a flying mind reading vampire who said she could leave the group whenever she wanted until she killed someone to gain her powers. After that, he would erase her memory. So she could leave, but she wouldn't know where she's going, obviously, cause you know, memories are raised and all they kill people and then they get, then they go, I raise them back real quick. Yeah. I showed you that I can fly before, but you forgot you forgot all about that shit. So this woman said she drew once drove to the Walmart with a couple to meet another woman that she was supposed to kill, so that's multiple people trail told her the murder would take place in the woods where a tarp would be laid out to quote, do everything over. And afterwards, they would go back home to shower one another while Aubrey would dispose of the body and burn their clothes, which is interesting. Part of the plan included having Boswell's kill kit, which included the hammer and the pliers there. And she stayed told her she'd receive her own every time she, when she killed somebody as well. This woman said at the time I was ready for it, meaning the plan to kill someone. And yeah, her plan to kill a woman in their group who barely found annoying and said she needed to be dealt with the plan was to kill the woman on the way to Pennsylvania and dump her body along the way to antique stores. But when she was at the local TJ Maxx to try on clothes for the killing, this girl said she had a panic that she was going to buy a new outfit to kill him a murder fit a murder outfit. Yeah, let me go get my my fucking murder gear on here. Unbelievable. She said she had a panic attack and told Boswell she didn't want to do it anymore and then left the group. This was a couple months before said we went missing. Yeah. This is a fucking mess. March of 2018, there's a bunch of letters sent between Boswell and trail. Well, they would leave them in the jail library and think no one was noticing for each other. Like I'll leave it in this book and all that. So one starts out with trail declaring his love for Bally. He said, I love you to infinity and back on a one wheeled bicycle. I love you, which I missed. I'm mixing Buzz Lightyear with like old timey backwoods fucking sentiments. A one wheeled bicycle that's called a unicycle. Nope. Not in Tennessee, it ain't it's called a one wheeled bicycle. One wheeled bicycle. I love you to infinity and back. He's well, he is an idiot and he is. What is he Jimmy? More. He's a criminal. He's a criminal. He's a criminal. I am a criminal. He's a bad guy. I'm not a nice person. We got that. Jimmy launches into the story that she should tell investigators. In the letter, the prosecution said trail refers to later on the prosecution will bring this up and say he refers to Sydney's case as if it were a drug case. So they're like trying to act. This is their code words, like no one knows what they are. Like mob guys will be like, you know, I dropped off three boxes of ziti, like this is not. He said on the upcoming drug case here is what I want is what I have told them. I told them you were not even in the room when the delivery was made, that you were in the living room stoned and started smoking when I told you about the dope and that you freaked out when I told you about all the drugs. I told them you didn't help cut up or bag the drugs, cut up or bag the drugs. So the letter goes on to explain that Aubrey had told investigators that Bally didn't know the other two women in the room with him when Luft was killed. Other two women in the room. What? Yes. Those are the ones I believe that we were talking to that are probably a couple of them, one of them anyway. In the letter, he said that the two women whose names Boswell didn't know were freaking out because Boswell was and they were worried that she was going to tell police would happen. So they forced her to clean up and drive the body out to Clay County. Then he tells her to do whatever it takes to maintain her innocence. He said, if worse comes to worse, I need you to testify against me. Okay. Yes. He said, don't spend your life in prison because of me. Don't take blame for something you only have forced involvement in. He's trying to save her now. So in the next letter, they found a code found in the jail's rec center and the FBI agent said it's a simple code. You write with the top line of letters and you decode with the bottom line. They said letters written in the code were found after that one also in the rec center. So they went from the library to the rec center. So in another letter, trail told Boswell, the circumstances around the alleged sexual fantasy Sydney was involved in. She's like, this is, he's like, this is what you do. He wrote, you asked if you could be in it and I said no. It was after 2 a.m. when the other two girls got there, I let them in through the kitchen door. I introduced them as Jen and Kim. You can make up your own description of what they look like because they don't exist. Because we're all people. Just make them up. He said that he told that Bailey should tell the investigators that Aubrey talked to Sydney for a few minutes and told her all would be okay. He told her to say they went into the bedroom for about an hour and then Aubrey came out and told Boswell what happened and she freaked out. So you go in, you say I went in and then I came out and you freaked out. And he said, we have to make you look like a victim. Make people hate me and feel sorry for you. I'm going to prison anyway. Yeah, I'm fucked. Yeah, I have all this other shim up habitual criminal un-fucked, so just whatever. Another coded letter from trail to Boswell talked about a story for Boswell to tell investigators. He said about making a snuff film, say it when we were making a snuff film. That's what I wanted to do. He said the three girls in the FBI are saying you wanted to make a torture murder video and that's why you were recruiting girls on Tinder. Tell them I told you months before that I made a snuff film once and sold it for lots of money. Tell them once you and I were talking about ways to make a lot of money and I said we could make a fake snuff film. Then he continues to write that Boswell should tell investigators that he told her to find the girls and that trail would pay them and they wouldn't get seriously hurt but there would be pain involved. Trail also told her that the women she recruited had to think it was real and that Boswell needed to get them texting about killing and torture. Yeah. Wow. Say, and then she said he goes, quote, you agreed to do it all and that's why you were on Tinder and that's why all the girls were doing that. Now you know it was all lies and I planned to kill, you'll have to fill in the rest of the blanks, baby. Yeah. I can't plan it all out for you. I wrote you the screenplay. I got you. I'm in fucking a well, I gave you an outline here. Now you got to fill it in with dialogue and actual actions but this is your, this is your plot line. Look, I'm not Scorsese. I can't make it the movie. You got it. I'm not a, I'm a story by guy. I'm not a written by guy. So story by me by you here. So you figured out. I'm an influenced by a guy. Oh my God. Based loosely on that. Yeah, you know, that sort of thing. Okay, has told to not that kind of guy. The court reads one letter for later on from Bailey to Aubrey trail where she wrote him a letter saying, quote, Hey, daddy, I love you so much more. I'm sorry. I didn't catch on to your letter sooner. When you say video, do you mean snuff video or porn video? Everything else is understood. I love you so much. What the fuck is happening? She's in jail. I'm a perpetrator from this guy. The spell should be fucking broken at this point. He put you here. Why are you still communicate? He's just as fucked up as him. Yeah. Just as he's up. He's a mess. He found just as bad of a person as he is. Yeah. It's crazy. This is to be 30 years. Yeah. A different generation. Doesn't matter. They're still fucking natural born killers. It would just be Brando instead of Woody Harrelson in the movie. You know what I mean? Brando and fucking Juliet Lewis running around killing people. So court here for the fraud stuff, he tells this paper, by the way, the fraud case he's facing is just a business deal gone bad. That's just nothing. Dude, it's 30 grand. You didn't. Hey. Yeah. He starts talking in court and the judge cuts him off and said, I'm afraid that the kind of questions that you might ask might incriminate you. And he said, the judge said, I do not want the court to indulge him in questions. Just stop. It's to everyone. Stop asking him questions because he's going to fucking incriminate himself here. By the way, they're now accused of a scheme where they built a particular Kansas couple out of $400,000. Oh my God. So they charge Boswell and Aubrey here with first degree murder, unlawful disposal of human remains as well. And prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against both of them. So when that comes out, he has only one thing that he should do that's smart and that's make more public statements before his trial. Please do. Please do. His lawyers got to be going, fuck my life. Stop talking. How are you doing this? He's crossing off the next defense off his list. Well, that was next. Never mind that. He told several news outlets that her death was accidental now. He told the Omaha World Herald that Sydney had been a willing participant in the participant in a sex game that went wrong and that she had something around her neck when she died. And he said he believes that he should receive the death penalty, though, even though it was an accident, according to him. He said that he admitted to dismembering Sydney's body. He denied using the hacksaw bought that day to do it, even though he bought a bunch of dismemberment fucking things at her store. That's even more gross. The prosecutors are pointing to that as premeditation because he bought that before. And he said, well, that's not the one I use, the one I bought that day. No, because that would be premeditation. I just did it in a whim. He said that it wasn't supposed to go to the extreme. It went, of course, he said, but it wasn't meant that she wasn't, it wasn't meant that she was to die. A weird way to put that. Prosecutors believe though they plan the murder, obviously. They captured a video and a Home Depot and Lincoln buying tools that day before she went to work. And also trail told investigators that he strangled Sydney Loof with an extension cord during the sex game, quote unquote sex game. They believe that, you know, Boswell was there and helped dismember her and lie about it for months. His trial comes around. Oh boy, is it? This is a fucking spectacle. If you think this is over, you are far from you are mistaken. So before the trial, he will plead guilty to unlawful disposal of human remains admitting that he had dismembered her, but he says that he didn't murder her. She died accidentally during a sexual fantasy act. Okay. That's the story. That's a story. And he's sticking to it. Okay. He's using a wheelchair in court, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. He's had a heart attack since prison, a mild heart. Oh, really? Now he's going to use the wheelchair to try to get some sympathy here. You know, not such a bad guy. Look how dangerous could he be? Look at him. In the opening arguments here, opening statement, prosecutors argue that Aubrey and Boswell, who's, by the way, this is their separate trials, these two messaged her on Tinder with the intent of killing torture and sex. That's what they said. While the date was going on, trail strangled her with an extension cord, then used a fine tooth saw to dismember her body. And they said he confessed to the murder, told authorities, Boswell, helped clean up the crime scene. What the fuck? He said that he hit her body out of fear, fear, because it went awry, this sex game. So, oh God, now what do we do? Don't call the cops or 911, just fucking cut her body into 14 pieces and dispose of her, which is what any reasonable person would do. In fear. Fear, fear, 14, yeah, the prosecutor said, this is more than a first degree murder. This was a planned abduction to kill Sidney Louvre. The defense, this is a father son team, the Murray's here. They, he's got a father son cord appointed attorneys here. They said that Sidney was a willing participant in a sexual encounter with trail and two other women and was accidentally choked to death. The lawyer says Aubrey trail is not a particularly nice man. He says his confession proves that he told the truth and that Sydney's death was completely accidental. Also argued that these, this trio of Boswell trail and Sidney previously knew each other also saying that Sydney agreed to take part in trail sexual fantasy for money. And the lawyer says there was nothing illegal. It was all consensual. There's no proof that she's ever met them before that. That's just a new story they made up. So they show the surveillance video of him buying dismemberment fucking weapons dismemberment implements, not good hours before the date. That's not great. I'm picking stuff up. He's probably like, hold, kind of in there, hold your arm out like this. Then like motioning, miming, sawing, going, yeah, I think this is a good saw. Put the elbow. Yeah, this will work. This will work. The medical examiner also gets up here and they ask her about the signs she saw during the autopsy that suggest that this was not an accidental sex death, but that Sydney struggled and they bring up the bump on the back of the tops of her wrists from restraints and the scrapes on her back and saying one of her earlobes had been torn as well. Yeah, that's not good. So the cross examination though defense attorney Joe Murray says the signs of a struggle that you talked about are consistent with rough, consensual sex. Aren't they? What? And the medical examiner said they can be. I mean, anything could fall under that umbrella short of death. Maybe somebody wants their earlobe ripped open during sex. I don't fucking know. I've heard people like some weird shit. Imagine people like blood play and like, you know, blood, some people like they like that. Some people like pain. They like hot shit dripped on them and for whatever who knows. Whatever you people are doing some funny fucking way to say it is hot shit dripped on them. The doctor also couldn't say if missing organs were evidence that the death had been a ritualistic killing, you know, like a flying vampire called, or if animals had gotten them in the weeks before they were found, but it seems like there'd be more missing if animals had gotten into that. Yeah. They said it's possible that someone could break the hyoid bone, the U shape bone in the back of the neck during sexual asphyxiation, not common, though, that would really be working. Really be getting after it. Jesus Christ. Yes. They said part of Sydney's hyoid bone and neck were missing. And if the doctor said she was still able to conclude that the death was a homicide. So that includes strangulation. They bring in the Mississippi hacksaw expert there saying the very fine teeth. He said it was a hacksaw with a blade of about 25 teeth per inch or a little bit less. Wow. So they showed him the hacksaw that he had bought. And they say, is this in this ballpark? And it was a yellow handled, Stanley brand high tension hacksaw with 24 teeth per inch carbide blade. Exactly. Like the guy said, and that's the one that he bought that day. And he said it's consistent. So third day of trial is the craziest day in trial history here at one point. This fucking lunatic Aubrey trail stands up in court out of his wheelchair, out of his wheelchair, rises out and screams, Bailey is innocent and I curse you all before taking some sharp object and repeatedly slashing his own neck. Oh my. In the middle of court, blood squirting everywhere, really, it's opens it, he's fucking slashing himself. Cut his own throat several times during his murder trial, what? After cutting himself, he then fell down and out of the wheelchair and onto the floor. He was pale and unresponsive as they rushed him for first aid. They brought a stretcher in and he was put into an ambulance to be taken to the hospital. Oh my God. Wow. That is insane. That's insane. Guilty. Right? I mean, his lawyers at that point had the balls to go. Miss trial, right? Yeah. You got to be a miss trial. I mean, no. Well, anybody could do that then. Anybody could just hurt themselves in the middle of trial. You can't, you can't cause your own miss trial. That's the point. It's got to be these other circumstances. They said that, you know, come on, as attempted suicide, he had a razor blade. He smuggled into court. That's me. Wow. Fucking razor blade. His attorney Joe Murray said the case was over right then. I mean, he did it to himself. Yeah. He arrested a new trial based in large part on the prejudicial nature of the suicide attempt on jurors. Yeah. Well, good. Shouldn't have done it then, stupid. Yeah. Who did it? You did it. It's not like the prosecutor slid his own neck and then said, Oh, yeah, that would have been standing up in court and saying, I did it. Throw me away. Throw me in fucking throw away the pee. It's the same thing. That was bad for him. So can we have a miss trial again? And they bring in a vampire cult check here, one of the other ones, the name, they kept their names. How long did they? How long do they recess for for this? Do they? A month old? Okay. No, no, no, no. They just went on with the trial of him out there while he was recovering the next few days. He's not there. And they were like, well, our client has the right to be there. They're like, well, he shouldn't have slid his own throat then. That was pretty dull of him, wasn't it? Maybe he should try to show up. We got a schedule here that we keep to in this county. Where is it? Come in. Yeah. I got a divorce proceeding coming up next week that we got to clear the court for. So Aubrey's defense lawyer, Joe Murray, asked the vampire cult woman here, quote, so you wanted all this stuff, the torture, the killing, the breathing in the steam. And she said, yes, that's what I was going for. So then the lawyer turned out that such a doctor, such a maneuver is part of Stephen King's novel, Doctor Sleep, in which characters discuss killing someone and feeding on steam of their dying breath. And a witness said, to get your power, you have to breathe in their last breath. So that's what it is. Is that what you were going for? And she said, yeah, when the Walmart victim that they were going to kill, when I told you about earlier, didn't pan out, they said that trail declared that they'd quote, save her for another time and instead focus on another witch in his coven who was too nice and didn't have the evil in her. So we'll just kill her. Yeah. And she's annoying. So the woman testified, she didn't want to kill another girl in the group. She wanted to kill some stranger. So she said they and she informed the Boswell and trail that she was leaving their cult and they threatened to kill her family if she told anyone about them. Okay. Wow. And she said one witness said that trail would discuss torturing and killing people once or twice a week, quote, it was just like a regular conversation for him. One woman testified that when she met Boswell on Tinder on the summer of 2017, Boswell used the alias Jenna. So she's got different names. She claims that she helped Boswell and trail and trail steel and pedal antiques that they instituted house rules that included her. She had to walk around naked in her residence and call him daddy and talk about killing people all the time. Wow. She said she didn't believe the claims about witches and magical powers, but did believe they'd make good on their plans to kill. She said they had talked of making a snuff film and selling it for a million dollars. She told the jurors. I did think they would lay hands on someone 100%. Million dollars ain't nothing. That's, yeah, for a million, a third member of the crew here said she met trail in Boswell in early November, 2017. So right before Sydney engaged in sexual activity with them at their Wilbur apartment and she was claimed to call Boswell mommy. How old is she? They're both 23 at the time. So mommy and then the trail had to be daddy and she spent several days with them after Sydney's death. They said she Boswell picked her up on November 17th, which is two days after Sydney disappeared and they traveled to different hotels in Nebraska. She testified that police called and left messages, but she didn't know her cult leaders were suspects in a kidnapping. There's the third body that we saw on video. That's the one. That's the third. Wow. They said she said she woke up on November 18th with scratches on her legs and that she'd lost memories for large parts of the day. That's not good. According to public radio station there, she told the jurors that when she learned of the murder, she worried that she helped them dispose of the body and had repressed the memory. She didn't know. She had scratches like on her legs, like because like you were burying her in a field of pushes and stuff. That's what she's saying. So she probably did is what what I'm thinking here. She says she no longer believes that's the case because prosecutors told her the evidence suggests that the body was dumped days before throughout her sexual relationship with the couple. This woman also became involved with the witchcraft. She admitted she never believed in the witchcraft and assumed the practice, including hypnosis powers that Aubrey claimed to have was just role play. Yeah, she thought it was just fantasy shit. She said, I thought it was more of a foreplay thing. She said she couldn't recall the power that they believe that they alleged to have and believed only five people were involved in the coven, as she put it. She said, Boswell will go to sleep on the couch, then role play as another person. She'd go to sleep on the couch and wake up and be like, now I'm a different person. Okay. Wow. This woman said slowly she was introduced to the idea of murdering someone, which they said could be used to make additional money. They said that they pose the idea of making a video in which they tortured and killed someone for a lot of money, insisting they would only target pedophiles and other criminals as victims. We'll just Dexter it. It's cool. Don't sweat it. She said this witness said she started to get worried about their intentions and once warned another woman who had met the couple about their creepy schemes. She said she finally left in October 2017 after finding a job at the Lincoln Mall. She's like, the mall will save me from all this. How about that? Phone case saved her life to the fucking yeah, the kiosk, the fucking threading kiosk saved her life. Very nice. Cheap knockoff Chinese toy. So this is fucking weird, man. So they got all these witnesses saying that they wanted to do that. One other witness explained that she had met Boswell on Tinder on Halloween 2017. Seeing their conversations, Boswell suggested the pair engage in a dominant submissive relationship. And this woman says she was curious about it. Then she met Boswell and they went to an Amerastar hotel room, where she met Aubrey, who was referred to as master. Oh, he's master and daddy. Now he's master daddy now, daddy master. She said that the couple talked to her about witchcraft and murder. And at one point, she said she was ordered to murder, quote, that stalker girl who was the last witness who just testified. And this woman said it wasn't just sex anymore. It was getting real. So fuck that now, the star here Aubrey's back Aubrey trail is back. Yes. And he's ready. He is ready for the spotlight. I'm ready for my close up, baby. Let's get it on. He's going to testify. Wow, may as well. He testifies that he first met Sydney months before she went missing. That's part of their defense. He said that he was in a checkout line at Menards where she worked and he saw her crying. He asked her what was wrong and handed her a hundred dollar bill. Oh, I'm your fucking fairy crying Godfather here's a hundred dollar bill. You cry. I give you a hundred dollars. It's weird. He claimed from there he paid Sydney to make phone calls for his antique business and that she and Bally Boswell were in a romantic relationship. Yeah. At one point Aubrey said that Sydney wanted to stop working with them because she didn't want to be involved in illegal activity. And so according to trail a while later Boswell and Sydney reconnected on Tinder. But since Boswell's photos look nothing like her, Sydney didn't know she was going on a date with Boswell until she picked her up. But then why would she go out with her the second time? That doesn't make any sense. Trail said the two started talking about Sydney getting involved in trails business again and the talk continued the next day at the apartment where Boswell and trail lived in Wilbur. He said quote caught up at first said she wasn't doing very well financially got a tin with money in it told Sid if you want to get back and work with us I can take care of your problems. He said she was very timid. She was in desperate straights. I played on that. She wasn't in desperate desperate straights because her parents come in and take her to the doctor filler fucking apartment with groceries and she needed a couple of bucks guarantee your dad would have reached right in his fucking pocket for people that are bad with money or in a lot of trouble with money don't show other people how to be good at money and let the other stay in their apartment they don't have an apartment to let people stay in it because they fucked up with money right yeah he's a god he's such a dick. He said that he Boswell and Sydney agreed to engage in sexual activity in that they agreed to experiment with choking he told the the court here now that he made up parts of the story he told FBI agents about the night said he died he said it took place during a sexual encounter with Lou Finn Boswell and that he had an extension cord around Sydney's neck and that she started shaking before she stopped breathing he said he tried to give her mouth to mouth but was unsuccessful and yeah that's that dude that's fucked up is a parent has to hear that that's what I mean their whole family has to hear to hear him lie like that what is that's what happened so Tara Garreg the her Sydney's friend here they were asked she was asked about Sydney's mental state so her friend said that she was struggling with anxiety and depression had gone home the previous weekend and you know was talking to her parents about getting her mental health back on track the defense here asked the friend whether she was worried about Sydney harming herself and her friend said because of events that happened that weekend I was fearful to go inside of her house because I was worried something like that had happened okay so the defense also asked her about about Sydney's drug use and if it concerned her and Tara said she wasn't concerned about her marijuana use but that she was worried about her use of cocaine oh she said at one point in time she was snorting coke only a handful of times and when I realized she was doing it and sat her down I told her I would tell George and Susie if she kept doing it and then she stopped I'll tell you fucking parents on you tell your principal dad yep she said that Sydney had done cocaine during a trip to Colorado to stay awake but that wasn't a regular thing for Sydney not nearly as often as her marijuana use they also asked about her online dating habits and this woman said that Sydney was on Tinder and a few other dating sites like every other 23 year old that existed 24 year old so they asked what she knew about Sydney's sexual activity and dating good Christ Tara said she was very timid sexually and very shy for her to be sexually active with someone she needed intimacy and needed closeness not the type of person who would have sex with someone she just met especially not a 300 pound fat sweaty criminal asshole scum bag flying vampire liar bad guy yeah yeah she also said that that Sydney had a breathing problem because of her back and she would not have wanted to be choked which you don't know that there's no way to know that though but scoliosis if it's severe you don't want to be I mean who would know that you don't know sexually if that's what I mean you don't know that maybe she didn't want to choke in general but during sex all bets are off so she but that doesn't matter if she wanted to be choked he's still can't strangle her with an extension cord and cut her body up at the none of that matters she said that she also said Sydney would never be interested in engaging in sexual activity with a woman who had a boyfriend or who wanted to introduce the man into the relationship yes she did say I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend yeah now the cross examination here the defense also rebuts the line of questioning by bringing in photos from Sydney's iCloud back into the courtroom previous testimony revealed that there were several photos of memes about choking or rough sex in her iCloud okay but a lot of how many of our listeners said have not only we said how many of our listeners in the groups do jokes like that memes like that all it's live and these are very normal looking people they're fine they're normal people I mean fuck as well as photos of Sydney in various stages of undress as every other 24 year old as sure she sent him to somebody at some point that's that that is so fucked that her murder is now introducing her parents to her and fucking oh and underwear that's fucked up man the fucking defense put these photos up and said do these depict someone who you believe who you would believe to be sexually timid these are personal photos doesn't matter yeah and she said no but also said I don't see how this picture represents her sex life yeah picture of her who cares so then the prosecution asked Tara if she had photos on her phone that are sent to her through Facebook and she said she probably had thousands but didn't indicate what her personality was she's like you know whether she's naked or standing there you can't tell what she wants sexually so they also bring in hotel employees who say they saw Sydney at a hotel in fall city months before her death with these people but it's just a hotel employee two hotel employees show me the video that's show me something and show me the electronic trail I don't see any of that so about the jail letters the defense asks the FBI if these letters showed Aubrey was consistent in his goal to protect Boswell and they said yes they also asked him whether Boswell ever said these letters were were the truth and this person said trail only said that what Boswell was supposed to tell the police so they're like so the letters don't mean anything then okay now three weeks of testimony here come the closings okay closing argument the state paints picture of these two people as counterculture lunatics intent on killing someone stalking people like prey as they drove to work shopping for her dismemberment tools hours before they kill her yes not good they said at 659 p.m. November 15 2017 when Cindy Louve got into Boswell's car her fate was sealed she got in that car and she was dead it was just a matter of when Jesus the defense said no no no this is crazy the defense said that you know yeah they have trail had meticulously planned his half million dollar con of that Kansas couple so he's not one to act on impulse he's a planned scumbag the defense said this was not meticulously planned there was no rhyme or reason to it no plan equals no premeditation and no first degree murder he said give me a fucking break here he said he didn't this is the best thing the guy said quote I don't particularly like this guy his lawyer said I don't like him I wish I had a different client but I got this guy defense lawyers job is to go he's not a bad guy and like give the guy some gum to give to you so he looks like a human being he said don't like him piece of shit he said he he blindsided me a day earlier when he changed his story while testifying because I didn't know he was going to say that he said but he still says the strangulation was an accident he said the forensic pathologist can't tell if the death was accidental or intentional I suggest neither can you the pathologist said absolutely it was intentional yeah it's a homicide based on all the factors that she would say right the death certificates as homicide man yeah this this lawyers he pointed to how Aubrey trail randomly headed west and circled rural clay county looking for a place to dump the body and lacked any kind of plan to get away just because you didn't plan where you're gonna dump it doesn't mean you didn't plan the killing right this because you're an idiot because you stopped at murder yeah they said that they lacked any kind of plan to get away leaving most of their belongings behind in Wilbur intending to return they bought maps of Iowa and the Texas Mexico border but scrapped going to Mexico because they didn't have passports they considered camping out in a national park but didn't know where to find one yeah that's some plan he says they didn't plan just sounds like dummies just sounds like every other murderer yeah how many people planned the perfect murder in this game like what the these people aren't HH Holmes for Christ sake they didn't build a fucking murder castle they killed some chick well trying to fucking rape her this is gross I'd love to tell that guy about the couple that murdered their brother and put him in a concrete barrel and then didn't realize they couldn't lift concrete I think that was Nebraska - is a man I think you're right Nebraska or Kansas one of the two who's in the middle there uh and around I was right around Thanksgiving - I remember correctly so the might have been Ohio that one in Ohio but you're right I think it was eating Ohio Christ that was like seven years ago you know so the prosecution then rebuts and says they thought they had committed the perfect crime what they did not count on were the dominoes that fell so soon after you know within days of the investigation they came up the prosecutor said who's credible Aubrey trail he changed his story about the death of Sidney Luft before your eyes literally you've watched it changed three times over the course of a fucking trial which is crazy he said but what happens Sidney Luft solves her own crime was talking about a text that she sent a friend with a photo of the woman she met on Tinder and was on a date that night they said that um they isolated her at the night of her death taking away from her home and her friends this is clearly not some sexual fantasy gone long gone wrong this is a premeditated murder gone right the two of them had been planning scheming and lusting after desiring a murder for months that's what we have here then they dismembered her and cut her into at least 14 pieces and they said do you think uh that much or do you do that much work to get rid of a body and he also said it was gratuitous to cut her into that many pieces they said they said then they disposed of her body on the side of the road like its garbage and then went to a casino the next day where they gambled and played strip poker in a motel room with another woman and talked about killing more people yep and uh the defense said it's just talk it's just stuff that dr. sleep book it's just like that um he said quote this is the defense layer we've got a bizarre cast of characters in this case you don't need to tell me that no shit verdict comes in six men and six women deliberate for less than three hours before coming in with their verdict three minutes three minutes on verdict of guilty as fuck on first degree murder charges and was also found guilty of criminal conspiracy to commit murder as well prosecution says we offer our sympathy again to the Lou family hoping our justice system provides some form of solace to them for their loss of their daughter Sydney now the punishment trial phase here um they're the death penalty thing here uh uh the sentencing phase they said that the um if the same set of jurors find evidence of aggravating factors then a three panel judge decides whether it'll be like a prison or death penalty so during sentencing Aubrey makes a dumb statement of course because he's a fucking idiot because he's relaxed now he gives this is like two days later a completely new version of what happened oh he's give now i'm telling the truth um yep he said that he refuted his previous claims that she died accidentally during a consensual rough sex session he said until now i have never told the truth about how or why Sydney died almost everything i said was a lie unless it benefited me Sydney Louv did not die of erotic asphyxiation i murdered her yeah we know uh we got that already that's why you were convicted right yeah first degree murder he said he never planned to kill her he wanted to recruit her to join his group he said that he decided to kill her because he viewed her as a threat to his deviant lifestyle he said once i sat Sydney down and started explaining how we made money some of our criminal activities and about the group sex and other things i knew i had made a bad mistake Sydney somewhat freaked out the truth is i killed Sydney because of a reaction to what i told her and showed her yeah she's gonna go fucking tell on him he said that he had used his girlfriend to lure several women to the Wilbur apartment for his desires and that when he explained um explained to her to Sydney that she could join them in a lifestyle of group sex and selling stolen antiques she freaked out it sounds so attractive though i get to hold on i get to do whatever your fat disgusting sweaty ass wants me to do and i get to sell stolen antiques wow wow that's that's fuck man when do we fleece an elderly couple in Nebraska when can we do that Jesus Christ we need to go around like like taking coins at a parking meters next this sounds great he said that he bound Sydney's hands and let her into the bedroom to calm her down because that calms people down when they freak out you tie them up and lead them into your bedroom they usually chill right out then he said instead he choked her to death with an electrical cord because he didn't want to disrupt his living of the good life of sex and stolen money with his young girlfriend he admitted to strangling her with an extension cord and dismembering her body he said he did so because it was the only way to remove her from the apartment how else was i going to get her out people would have saw he said he disposed of the remains in clay county where they laid for 19 days before being discovered he said i've done some terrible things in my life but this is the only thing i feel regret about which is a awful statement today i've never felt bad for anything i can't say i'm sorry no because that would be an insult for what would be an insult for what i put you through that's what he said that would be an insult for what would be an insult that's his exact words for what i put you through he said that to the family and they did like a hands up like i don't know what the fuck you're talking about right now bro that didn't make any sense then the judge has his say here the judge describes him as his cold and calculated said quote miz luff was needlessly murdered by mr trail to satisfy his curiosity and sexual desires this is district judge uh vicky johnson said that the murder showed exceptional depravity because trail selected his victims based on certain characteristics young attractive women who were attracted to his girlfriend exceptional depravity is one of the aggravating circumstances required to impose the death penalty they found he met several of those including he relished in the murder needlessly mutilated the victim engaged in a senseless crime and victim was helpless to defend themselves because she was tied up they said miz luff was completely harmless and her murder was completely unnecessary trail's bad childhood and disadvantaged upbringing is given some weight but the weight of this mitigating circumstance does not approach or exceed the overwhelming evidence of exceptional depravity found in this case and uh they said you sir may fuck off death by lethal injection oh shit i'm not a big death penalty guy but i will run this guy over with my car tomorrow i swear to fuck i'll do it for actually my car's kind of low to the ground he's fat so i'll figure out a different way but whatever it is i just dump dunk his head in the fucking bathtub and drown him i don't really care i'll get this over with tomorrow because this guy's an asshole i'd love to see him drug behind a vehicle that would be one he would he's fat too he'd be bouncing all over the place that would really get like 15 miles an hour yeah yeah yeah for a while yeah like a country road though yeah till is just a great spot yeah jesus christ man so the defense here his attorney said they weren't surprised by the death sentence they're like he's a scumbag and we're terrible lawyers so this is not surprising honestly it's gonna happen we figured this is what happens most of the time they said that they were caught off guard by his statements to the luff family yeah everything that caught them off guard they didn't expect him to slash his throat in the middle of trial either the lawyer said we really didn't have an inkling about his statement i mean he assured us that he was not going to cause any trouble he was not going to be disruptive he was going to be uh he was going to be appropriate in his comments i really believe he did intend to help the luff uh luff family and hopefully it did i know that's difficult to say but hopefully it did i don't think it did so now quickly she has a trial too belly has a trial as well yeah what happens there same evidence it's all they allow all of his shit in here now all the things that he said uh the jurors examine photos of recovered body parts they talk about how she was recruiting women for a long time to to for sex and for all these things um they get another they get the same woman who testified at his trial a testify at her trial talking about all the shit she did and that they were talking about snuff videos this woman goes through all this and said i paid three psychologists to forget this what she's going over now uh but she didn't forget it apparently so um yeah they they do all of that she they talk about um she this woman said she was convinced by the way or that this guy convinced people that he was a flying mind-reading vampire that's just how it goes and had the ability to hypnotize people um so another woman said that um that he another woman had told her that he could fly like i've seen him fly it's cool he can do it it only does it like special occasions you know like a summer solstice or something but he can do it for me so don't worry yeah i've seen it um so yeah a bunch of people testified about the rules and all that sort of thing other people testified about how they were recruited by Boswell on the false names and sugar daddies and all that kind of shit um interesting so the verdict comes in on her she's also mad fucking guilty yeah guilty as shit even easily more proven guilty because she's the one who was communicating right she's one time easier yeah now during sentencing because she's up for death penalty as well the uh a psychologist hired by the defense said that barely had turned to alcohol and drugs to deal with emotional abuse and verbal berating by a college coach okay this has to do with what now what's going on also that she had been sexually assaulted in college and made to believe it was her fault and then suffered beatings and sexual punishments by her boyfriend a football player who had seemed charming at first and later trafficked her on back page really for her to yeah to fucking you know okay sex acts for money so that's their play here her mother pleased for her life her mother said come on she said quote i don't think she deserves to die her daughter um loves us and so do the rest of us okay remember she's got a kid during these pleas Boswell's crying in the courtroom her grandma came out and asked for leniency not just not just for her not even particularly for her but for the sake of her child yeah said she loves her daughter like she would say to the moon and back she's not the person the court has made her out to be her dad got up there and said she's a good person i know that because i raised her she said that if it wasn't for Aubrey trail we wouldn't be in this courtroom right now discussing anybody's death or anything else or whether my daughter should be put to death she said the the belly they know and the belly i know are two different people and the abuse is what i believe caused that and if it wasn't for this abuse she wouldn't have been involved with trail they said that abuse um started after a normal childhood her biological father was murdered by the way oh jesus when she was young when she was an infant so it wasn't like she's whatever she knew that uh-huh no um so yeah they said she was a normal kid she didn't get into trouble she was bright she got a basketball scholarship to play for aib business school in Des Moines i didn't know business schools had basketball teams but apparently they do but that's when her life took a turn and they say that she was um sexually assaulted in college then met a man named Freddie and that became abusive and she said i remembered several times she'd come home with bruises all over her bruises on her arms her neck her eyes then she became pregnant with his child and she said while she was pregnant Freddie threw her down the stairs and kicked her in the face the father said there were several times he had to drive uh to pick up bally when the abuse got too bad they said we tried to tell her to get out of there then her daughter was taken away from her uh due to Freddie's drug use and given to them putting their custody this is a fucking mess um obviously they said she she wasn't the same girl that went to college she had no self-esteem she wasn't happy bubbly self like she was when she left for college she was just different she didn't have a driver motivation they also said she's been dominated by trail and when Aubrey trail shows up she's the perfect victim to fall to Aubrey trail's coercion i plead with you not to put my daughter to death i'd have to explain it to her daughter and i don't know how to do it i mean yeah i any parent would feel like that the prosecutor said that trail didn't prey upon Boswell in fact she sought him out on a website seeking a sugar daddy that's how they met oh is that right he didn't meet her and you know get her into the in there were her web into his web she put out she was looking for fucking sugar daddy so she got him he said trail didn't swoop into the restaurant one night and take her he found her advertising on back page looking for a sugar daddy and that's what she got oh my word the judge said that the uh found the state had proven the sole aggravating factor alleged that the killing manifested exceptional depravity under state law been coldly planned she relished in the crime showed needless mutilation and senseless killing and helplessness of the vix senselesses of the killing and helplessness of the victim Boswell's actions and words demonstrated she had no regard for the life of Sidney Louvre beyond her own personal pleasure you ma'am may fuck off life in prison plus 50 years for conspiracy and two years for unlawful disposal of human remains wow so yeah they banged her good but no death penalty she's not getting out right i she's so young that who knows you know what i mean she could get out because she's so young now for a while though no it'll be a while uh very quickly trail appeals his shit based on the fact that they didn't call a mistrial when he cut his throat well i mean which is wow that's fucking the judge judge said as with uh other defendants we will not permit trail to benefit from his own bad behavior during trial thank you any idiot could have said that could have said that um two thousand twenty three a true crime report lady trying to write a true crime book samantha el rabaki or rakabe i'm sorry had a quest for information about this murder for a book she was trying to write here developed a relationship with Aubrey trail and helped him extort a prison nurse in twenty twenty one everybody fuck what the fuck what the fuck stop it pick another case man are you kidding me as people who do have to we have to come up with two a fucking week and we've never fucking tried to help a murderer to do it i'm sorry you don't have to she had to go talk to him and he she fell into his clutches i guess he manipulated her enough to help extort the nurse the nurse the suspect here also hers samantha el rakabe also befriended the nurse in her pursuit of information for her book they thought of themselves as true crime buffs that hang out together eventually began communicating with the nurse who told trail uh that she was having a relate relationship troubles with her husband trail manipulated the nurse telling her that he hired a hitman to kill her husband and the job could only be stopped if she paid him twenty five thousand dollars wow he also convinced the nurse to smuggle contraband into prison for him including a phone chewing tobacco and a gun get me some chalk and a gun i need some Copenhagen in here wow i get the gun in the phone but like fucking he misses coke that much that well i mean yeah you could sell that in there too oh that's a good point yeah trail told the nurse to quote bring me a gun so i can just kill everybody wow el rakabe the writer was apparently with the nurse when she took the funds from her fucking bank account to do this bullshit here um yeah also claimed that she thought she would kill her son who was also an inmate if she didn't carry out the extortion plot the nurse quit her job trail also mentioned his intent to have a firearm smuggled into the prison and discussed the compromise staff member and her desire to have her husband killed in order to prevent him from obtaining her pension through divorce oh my god phone calls obtained uh apparently showed el rakabe joking with trail about how they were going to swindle twenty five thousand dollars from this fucking person wow what an asshole um Aubrey files in 2023 Aubrey filed a petition to proceed with execution okay good let's get this shit over with as far as cydney goes her co-workers at minards raised money to buy a plaque for a bench at the henry dorley zoo one of her favorite places money given to the family and her memory purchased two more bench plaques at the zoo and the omoha based set me free project which fights human trafficking and promotes social media safety created a three thousand dollar scholarship in cydney's name for an abraska high school student seeking to study criminal justice social work or cyber safety after graduation social work too she said social work wow that's beautiful so there you go everybody that now can you understand why like we said other people have done the case but we have gotten so many requests and i know why now i do i get it this is a fucking bonkers case so obviously that is a crazy story if you like that story and hopefully we told it better than the others yes that's our 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