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Man Condemned In Sydney Loofe Killing Seeks To Be Own Lawyer

By Tom Stanton Sep 22, 2021 | 2:25 PM

(AP) The man sentenced to death for the killing and dismemberment of a Lincoln woman he met on the dating app Tinder is seeking to fire his team of attorneys and represent himself in his appeal.  The Omaha World-Herald reports that 55-year-old Aubrey Trail filed the request last week with the Nebraska Supreme Court.

In the filing, Trail said his court-appointed attorneys have refused to support his request to sell some $25,000 in antiques and rare coins and give the money to a memorial fund set up for his victim, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe.

Trail was convicted in 2019 of first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder in the 2017 murder of Loofe, a 24 year old clerk at a Lincoln Menards.

Her body was dumped in ditches along Nebraska country roads.