The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of Bailey Boswell, rejecting her appeal for the murder of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe of Lincoln in 2017.
KLIN media partner 1011 Now reports, on Friday, the court decided there were no errors in the district court’s earlier ruling, reaffirming Boswell’s convictions and sentences.
In 2021, Boswell was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 2017 murder of Loofe, just a few months after her boyfriend Aubrey Trail was sentenced to death for the same crimes. Boswell was spared of the death penalty.
Trail and Boswell killed a Loofe and discarded her body in parts of rural Nebraska in 2017. Trail admitted to the crime, and said Boswell lured her to his apartment in Wilber to get her involved in their criminal lifestyle. According to Trail, they killed Loofe out of fear she would inform others about their activities.
Boswell’s attorneys argued the admission of photographs of Loofe’s dismembered body were excessively gruesome and prejudicial. Additionally that references Boswell partaking in witchcraft and sex acts was irrelevant and not admissible in court.