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grab a chair, grab a beer. Let's talk some true crime. [Music] [Music] [Music] So, I want to get into the suspects here
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a bit, Captain. And I guess technically at this time in our timeline that they are persons of interest, but they I mean
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if law enforcement were vultures, they would be circling around these two endlessly because there's so much
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telling them that these folks are absolutely responsible for the disappearance. Now, let's figure out
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their level involvement and what exactly happened here. And we did some background on these two, and here's what
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we found. Bailey's biological father was murdered when she was a baby. But despite this, she had a very normal
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upbringing by all accounts with her with a mom, stepdad, and grandparents who were loving and supportive. She was an
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excellent track and basketball athlete in high school. This in Lyon, Iowa, and she was awarded a basketball scholarship
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to play in De Moine. But it's it's unclear if she accepted this scholarship. Her family said that Bailey
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was a normal kid who did not get into trouble, but she was sexually assaulted in college and she got into a very
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physically abusive relationship. This was with a one Freddy Panel panel pan nel that turned and they say her her
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folks say turned her down a very dark path. The Boswell's claimed that Bailey had tried to escape Freddy even filing a
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restraining order against him. But prosecutors said that Bailey and Freddy were druggies. Bailey lost custody of
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her daughter because of her habit. She was arrested in 2016, just one year before Sydney went missing and was
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killed. This for possession of drug paraphernalia in Cameron, Missouri. At some point, she started advertising on
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Back Page looking for a sugar daddy, which is how she met Aubrey. The two seemed to form an unlikely pair and
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teamed up to steal, swindle, and defraud people at antique booths at traveling shows as well as their online antique
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store. They were together for more than a year during which they racked up some serious charges. They were passing bad
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checks, including making off with $28,000 worth of rare coins. Aubrey and Bailey
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were believed to have been involved in between $300,000 to $500,000 in theft and bad check cases. And this
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spans several states. >> Cocaine is a hell of a drug. from the Grand Island Independent. Quote,
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"Boswell joined up with Trail, an exconvict from Tennessee for a life of stealing and selling antiques, visiting
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casinos, and engaging young women for parties and group sex." End quote. Aubrey was twice Bailey's age, probably
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three times her weight, and they made for one very strange and very evil couple. Aubrey Trail spent his teenage
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years in troubled environments, including a juvenile detention facility. He was incarcerated for the first time
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at age 17 for armed robbery and has spent most of his life incarcerated or on parole. He had done two prison stints
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for defrauding people out of valuable antiques. Normally, this would cue the captain to say that he's a piece of
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[ __ ] but we covered that extensively in part one of this story. I can say it again if you want. This guy's a giant
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piece of [ __ ] but also like, and I'm not trying to feel bad for any of these losers, but when you hear a story of a
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individual that had scholarship offers to go play a sport at a collegiate level and then their life turns into this, you
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just think, man, that that sucks. It sucks for her family. It sucks for her friends. Sucks for her. It sucks for
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everybody that basically was in the path of this destruction. I think all of this
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comes down when it comes down to to Bailey is she was a drug addict and was willing to almost do anything to make
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sure that she could get drugs. >> Well, you know, one could say her life turned into this. Another could say she
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turned her life >> right >> into this. And that from from where I stand, that's kind of how I see it now.
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>> I mean, these are two of the biggest piles of [ __ ] that have ever been on the
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show, and that's saying a lot. >> So, they're they're locked up, right? They're in jail awaiting charges. Aubrey
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is caught trying to slip Bailey notes when they're in jail. And one he wrote, quote, "Here is your story." End quote.
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and told her to tell the investigators that they were paid lots of money by young women to act out killing, torture,
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and sex fantasies. So essentially what what this story would be is that women would pay this couple to act out these
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different fantasies with that woman. And in some cases, it included photographing, videotaping or recording.
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Videotaping, I shouldn't say that. recording these acts. Now, here come the charges, though. This is both federal
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and state authorities. This is December of 2017. They charged them with carrying stolen
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merchandise valued at more than $5,000 across state lines. And Aubrey was handed over to the US Marshalss on a
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federal theft charge that he and Bailey had defrauded a Kansas couple out of $375,000
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approximately and an overseas gold coin scheme and transported the property over
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state lines. But charges on the Sydney Lof case were a long time coming. the the other criminal cases proceeded and
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they both were facing years in prison on those cases. You know, this is a guy, if
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you follow this story long enough, it seems like this guy enjoyed the spotlight, right? The accused killer or
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would be accused killer sitting in the county jail, Aubrey Trail, on three separate occasions spoke with reporters
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from the Omaha World Herald. He said he had given three separate statements on the LOF case to the FBI. He admitted he
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expected to be charged. In fact, he asked for charges. He kept making statements like quote, "You want justice
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for Sydney? Charge me." End quote. He was challenging the authorities and almost seemed like he wanted to be
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charged, saying, "The FBI has pulled so many hairs out of my head, I've got a bald spot." In a second recorded
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jailhouse phone call, Aubrey told the Omaha World Herald that I told law enforcement a long time ago that I am
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accountable for Sydney Loose's death. I am responsible. The girl presumably meaning Bailey had nothing to do with
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it. And then a flatout confession. Aubrey told reporter Paul Hamel that he accidentally suffocated Sydney to death
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in the basement apartment he and Bailey rented in Wilbur. Hamel's reporting states, "Trail claimed that Lof was a
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willing participant in a sexual fantasy with himself and at least two other women, but that Bailey Boswell was wiped
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out on drugs and outside the room when Lof died." Aubrey seemed to want to pay for his crime. In February 2018, he told
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the reporter in another prison phone call that he was ready to be charged. Quote, "I'm guilty. I did it. Let's get
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justice for Sydney Lof. A life for a life. I should be put to death." End quote.
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>> Yeah. But even if you buy his story, stories. >> His stories. Yeah. Stories. Then Bailey is still responsible on some
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level. She is a she's involved somehow. Well, several months would go by while prosecutors gathered evidence amassing
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like 500 potential witnesses and figured out they had to figure out where the prosecution should be handled too
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because we have this detail of Sydney living in one county in Lancaster County and it's believed she was killed in
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Selen County was disposed of in Klay County. Now, like you said prior, both of these suspects are already in jail
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facing other charges. So, there's no real rush to try them. It's more let's we have the time, so let's get this
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absolutely right. Let's let's get this perfect. In January of 2018, Aubrey entered not guilty please to 13 federal
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indictments related to stolen property. Then later, they both end up pleading guilty to charges. very similar charges.
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So what happens here, Captain, in two separate sentencing hearings, Bailey Boswell gets five years in prison and
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Aubrey Trail got 10 years. This for defrauding that Kansas couple out of nearly $400,000.
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Wow. Then from Saline County in June of 2018, this is when both Bailey and Aubrey were
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charged with firstdegree murder and abandoning a human remains. From omahal.com,
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quote, state prosecutors alleged that Lof's death was deliberate and premeditated. Among their evidence is
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surveillance camera footage from a Lincoln Home Depot store of Trail and Boswell buying tools and supplies
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believed to have been used in the dismemberment and disposal of Lof's body. According to court records, Sydney
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was strangled with an extension cord, the court documents alleged, by either Bailey or Aubrey. Either way, the
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prosecutors intended to pursue the death penalty for Aubrey. Court papers filed by the Nebraska Attorney General's
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Office alleged that two aggravating circumstances warranted the capital punishment. This
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was that Aubrey had a substantial history of serious assultative and terrorizing criminal activity and that
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Sydney's murder was done with exceptional depravity. Another charge was soon slapped on Aubrey. This is
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conspiracy to commit murder. The charge alleged that he had conspired with Bailey between July and October of 2017
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to solicit young women online recruit participants in a homicide and select a victim to murder. The two were casting a
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wide net, >> right? >> And Sydney fell into a trap. Aubrey plead guilty to additional charges. this
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of improper disposal of human remains. But on the serious charges like the first-degree murder, he pled not guilty.
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But we have a trial to discuss here, Captain. >> Yeah. So he plead not guilty, but he
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confessed to it. >> No. So he he plead guilty to the charge of improper disposal of human remains.
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>> Right. >> But he he pleads not guilty to the more serious charges. the main one being that
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first degree murder. But this dude, and I I you hear me laughing, not because I find it to be humorous, but
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because I I find it to be exhaustingly aggravating. This dude was a serious pain in the ass during the pre-trial
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period. >> Well, he's a loser. So, of course, his attorney filed all sorts of motions
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claiming his statements to police were coerced and claiming that he had an alibi.
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That's all normal stuff. No one cared. And those motions were all rejected. >> Good. Aubrey made claims that Sydney,
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the victim, was involved in the coin fraud scheme, that they had known her much longer than this short period on
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Tinder. Right. Then he claims other inmates were threatening him. So he gets placed in solitary for his own safety.
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To which then as soon as he's there, he promptly asks for a TV. Like, "Oh, can you give me a TV?" The answer is no,
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dude. The answer's no. No TV for you. He requested special housing saying that he
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had health issues. And then after a psych evaluation, Aubrey was found fit to stand trial. Then at the trial, the
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state had lined up, remember we had mentioned potentially 500 witnesses that they were going to call during the
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course of this trial. This included clerks at antique stores, clerks at motel and casinos where the pair
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allegedly spent a lot of money. two ex-wives of Trail and dozens of law enforcement members who aided in the
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investigation and the search for both Sydney and for those pers. The prosecutor made sure the jury knew that
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Aubrey and Bailey Boswell recruited Sydney with the sole intention of murdering her simply for their
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entertainment and pleasure. >> Yeah, they're evil animals. Do you think there's something about uh like prison
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justice? Because I've been thinking a lot about this there. There's all these reports now with, you know, Brian
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Coberger where he gets in prison and and these people are harassing him and and taunting him through the vents and
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obviously they have to take all this into account because these animals want to get to him. But do you think these
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the people he's in prison with are bad people? Are they doing this to make, you know, two wrongs make a right or is it I
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think some of it has to do with if there's too much attention on a case that people in prison some somehow want
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to make a statement and I think you see the same thing here. It's like it seems like Aubrey was uh braggadocious and and
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wanted to be in the spotlight and wanted to take credit for this crime and wanted
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these horrible details out there, but then once he gets behind bars, it seems like,
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you know, the animals wanted to get him. >> Who knows? Who knows? I mean, there's
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cases where people were placed in solitary for their own safety when it's absolutely
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necessary. And then there's other, keep in mind, you know, my statement here was
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that he claimed other inmates were threatening him. We do know of other cases where an individual goes to jail
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and then fabricates threats that that does get them placed into solitary. So, >> right,
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>> you know, the typically a person that has this length of rap sheet is a a bully for not so much in the traditional
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sense, but a bully in the way of how they move and live in society. If they want something, they take it or they
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steal it from you or they defraud you out of your money. and he did all this and and it's it's manipulative and it's
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trying to control every scenario and benefit find a way to benefit in any scenario that you're placed into whether
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you actually deserve to benefit or have done any real work to to achieve a higher status or a better position in
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your situation. So, it's I mean, as far as this [ __ ] goes, I don't put a whole
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lot of thought into this. I you know I the my my drive for true crime is always the investigations and how how do we
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find how do we figure out who's responsible for this and then how do we apprehend them? That to me is the stuff
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that that I find intriguing. That's the stuff that I've that's what the smart good people are doing, strategizing and
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learning and educating themselves on to do. Once once a Aubrey gets put into jail with with a whole bunch of other
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guilty people, >> the wild it could be Lord of the Flies for all I care. I don't I don't that's
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you know they're not part of my society. They're not. I actually pay taxes to make sure that they are not. So, however
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they sort it out in there, that's that's up to them. >> Is it bad that there's a part of me that
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likes the monsters threatening and scaring this the the boogeyman? Cuz in all these cases, that person, you
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know, Brian Coberger becomes the boogeyman, but not once he's behind bars. No, it's human nature. It It would
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be weird if you didn't because it it's >> cuz I like it. I probably like it more
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than I should. >> When people do stuff as heinous and hurtful and heartless and soulless as
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the crimes that we are regularly discussing on this show, it is not it doesn't ever sit well to just go, "Oh,
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well, they did all this horrible [ __ ] and now they're they're essentially getting a 25 year long timeout." it it's
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just not there's no >> there's nothing that that feels good about about that punishment. The one of
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the things that the uh and this was a good strategic move by the prosecutor I I like to because they spend so much
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time focusing on how they present things and the words that they choose to use in
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the delivery of those words to the jury. And one thing he told the jury was that
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the they go into detail about when Bailey picks Sydney up using the ruse about a date with Bailey, pointing out
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that these two were already prepared with everything that they needed to kill, dismember, and dispose. And he
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goes on to tell the jury that the two were hoping and planning to murder someone, anyone, for months. He told the
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jury, quote, "This was not a sexual fantasy gone wrong, but a pre-meditated murder gone right." The other prosecutor
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here was from the Nebraska Attorney General's office who took up from there. She said, "This is more than
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first-degree murder. This was a planned abduction to kill Sydney Lof." Then describing in painstaking detail how
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Cydney was dismembered. At this point, Sydney's sister and father left the courtroom. The prosecutor, she threw in
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the Sydney's internal organs, some of them were never found. And in Aubrey's interview, he had only said vaguely that
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they had drained her blood because he was very thirsty that day. Now, this was a tactic, this tactic by the prosecutors
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was deliberate because remember, Aubrey plead guilty pre-trial to the improper disposal of human remains. That was a
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tactic that was designed to avoid showing the horrific images of the dismembered body to the jury. So, the
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thought was if if he's already guilty of improper disposal of human remains that
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that can't work its way into this trial, >> right? By talking about the autopsy and
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Aubrey's air quotes confession, the prosecution managed to get them in the trial deliberately to horrify the jury.
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Astonishingly, Aubrey managed to slip a razor blade into court and tried to take his own
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life right there in front of the jury. He slashed his throat and yelled, "Bailey is innocent and I curse you
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all." Now, he lived, but blood had to be cleaned up off of the courtroom floor. And the judge refused to declare a
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mistrial, ruling that Aubrey's act of self harm was quote, "a calculated gesture resulting in superficial cuts."
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The trial continued in Aubrey's absence as he recovered in the hospital. All right, we are back. Make sure you
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let's get let's get back to these uh [ __ ] bags of the year. >> Yeah. So, we have a forensic
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anthropologist from Mississippi, Steven Simes, who is going to be testifying on behalf of the prosecution to discuss at
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length the brutal death and the suffering of the victim as well as the barbaric treatment of the body and
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telling jurors that a a saw, a knife, and scissor-l like tools were used to dismember the body. remember tin snips
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and some other items. We talked about the grocery list of items that were purchased at the hardware store. This
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from omaha.com. Quote, SS, who said he specializes in cases of body dismemberment, examined Lof's remains on
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December 13, 2017. He used a model of a skeleton at times to show jurors how Lof's body was cut
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up. He said it appeared from the characteristics of the cuts that a knife was used to remove flesh and then a saw
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was used to cut through the bones with several false start cuts. A scissors like tool like tin snips was used on the
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rib area, he said. And then there were the witnesses to the premeditated nature of the crime. This was this is something
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you don't often see in in murder case trials at all. So, we get three female witnesses who had lived or spent time
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with this terrible couple before Sydney's murder. Right? >> So, these three different ladies, they
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they testified that the pair often talked about torturing and killing someone. Their reasons to kill
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witchcraft. Aubrey claimed he could fly and that he was a vampire and that he had a harum of witches. Not the good
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kind, Glinda. These women all told the jury that they just like Sydney met Bailey on Tinder. Once they met in
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person, she introduces them to her sugar daddy Aubrey. They coerced them into group sex and bondage activities in
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exchange for financial assistance like a weekly allowance. Now, I think a key here is that none of these three women,
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it should be noted, none of them ever testified that they had experienced choking as part of any of these sexual
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activities. Can you imagine though? You go on back page looking for a sugar daddy and you end up in a basement.
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That's what the sugar daddy provides. But I'm guessing all these women, all these I guess quote unquote
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eyewitnesses, they're all drug users. Heavy drug users. >> I I don't know about that. That wasn't
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part of their testimony. And keep in mind, they weren't looking they weren't looking for a sugar daddy. They were
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looking for a female, >> right? And they they found they found Bailey who then introduces them to
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Aubrey. >> It's a bizarre story. >> They will fall out of touch with most of them when the arrange because these
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arrangements what happens is they start off soft and then they get worse and worse. They get a little more violent,
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right? >> More depraved. Baileyy's essentially looking for a submissive. And so subi
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people who want to be a submissive show up. They meet Bailey and now they're submit submitting to her, but now
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there's this other there's this other person involved. [ __ ] went from weird to
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crazy strange weird. >> Might be fun for some people, but I think once that couple starts talking
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about that he can fly and that they want to murder somebody, you stop returning their texts and their calls. Well, and
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mind you, this guy who claims he can fly is sitting in a wheelchair during the course of this trial. So,
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>> yeah, >> appears he lost that ability. >> That's cuz he he flew too high and and
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fell. >> Yeah. Well, and but the purpose of calling >> his legs on the landing. The purpose of
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calling these witnesses was to point out that it's like what one of the Well, yeah, but like what one of the
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prosecutors were saying, it wasn't the the Tinder communication with Sydney Lof was completely targeting her and trying
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to to set up a scenario where they could abduct, attack, and murder this woman before she became a victim. They were
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looking for a nameless victim. These women are testifying that these two were aroused by the idea of watching. So, one
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of the statements was something to this effect here. Captain Aubrey Trail was aroused by the idea of watching Bailey
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Boswell torture someone. Let's get into some of the details without I don't want
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to go through all because it was very lengthy, but among some of the details of these witnesses in their test in
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their testimony at trial, Aubrey and Bailey wanted one of the women to select someone to kill and torture so they
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could videotape the act and sell it, saying that they could make a million dollars to sell the snuff film. They
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stated that Bailey wanted one of the women to torture and kill someone to prove her loyalty to Bailey in their
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dominant/submissive sexual relationship. The woman said the order was later dropped after she proved
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her worth. That each of the women were mostly met up with the pair who mostly met up with the pair individually was
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paid between $150 to $200 a week as some sort of allowance. But they said the payments came with a
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set of rules, including that Aubrey be called daddy and Bailey mommy and remaining naked
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while they're in the apartment at all times. Also participating in group sex sessions and submitting to punishment,
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including whippings. I forgot too, one of his other supernatural powers was he had the ability to put Bailey in a
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trance. H sure. >> One of the women testified that she had a fantasy of being a cat complete with a
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leash and collar, but she said that she was humiliated when she was ordered to eat cat food out of a bowl. Um,
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>> but she wanted she wanted to be a cat. >> Hey, you want to >> you want to talk, you got to eat the cat
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food. >> You got to walk the walk. >> Uh, they >> What's wrong with people? We don't have
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enough time. They also testified that Bailey enjoyed pain during sex and wanted one of the young women to talk
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about acts of torture while engaging in sex with her. Bailey, the woman testified, also talked of dismembering a
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body and breaking someone's fingers as a form of torture. >> Jesus Christ. >> And that Aubrey had what he called a
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kill bag that contained a hammer, pliers, and a sauna suit. Remember, there was a sauna suit found with the
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trash bags and body parts. One of the women who was with the couple on the failed cocaine drop in Grand Island or
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or we probably more it's more accurate to say the fake cocaine drop when they were on the run. testified that cocaine
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from the skies >> testified that Bailey and Aubrey talked about being on the lookout for a victim
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to torture and kill. Quote, "Someone who would not be missed." The plan was for Aubrey to watch Bailey and the woman
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commit murder. This I don't know if I mentioned it already, Captain, but it sounds like they even may have had their
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eyes on a a student or a foreign student. Think about this for a second here. Look, these two are not overly
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smart, but we do know that they are planning. >> You don't need to be smart if you can
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fly. >> They're planning all of this. If the family doesn't sound the alarm right
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away, if the friend doesn't turn into Adrien Monk and sort the whole thing out and figure out what's going on and
00:33:40
supply the absolute best lead possible to police if all these dominoes don't fall in this order,
00:33:50
>> how soon would they have moved on to victim number two? >> And because the distance they lived away
00:33:54
from Sydney, would they become suspects at all? Because since they were using fake names and they were basically
00:34:01
catfishing on on Tinder, just think if if Sydney was in a place where she didn't tell anybody about a date, we
00:34:10
would have no leads. And even the Snapchat picture, you could go, "Well, she said she's going on a date, but we
00:34:16
don't know how she's getting dates. We don't know if she met somebody." And then again, they would, you know, go to
00:34:22
her inner circle and the people at her work and they would have nowhere to go as far as information. She just poof
00:34:29
gone. Well, and a lot of this too, you know, I every bit of this you could say, whoa, this powerful piece of evidence,
00:34:39
this powerful, I mean, there's so many incredibly powerful and significant pieces of evidence in this trial that
00:34:45
were presented at the trial, but we can't overlook that they had video of the three-hour FBI interrogation of
00:34:53
Aubrey. This is shown the the entire session was shown to the jury. And remember
00:35:02
when he is it seems like at this point his concern is not for himself. It's more of well Bailey is not guilty.
00:35:12
Wasn't there when when when Sydney died. His story is is changing on the details of a lot of this
00:35:22
relationship. Right. at times saying that they had known Sydney for a long time. I think one at one point he says
00:35:27
they had known her for a year prior to the murder. >> Yeah. But that doesn't line up with
00:35:31
their the surveillance footage at Menard's. Right. >> Well, and it doesn't line the other
00:35:37
thing, too, is it doesn't line up with other stories he's he's telling as well. So, it's I mean, which which one would
00:35:43
you like for me to believe, sir? You know, which which of your stories most uh benefits you? What suits you today? I
00:35:52
hope somebody rips his face off in jail. >> Regarding the the missing organs, this part is weird because he he
00:36:01
he's simply saying that they drained her blood. Remember, he said something like
00:36:06
he because he was thirsty that day. >> Yeah. >> But then he says that they he deposited
00:36:12
her blood and soul at a secret location. And that's about as much of that as we get.
00:36:21
But he does say this too in one of the portions of being interrogated. He says, quote, "I'm a low down piece of [ __ ] a
00:36:28
monster, whatever, but I'm not giving anyone up." >> Meaning that there's more people
00:36:34
involved. >> Look, Bailey's absolutely involved. I think he's just trying to protect her,
00:36:39
>> right, >> in some form or fashion. But so, >> but look, there could be somebody else
00:36:44
that was there. They we know that they were doing stuff with other people. It's very possible that somebody else was
00:36:52
there that didn't know what was going to go down. >> Yeah. Well, he says two other people,
00:36:57
two other women were there. >> Yeah. >> But Bailey was outside knocked down on drugs. But then he goes into this
00:37:05
dissertation of his weirdass belief system where he was saying, "Look, when we disposed of the body, everyone who
00:37:14
was there when LOF died had to leave something they liked or something personal to them at the disposal site."
00:37:24
And he said that this was some form of apology that they could give. But he also goes on several times to maintain
00:37:34
that he alone was responsible for Cydney's death, Sydney Lof's death, and that Bailey Boswell was not present when
00:37:40
Sydney died. And he claimed that Bailey Boswell was later forced to help cut up and dispose
00:37:49
of the body. And look, it his storyries all over the place. First, she accidentally died during rough sex. Then
00:37:58
he's claiming multiple people were involved, but not Bailey. She's innocent. Oh, but wait, she had helped,
00:38:06
but only because he forced her to. He refused to name the other participants because they do not well, they don't
00:38:14
exist. At trial, Aubry story changed again. His courtappointed attorney, Joe Murray, asked jurors to keep an open
00:38:22
mind. Even though Aubrey Trail is not a particularly nice man, he says, but the truth is that Sydney Loop's death was a
00:38:32
completely was completely accidental and not a premeditated scheme to kill a young woman. And just like you said,
00:38:41
Captain, you're ahead of it here because that doesn't go along with all of their
00:38:45
actions and confirmed movements. Some of them, I mean, these are the the trail. It's digital. It's on the phones. It's
00:38:54
on communications between the killers, between the victim and one of the killers, and their actions and
00:38:59
activities at these do-it-yourself stores. Well, but you've been saying it for a long time and and I think it's one
00:39:07
of the smartest things you've actually said that this cell phone data will become just as important as DNA and a
00:39:17
lot of these >> more I think it's already more important if the agencies that seem to know the
00:39:22
departments that seem to know how to use it and to use it immediately are are clearing cases and making arrest
00:39:31
very quickly And those are stories that don't necessarily make it all the way to
00:39:37
nationwide because it's we're looking for the killer. Boom, we found him. And and so the story doesn't have any
00:39:46
legs because it's very quick that they find the person responsible and get them off of the streets. and and it's all
00:39:54
because of you got this phone on you and yeah, I don't we we don't need to go into too much detail about that.
00:40:02
>> So, what happens to these ass hats? What I could take away from his trial, the
00:40:08
trail trial, if you want to call it that, was that it they were trying to push forward the idea that this was
00:40:16
simply sex game gone wrong and that yeah, they went way over the top to try to cover it up. It's weird because
00:40:27
Aubrey did testify. He says that he doesn't contest a lot of what the prosecution's case is, but he's saying,
00:40:36
you know, he had that explanation for what actually happened. Sex game gone wrong. But then in this version of it,
00:40:43
it's she was accidentally strangled from behind during three-way rough sex between him and Bailey and Sydney. So, I
00:40:53
mean, it goes it goes on and on and on, but again, it doesn't explain why you are purchasing things for a murder kit
00:41:00
and to cover it up before the date before Bailey and Sydney's date on the 15th, you're buying this stuff,
00:41:07
>> right? >> So, you can't say, "Well, this this was disposing of her body in this horrific,
00:41:13
barbaric manner that we chose to do was reactionary to an accident." You don't plan an accident. you plan to cover
00:41:21
something up and everything that the state was showing proved in my opinion that and the the jury believed it as
00:41:30
well. You know, he was found guilty. The same jury was reconvened to consider whether Aubrey should be
00:41:39
given the death penalty. This is was like a short mini trial, if you will. They had to believe that the there were
00:41:48
aggravating circumstances involved here in which I mean we've gone through a lot of the details here. It
00:41:55
was you got to prove that it's premeditated and you got to prove that prove beyond a
00:42:03
reasonable doubt that the murder manifested exceptional depravity by ordinary standards of morality and
00:42:09
intelligence. That's that's the court jargon here that uh for the legal words here for this in their state and of
00:42:20
course they unanimously voted for death. So in Nebraska from my understanding here captain you have the jury they have
00:42:29
to push for death but then you have a three judge system. So if the jury finds that the crime met the criteria, then
00:42:37
three judges would consider any mitigating circumstances and determine the actual final sentencing. So this is
00:42:44
about as thorough as it gets as far as I'm concerned. And so he he faced the same jury twice. once to find if he's
00:42:52
guilty. Two, to figure out if the circumstances met the criteria for the death penalty, and then three, a three
00:42:59
judge panel to confirm if that was going to be the punishment or not. And that's
00:43:05
what he gets. Now, Bailey, unlike Aubrey, was completely different during her trial. She was silent during the
00:43:16
pre-trial period and silent and on her best behavior during the trial. But all of the same evidence that we covered in
00:43:27
the trail trial is all that was presented at Bailey's trial as well. And the results here are same but different.
00:43:41
The jury took just three and a half hours to convict Bailey on all three charges. First-degree murder, conspiracy
00:43:48
to commit murder, and improper disposal of human remains. In the sentencing phase, going for the death penalty, the
00:43:56
prosecutor showed the jury the severed arm, superficial cuts. They they showed everything they could to point out that
00:44:08
not just was this premeditated, it was exceptionally depraved, >> one of the worst.
00:44:12
>> And that she was I mean, here's the part of it. Like you can have people that go
00:44:19
on the stand and testify that because of violence that Bailey experienced in her
00:44:26
life and trauma that she experienced in her life that those are some form of mitigating factors that you need to
00:44:34
consider. But you also need to consider this. She did a lot of the leg work to make sure that this woman was abducted
00:44:43
and murdered. Had she not done a lot of that leg work, then this may have never happened. So, she is found guilty.
00:44:52
She doesn't get the death penalty because in this situation, the judges, the three judges, it's not majority
00:44:59
rules. It's got to be unanimous. So, two of the judges believe that the death penalty was appropriate and one did not.
00:45:08
She doesn't get the death penalty. She gets life in prison, plus she gets like a 50 years for conspiracy charge and two
00:45:17
years for unlawful unlawful disposal of human remains. Afterwards, we have Sydney's parents, George and Susie Lof
00:45:24
said they were thankful that Bailey and Aubrey will never see the light of day. George Lof added, however, that if this
00:45:32
doesn't warrant the death penalty, I feel Nebraska should just get rid of it. I believe that Bailey Boswell is as
00:45:38
guilty or guiltier. If it wasn't for her, my daughter would never have been there. He said there were appeals by
00:45:47
both individuals, but Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the convictions, the death sentence, and the life
00:45:58
sentence as well. Sydney Lof was an animal lover. She aspired to work with creatures big and small. Memorial
00:46:07
benches for Sydney can be found at her hometown city park and at the zoo and aquarium in Omaha.
00:46:16
Her headstone is shaped like an angel. This is just another senseless killing. We suspect that Bailey and Aubrey, now
00:46:24
facing the remainder of their sorry lives in prison cells, could not even articulate a reason why
00:46:34
Bailey was full of selfserving tears when it came to begging for her life. But where was that sympathy when it came
00:46:44
to Sydney? As Bailey's family said about her, she was a normal kid. She had a loving upbringing. She was not raised to
00:46:53
be a monster. She chose to help Aubrey find victims for their depraved fantasies involving sexual sadism. She
00:47:02
chose to make others submit to her using coercion and violence. She chose to subject others to fear, pain, and
00:47:10
debasement. She chose to kill and therefore she chose her fate. As for Aubrey, he
00:47:19
fostered a cult of personality with himself at the center and used fear, pain, and torture to subjugate women to
00:47:28
his increasingly sadistic demands, which eventually culminated in murder. We will
00:47:34
be watching to see whether Aubryy's death sentence is ever carried out. I cannot think of a much more deserving
00:47:42
candidate. Want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage. Thanks for telling
00:47:58
your mother. Thanks for telling your brother. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast. And Colonel, do we have any
00:48:03
recommended reading for the beautiful listeners? >> Yeah, one of our uh good friends,
00:48:08
>> hey, has put out there first. I say first because I believe there's going to be a number two or a number three to
00:48:14
come. >> Some say this will be her first number two. >> There you go. Lauren Samples true crime
00:48:21
book recently released titled Through the Shadows: Unsolved Crimes and the Search for Truth. Many of you will know
00:48:29
her from the Paradise After Dark podcast and people that have gone to Crime Con have seen them on Creators Row podcast
00:48:39
row. And it's complete with some essays by one by yours truly, also one by Sharon Newman Edwards, Robin Wart, and
00:48:50
Kelly Brink. So check that out. The reviews are are really good on Amazon right now. The title is Through the
00:48:58
Shadows: Unsolved Crimes and the Search for Truth by Lauren Samples. You can find that title and many other great
00:49:07
recommendations on our recommended page at true crimegar.com. >> And until next week, be good, be kind,
00:49:13
and don't witter. [Music] [Applause] [Music]