Tinder killer who believed he was a warlock said he picked the wrong person after murdering woman
Sydney Loofe thought she was heading out for a second date with a woman she met on Tinder.Instead, the 24-year-old vanished — and the man convicted of her murder would later make a disturbing admission about why she proved to be the “wrong person” to kill.“I don’t regret killing Sydney,” Aubrey Trail said, according to filmmaker Christopher St.
John.“I don’t regret killing somebody, but I regret killing … I picked the wrong person.”Trail, then a 52-year-old con man, was convicted of strangling the Nebraska store clerk with an electrical cord in 2017, cutting her body into 14 pieces, placing the remains in garbage bags and dumping them in roadside ditches.
At the trial, witnesses testified that Trail and his girlfriend, Bailey Boswell, then 25, had solicited them for group sex and talked about the occult and gaining “powers” through killing.“One of the FBI agents said that the culprits were in a frenzy,” St.John told Fox News Digital.
“They were looking to do this, and Sydney was the available target.She was trusting and innocent and fit the profile.
You then later hear Aubrey Trail, the murderer, says, ‘I picked the wrong person.'”“I think that’s incredibly chilling for me because he has no remorse, but he wishes that he hadn’t chosen someone with such strong family and friends because it led to his capture.”Loofe’s murder at the hands of Trail, who described himself as a “powerful warlock” and the leader of a sex cult, is explored in the new Hulu true crime docuseries “Swipe Right on the Devil.” The three-part series features interviews with Loofe’s loved ones and investigators, as well as recordings of Trail from death row.Loofe, a cashier at Menards, a home improvement store, lived alone in an apartment with her cat, Mimsy.According to friends, she was yearning for a relationship.
On Tinder, she came across a profile for a woman named Audrey, an alias used by Boswell.After matching and exchanging message...