Tinder killer who believed he was a warlock said he ‘picked the wrong person’ after murdering woman
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he → believe → woman
By
Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News
Published Oct. 31, 2026, 2:32 p.m. ET
Sydney Loofe thought she was heading out for a second date with a woman she met on Tinder.
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she → publish → 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.
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she → vanish → admission
“I don’t regret killing Sydney,” Aubrey Trail said, according to filmmaker Christopher St. John.
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Trail → regret → John
“I don’t regret killing somebody, but I regret killing …
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I → regret → somebody
I picked the wrong person.”
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I → pick → 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.
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Trail → convict → 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.
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Trail → testify → killing
“One of the FBI agents said that the culprits were in a frenzy,” St. John told Fox News Digital.
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John → say → Digital
“They were looking to do this, and Sydney was the available target.
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Sydney → look → this
She was trusting and innocent and fit the profile.
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She → fit → profile
You then later hear Aubrey Trail, the murderer, says, ‘I picked the wrong person.'”
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I → hear → 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.”
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it → think → 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.”
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who → describe → Devil
The three-part series features interviews with Loofe’s loved ones and investigators, as well as recordings of Trail from death row.
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series → feature → row
Loofe, a cashier at Menards, a home improvement store, lived alone in an apartment with her cat, Mimsy.
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Loofe → live → cat
According to friends, she was yearning for a relationship.
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she → accord → relationship
On Tinder, she came across a profile for a woman named Audrey, an alias used by Boswell.
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she → come → Boswell
After matching and exchanging messages, the two women went on their first date.
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women → match → date
They planned a second date for the next day.
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They → plan → day
“Sydney was like any one of us,” said St. John.
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John → say → us
“She was feeling lonely and searching for belonging.
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She → feel → belonging
She had gone on a date with this woman, and she was so excited that she immediately wrote to her friends.
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she → go → friends
They were like, ‘Great, nothing to worry about.’
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They → worry → ?
And she was never heard from again.
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she → hear → ?
Something awful came out of the darkness.”
When Loofe didn’t show up for her morning shift the following day, her family requested a welfare check.
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family → show → check
Police found her car in the driveway.
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Police → find → driveway
Her work clothes and purse were laid out for work.
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clothes → lay → work
Her cat hadn’t been fed.
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cat → feed → ?
Loofe’s friend, Brooklyn McCrystal, knew that she had been on a date the night before she disappeared.
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she → know → date
McCrystal created a Tinder profile to find Audrey in hopes of getting her contact information.
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McCrystal → create → information
When McCrystal matched with Audrey on the dating app, they exchanged phone numbers.
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they → match → numbers
McCrystal gave Boswell’s information to police.
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McCrystal → give → police
Loofe’s friends also showed investigators her final social media post, a selfie shared on Snapchat captioned “Ready for my date.”
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friends → show → date
“Brooklyn provided the first big break in the case,” said St. John.
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John → provide → case
“She catfished the bad guys.
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She → catfishe → guys
It’s got all the hallmarks of an amazing investigation.
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It → get → investigation
But ultimately, what led to Aubrey and Bailey’s capture was the people who were devoted to Sydney searching for answers.”
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who → lead → answers
Boswell refused to cooperate with investigators.
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Boswell → refuse → investigators
When police tracked her phone, they learned it was a burner phone registered under a fake name.
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it → track → name
…and 47 more, not listed.
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