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Aubrey Trail was sentenced to death in June 2021. He and his then-girlfriend, Bailey Boswell, were convicted for killing and dismembering the home improvement store clerk, Sydney Loofe, then leaving her body in garbage bags strewn along roadways in rural Nebraska.
Boswell had also faced the death penalty, which would have made her the first woman in Nebraska sentenced to death, but a panel of three judges could not agree unanimously that her role in the murder was exceptionally depraved, a necessary finding under Nebraska law for a death sentence. Boswell was instead sentenced to life in prison.
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