The Dating App Killers: How A Tinder Date Turned into Murder
On 15th November 2017, Sydney Loofe (24) travelled to meet her “dream girl” Bailey Boswell (25), after the two women matched on Tinder. Little did Sydney know, she was entering a vicious trap which would end in murder.
Missing
When Sydney failed to show up to work on 16th November, her colleagues and family knew something was amiss and she was reported missing that same day. Knowing Sydney had recently met a young woman via an online dating app, police made efforts to trace her digital footprint. After accessing Sydney’s Tinder account, it was found that over 100 messages had been exchanged between Loofe and Boswell over a four-day period, and the timestamps on those messages placed the women together at the time of Sydney’s disappearance.
After tracking Sydney’s mobile phone, police were able to determine that it had last connected to a tower in a town named Wilber in Nebraska; which was coincidentally where Bailey Boswell rented an apartment with a 51-year-old man named Aubrey Trail. With Wilber being a 45 minute car journey away from Lincoln, and with a population of under 2,000 people, there is no other logical reason for why Sydney would be in that area unless accompanied by Boswell.
