Woman's Body Found After Going On A Tinder Date
Y'all gotta be careful when you go and meet strangers off of social media.
Just last week, a 15 year old girl was stabbed and set on fire by a man she met on Facebook and now another woman has turned up dead after meeting someone on the Tinder app.
For weeks, Sydney Loofe’s last Tinder date has proclaimed innocence to pretty much anybody who would listen.
Yes, Bailey Boswell said, the two women had swiped right on the dating app and met up. Yes, they had driven around the Lincoln, Neb., area getting acquainted and high at the same time. Yes, Loofe had been to her house.
But Boswell claimed the last time they saw each other, Loofe was safe and alive, headed into a friend’s house a week before Thanksgiving.
Most important, Boswell said, the claims that people had been making about foul play after the two women met online were false. Boswell says she and her roommate — 51-year-old Aubrey Trail — were being unfairly targeted by authorities searching for the missing 24-year-old.
On Tuesday, police announced a grim turn in the case: They had found Loofe’s body in a rural part of Clay County. They believe she was a victim of foul play.
No one has been charged in connection with Loofe’s death. But police said Boswell, 23, and Trail were still persons of interest. They’re both in jail after being arrested on unrelated warrants.
“By their own statements on social media, we believe that Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell were two of the last people . . . to be with Sydney Loofe [before] her disappearance, and that’s why they continue to be persons of interest,” said
Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister in a Tuesday news conference.He added that investigators had “extensively explored the statements” Trail and Boswell made denying their involvement in Loofe’s disappearance.
“The investigative efforts have not been able to confirm those particular details.”The pair insisted they had not done anything wrong. Over the ensuing weeks, they went on the offensive, posting a video “giving our side” on the Facebook page set up to help locate Loofe.
In the nine-minute video, they said that police had been “chasing us around like dogs” and that the last time they saw Loofe she was alive, despite what they were reading online. -(Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post)
The investigation is ongoing.