Taney County Sheriff/Lancaster County Department of CorrectionsA 55-year-old woman is accused of helping an inmate on Nebraska’s death row attempt to swindle a former prison nurse out of $25,000 in what investigators say was a fake murder-for-hire scheme.The plot was allegedly concocted behind bars by Aubrey Trail, the man convicted of killing and dismembering Sydney Loofe after meeting her on a dating app in 2017. After another inmate tipped investigators off, a probe began in mid-March 2021—le
The woman is accused of helping Aubrey Trail in a murder-for-hire scheme to extort money from a nurse who smuggled contraband into the prison for him, including a cell phone.
Trail was jailed in 2019 for the brutal murder of Sydney Loofe, a woman he d met on the popular dating app. He was sentenced to death in 2021 and has been on death row.