State and federal law enforcement officials have indicated that the investigation is still underway and that no decision has been made about who will prosecute it.
A Saline County Attorney, in whose county Trail claims to have accidentally suffocated Loofe, said Tuesday that local and federal prosecutors are still awaiting forensic tests on evidence gathered at several locations.
That several locations were involved, in more than one county, is one of the complications. Loofe’s body was found in a rural area of Clay County. Law enforcement officers searched roadsides and fields in that area and searched an apartment in Wilber, in Saline County, rented by Trail and Boswell. Searches were also conducted along highways west of Wilber. And Trail and Boswell have said they drove around Lincoln, in Lancaster County, after picking up Loofe for dates with Boswell.
“There’s lots of information that’s gone to various locations to be analyzed. The position that’s being taken by law enforcement, whether it be on the state (or) federal level, is that we want to make sure we have all of that back before we make any decisions.”
The Lancaster County Attorney’s Office would appear to be the leading candidate. That office hired a special investigator to gather evidence about the case, and Lincoln police have been intensely involved.
Saline County is another possibility. Trail, in calls to The World-Herald, has claimed that Loofe was killed in Saline County about 4 a.m. on Nov. 16, which would have been a few hours after she went on a second date with Boswell. Her body was found in a third county, Clay County.
The case also could be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The FBI has been involved in the searches and in gathering evidence, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged Trail and Boswell with several counts of transporting stolen property across state lines in a separate case. But the feds typically get involved in this sort of homicide case only if it involves kidnapping, which Trail has given conflicting statements on to The World-Herald, or crossing states lines.
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