Trail lays out explicit details about Loofe's slaying in June 2018 interview
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WILBER - Before his trial, Aubrey Trail talked to law enforcement. A lot.
Since his arrest on Nov. 30, 2017, Trail has given an estimated 11-12 interviews to various law enforcement agencies.
On Friday, Trail was absent from his own murder trial for a fourth straight day, but the jury still heard plenty from him.
FBI special agent Mike Maset presented a DVD that contained a nearly three-hour interview with Trail from June 11, 2018 at the Saline County Jail in Wilber.
By June of last year, Trail had already given numerous interviews. In this particular one, Trail is seen wearing an orange jumpsuit, and is interviewed in a small side room by two FBI agents, including Maset.
The questions in this lengthy back-and-forth focused mainly on the night of Nov. 15, when Sydney Loofe came to Wilber with Bailey Boswell, and then the day after, when Boswell and Trail disposed of Loofe's remains in rural Clay County.
As stated before, Trail claims in the interview that Loofe voluntarily participated in a sexual fantasy involving "two other individuals."
Kaitlyn Brandle, who traded her silver Chrysler Sebring for Trail's black Ford 500, is believed to be one of those individuals involved. Trail said Randle was at his Wilber apartment the night Loofe died.
However, Trail claimed sole responsibility for Loofe's death in the interview.
"The truth is, I killed Sydney Loofe," he said.
Trail claimed he offered Loofe $5,000 to participate in the sexual fantasy. Trail also claims he was offered $15,000 by an unnamed party to "set the whole thing up."
"There was strangulation involved," Trail stated. "I never forced her to do anything. The last thing she said to me was, 'will I be okay?'"
Trail was asked by the interviewing agents why he bought a hacksaw, tin snips, drop cloths, bleach, trash bags and other things during the day of Nov. 15 - hours before Loofe was picked up by Boswell.
"I don't know," Trail said, when asked about the hacksaw. "That other stuff is household stuff. I have a lot of antiques. I use tinsnips (and the other tools) on antiques all the time."
Trail said Loofe died in the bedroom of he and Boswell's apartment, and admitted to cutting up the body in the apartment, but wouldn't specify where.
Trail also admitted to using the Clorox bleach that Boswell bought from the Wilber Dollar General to clean his apartment.
The agents proceeded to ask Trail why rural Clay County was chosen as the place to dispose of Loofe's body.
Trail's defense attorney, Joe Murray, said during opening statements on June 18 that Trail made a "series of bad decisions" after Loofe accidentally died, and Clay County was chosen at random after he and Boswell had been driving south and west of Wilber for a couple of hours.
Trail, however, said in the June 11 interview that Clay County was chosen intentionally, "because that's a sacred place."
He also said Loofe's body was laid out in six sections. Each section, he says, was put in a specific place.
"In our religious beliefs, we believe in that position, she could (reincarnate)," Trail said.
FBI special agent Eli McBride said in testimony earlier this week that Loofe's body was cut into 14 parts. All but one were found.
The six sections Trail said that Loofe was cut into were head, thighs, pelvic area, torso, legs and arms.
"It took anywhere from an hour-and-a-half or two hours," he said.
Trail said the two other women that were in the bedroom when Loofe died helped him put parts into the garbage bags, which were then put in the trunk of the Sebring.
The only reason Loofe was cut up, Trail says, was because her body couldn't fit properly in the car trunk. He also didn't think he could carry a whole body of the apartment without drawing attention to himself.
"It would have been much better if she were whole," he said.
Once Trail realized Loofe's whole body wouldn't fit in the trunk, that's when the decision was made to cut her up in such a way that was in accordance with his religious beliefs, according to the interview.
The interviewing agents noted that the cuts Trail made on Loofe's body were clean, and also noted that basically no blood was found in his apartment after numerous searches.
In this interview, Trail claimed that he, with Boswell's assistance, made a "deep cut" on Loofe's neck and drained all of her blood into a container. He also says the container was destroyed, but he didn't go into detail on that.
Trail says he was wearing a jumpsuit, or something similar to that, when cutting Loofe's body.
A sauna suit was among the items recovered with Loofe's body in Clay County.
Trail said Boswell helped him dispose of Loofe's body, but said emphatically that "she did not participate" in the sexual fantasy on Nov. 15 involving Loofe.
Trail was then asked why he didn't just go to the authorities and tell them Boswell wasn't involved in Loofe's death.
"I thought I could get away with it," Trail admitted.
Trail faces the death penalty if convicted of first degree murder.
