On Monday, Maseth told the jury Boswell had a list of women in her clutch when she was arrested. After each name was a corresponding "magical power” they were said to have. One could see danger. One could heal. After another, it said fire.
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Maseth said Trail brought up a group of “treacherous women” he was involved with but he didn’t want to talk about it on camera. He said at one point Trail asked him and Lincoln Police Investigator Matt Franken to go discuss it with him in the bathroom. One at a time, he whispered the same thing in their ear.
“He said witches kill, a life for a life, and they gain more power when they kill,” the special agent said.
Trail often spoke in cryptic terms, Maseth said, and also spent a lot of time talking about sexual activity in their house in Wilber. Trail referred to it as freaky sex.
In an interview Dec. 4, 2017, Trail talked about the dark side of human nature, how everyone cranes their necks to see gruesome things, like car wrecks. Maseth said Trail spoke of the deepest, darkest thing a person would do and what price they would pay for it.
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Off camera the next day, Maseth said, Trail told Franken where they would find Loofe’s head, near a grove of trees.
It wasn’t found near trees.
On a piece of paper, Trail drew a map that he said showed how he had placed the pieces of her body. At the top was a smiley face with lines around it.
"What’s that,” Assistant Attorney General Mike Guinan asked Maseth.
"That’s where he said he placed Sydney Loofe’s head," Maseth said.
He said Trail claimed they had missed two little bags in rural Clay County. One with her blood, the other with her soul. He wouldn’t say what he meant, Maesth said.
