Thanks everyone for posting yesterday's trial! Here is an article that wraps it up, trial continues today!
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Ashley Hills, 22, told how Trail took her to Wilber and showed her pictures of his girls on his cellphone. All naked.
As Hills and Trail waited for Boswell to get there, they watched TV, and Trail told her about a different lifestyle he could provide. She said he told her he could pay her rent and car payments and put her through nursing school.
The woman says she left the group before Loofe’s death.
The $200 he gave her before she left would turn into a weekly allowance.
But first, just a couple of days later, Boswell picked Hills up. They got their fingernails done, ate and bought lingerie, all with cash from Trail. Later, in the basement apartment in Wilber, Trail said he wanted to see them in the lingerie. Sex followed.
Hills said not long after that, Trail told her about 12 other women he called his girls or his witches and asked if she wanted to be the 13th.
“He said I could leave whenever I wanted until I took my first soul,” she said. When State Assistant Attorney General Sandra Allen asked what Trail meant by that, Hills answered matter-of-factly: “To kill someone.”
Hills said Trail was convincing; it all sounded so real.
He made money by selling stolen antiques. Trail bought Hills things and wanted her to call him daddy. He said he was a vampire and could fly and read minds. He told her some of his witches could leave their bodies.
At that point, Hills said, she still believed what he was saying.
“It all made sense,” she said.
She described orgies where Trail would get a massage from her, Boswell and a third woman; then, if he wanted to, they’d all have sex. Sometimes it involved choking, she said.
Hills said Trail told her he had killed multiple people but it wasn’t his turn to do it anymore. He didn’t get anything from it. And he would pay the women to do it, something like 10 grand for 10 people, she said.
In order to become a witch, she said Trail had told her, she had to kill someone and take their last breath. At first she agreed.
One day in August, they went to the Walmart in Beatrice to meet a potential victim. Hills and Boswell shopped for groceries at first. But then a blonde woman with glasses, who Boswell had met on Tinder, showed up in the produce area.
At first Hills said Trail and Boswell told her they were looking for someone "who could be one of us.” But Trail later asked Hills if she would want the woman to be her first.
“First what?” the prosecutor asked.
“Kill,” Hills answered.
She said once or twice a week Trail would talk about torturing and killing people, which he said would give them power.
“It was just like regular conversation for him,” she said.
Woman testifies Trail invited her to be one of his witches and asked her to 'kill someone'
