Text conversations, Home Depot purchases revealed at Boswell trial

On day 10 of the Bailey Boswell trial, prosecutors laid out the relationship between Boswell and Sydney Loofe through a series of text messages. Boswell is accused of working with Aubrey Trail to murder Loofe in 2017. Trail was convicted last year.
After her first date with Bailey Boswell, a woman Loofe had met on a dating app, Loofe texted a friend saying she had just gotten home from "chilling with this super cute girl."
Early the next morning, Nov. 15, 2017, Loofe and Terra Gehrig, who worked together at the Menards in Lincoln, continued the conversation.
When Loofe told Gehrig she worked noon to 6 p.m., Gehrig told Loofe she could stay longer to make more money.
"I'm supposed to chill with that girl, though," Loofe told her, according to testimony at Boswell's trial Tuesday.
The jury at Boswell's murder trial previously heard how cellphone records tied her to the meetings with Loofe and the Tinder account.
Early the morning of Boswell's and Loofe's second date, Loofe told Gehrig: "She says she's down for anything, so I hope she doesn't have a boyfriend."
Gehrig told the jury that Loofe had matched with women before on Tinder who said they were interested in women only to find out they had a boyfriend and were looking for a threesome.
She said Loofe had told her she wasn't interested in that. So that morning, she told her friend she should've asked to make sure.
Loofe said Boswell had told her she had no one to confide in or hang out with "so I don't know what that means. I'll take her with a grain of salt."
It was the last text Gehrig would get from Loofe, whose cellphone went silent later that night 24 minutes after it bounced off a tower at Wilber.
Cellphone records showed her phone and Boswell's traveling there together that night.
Jurors were also shown videos of Boswell and Trail, in addition to video of Loofe on the night she is suspected to have gone missing. Witnesses included the manager of a Home Depot in Lincoln located next to the Menards where Loofe worked.
The manager of the Home Depot, Rebecca Villalobos, testified to purchases made by Boswell and Trail. Those purchases included a hacksaw, drop cloths, a Gerber utility knife, and tin snips were among the items found on receipts from Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell's shopping trip in Lincoln the day Sydney Loofe went missing.
Villalobos helped Lincoln Police Department investigator Chris Milisits purchase the same items, based on receipts, in order to allow investigators to compare them with the items found alongside Loofe’s body in Clay County.