'Swipe Right on the Devil' filmmakers detail bizarre case of murder, mind control and witchcraft

In November, 2017, Nebraska resident 24-year-old Sydney Loofe went missing after a Tinder date with a girl named Bailey Boswell.

As investigators searched for her, they uncovered a chilling tale of murder, witchcraft and mind control.

Three weeks later, her dismembered body was found on the side of the road about 60 miles from her last known location.

That's the story told in "Swipe Right on the Devil," a new true-crime documentary. The three-part series details the search for Loofe as well as the arrest and trials of Boswell and her boyfriend Aubrey Trail, who told people he was involved in witchcraft.

"You've got witchcraft and black magic and then you have the modern day world of online dating. And those two worlds meeting each other, thematically was something that I, as a filmmaker, needed to dig into," director and executive producer Brian Biegel told On The Red Carpet. "More importantly, I wanted to tell the true story of what happened to Sydney Loofe. We need to tell the real story of who Sydney was as a person and what happened to her."

Loofe's family was involved from the start, as were investigators from the case and other women who had also been lured into Trail and Boswell's world.

"We're telling the stories first person from all the angles: the law enforcement, the victims, the families, the perpetrators themselves," said executive producer Christopher St. John. "What really hooked me is it's really the story of the disappearance of a young woman, right? Like, that alone is interesting, but as you pull on that thread, it just unfurls through twists and turns into something so much stranger and weirder."

Some of the most haunting moments in the docu-series are the police's interview tapes with Aubrey Trail.

"When we first saw the interview tapes from the law enforcement, you just sensed there was a con man who was sort of playing a cat and mouse game, right? But underneath that, there's really like true evil," said Biegel.

"I got to experience it firsthand because I went to visit him on death row and I sat across from him and we had a two-hour conversation and there was nothing in his eyes. It was just, it was dead in there. And so he felt so comfortable in prison that it was shocking to me."

"The headline of witchcraft and murder, like, is engaging. But we find that the heart of the story is really about, like, a group of young women who were looking for belonging and having a hard time finding it and as a result became somewhat vulnerable in a really terrible situation. And I think that the story and the way that these women dealt with it in various ways, the way, that obviously one of them met with a terrible end, but the support that her family and friends gave her even after her death was like, was crucial to solving this crime and putting someone behind bars," said St. John.

Loofe's family has set up a foundation in her honor. You can find more information HERE.

"Swipe Right on the Devil" streams on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ October 22.

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