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Sydney Irene Loofe was born in Broken Bow, Nebraska, on 21 August 1993, the middle of George and Susie Loof's three children. Her father was a high school principal and her mother a teacher. The family moved to Neligh when Sydney was seven, and she graduated from the high school where her father was principal in 2011. She went to work for Menards and later transferred to the store at 27th Street and Cornhusker Highway near Lincoln, where she lived in the Havelock area with a cat called Mimsy. Scoliosis had ended her basketball and golf as a teenager, and she struggled with depression and anxiety for which she took medication. Friends described her as generous, someone who took in a younger colleague who was living in poor conditions and taught him to budget and look after himself. She wanted to leave Menards and work with animals at a veterinary practice.

On 11 November 2017 Sydney, who was 24 and liked women, matched on Tinder with a young woman calling herself Audrey. They talked about food and about casinos; Sydney said she had been to one only on her 21st birthday. Two days later they arranged a first date. Audrey suggested meeting somewhere in Lincoln to cruise and smoke weed, then dinner at Riva, a steak and seafood restaurant at a casino, with Audrey paying for the gambling. Sydney, who had not smoked for six days, agreed. Audrey asked for her address so she could work out the drive and booked a room at the Best Western in Lincoln.

The first date was on the evening of 14 November 2017. Audrey picked Sydney up, they drove around Lincoln and smoked, and Audrey brought her home a couple of hours later. They arranged to go out again the following night. On 15 November Sydney worked a shift at Menards; she told a friend, Tara Gehrig, that she had enjoyed the date and hoped Audrey was single. She posted a selfie in a dressy shirt on Snapchat, and her mother saw it and asked why she had not mentioned the date. Audrey picked her up shortly before 7 p.m. Phone records put the pair at an apartment in Wilber, and at 8.08 p.m. Sydney's phone last registered on a tower near the town. By 8.40 p.m. it was off and a text from her mother went undelivered.

The following morning Sydney did not arrive for her shift at Menards and did not call in, which her family said was completely out of character. At 5.08 p.m. on 16 November her family reported her missing to Lincoln police. They told officers she had been on a date and had not come home. Her parents and younger sister met police at her apartment on Colfax Street on the Friday morning. Her SUV was in the driveway and Mimsy was inside without food or water. Her purse was on the counter but her wallet, keys and phone were gone, which led police to think she had either never come home or left willingly.

The search grew quickly. Lincoln police and county sheriff's deputies searched Wilber, the family set up a Find Sydney Loofe Facebook page, and her picture went up on billboards along Interstate 80. Her brother Levi, a teacher and basketball coach at Valentine High School, had his team wear green ribbons on their shoes. On 21 November the Lincoln police chief, Jeff Bliemeister, called the disappearance concerning. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed After graduating in 2012 she moved to northern Missouri, had a child with a former high school football player, and in February 2016 filed a protection order against him alleging emotional and physical abuse. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She was known as a young woman fascinated by serial killers and torture, and by acting as a cat, wearing only a collar and eating from a pet dish on the floor.

this part of the story is covered for now The pair lived in a rented basement apartment in Wilber, close to the high school, and neighbours first took them for father and daughter until they saw them holding hands. details of the account remain covered until revealed The couple travelled the antique circuit, buying and selling coins, toys and advertising signs, and were wanted for passing bad cheques. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He wrote cheques for $28,298 for gold and silver coins. Investigators believed the pair had taken between $300,000 and $500,000 across several states.

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On 4 December 2017 officers were sent to an open area of Clay County, north of County Road 308 and Road South near Edgar, where phone records showed the pair had slowed or stopped. Almost immediately they found a black plastic rubbish bag with an arm protruding; a tattoo on the right arm read 'it will all be wonderful someday'. Sydney had been cut into 14 pieces and packed into nearly a dozen bags along a gravel road. The next day investigators found 17 separate scenes and recovered all but one piece, an upper left arm. The autopsy found restraint marks on her wrists, scrapes on her back, a torn earlobe, and injuries consistent with strangulation. Sex toys, a dog lead and a plastic sauna suit were found among the debris.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He told the FBI he had offered Sydney $5,000 to appear in a sexual fantasy video, though no footage or agreement was found. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

Others came forward. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The group had a kill bag with a hammer and pliers, and in August 2017 went to a Walmart in Beatrice to meet a potential victim. One woman left after a panic attack at a TJ Maxx while shopping for something to kill in. this part of the story is covered for now

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this part of the story is covered for now Her defence described a childhood that went wrong: a biological father murdered when she was an infant, a sexual assault in college, and an abusive boyfriend named Freddie who threw her downstairs while she was pregnant. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now She paid, and smuggled in a phone, chewing tobacco and a gun. details of the account remain covered until revealed Sydney's co-workers at Menards raised money for a plaque on a bench at the Henry Doorly Zoo, one of her favourite places, and the Set Me Free project set up a $3,000 scholarship in her name.