South Africans spent the better part of a few years watching on in shock and horror as the details of the Krugersdorp Killers came to light.

For a brief summation, you can watch Carte Blanche’s latest segment on the case, which wrapped up recently.

Further afield, there is no shortage of true-crime horror stories, and you feel like it’s only a matter of time until there’s a series based on the murder of Nebraskan woman, Sydney Loofe.

Aubrey Trail (above), 52, stands accused of her murder, and he seems to be the kind of person that is best given a wide berth.

Let’s hear from the Daily Beast:

[Trail] allegedly convinced his “cult” members he was a flying, mind-reading vampire with a coven of a dozen witches—who he claimed would gain their powers by killing people.

Prosecutors say Trail, aided by co-defendant Bailey Boswell, used a dating app to lure Loofe to her death. Last week, the creepy grifter slashed his throat in a Saline County courtroom and hasn’t been present for the proceedings since.

On Monday and Tuesday, Trail’s case took an even stranger turn, with a 22-year-old woman who claimed to be a follower of his alleged “cult” testifying that she joined Trail and Boswell’s depraved world the summer before Loofe was killed.

The woman told jurors that Trail convinced her she’d need to kill someone and “take their last breath” in order to obtain her magical powers,…

She said Trail showed her photos of women he claimed had witch powers, and that Boswell was called the “Queen Witch” and Trail referred to himself as “Daddy,” NET Nebraska reported.

You may recall that one of the Krugersdorp Killers, Cecilia Steyn, convinced people around her that she was the most powerful witch in the world – the bride of Satan.

She also said she could astral travel, disappear and reappear, had the ability to turn into a baby or a wolf, and could hold her breath underwater for an hour.

Thank goodness those murderers are locked up.

Back to Trail, and a word of warning about anybody calling themselves a ‘sugar daddy’ on Tinder:

The witness allegedly met Trail the same way Loofe did: by communicating with Boswell on the Tinder dating app…The woman was drawn to Boswell [below], who suggested that her “sugar daddy” could take care of her…

She was one of three women to testify about Trail’s sordid deeds, saying Trail and Boswell had a “kill bag” with a hammer and pliers and fantasized about torturing people by ripping off their fingernails and cutting out their eyelids…

Trail and Boswell are facing first-degree murder charges, and could end up getting the death penalty.

Loofe’s body was found by police, dismembered, in December 2017, with other witnesses in the trial saying that Trail and Boswell had also planned two other murders, although they didn’t follow through with those.

He did tell one of the witnesses that he’d killed multiple times, although police have yet to find any other potential victims.

You can read more about Trail, Boswell, and their modus operandi here.

[source:dailybeast]