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Facebook; Sydney is pictured in the above photo smiling
Bailey, who was in her 20s, was dating a man in his 50s named Aubrey Trail, and he was seen alongside her checking into and out of various hotels in the area in the days around when Sydney disappeared.
Authorities collected footage showing them from November 17th through November 22nd. They also visited the basement apartment in Wilbur the pair had been renting (remember, this city was the last place Sydney’s phone had been in).
Their landlord said their apartment smelled of bleach so badly, she could smell the fumes from upstairs. She also explained the smell started the day after Sydney went on her date, and when she was shown photos of Sydney, she was pretty positive she had seen her at their apartment.
Authorities searched the apartment, and they found several bottles of bleach and evidence that a major cleanup had occurred there.
Facebook; Sydney smiles, above
Video footage of Aubrey and Bailey shopping at a Home Depot in Lincoln the day Sydney vanished also was uncovered by police, and they suspected what they purchased was used to dispose of her.
Aubrey later admitted to police that he strangled Sydney to death with an electrical cord at the apartment, but he tried to claim it was some kind of twisted fantasy gone wrong, and that he had paid Sydney $5,000 for it.
He also maintained Bailey’s innocence, insisting she only helped clean up Sydney’s body and dump her. He said he did drain out all of Sydney’s blood before he cut her up.
