A true crime writer allegedly fell in love with a Tinder killer inmate she was researching and they told a nurse they hired a hitman to kill her husband in an extortion scheme.

Writer Samantha Al-Rekabi, 55, shared a ‘romantic interest’ with death row inmate Aubrey Trail, 57, said another inmate, according to KLKN.

Trail, whom Al-Rekabi was researching for a project on the dismemberment murder of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe, ‘compromised’ a nurse who had worked at the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Reception and Treatment Center, the inmate said.

The inmate reportedly ‘manipulated’ the nurse into smuggling a phone and chewing tobacco into the facility where he was being held. Trail also discovered that the nurse was not happy with her marriage and along with Al-Rekabi, convinced her that a hitman was out to kill her husband, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by Law & Crime.

Trail allegedly told the nurse that only her paying $25,000 would stop the murder-for-hire plot.

Al-Rekabi allegedly went with the nurse to a bank where she withdrew money, as the writer was on the phone updating Trail.

The nurse was ‘gonna get her pension out just (to) give it to us’, Al-Rekabi told Trail of the ‘crazy’ scheme, according to recordings reported by the Lincoln Journal Star.

Al-Rekabi was arrested on Sunday and charged on Monday with felony theft by extortion.

In the recordings, Al-Rekabi apparently admitted to being the person speaking with Trail but claimed they were ‘joking’ about the extortion scheme. The writer also claimed she was manipulated by Trail and feared that he would kill her inmate son.

Authorities started investigating the extortion plot in March 2021, which was before Trail was sentenced for the murder of Loofe.

Trail was sentenced with the death penalty in June of that year, for using Tinder to lure Loofe to his apartment. Trail and his girlfriend and accomplice, Bailey Boswell, were convicted of dismembering Loofe’s body and discarding her remains in garbage bags dumped in rural Nebraska.

Al-Rekabi, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was given a $5,000 bond and jail records did not show her in custody.

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