True-crime author charged with helping convicted murderer in extortion scheme
LINCOLN, NE – Samantha Al-Rekabi, a celebrated true-crime writer, is now the subject of a real-life crime story. Al-Rekabi has been charged with felony theft by extortion, accused of assisting a death row inmate in Nebraska, Aubrey Trail, in a scheme to extort $25,000 from a prison nurse. Trail, a 56-year-old convicted murderer, was sentenced to death for the brutal killing and dismemberment of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe in 2017. The pair had connected via the …