The Terrifying True Story of Witchcraft and Murder in Swipe Right on the Devil

Sydney Loofe, whose murder is explored in Swipe Right on the Devil —Courtesy of Hulu Nebraska native Sydney Loofe was looking for love, or at least for some fun, while scrolling through Tinder back in 2017.

But the resulting date quickly went wrong , and she never made it back home.

The new three-part Hulu true crime docuseries Swipe Right on the Devil tells the harrowing tale behind Loofe’s 2017 murder, how she was lured into a satanic BDSM ritual for so-called witchcraft, and how her murder led to authorities uncovering a years-long scheme run by two cult leaders.

It tells the story, in part, through interviews with surviving women who escaped the cult weeks prior to her murder.

The docuseries marks the first time the Loofe clan is sharing their side of the story, along with Nebraska investigators and an FBI agent assigned to the case.

Loofe’s mother Susie Loofe wrote on Facebook that her family had been contacted by at least 100 production companies looking to make a documentary about the murder before putting their trust in Imagine Documentaries.

Swipe Right on the Devil director and executive producer Brian Biegel tells TIME that Loofe’s “mysterious disappearance” quickly became a far more “complex [story] than the headlines suggested.” Biegel, who previously worked with FBI officers while helming the ESPN 30for30 documentary The Counterfeiter , spent approximately three years immersing himself in the Loofe case.

The experience forever changed his views on the occult: “As a documentary filmmaker, I'm naturally skeptical and always looking for evidence, but I also believe there are aspects of the human experience we don't fully understand,” he says.

He spent years talking with the man convicted of Loofe’s murder and hearing firsthand from the women he drew into his orbit.

“I wouldn't say this experience made me a believer in the supernatural, but it did make me more open-minded about what might exist beyond the physical world.” A Meet-cute gone awry A Facebook post from the period when Loofe was missing —Courtesy of Hulu Loofe, a 24-year-old hardware store clerk at Menard's in Lincoln, Neb., first connected on Tinder with a woman she believed to be named Audrey.

Loofe went on two dates with “Audrey.” But she never came home from the second one, on Nov.

15, 2017.

When she didn’t show up for work the next day, Loofe’s coworkers called the police to do a wellness check at her home; the officers found her car in the driveway and her purse still in her apartment.

Loofe was reported missing.