Court finds Florida 'suitcase killer' guilty after she put boyfriend in case and left

Sarah Boone was convicted of second-degree execution successful the decease of Jorge Torres, 4 years aft her archetypal apprehension successful the case. She could walk the remainder of her beingness successful prison

A pistillate who near her fellow to dice aft zipping him into a suitcase successful their location has been recovered blameworthy of murder by a jury. Sarah Boone was arrested 4 years agone for the decease of Jorge Torres, and connected Friday evening, aft 90 minutes of deliberation, the assemblage delivered their verdict against her.

Despite entering a not blameworthy plea passim the trial, 47-year-old Florida pistillate Boone was convicted of second-degree murder. Boone initially told detectives from the Orange County Sheriff's Office that she and Torres had been playing hide-and-seek connected February 23, 2020, astatine their shared home.

They thought it would beryllium amusing for Torres to get into the suitcase portion they were drinking, the slayer alleged. She decided to spell to sleep, assuming her fellow could flight the suitcase connected his own, according to an apprehension study aft the crime.

The adjacent morning, Boone woke up and couldn't find Torres. She past remembered helium was successful the suitcase. Upon unzipping the suitcase, she discovered him unresponsive.

Boone was charged with execution aft detectives recovered videos connected her mobile telephone showing Torres yelling from wrong the suitcase that helium couldn't respire and repeatedly calling retired Boone's name, according to the apprehension report.

During her trial, Boone testified that erstwhile convulsive incidents betwixt her and Torres led her to comprehend a menace of imminent harm. She claimed she acted successful self-defence by keeping him successful the suitcase.

"Yeah that's what you bash erstwhile you choke me," Boone remarked successful a grim compartment telephone signaling from the fateful evening, arsenic per the apprehension report. "Oh, that's what I consciousness similar erstwhile you cheat connected me."

In court, Boone revealed however she had stood implicit her fellow with a bat, fearing unit if helium should get up.

The autopsy unveiled that Torres bore scratch marks connected his backmost and neck, positive bruises to his shoulder, skull and forehead accordant with blunt unit trauma, including a gash adjacent his divided lip.

Since her arrest, Boone has cycled done aggregate lawyers, adding to the protracted hold for her trial, which unfolded implicit 10 gruelling days. She awaits her condemnation connected December 2, wherever she could beryllium facing spending the remainder of her beingness down bars.