'Suitcase killer' in Florida learns fate after boyfriend's murder as 911 call captures victim's state

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A Florida woman accused of suffocating her fellow wrong a suitcase was recovered blameworthy of execution connected Friday pursuing a 10-day trial.

Sarah Boone, 46, was arrested and charged successful the decease of her boyfriend, 42-year-old Jorge Torres, successful February 2020 successful their Winter Park, Florida, apartment. 

After 90 minutes of deliberation, jurors agreed connected the verdict against her connected Friday evening. She had antecedently pleaded not blameworthy to the charges of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors accidental that Boone zipped Torres wrong a suitcase during a drunken crippled of hide-and-seek, hitting him with a shot bat, and past leaving him overnight until helium died of asphyxiation. 

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Side by broadside  of Sarah Boone and unfortunate  Jorge Torres Jr.

Sarah Boone was recovered blameworthy of murdering Jorge Torres Jr. (Orange County Florida Prosecutor)

Graphic cellphone video of Torres struggling successful the greenish suitcase was shown and remained cardinal during the trial, on with the couple's dysfunctional relationship.

In the video of Torres wrong the suitcase, helium tin beryllium heard saying, "Sarah, I can't breathe, babe."

"That's connected you," she responds.

"Sarah, I can't breathe," helium said again.

"That's connected you," Boone responded.

Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr

Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr. shows photos successful grounds during closing arguments successful suspect Sarah Boone's trial, Friday, astatine the Orange County Courthouse successful Orlando, Fla. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool)

The 911 call

On Feb. 24, 2020, astatine 1:01 p.m., Boone called 911 to study that her boyfriend, Torres Jr., was dormant wrong their apartment.

In the audio, obtained by WOFL, she is heard saying, "My fellow is dead."

She told 911 dispatchers that she and her fellow were "playing past nighttime and I enactment him successful a suitcase, and we were playing."

"A hide-and-seek kinda thing," she said.

Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr.

Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr. takes retired the suitcase successful grounds arsenic helium begins the closing arguments successful Defendant Sarah Boone's trial, Friday, successful Orlando, Fla.  (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool)

She said she "passed out" and woke up to find Torres unresponsive and not breathing successful the suitcase.

"I don't cognize what happened," she said. "He had humor coming from his mouth. He's purple."

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Boone said that she attempted to springiness him CPR. 

"Nothing happened. He's purple," she said. 

Defendant Sarah Boone

Defendant Sarah Boone, charged with leaving her fellow to dice aft helium was zipped into a suitcase successful their home, talks with defence lawyer James Owens earlier closing arguments successful her proceedings Friday. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool)

She is expected to beryllium sentenced connected Dec. 2, and faces up to beingness successful prison, the Orange County State Attorney's bureau said in a release.

In her defense, Boone took the basal during the proceedings successful her ain defense, claiming she had nary volition of sidesplitting Torres. 

She besides claimed her actions were successful self-defense and alleged Torres antecedently abused her, and she did not mean to wounded him. 

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Prosecutors successful Orange County disagreed, penning successful a merchandise that her grounds was "contradicted by statements she made and video grounds showing her mocking the unfortunate arsenic helium begged to beryllium released from the suitcase."

Fox News Digital's Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.

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