Sarah Boone finds TK strangling boyfriend in “Murder in a Suitcase”

A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to choke to death while trapped inside has been found guilty of his murder.

Sarah Boone, 47, learned her fate on Friday, Oct. 26, when a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder in the February 2020 death of 42-year-old Jorge Torres Jr. Orlando Guardian, VFTV And VKMG report.

Torres was found dead on the morning of February 24, 2020, in a suitcase in their Winter Park apartment after they played what she claimed was a drunken game of hide and seek.

At first she claimed that they both thought it was funny that it could fit in a suitcase.

But when his “tone” changed as he spoke to her from the bag, she stated that she was afraid he would hurt her, as she said he had done in the past. Law and crime reports.

She captured parts of the grisly incident in two videos she recorded on her phone that night, which show Torres begging her to let him out of the suitcase. Court TV reports.

Boone took the stand in her defense on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, saying she initially ran to the upstairs bathroom to hide in the shower. After waiting “for a while,” she said she decided to “start wrapping up the evening” so she could go to bed.

She went downstairs to find Torres and saw him “settling down in the suitcase,” later adding that “he was trying to get himself straight so I couldn’t see he was there.”

She then stated, “I zipped it up. We thought it was funny.”

After twisting the suitcase a little, she said that it had “turned over.”

That’s when her story got even stranger.

Claiming that Torres had abused her in the past, she said she decided now was the right time to have an open conversation with him since Torres “couldn’t leave.”

At one key moment, “his tone changed, and I knew that tone, and we ended up, I think, arguing with each other,” Boone said.

She began filming her conversation with Torres, who was still in the suitcase.

He can be heard begging her to let him out as she taunts him.

When he managed to get his hand out of the suitcase, she took a baseball bat and hit his hand until he put it back inside, testifying that she was afraid he was “going to break out of the suitcase.” Newsweek reports.

Saying she thought he could climb out of the suitcase on his own, she said she went upstairs to bed, leaving him inside.

When the prosecution asked her if she did anything to help Torres get out of the suitcase, she replied, “No.”

Prosecutors say she never mentioned the alleged abuse during police questioning.

She made headlines when she changed lawyers nine times and asked to have her hair and makeup done professionally for her trial.