Florida ‘suitcase killer’ learns fate after killing boyfriend when 911 call records victim’s condition

A Florida woman accused of strangling her boyfriend in a suitcase was found guilty of murder on Friday after a 10-day trial.

Sarah Boone, 46, was arrested and charged in the February 2020 death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, 42, at their jail. Winter Park, Floridaapartment.

After 90 minutes of deliberation, the jury returned its verdict Friday evening. She previously pleaded not guilty to charges of second degree murder.

Prosecutors say Boone stuffed Torres into a suitcase during a drunken game of hide-and-seek, hit him with a baseball bat and then left him overnight until he died of asphyxiation.

Graphic cell phone video of Torres struggling with the green suitcase was shown and remained the focus of attention. during the trialand the couple’s dysfunctional relationship.

In the video, Torres can be heard inside the suitcase saying, “Sarah, I can’t breathe, baby.”

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“That’s on you,” she replies.

“Sarah, I can’t breathe,” he said again.

“That’s up to you,” Boone replied.

On February 24, 2020 at 1:01 p.m., Boone called 911 and reported that her boyfriend, Torres Jr., was dead in their apartment.

In audio, received by WOFLShe can be heard saying, “My boyfriend is dead.”

She told 911 dispatchers that she and her boyfriend “were playing last night and I put him in a suitcase and we played.”

“Kind of like playing hide and seek,” she said.

She said she “blacked out” and woke up to find Torres unresponsive and not breathing in the suitcase.

“I don’t know what happened,” she said. “There was blood coming out of his mouth. It’s purple.”

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Boone said she tried to perform CPR on him.

“Nothing happened. It’s purple,” she said.

She is expected to be sentenced Dec. 2 and faces life in prison, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said. in the issue.

Boone took the stand during her trial, saying she had no intention of killing Torres.

She also claimed that her actions were in self-defense and argued that Torres had previously abused her and she did not intend to harm him.

Orange County prosecutors disagreed, writing in a press release that her testimony was “contradicted by statements she made and video evidence showing her abusing the victim as he begged to be released from her suitcase.”

Fox News Digital’s Molly Markowitz contributed to this report.

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