Sarah Boone finds TK of suffocating boyfriend in ‘Suitcase Murder’

The Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and suffocating him while he was trapped inside has been found guilty of his murder.

Sarah Boone, 47, learned her fate on Friday, October 26, when a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder in the February 2020 death of Jorge Torres, Jr., 42. Orlando Sentinel, WFTV And WKMG report.

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

At first, she claimed the two thought it was funny that he fit in the suitcase.

But when his “tone” changed as he talked to her from the bag, she testified that she feared he would hurt her, as she claimed he had done in the past. Law & Crime reports.

She captured parts of the chilling incident in two videos she recorded on her phone that night, during which Torres begged her to let him out of the suitcase. Hof TV reports.

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

She went downstairs to look for Torres and saw him “huddled in a suitcase,” later adding that “he was trying to flatten himself so I couldn’t see he was in there.”

She then testified, “I zipped it up. We thought it was funny.’

After moving the suitcase around for a while, she said it “fell over.”

Then her story became even more bizarre.

She alleged that Torres had previously abused her and testified that she decided this would be a good time to have a candid talk with him since Torres “couldn’t work it out.”

At one key point, “His tone changed, and I knew the tone, and we ended up, I think, arguing back and forth with each other,” Boone said.

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

You can hear him begging to be released as she taunts him.

When he managed to get his hand out of the suitcase, she grabbed a baseball bat and hit his hand with it until he put it back in, testifying that she feared he would “break out of the suitcase.” Newsweek reports.

She said she thought he would be able to get out of the suitcase on his own, so she went upstairs to sleep and let him in.

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

Prosecutors say she never mentioned any alleged abuse during her questioning by police.

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