Florida’s ‘Suitcase Killer’ Learns Fate After Killing His Friend as 911 Call Captures Victim’s Condition

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

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

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

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

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Graphic cellphone video of Torres struggling in the green suitcase was shown and remained front and center during the processalong with the couple’s dysfunctional relationship.

In the video of Torres in the suitcase, you can hear him say, “Sarah, I can’t breathe, baby.”

“That’s up to you,” she replies.

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

“That’s up to you,” Boone replied.

The 911 call

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

In the audio, obtained by WOFLshe is heard saying, “My friend is dead.”

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

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

She said she “passed out” and when she woke up, she found Torres unresponsive and not breathing into 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 revive him.

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

She is expected to be sentenced Dec. 2 and faces up to life in prison, the Orange County State’s Attorney’s Office said. in an edition.

In her defense, Boone took the stand in her own defense during the trial, claiming she did not intend to kill Torres.

She also claimed that her actions were in self-defense, claiming that Torres had previously abused her, and that she had no intention of hurting him.

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

Mollie Markowitz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.