Sarah Boone Finds Knowledge About Suffocating Boyfriend In ‘Suitcase Murder’

The Florida woman accused of locking her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate while he was trapped inside has been found guilty of his murder.

Sarah Boone, 47, learned her fate Friday, Oct. 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 on the morning of February 24, 2020, in a suitcase in their Winter Park apartment after playing what she claimed was a drunken game of hide-and-seek.

At first, she claimed that the two found it amusing that it could fit in the suitcase.

But when his “tone” changed while he was talking to her from inside the sack, she confessed she feared he would hurt her, as he claimed he had in the past, Law and Crime reports.

She captured parts of the horrifying incident in two videos she recorded on her phone that night, showing Torres begging her to let him out of the suitcase, TV court reports.

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

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

She then confessed: “I hung it up. I thought it was funny.”

After spinning the suitcase around a bit, she said it “knocked over”.

Then her account got even more bizarre.

Alleging that Torres has been abusive to her before, she testified that she decided this would be a good time to have an honest conversation with him because Torres “couldn’t get it out.”

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

She began recording 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 grabbed a baseball bat and hit his hand with it until he put it back inside, testifying that she was afraid “it was going to come out of the suitcase.” Newsweek reports.

Saying she thought he would be able to get out of the suitcase on his own, she said she went upstairs to sleep, leaving him inside.

When asked by the prosecution if she did anything to help Torres out of the suitcase, she said, “No.”

Prosecutors say she never mentioned any alleged abuse while being interviewed by police.

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