Florida ‘suitcase killer’ learns fate after boyfriend’s murder as 911 call captures victim’s condition

A. florida woman The suspect, 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 murder of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, 42, at his home. Winter Park, Floridaapartment.

After 90 minutes of deliberation, jurors agreed on a verdict against him Friday evening. He had previously denied the charges second degree murder.

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

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Sarah Boone was convicted of murdering Jorge Torres Jr. (Orange County Florida Prosecutor)

Graphic cell phone video of Torres struggling on the green bag was shown and remained at center during the hearingalong with the couple’s dysfunctional relationship.

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

“That’s up to you,” he replies.

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

“That’s your responsibility,” Boone responded.

Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr. showed photographs as evidence during closing arguments in the trial of defendant Sarah Boone on Friday at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida. (AP, Pool via Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel)

911 call

At 1:01 pm on February 24, 2020, Boone called 911 to report that her boyfriend, Torres Jr., had died at their home.

In the sound, Obtained by WOFL“My boyfriend is dead,” she was heard saying.

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

“It’s kind of a hide-and-seek thing,” he said.

Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr. removes the briefcase as evidence as he begins closing arguments in the trial of Defendant Sarah Boone on Friday in Orlando, Florida. (AP, Pool via Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel)

He said he “passed out” and woke up to find Torres unresponsive and not breathing in the bag.

“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “There was blood coming from his mouth. It was purple.”

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Boone said he tried to give her CPR.

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

Defendant Sarah Boone, accused of leaving her boyfriend to die after trapping him in a suitcase at their home, speaks with defense attorney James Owens before closing arguments at her hearing on Friday. (AP, Pool via Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel)

The woman is expected to be sentenced Dec. 2 and faces life in prison, the Orange County State’s Attorney’s Office said. in one release.

Boone took the stand in his own defense during the trial, claiming he had no intention of killing Torres.

He also claimed his actions were self-defense and claimed that Torres had harassed him before and did not intend to harm him.

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Prosecutors in Orange County disagreed, writing in a statement that the woman’s testimony “contradicted statements she made and video evidence that showed her taunting the victim as she begged to be removed from the suitcase.”

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