Sarah Boone Found Guilty of Suffocating Boyfriend to Death by Leaving Him Inside Zipped Suitcase

Mar. 15, 2025

Jorge Torres, Sarah Boone.Photo:Good Life Funeral Home, Orange County Florida Jail

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The Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate to death while trapped inside it has been found guilty of murdering him.

Torres was found dead on the morning of Feb. 24, 2020, inside a suitcase in their Winter Park apartment after they were playing what she claimed was a drunken game of hide-and-seek.

At first, she claimed the two found it funny that he could fit inside the suitcase.

But when his “tone” changed while he was talking to her from inside the bag, she testified that she feared he would hurt her, as she claimed he had done in the past,Law & Crimereports.

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 some time,” she said she decided to “start wrapping up the evening” so she could go to bed.

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

Then, she testified, “I zipped him up. We thought it was funny.”

After wheeling the suitcase around for a bit, she said it “flopped over.”

That’s when her account turned even more bizarre.

Claiming that Torres had been abusive to her before, she testified that she decided this would be a good time to talk frankly to him since Torres “was not able to get out.”

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

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

He can be heard begging her to let him out, while she taunts him.

When he managed to get his hand outside of the suitcase, she picked up a baseball bat and hit his hand with it until he put it back inside, testifying that she feared he was “going to break out of the suitcase,”Newsweekreports.

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

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

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

source: people.com