After video was shown in court of her boyfriend screaming for help into a closed suitcase, Sarah Boone gave her version of what happened the night he died and revealed photos of the alleged accidents she claims he caused throughout their relationship .
A Florida woman accused of killing her boyfriend by zipping him in a suitcase and leaving him there overnight took the stand Tuesday for his protection.
Sarah Boone was arrested again in 2020 in connection with the death of her boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr. At the time, she claimed that the two were drunkenly playing hide and seek and that she fell asleep after locking him in. mentioned, he was lifeless.
She was charged with second-degree murder.
Put FOX 35Testimony from prosecution witnesses stated that Torres’ physique confirmed indicators of blunt force trauma. Meanwhile, his defense team claimed that Boone suffered from Battered Partner Syndrome, saying Torres’ death was in self-defense.
Sarah Boone takes the position
Giving evidence, Boone said she was introduced to Torres at a bar by a mutual friend after she stopped trying to “fix things” with her then-husband. “I never thought he would be interested in someone like me,” she said of meeting him, calling him “handsome,” “good-natured” and “good.” The two moved quickly after the divorce, she said, and had been together for 3.5 years before her death.
On February 23, 2020, Boone said the pair had plans to enjoy the day, “relax and relax” after cleaning the house that morning… and started drinking. With her son coming to stay with her the next day, Boone said she decided they wanted to stay that night and bought some more wine at Publix.
While they continued eating, Boone said, they also worked on a puzzle, did some art and listened to music. At that time, she said they were intoxicated, before he patted her knee and said, “You are it,” initiating a game of cover and fetch. “I looked over and saw him getting comfortable in the suitcase,” Boone said, “In my head I said, ‘Oh man, we’re clearly not going to sleep anytime soon.’”
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“He was trying to calm down, so I couldn’t report that he was there,” she continued. “I zipped it up and we thought it was funny and were joking about how it was small enough to fit in the suitcase.”
Boone said she moved the suitcase while he was in it, as they both continued to huff and puff, before she closed him inside. “He thought it was funny,” she said, claiming they kept laughing as she did this, before picking up her phone to record “so he understands that I now feel safe and I now have the ability to actually communicate with you in a way that I normally would.” I wouldn’t have the power to do it.”
She acknowledged that she knew he couldn’t leave at the right time…but also said she didn’t even remember taking the video the next morning. She admitted that she was outraged and wanted him to feel some “discomfort”. According to Boone, “his tone changed” the longer he was in the suitcase and they began to argue, claiming that “the things (Torres) was saying so much scared me, called me names and threatened me.”
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“It got very heated in a short time… my fear was that he was going to break out of the suitcase… his hand started to come back… so I shook the suitcase, trying to get his hand to come back inside, squeezing it, saying to him: ‘Please stop doing this to me!’” she continued, saying she was “always” worried and believed he “probably would have left me unrecognizable or I could have lost my life.”
Boone then admitted to grabbing a baseball bat and “was trying to poke his hand to get back,” saying he “hit his hand” with the bat, causing bruises. When his hand didn’t retract, she continued rummaging through the suitcase. “So, in your thoughts, you stopped him from attacking you?” asked for protection, as she said, “Completely,” claiming he said “he was trying to break me up.”
Boone said her hand finally came back and that’s when she flipped the suitcase over. She testified that she believed he could breathe inside the suitcase, but she did not believe he could die and never needed to kill him. Afterwards, she went upstairs, called her ex-husband and “ended up going to sleep”. Boone said he believed he woke up around noon the next day.
“I thought Jorge was downstairs drinking or looking for a job or he might have just left,” she said, saying it was “very quiet” when she went downstairs and started looking for him. “I noticed the suitcase and remembered the night before and opened the zipper of the suitcase…. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like this before. I was shocked and I just can’t describe the feeling of terror, that’s for sure.”
“And he was still there,” she recalled, saying she then fully unzipped her suitcase and started screaming his name and trying to do CRP while checking her pulse. “He was blue in the face,” she said, telling the court that she referred to him as her ex, told him she thought Torres was dead and asked him to come back.
She also denied putting Torres in the suitcase, before pushing her down the stairs.
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“Jorge was very passionate, Jorge was good to me, on good days. Jorge praised me. Jorge and I were two bodies with one soul, he and I could always tell,” she said of the victim, who she also claimed had both good and “unhealthy” characteristics.
One of his unhealthy traits, she said, was that he drank all day… adding that he “often” became violent with her. Footage was also shown to the court of several accidents she said were caused by the victim, including one event where she claimed he “stabbed me in the leg (and) I nearly bled to death.”
She detailed a series of alleged attacks and claimed that he was jealous, saying that sometimes he even “went with her” to the bathroom. During another alleged incident, she claimed she hit him in the forehead with a steel curtain rod but was “not allowed to go to the hospital.” Boone said he also threatened to make her “unrecognizable” in one incident, accusing her of being intimate with her ex-husband.
The footage also allegedly showed him baton her TV during an alleged outburst, before allegedly passing out on the couch, baton in hand. She also alleged that he would threaten to leave the property’s gate open so she could find her blind dog’s “bloated body” in a nearby lake or run it over.
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She admitted she lied to police after Torres’ death, saying she was “extraordinarily terrified of being arrested.” She added that she was “always scared” of Torres because of his alleged history of abuse, saying their relationship “wasn’t fun anymore” because she knew “something was going to happen to me, one way or another.” another.”
During interrogation, she was asked how quickly she went up the stairs after the second video in which he was asking for help. Prosecutors questioned whether she called 911 to let them know Torres was caught in a suitcase, with Boone saying no.
She was also questioned once again about lying to the police, admitting that she was not sincere in causing some of the accidents to Torres’ body.
She is still under interrogation.
Sarah Boone’s arrest
According to his arrest affidavit, Boone told officers that the couple had been eating during the night and agreed that it would be funny if Torres climbed into the suitcase. She said she passed out in bed and woke up hours later to find him unconscious inside, before calling 911.
Police discovered his physique lying near the blue suitcase, noticing a small laceration on his lip and bruising around his eye, Click on Orlando reported. Boone gave deputies consent to look at his phone, where they found two movies; they showed Boone laughing as Torres repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe, investigators said.
The video in question, seen above, shows Boone laughing, taunting Torres Jr. and accusing him of abusing her and being dishonest as he struggled to get out, saying he couldn’t breathe.
“For all the plays you performed for me. Fuck you. Fuck you. Silly,” she will be heard saying, as he tells her: “I can’t breathe, Sarah.”
“That’s my name, don’t expose it!” she says on one level.
During questioning, Boone stated that he did not remember making the films and said that he did not believe that Torres Jr.
“I didn’t lock it completely. I opened it with one finger, leaving enough there for it to come out. And I wasn’t planning on going up and sleeping,” she instructed police. “My intention was not to leave him there. I assumed he was fine. This is how we are with each other. No one understands our relationship.”
At a hearing last month, his most recent lawyer, James Owens, instructed the decision they plan to use “battered partner syndrome for protection.”
Put TribunalTVthe trial was postponed 17 times as eight of Boone’s lawyers dropped out of the case because of his alleged habits.
The case is ongoing.