A woman accused of murdering her boyfriend after allegedly leaving him to die in a zippered suitcase in her US home will go on trial in October.
Sarah Boone initially told detectives that she and her boyfriend Jorge Torres, 42, had been playing hide-and-seek at their property in Winter Park. Floridawhen he put it in the suitcase.
Boone claimed they had been drinking and decided to go to sleep, thinking he could get out of the suitcase on his own.
When he woke up the next morning, on February 25, 2020, he could not find Mr. Torres, but remembered that he was in the suitcase.
When she opened the zipper, she found Mr. Torres unconscious, according to the arrest report, and called 911. She was then arrested.
Boone denies second-degree murder, but detectives charged her after finding videos on her phone that showed Mr. Torres trapped in the suitcase, screaming that he couldn’t breathe and calling out her name, according to the arrest report.
After a hearing on Friday, the 46-year-old faces a trial set to begin on October 7.
In one of the videos, Boone responded, “Yeah, that’s what you do when you choke me,” according to the report. And she added, “Oh, that’s how I feel when you cheat on me.”
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An autopsy found that Mr. Torres had scratches on his back and neck, and bruises on his shoulder, skull and forehead due to blunt force trauma, as well as a cut near his busted lip.
Since his arrest, Boone has had multiple attorneys, which has contributed to the delay of his trial.
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