This Florida woman named Sarah Boone has been jailed for life! And what was her crime, you ask? Well, get ready for this – she decided to suffocate her boyfriend in a zipped suitcase for hours until he died.
I mean, seriously, who does something like that? It’s like something out of a bad movie. This is cruel and she deserves a life imprisonment sentence. A game of hide and seek shouldn’t end someone’s life.
Sarah Boone, 47, was found guilty of second-degree murder in October. Prosecutors said she zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., into a suitcase, recording video of herself taunting him before leaving him stuck inside overnight to suffocate and die.
Several of Torres’ family members spoke ahead of the sentencing about the impact of his death. In a tearful statement, his mother, Blanca Torres, said Boone “not only killed my son, she killed a father, a brother, an uncle.”
“Sometimes when I look out the window, I’m waiting for him to come and say, ‘Mom, I love you,’” she said.
Torres’ sister, Victoria Torres, said Boone “has caused a lifetime of pain.”
In February 2020, the couple was drinking alcohol and playing a game of hide-and-seek, according to a news release from State Attorney Andrew Bain.
They thought “it would be funny” to hop in a suitcase as a part of the game, according to an arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Boone said Torres voluntarily climbed into the suitcase and she zipped it closed, the news release says. She recorded herself “taunting” Torres as he asked to be let out and then went upstairs to sleep, according to the release.
She thought because two of his fingers stuck out from the suitcase, he would be able to open it, according to the affidavit.
When Boone woke up, she found Torres unresponsive in the suitcase and called 911, according to Bain.
Videos found on Boone’s phone that included Torres “frantically pleading to be released while Boone laughed and rebuffed him several times” were presented at trial, according to the news release from Bain’s office.
“In the videos she recorded, the victim could be heard telling the defendant he could not breathe and asking to be let out of the suitcase,” the release reads. “Boone responded with, ‘That’s what you get,’ ‘That’s what I feel like when you cheat on me’ and other taunts.”
The video shows Torres pushing on the suitcase and trying to get out, the affidavit said.
Boone testified in her own defense for around five hours, according to CNN affiliate WESH.
When asked by a prosecutor why she didn’t unzip the suitcase, she said, “I wanted him to try to understand how I felt so maybe he could progress and be a better person,” according to WESH.
Boone’s attorney said his client was “shocked” and her team was “very disappointed” after she was convicted, reported WESH. Torres’ family declined to speak with the media.
I hope this serves as a wake-up call to anyone who thinks they can get away with such cruel behavior. Justice has been served, and Sarah Boone will spend the rest of her life paying for her horrendous actions. A game of hide and seek gone completely wrong!
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