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Florida woman found guilty of murder after zipping boyfriend in suitcase (www.theguardian.com)

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Sarah Boone was accused of leaving Jorge Torres to die at their home in Winter Park in 2020

A woman accused of leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped into a suitcase in their home was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury in central Florida.

Four years after Sarah Boone was arrested over the death of Jorge Torres, jurors handed down the verdict against her on Friday evening after deliberating for about 90 minutes. Boone had pleaded not guilty.

Boone initially told detectives with the Orange county sheriff’s office that she and Torres had been playing hide-and-seek on 23 February 2020, in their Winter Park, Florida, residence when they thought it would be funny for Torres to get into the suitcase.

They had been drinking and she decided to go to sleep, thinking her boyfriend could get out of the suitcase on his own, she told detectives, according to an arrest report.

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[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 116 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reading the selected quote and headline made me think this was tragic and accidental.

Imagine you and your partner decide to lock one another up in a confined space as a boozey prank or something kinky. The booze takes hold, or you fall asleep, and then you wake up the next day and the love of your life is gone. And then to be held criminally responsible, oof.

Then I read the article, and they talk about how there's video of him yelling from inside the suitcase, and her taunting him when he says he can't breathe.

Now I still think it's tragic, but it definitely wasn't accidental

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and her taunting him when he says he can't breathe.

On the other hand we have cops doing the same thing and they get no punishment.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

I'd say that's an argument in favor of punishing cops, not an argument against punishing other murderers.

[–] MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Her interrogation can be found on YouTube. It's been a while, but I think you hear the audio of the incident. It was definitely deliberate.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I saw it all on EWU's channel. Some quality shit on that channel. Though by their logic, everything I do normally in my day-to-day is a red flag!

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

If you watch the video it becomes even morr apparent it was intentional. Death may not have been intentional but keeping him in was.

I don't recommend watching the video btw. Still haunts me

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you.

Also, maybe I'm kind of vanilla here, but I'm the same age as her apparently (47) and I both can't imagine playing hide-and-seek at this age, and I am not seeing how this is would be a kink. It doesn't sound like it was a "you find me and I'll be naked and ready" situation even if her claim that she thought he could get out by himself was true.

I don't even know why someone around my age would pick a suitcase as a hiding place. I assume he had a 40-something spine.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not everyone in their 40s is a corpulent wreck. Flexibility and strength are easily sustainable well past 50, with proper maintenance.

Most people are just sedentary and eat based on the new food groups: fat, salt, and sugar.

But yeah, it's still a weird thing to do.

[–] Kadaj21@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Wife watches Emily Baker and the guy was like 110lbs and low 5’ ‘x height. Smaaaall guy. Her defense team was a mess too, kept getting in trouble with the judge.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I'd take a look at the lady who was found guilty. She does not look like someone with a boyfriend who does such maintenance.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I have seen that video.. Likely when this first happened

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have. She's clearly sauced, but she says things like this is what you get for how you treated me when he asked her to let him out. She may not have meant to kill him, and maybe passed out on accident n was going to let him out eventually and was just fucking around, but in hindsight, it looks bad. Also, super weird that she decided to film it, but people want to film everything these days.

[–] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He also repeatedly says to her, in between very shallow breaths, that he can't breathe, and she just continues taunting him and laughing and drinking.

She also placed him in the suitcase so the lid was against the floor and his knees were pressing into his chest. He literally couldn't expand his body to intake enough air, and even if he could have supposedly gotten out, how is he going to open the suitcase upside down in his position, with the zippers both on the outside and his arms probably pinned?

I still think about that video.

[–] HaleHirsute 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah there’s a lot of video from this incident, I think I watched a That Chapter true crime show covering it, the woman was pretty terrible causing it.