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.

  • Illecors
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    -762 months ago

    There’s a gender fluid joke in there somewhere

    • @rtxn
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      222 months ago

      No, he definitely did not assume the shape of his container. That’s the whole reason he died.

      • Illecors
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        -612 months ago

        Florida man -> woman. Can’t believe how dumb lemmy can be at times.

        • @glimse
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          262 months ago

          That’s a huge stretch

        • @grue
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          162 months ago

          Can’t believe how dumb lemmy can be at times.

          (Looking at your bigoted, unfunny nonsense) yep, neither can I.