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.

  • BougieBirdie
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    313 hours ago

    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

    • @MinorLaceration
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      62 hours ago

      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.

    • The Pantser
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      122 hours ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid
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        192 hours ago

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

    • Flying Squid
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      53 hours ago

      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.

  • Illecors
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    -364 hours ago

    There’s a gender fluid joke in there somewhere

    • @rtxn
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      103 hours ago

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

      • Illecors
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        -202 hours ago

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

        • @glimse
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          81 hour ago

          That’s a huge stretch