Florida woman found guilty of murder after zipping boyfriend in suitcase - eviltoast

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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    18 days 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.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      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.

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        17 days 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.

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        17 days 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.