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Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:11:37 -0800
marlon from
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woman zipped boyfriend into suitcase, suffocating him
https://www.mlive.com/news/2024/12/florida-woman-sentenced-to-life-for-zipping-boyfriend-into-suitcase-suffocating-him.html
Florida woman sentenced to life for zipping boyfriend into suitcase, suffocating
him
Published: Dec. 03, 2024, 7:22 a.m.
Sarah Boone
Sarah Boone is led off in handcuffs as she glances back at supporters in a
courtroom of the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida, on Monday, Dec.
2, 2024. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP)AP
By The Associated Press
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press
A Florida woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend
into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic
and alcohol abuse.
Circuit Judge Michael Kraynick imposed the sentence in Orlando on Sarah Boone,
47, for the 2020 killing of 42-year-old Jorge Torres.
A jury deliberated only 90 minutes Oct. 25 before convicting Boone of the
second-degree murder of Jorge Torres after a 10-day trial. Boone had insisted
she was herself a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Torres and had
rejected a plea deal offer of a 15-year sentence.
Torres' family members testified at the hearing that his death has torn them
apart.
“Sarah deserves to rot in jail,” said a sister, Victoria Torres. “Sarah
has caused a lifetime of pain.”
In her own statement, Boone went through a litany of abuse by Torres she said
occurred over many years, decried the way her trial was handled and covered by
the media, yet asked forgiveness for her actions.
“I forgive myself for falling in love with a monster. I tried breaking the
spell ... I never stopped loving him,” said Boone, who has been in jail for 58
months. “I didn’t mean for this to happen. Forgive me Jorge. Forgive me
Torres family.”
At first, Boone told Orange County Sheriff’s Office investigators that she and
Torres had been drinking heavily and playing hide-and-seek on Feb. 23, 2020, in
their Winter Park, Florida, residence when they thought it would be amusing for
the 103-pound (47-kilogram) Torres to climb into the suitcase. Winter Park is a
suburb of Orlando.
They had been drinking alcohol and she decided to go to sleep, figuring that
Torres could get out of the suitcase on his own, she told detectives in an
arrest report.
When she woke up the next morning, she didn’t find Torres but then remembered
he was in the suitcase. She unzipped the suitcase and found him unresponsive,
the arrest report said.
Boone was charged with second-degree murder after investigators found videos on
her cellphone in which Torres is heard yelling from inside the suitcase that he
couldn’t breathe and repeatedly calling out Boone’s name, according to the
arrest report.
“She decided to keep (Torres) in the suitcase when he said he could not
breathe in it to terrorize him,” prosecutor William Jay said in a court
filing. “She then struck him with a baseball bat.”
Boone rejected a plea offer from prosecutors that would have imposed a 15-year
prison sentence in exchange for her guilty plea to a reduced manslaughter
charge.
During her trial, Boone testified that past violent incidents between her and
Torres caused her to perceive a threat of imminent harm and that she acted in
self-defense by keeping him in the suitcase.
“Yeah that’s what you do when you choke me,” Boone said in one of the
cellphone videos from that night, according to the arrest report. “Oh,
that’s what I feel like when you cheat on me.”
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:34:46 -0800
zerosugar
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Reply #10197181 She messed up by not taking that
plea deal. He must have been tiny to fit into a suitcase. What was she thinking?
I saw this big white chick on on TikTok with some Central American dude under 5
feet tall and she picks him up. Creepy. I would think it's better to stay single
if thats the best you can do.
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:36:42 -0800
zerosugar
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Reply #18429446 Oh scary. He was 5ft2 and weighed
103 pounds. What level of desperation can a woman have to date such a character?
He looks diseased in his pics too. Imagine thinking a man like that is worth it
to go to jail for the rest of your life.
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:38:05 -0800
marlon from
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Reply #18473204 u see a lot of pairing of little
men w/ big women, always wondered if he got pegged
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:50:03 -0800
zerosugar
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Reply #13450419 There are some really desperate
women. They need to get some makeovers, maybe get a prescription for ozempic or
zepbound, and start getting out there. When I was a teenager, I had this friend.
She was this big Polish chick. Chunky and tall. She would have been better going
with her own kind, but she wanted to act like a hood rat and say she didn’t
like Polish guys. Then again, none would probably date her as sadly she wasn’t
very pretty. With the right makeover though, she probably could have been
acceptable. She started messing with this Ecuadorian dude. He was this 4ft10
tattoo artist who rode a bicycle and worked at the hot dog stand with long
greasy hair who was later arrested for burglarizing and raping an old woman. My
friend continued to talk to the Ecuadorian while he was incarcerated, writing
disgusting letters back and forth. Her mother seriously had no backbone to stop
her. Then, she started dating this skinny black guy who at least was tall, but
was still hideously ugly and an alcoholic. She got pregnant by the black guy
when we were still teens. He eventually escaped and got another baby mamma. She
started accusing me and other friends of liking the black guy! lol! My friend
Emily and I were just friends with this black guy because we used him for a ride
and he was otherwise funny, but he was hideously ugly and we didn’t want him.
To this day, that chick never talked to us again thinking we wanted her black
baby daddy Then, the Ecuadorian eventually was released from prison after nearly
two decades and my friend hooked back up with him and had a daughter with him. I
think they are still together. Eeek. I would NEVER.
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