A Florida woman convicted to leaving her boyfriend to die in a suitcase will spend the rest of her life in prison. Prior to the sentence on Monday, Judge Michael Kraynick denied a defense motion for a new trial on the grounds of denial of court-appointed counsel, emotional outbursts in the courtroom, and prosecutorial misconduct, …
An Orange County jury in California convicted Sarah Boone of second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr. The jury convicted Boone on Friday, following a “short jury deliberation,” FOX 35 reports. In February 2020, Torres Jr. died from suffocation after spending around 11 hours inside a suitcase that Boone had zipped …
Sarah Boone, the Florida woman on trial for killing her boyfriend in 2020 by putting him in a suitcase, took the stand on Tuesday. Boone, 47, testified that she and Jorge Torres, Jr., 42, were playing hide-and-seek when Torres got in the suitcase and lay flat. She claimed she was intoxicated when she zipped the …
A Florida woman awaiting trial for the 2020 death of a her boyfriend, who suffocated inside a small suitcase, has obtained a new attorney who apparently answered her ad for someone “ready for your close-up on nat’l television.” Sarah Boone, 46, has been representing herself since June, when the court ruled that her behavior forfeited …
