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A jury convicts Sarah Boone of killing her boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr. by leaving him to suffocate to death in a suitcase.
she went through nine attorneys ,gave five hours of testimony and on friday.
4 and a half years after zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and recording him as he suffocated to death.
sarah boone was convicted of second degree murder.
now she is facing the possibility of life in prison.
murder ,that was the unanous verdict in the 10 -day trial of the so-called suitcase killer sarah boone
it took only 90 minutes for the jury to come to a unanimous decision friday night
the six member jury ,five women and one man were unswayed by the the defense testimony
that the killing of George tores Jr was an act of self -defense.
this entire trial she walked out every day kind of smiling chitchating with her lawyers and then she was kind of laser focused on the case .
she really didn’t have much of a reaction when this guilty verdict was read but you could see her cheeks were a little flushed.
that included testimony earlier in the week from sarah herself who sought to portray
george torres Jr as the aggressor in a game of hide and seek in a suitcase that went horribly wrong.
“…but then i fell asleep”
this was at the center of the case ,this police body cam video
and the highly charged video shot shot by sarah boone herself that made national headlines and spike social media views.
” didn’t mean to leave him there”
but despite sarah clearly ignoring torre’s please for oxygen she told jurys what they don’t see is an off -camera escape attempt where tores got one hand free.
“my fear was that he was going to break out of the suitcase knowing that it was a broken suitcase “
which she claimed required her to stuff him back inside the luggage with a baseball bat.
“i knew the tone and we ended up i guess arguing backand forth with one another and things that he was saying uhm…very much frightened me”
but the jury didn’t buy it, rejecting sarah’s defense
under oath that she suffered from battered spouse syndrom,despite a history of assault between the couple .
Torres’s surviving family who spent every day of the trial in the front row of the court gallery leaving only when the video of george suffocating was played for jurors just hours before the jury rendered its verdict
now judge michael kraynick will sentence sarah at a hearing scheduled for december 2nd
but state prosecutors believe justice has already been served.
“this is one a very horrific homicide, nobody really should have to endure this type of struggle and fight for their lives and had to die alone,begging for their last breath inside a suitcase”
sarah wrote to True Crime News in august saying the world has been having fun with my case since day one.
I’m nothing more than an oddity to be jeered at and joked about the suprise is that i keep walking out of the ring in one piece and a smile on my face.”
she went on to say
“it’s not about winning the battles , it’s about winning the war . people will remember me one way or the other , and hopefully the right way in the end “
Boone’s ninth attorney james owens who took the case after booner put an add on social media is already off the case .
boone is planning an appeal