Florida Woman Sentenced To Life In Prison After Zipping Boyfriend In Suitcase Until He Died

A Florida woman has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of second-degree murder after she zipped her boyfriend up in a suitcase and left him alone for hours.

Sarah Boone, 47, was found guilty of second-degree murder and has been sentenced to life in prison.

Boone’s defense claimed she was playing hide-and-seek while drinking and zipped her boyfriend up as a joke.

Prosecutors, however, showed videos of Boone zipping her boyfriend up in the suitcase and taunting him before going upstairs to sleep, leaving him to die.

#BREAKING: Florida woman #SarahBoone, convicted of killing her boyfriend by zipping him in a suitcase, has been sentenced to LIFE in prison. Do you think she’s kicking herself for turning down the 15-year plea deal? pic.twitter.com/Yal5F6XjEe

— Joshua Ritter (@JoshuaRitterESQ) December 2, 2024

THE BLAME GAME! 🤬 Convicted killer Sarah Boone forgives everyone she claims wronged her – including the man she killed, George Torres. That was the most narcissistic, self-serving, demented speech I’ve ever heard a defendant make! 💯⚖️ @CourtTV pic.twitter.com/uvGr8UA6IB

— Julie Grant (@JulieCourtTV) December 2, 2024

Check out what CNN reported:

A Florida woman was sentenced to life in prison Monday after she was found guilty of second-degree murder for zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase, leaving him inside for hours until he died.

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Sarah Boone, 47, was found guilty of second-degree murder in October. Prosecutors said she zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., into a suitcase, recording video of herself taunting him before leaving him stuck inside overnight to suffocate and die.

In February 2020, the couple was drinking alcohol and playing a game of hide-and-seek, according to a news release from State Attorney Andrew Bain.

They thought “it would be funny” to hop in a suitcase as a part of the game, according to an arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Boone said Torres voluntarily climbed into the suitcase and she zipped it closed, the news release says. She recorded herself “taunting” Torres as he asked to be let out and then went upstairs to sleep, according to the release.

She thought because two of his fingers stuck out from the suitcase, he would be able to open it, according to the affidavit.

#SarahBoone sentenced to life…in Florida …life …IS life…

Jorge Torres’ mom to Judge Kraynick: “I don’t hate Sarah Boone.”

BTW, not surprisingly, Sarah’s own statement was the most inappropriate, insensitive, insane soliloquy ever. Me. Me. Me. Me.

Blamed everyone but… pic.twitter.com/0Dak6IU5JR

— Surviving The Survivor Podcast (@PodcastSTS) December 2, 2024

Per People:

The Florida woman convicted of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate to death while trapped inside has been sentenced to life in prison.

Sarah Boone, 47, learned her fate in an Orlando courtroom on Monday, Dec. 2, more than a month after she was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Jorge Torres, Jr., 42.

Torres was found dead on the morning of Feb. 24, 2020, inside a suitcase in the couple’s Winter Park apartment.

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