Sarah Boone found TK of choking boyfriend in 'Suitcase Murder'

The Florida woman accused of stuffing her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate has been found guilty of murdering him.

Sarah Boone, 47, learned her fate on Friday, October 26, when a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder in February 2020 Orlando GuardianWFTV and WKMG report.

Torres was found dead in a suitcase in her Winter Park apartment on the morning of February 24, 2020, after allegedly playing a drunken game of hide-and-seek.

At first she claimed that the two of them thought it was funny that he fit in the suitcase.

But when his “tone” changed while speaking to her from the bag, she testified that she feared he would hurt her, as she claimed he had done in the past, Law & Crime reports.

She captured parts of the frightening incident in two videos she shot on her cell phone that evening. In it, Torres can be seen begging her to let him out of the suitcase, Court TV reports.

Boone defended herself on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, saying she initially ran into an upstairs bathroom to hide in the shower. After waiting “quite a while,” she decided to “wind down the evening” so she could go to bed.

She went downstairs to look for Torres and saw him “settling down in a suitcase.” She later added: “He tried to lay flat so I couldn't see he was in there.”

She then testified, “I zipped him up. We thought it was funny.”

After rolling the suitcase around for a while, she said it “fell over.”

That's when her report became even more bizarre.

She claimed that Torres had abused her before and stated that this would be a good time to talk openly with him since Torres “wasn't able to come out.”

At a crucial point: “His tone changed, and I knew the tone, and I think we ended up arguing back and forth,” Boone said.

She began videotaping her conversation with Torres, who was still in the suitcase.

He can be heard begging her to let him out as she taunts him.

When he managed to get his hand out of the suitcase, she took a baseball bat and hit his hand with it until he put it back in. She testified that she feared he would “break out of the suitcase.” Newsweek Reports.

She said she thought he could get out of the suitcase himself and said she went upstairs to sleep and left him inside.

When prosecutors asked her if she did anything to help Torres out of the suitcase, she said, “No.”

Prosecutors say she never mentioned any alleged abuse when questioned by police.

She made further headlines when she changed lawyers nine times and had her hair and makeup professionally done for the trial.