FL - Sarah Boone, 42, charged with murdering boyfriend Jorge Torres, 42, by leaving him locked in suitcase, Winter Park, Feb 2020

[Trebor5591]

Do we know if any of these people on YouTube have been subpoenaed by SB to testify on her behalf?

I don't know! We'll find out soon enough.

 

[sasha17]

Regarding the phone video…I’m not sure why she recorded it in the first place or why she didn’t delete it before voluntarily giving her phone to LE. Part of me thinks that might be a pretty good argument for diminished capacity but not sure how it would fit into a battered wife defense.

I think she forgot she made the videos, because of how drunk she was. By the sounds of her slurring when talking in the videos, she sounded very inebriated. I think she was blacked out during that point of the evening and didn't even remember making the videos or going to bed. JMO!

 

[Andieinsyd]

Agree with you all that Sarah should have taken the plea. Her poor attorney.

 

[Seattle1]

I don't think Sarah realizes how very badly she comes across and how bad the video of Jorge in the suitcase will make her appear. I do think the judge will be able to set aside her difficult personality and look at the mitigating facts in their entirety. She likely won't get the maximum, but the minimum. JMO

^^rsbm

Seems to me that this was a very ill, co-dependent relationship between SB/JT where SB gave as good as she got, and was also the party who mostly bailed him out of jail. And when his family got him out on bond, SB would go to their home to drag him back to her place as his mother begged him not to leave with her! Check out video interviews by JT's mother on Court TV. There are also notes on SB's phone per the State where she would instruct JT on specific terms / phrases to say to police following his arrest for assaulting her to minimize his charges and to get him released. But I agree that SB probably doesn't realize how badly she comes across -- most narcissists are incapable of finding fault with themselves. MOO

 

[sunspun]

There was a point where I think she wanted to say "that's what you get when you trick me" what came out was yeah, thass what you do whe you trick me" and all her cackling and F yous? yikes

SBM for focus

Agree with all you say, except that I think she was saying "choke", not trick. As in he was saying he couldn't breathe, and she says, yeah, well that's how it is when you choke me.

 

[Trebor5591]

^^rsbm

Seems to me that this was a very ill, co-dependent relationship between SB/JT where SB gave as good as she got,

I don't think she gave as good as she got. I think she got the worst of it, although she did continue to fight back apparently, she just could not do the damage to him that she received from him, until that last night when she somehow got him into that suitcase. But the trial is almost here and I believe there will be a lot of testimony about the prior abuse she suffered, being hit, being thrown against walls, being dragged by her hair, being choked, being kicked out of her own apt. and forced to sleep outside, etc. Although most of the attention has been focused on the suitcase video, and her difficult and unsympathetic personality going through so many attorneys, being the know-it-all, and where she seems always to be her worst enemy, there was much more at play. IMO

 

[Wishbone]

I don't think she gave as good as she got. I think she got the worst of it, although she did continue to fight back apparently, she just could not do the damage to him that she received from him, until that last night when she somehow got him into that suitcase. But the trial is almost here and I believe there will be a lot of testimony about the prior abuse she suffered, being hit, being thrown against walls, being dragged by her hair, being choked, being kicked out of her own apt. and forced to sleep outside, etc. Although most of the attention has been focused on the suitcase video, and her difficult and unsympathetic personality going through so many attorneys, being the know-it-all, and where she seems always to be her worst enemy, there was much more at play. IMO

Week after week I follow murder cases that could have ended so differently if only these women stayed gone when they had the chance. Often times death results when a physical confrontation is in progress and one is fighting for their life. Not so in this case. I find it hard to have sympathy and give SB a pass on her actions. Watching her manipulations over many months has not softened my view of her and any excuses she may try to use to explain her actions. JMOO

 

[Seattle1]

I don't think she gave as good as she got. I think she got the worst of it, although she did continue to fight back apparently, she just could not do the damage to him that she received from him, until that last night when she somehow got him into that suitcase. But the trial is almost here and I believe there will be a lot of testimony about the prior abuse she suffered, being hit, being thrown against walls, being dragged by her hair, being choked, being kicked out of her own apt. and forced to sleep outside, etc. Although most of the attention has been focused on the suitcase video, and her difficult and unsympathetic personality going through so many attorneys, being the know-it-all, and where she seems always to be her worst enemy, there was much more at play. IMO

Respectfully, SB is alive and JT is dead at her hand!

 

[tlcya]

SBM for focus

Agree with all you say, except that I think she was saying "choke", not trick. As in he was saying he couldn't breathe, and she says, yeah, well that's how it is when you choke me.

yeah, I've since found a translation of her cursive drunkspeak.

 

[tlcya]

I don't think she gave as good as she got. I think she got the worst of it, although she did continue to fight back apparently, she just could not do the damage to him that she received from him, until that last night when she somehow got him into that suitcase. But the trial is almost here and I believe there will be a lot of testimony about the prior abuse she suffered, being hit, being thrown against walls, being dragged by her hair, being choked, being kicked out of her own apt. and forced to sleep outside, etc. Although most of the attention has been focused on the suitcase video, and her difficult and unsympathetic personality going through so many attorneys, being the know-it-all, and where she seems always to be her worst enemy, there was much more at play. IMO

you are correct, people are focused on the video. because it is horrible. She was horrible in it.

I also paid very close attention to another video as well. the video of LE interviewing her ex husband at the scene. It was very illuminating. I believed him when he said SB was often physically abusive towards him. I believed him when he said from his perspective that SB and her victim were dysfunctional and abusive towards one another.

I believe she is an abusive person who hooked up with another abusive person. I believe both of them were alcoholics. I believe she zipped him in that suitcase and left him there to suffocate, not as a game of hide and seek, not out of fear of him, and not because she "forgot", but out of revenge. She may well have been black out drunk when she did it, but again, to me that doesn't indicate anything other than in that moment, she wanted him to suffer and wanted him dead. She may not have remembered that was how she felt the next day when she woke up hungover and realized what she had done. But in that moment . . Yeah, she decided he must die.

Agree she is her own worst enemy tho. I do agree wholeheartedly with that.

 

[sasha17]

I don't remember if this was shared here earlier in the thread, but on the Orange County court records website, the complaint for a previous incident with Sarah and Jorge is available to view. It details a fight they had in 2018. It gives a good narrative description of how the two of them interacted in a physically violent way, resulting in charges for both of them. Sarah was charged with Battery by Strangulation - Third Degree - Felony.

2018-CF-010573-A-O : STATE OF FLORIDA - VS - BOONE, SARAH KATHRYN

Orange County Clerk of Courts Records Search

 

[Trebor5591]

Week after week I follow murder cases that could have ended so differently if only these women stayed gone when they had the chance. Often times death results when a physical confrontation is in progress and one is fighting for their life. Not so in this case. I find it hard to have sympathy and give SB a pass on her actions. Watching her manipulations over many months has not softened my view of her and any excuses she may try to use to explain her actions. JMOO

She's not going to get a pass for her actions, she will be going to prison, the question is, for how long? She really made a bad call, rejecting the 15 year plea deal.

 

[Wishbone]

She's not going to get a pass for her actions, she will be going to prison, the question is, for how long? She really made a bad call, rejecting the 15 year plea deal.

If she had stayed gone during one of their little break ups she wouldn't be doing any time. JMOO

 

[Seattle1]

No question that SB and JT were not good for each other.

IMO, SB liked the control she had in this relationship, and why it endured-- she provided him shelter! IMO, she put this cray, cray, before her own child. I believe we've experienced enough of SB to recognize she's no wallflower.

More important, on Feb 24, 2020, JT was not a threat to SB, and in her own words, her life was not in any danger during the date planned by SB. What is fact is that JT was trapped inside a zipped suitcase, he pleaded with SB that he could not breathe, and instead of freeing him, she taunted him. That is not self defense. It's cruel, indecent, and it's murder. MOO

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

Week after week I follow murder cases that could have ended so differently if only these women stayed gone when they had the chance. Often times death results when a physical confrontation is in progress and one is fighting for their life. Not so in this case. I find it hard to have sympathy and give SB a pass on her actions. Watching her manipulations over many months has not softened my view of her and any excuses she may try to use to explain her actions. JMOO

Agree with your point of view here and feel concerned the above poster has invented / imagined and fabricated an entire narrative that bears no relation to this case. In this case we see a woman who is very likely to transpire to be the abuser, the manipulator, the controller, as opposed to even 50:50 drunken scrabbles.

If SB were facilitated to claim BSS, she could be setting back women's rights and doing a disservice to every single desperate woman who has acted in the moment in defence. JMO MOO

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

If she had stayed gone during one of their little break ups she wouldn't be doing any time. JMOO

What do you mean stayed gone? JT would leave and go to live with his mother. SB would come and fetch him back, his family would plead with him not to return to her. He was a vulnerable man, of tiny diminutive stature and very thin and light weight. He didn't even have his own cell phone service, he had to use SB's.

 

[KSwizzle]

Do we know if she left the video on her phone, or, my speculation here, the next morning once she realized he was dead before phoning the police she deleted it but she didn't realise that on at least an iphone you can go into the "recently deleted" folder in your photos and grab anything that hasn't been deleted from there as well from the past month

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

Do we know if she left the video on her phone, or, my speculation here, the next morning once she realized he was dead before phoning the police she deleted it but she didn't realise that on at least an iphone you can go into the "recently deleted" folder in your photos and grab anything that hasn't been deleted from there as well from the past month

I've heard it said many times that she believed she had deleted the videos and they were immediately recovered, however, never seen any verified proof of that.

 

[Seattle1]

Do we know if she left the video on her phone, or, my speculation here, the next morning once she realized he was dead before phoning the police she deleted it but she didn't realise that on at least an iphone you can go into the "recently deleted" folder in your photos and grab anything that hasn't been deleted from there as well from the past month

While it's alleged that SB did not remember recording the two videos found on her phone, whether or not they were deleted and retrieved by LE is unknown.

But we do know she was charged with murder after police found videos on her cellphone showing Torres yelling Boone’s name while begging her for help, according to the arrest report.

Horrifying video appears to show accused killer Sarah Boone laugh as boyfriend dies trapped in a suitcase

Sickening video allegedly shows accused murderer Sarah Boone laughing as she films her boyfriend begging for help as he slowly suffocates to death while locked in a suitcase.

nypost.com

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

While it's alleged that SB did not remember recording the two videos found on her phone, whether or not they were deleted and retrieved by LE is unknown.

But we do know she was charged with murder after police found videos on her cellphone showing Torres yelling Boone’s name while begging her for help, according to the arrest report.

Horrifying video appears to show accused killer Sarah Boone laugh as boyfriend dies trapped in a suitcase

Sickening video allegedly shows accused murderer Sarah Boone laughing as she films her boyfriend begging for help as he slowly suffocates to death while locked in a suitcase.

nypost.com

IMO perhaps she deliberately kept it thinking it would exonerate her? As she kept contesting with investigators that it wasn’t ‘intentional’. (And if IIRC SB might even have mentioned similarly to the on scene officer in the parking lot?) One thing it seems that has been demonstrated by SB, she is in her mind the smartest person in the room. Or on the planet for that matter. SMH

But in my mind investigators should have asked SB in that interview, what did SB mean by that? What wasn’t intentional? I don’t believe that was asked. And it would have been interesting to see what word salad that elicited.

I hope that we do learn exactly where that video was found. And whether there were attempts to delete it or to move it or store it elsewhere. And as I type this, were there actually two videos or am I confusing something else? MOO