Suitcase murder trial continues today. The state called the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Jorge Torres. She believes he was in the suitcase for 11 hours & found 5-6 blunt force injuries on his body.
The autopsy photos were shown in court and you could see a lot of bruising and swelling on Jorge's body. The witness said he had injuries consistent to being hit by a bat. Cause of death was positional asphyxiation… ruled as a homicide.
Jorge was 103lbs & 5'2. The suitcase
#SarahBoone zipped him in was 28 L x 20 W x 8 ⅞ deep. The forensic pathologist thinks he was in the fetal position in the suitcase for 11 hours. Blunt force injuries didn’t attribute to his death rather it was the lack of oxygen, suffocation
In the autopsy photo, it looks like Jorge Torres had a wedding ring on.
#SarahBoone previously told investigators that she and Jorge were boyfriend/girlfriend for 3.5 years but not married.
Just looked back at my notes from the police interrogation... during that interrogation 4 years ago, Sarah Boone asked investigators how she could get back the engagement ring she bought for him.
A woman in the courtroom yelled out "is this the Sarah Boone trial?" and then when the deputy brought
#SarahBoone in after a lunch break, the woman said "deputy, you should be fired." Sarah asked the deputy who the woman was and then kind of smirked.
The judge just kicked that woman out and told her to watch the trial on a live stream.
An audio recording of a homicide investigator & her partner interviewing
#SarahBoone at the crime scene in 2020 is being played in the courtroom right now. At one point Sarah said: “there was no ill will between the two of us last night.”
Sarah also said in this 2020 interview that Jorge's teeth were falling out. I believe it did look like he was missing a tooth when they showed Jorge's autopsy photo earlier. According to the medical examiner, Jorge was 103lbs.
Jorge was 42 years old when he died.
Jurors have been watching the interview b/t
#SarahBoone & homicide investigators from 2020 since about 4pm. The full video previously released to media is about 2 hours long. The judge told jurors they're watching an edited version to eliminate unnecessary things.
Sarah Boone is inside the courtroom. She's been watching her interrogation video, but not reacting to it. We expect her to testify in court this week.
During the 2020 interrogation, Sarah was shown the cell phone video deputies got off her phone of Sarah filming Jorge inside the suitcase. She was laughing as he was calling her name over and over again begging to be let out. She admitted that it "looks really bad".
