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Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP27 "Symptoms Of A Battered Woman"The State's forensic psychiatrist continued answering probing questions under cross-examination. Boone's defense team was challenging her mental health report that dismissed the idea that her diagnosis of battered women's syndrome was what led her to kill her boyfriend in self-defense. Next, prosecutors delivered police bodycam footage that brought in some nuance to the troubled relationship between the defendant and the victim over the years.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP28 "The Police Bodycam Footage"Police bodycam video dominated the State's rebuttal case. During the defendant's unstable relationship with Jorge Torres, police arrived several times over domestic abuse allegations. Sometimes they both would be arrested and booked. These domestic calls involving Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres was the theme in the prosecution's rebuttal. For the first time, Torres' perspective was captured on camera.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP29 "Drama Played Out On Camera"The drama in the relationship of Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres made its way to the jury in the form of police bodycam video. In the months and years before Torres died trapped in a suitcase he and Boone fought enough times for police to make several calls to their home. The 911 calls and bodycam footage showed a different perspective in the torn relationship between the two. Jurors would decide later- was Boone really trapped in the relationship due to years of being abused by her boyfriend?
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP30 "Hearing From Jorge Torres"Jurors got a glimpse of Jorge Torres in the months before he was killed in a suitcase. One of the police bodycam videos showed him being arrested for violating a no-contact order he had against the defendant. Next, more incidents between Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres was shown to jurors. They included 911 calls, police bodycam footage and even cell phone video, Boone recorded to document what was going on at home.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP31 "Revealing Text Messages"Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to text messages. This was their rebuttal case trying to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Sarah Boone intentionally killed Jorge Torres, her boyfriend, by keeping him trapped in a suitcase for hours. The disparaging texts revealed to jurors included contact with other friends and relatives. The State's aim with the texts was to show jurors how both of them were at fault with how bad their relationship had grew into.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP32 "Closing Arguments"Closing arguments began on the sixth day of trial. The State delivered their final remarks by detailing their case against Sarah Boone accusing her of intentionally killing Jorge Torres by keeping him stuck in a suitcase for 11 hours. Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore stuck to the legal stipulation of second-degree homicide. He argued that the prosecution does not need to prove intention in Boone's actions which led up to her boyfriend, Jorge Torres' death.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP33 "Trapped"Closing arguments by the State continued. Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore argued that she had no justification of ending Jorge Torres life using a small suitcase despite the mental health issues she was dealing with. Next, was Sarah Boone's defense to give their closing arguments to jurors. They wanted to button up their case that the defendant was simply a battered woman who defended herself from her abusive boyfriend that day he died in a suitcase.
FL v. AILEEN WUORNOS
S1, EP14 "The Other Murder"Nearly a year went by between the murders of Richard Mallory and Charles Humphreys; both were linked to defendant Aileen Wuornos. Within that year, another four men were killed in the same way off a highway.
FL v. AILEEN WUORNOS
S1, EP15 "The Self-Defense Killer"Aileen Wuornos worked as a prostitute picking up drivers as she hitch hiked, but she said she killed in self-defense.
FL v. AILEEN WUORNOS
S1, EP16 "Homicidal Behavior"The judge allowed evidence of other allegations against Aileen Wuornos to be used at this trial; the State's case-in-chief was to prove to jurors she showed homicidal behavior.
FL v. AILEEN WUORNOS
S1, EP17 "The Damsel Of Death"A medical examiner from a different murder case linked to Aileen Wuornos testified; a state law in Florida allowed jurors to hear about prior bad acts and illegal activity; but the defense argued that Wuornos only killed to save herself.
FL v. AILEEN WUORNOS
S1, EP18 "Her Last Victim"An investigator broke down what happened to the man who was allegedly Aileen Wuornos's last victim; jurors have heard from officers in several jurisdictions.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S1, EP4 "Hometown Hero"HS football coach Ed Thomas is a legend in Parkersburg, Iowa, who had mentored multiple players into the NFL, and kids even had a poster of him on their walls; when he is gunned down during an early morning workout, the entire town is shocked.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S1, EP8 "Family Business"On the surface the Carters seemed like a happy family of Iowa farmers, but when they discover Shirley Carter shot to death in her kitchen, the family begins pointing fingers at each other.
The Trials Of Dr. Death
S1, EP19 "The Day Thomas Hyde Died"A month after Thomas Hyde formally asked and signed an agreement to end his life the defendant proceeded with the physician-assisted suicide; Dr. Jack Kevorkian's sister, Margo Janus, who worked with him, testified.