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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.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP34 "Surviving Domestic Violence"Defense attorney James Owens claimed Sarah Boone's mind at the time of Jorge Torres' death was that of a psychologically abused victim and not a person who wanted to kill a person. Fear and trauma was what led her to zip up the suitcase with her abuser stuck inside and why she refused to open the suitcase back up. Owens contended that years of trauma and abuse at the hands of her boyfriend led her to fighting back in zipping him up in a suitcase and leaving him in there for hours until he died.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP35 "Justified Homicide"During closing arguments Sarah Boone's lead attorney tried to sew doubt in the minds of jurors as to her role in her boyfriend, Jorge Torre's death. James Owens did this by re-introducing photographic and video evidence of the times Torres was physically abusive to Boone. Owens painted Jorge Torres as the traumatizing abuser who's actions led to his death. Next, the State's turn to give their final appeal to the jury in their rebuttal on why Boone was guilty of second-degree murder.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP36 "She Started It"Prosecutors had the last word to the jury. Lead prosecutor William Jay claimed hatred, ill-will, spite, malice and a depraved mind led Sarah Boone to kill her boyfriend, Jorge Torres. Soon jurors will deliberate on her role in Torres' death. This was after six days of emotional testimony delivered by both sides and four years of legal wrangling in which Boone went through several defense attorneys assigned to her case.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP37 "The Sentencing Phase"Interview With a Killer
EP11 "Murder in Absentia"In 2015, Halford conspires with her boyfriend to rob her great uncle; both men end up dead in a blitz of gunfire and Halford would be convicted of capital murder; Halford questions the fairness of a legal system while serving life in prison.
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.
The Trials Of Dr. Death
S1, EP20 "The Hippocratic Oath"Dr. Jack Kevorkian spoke on his childhood, young adult years and educational background; he then testified on the role of a pathologist toward their own patients; Dr. Kevorkian even gave his opinion on the Hippocratic Oath.
The Trials Of Dr. Death
S1, EP21 "Doctor Defends Himself"On the stand Dr. Jack Kevorkian continues defending himself in his own trial where he's up for second-degree murder; he told jurors that Thomas Hyde was mentally competent when he wanted to end his suffering.
The Trials Of Dr. Death
S1, EP22 "Doctor Death Is Cross-Examined"Cross-examination began on Dr. Jack Kevorkian; he testified to jurors that Thomas Hyde was suffering from ALS, but that Hyde knew what he was doing; things got a little contentious at times between the prosecutor.
The Trials Of Dr. Death
S1, EP23 "Dr. Kevorkian Challenges The Law"Dr. Kevorkian claims organized medicine is socially criminal; he told jurors repeatedly that he only wanted to help end Thomas Hyde's suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP34 "Washington v. Letourneau"Mary Kay Letourneau, 34 year-old married schoolteacher and mother, was having sex with a 12 year old student, and the story grabbed headlines around the world; it's only the first in a series of wild revelations.