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Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP16 "Suitcase Carrying Death"I'm always afraid and always scared. That's what Sarah Boone told jurors on the witness stand. She tried to explain away the cell phone video she recorded while Jorge Torres was inside the suitcase pleading to get out because he couldn't breathe. Battered women's syndrome was a big part of her case. Boone testified that initially it was funny when her boyfriend was able to even fit inside that small suitcase. But then she claimed that she only left him in it because she feared for her life.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP17 "Physical And Psychological Abuse"The jury's attention shifted from the death of Jorge Torres to the years of domestic violence he and the defendant dealt with. Sarah Boone testified that she was a woman in fear of her life when she and Torres played a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Next, large images of Boone's bruises were displayed for jurors. She was testifying about the constant physical violence she claimed to have endured at the hands of her allegedly abusive boyfriend.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP18 "Domestic Violence Allegations"Domestic and alcohol abuse came to define the violent relationship between Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres. On the stand, Boone gave jurors a timeline of events where Torres allegedly attacked and abused her. But, the defendant never mentioned any alleged abuse while she was being interviewed by police. Yet on the stand, she told the jury that zipping her boyfriend up in that suitcase and leaving him in there to die was the first time she fought back against him.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP19 "Defendant Faces Cross-Examination"In her murder trial, Sarah Boone told the jury that she was shocked that she was arrested for the murder of Jorge Torres. Even though she never talked about any abuse in her interview with police, she told jurors that her actions that day was her way of defending herself from being killed. It was the State's turn to question the defendant on the stand. They wanted to discredit her claim that she zipped up her boyfriend in a suitcase and left him there for hours because she feared for her life.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP20 "Defending Herself"The jury listened to more testimony from the defendant on what led up to Jorge Torres' death. Under cross-examination, the State tried to poke holes in her credibility claiming her side of the story was inconsistent with the facts in this case. Next, her Defense called in officers who responded to domestic abuse incidents at the home of the defendant and Torres. The calls were made a year and two years before Torres lost his life stuck in a zipped-up suitcase.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP21 "Battered Woman Syndrome"A forensic psychologist testified for Sarah Boone's defense. Jurors will hear more about the mental health issues she claimed to be experiencing at the time her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, lost his life suffocating in a suitcase. On the stand in her murder trial was Dr. Michael Brannon, a forensic psychologist, who evaluated the defendant and diagnosed her with battered woman syndrome.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP22 "Constant Drama At Home"Cross-examination began with the Defense's forensic psychologist. On the stand, Dr. Michael Brannon confirmed that Sarah Boone was a victim of battered woman syndrome in her turbulent and violent relationship with Jorge Torres. Next, a former neighbor of Sarah Boone took the stand. She recalled to the jury in seeing the defendant with a black eye.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP23 "Dr. Julie Harper"A seasoned forensic psychologist explained to jurors how she evaluates the mental health of a person. Dr. Julie Harper testified that she met with the defendant nine times after she was accused of killing her boyfriend, Jorge Torres. She diagnosed Sarah Boone with low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, narcissism, and PTSD after the full psychological evaluation.
Treadmill Abuse Murder Trial
S1, EP32 "A Second Medical Opinion"A second medical opinion to how six-year-old Corey Micciolo was relayed to the jury. On the stand was the Defense's forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, who happened to specialize in child abuse and blunt force trauma. None of which he claimed defendant, Christopher Gregor, did to Corey to lead to his death. The process and results of conducting an autopsy was made clear to jurors.
Treadmill Abuse Murder Trial
S1, EP33 "Deadly And Rapid Pnuemonia"Cross-examination began on the Defense's medical expert. Dr. Michael Baden testified in detail that Corey Micciolo most likely died of a lung inflammation and not as a result of physical abuse at the hands of his doctor. Dr. Baden not only explained how six-year-old Corey died but how he sustained the injuries he received. He claimed the six-year-old died of a sudden, rapid pneumonia and the lacerations to his heart, lung, and liver were due to vigorous cpr applied on him to save his life.
Treadmill Abuse Murder Trial
S1, EP34 "Closing Arguments"Closing arguments began after the Defense rested their case arguing to the jury why Christopher Gregor did not kill Corey Micciolo, his six-year-old son. During the closing arguments in his lead attorney brought jurors back to the beginning of the family drama Corey was living. The defense reminded the jury that the defendant came into Corey's life when he was just five years old and while his mother was battling an illicit drug addiction.
Treadmill Abuse Murder Trial
S1, EP35 "Blaming The Mother"Christopher Gregor's defense ripped Corey Micciolo's mother during closing arguments. Gregor's lead attorney reminded jurors how Breanna Micciolo was dealing with an addiction to methamphetamine while battling with the defendant over sole custody for Corey. The defense kept alluding to their claim that young Corey tragically lost his life from an infection that he suddenly and rapidly got while in his father's care.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S1, EP9 "Deadly Delivery"Lita McClinton thinks the man at her door is just delivering a dozen pink roses, but the delivery guy delivers death instead; the decades-long hunt for justice spans multiple continents before reaching a dramatic conclusion in an Atlanta courtroom.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S1, EP2 "Man's Best Friend"When the body of 22-year-old Misty Morse is found floating in the Indian River, police suspect one of her many boyfriends; with only a piece of nautical rope and a strip of duct tape to go on, an unusual kind of DNA could actually break the case.
Cheerleader On Trial For Baby's Murder
EP35 "Dependent Personality Disorder"A mental health evaluation of the defendant gets outlined for jurors; according to the defense's psychologist, Skylar Richardson submits to authority.
Cheerleader On Trial For Baby's Murder
EP39 "Neonaticide"Steward Bassman makes the diagnosis that Skylar Richardson is suffering from a dependent personality disorder; the prosecutor questions Bassman on neonaticide, the deliberate act of a parent murdering their child during the first 24 hours of life.