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Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP5 "Responding Officers To The Scene"
The unedited version of the police bodycam questioning Sarah Boone on what happened played in court. Prosecutors claimed she intentionally killed her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, using a suitcase in a deadly game of hide-and-seek. They introduced police bodycam video from two responding officers to the crime scene. At the time of his death Torres' height was five feet three inches, and he weighed only 103 pounds.
S1, EP6 "Crime Scene Investigation"
Crime scene photos displayed for jurors. As officers gathered information and collected key evidence they were learning about the alcohol-induced game of hide-and-seek that led to Jorge Torres death. Cross-examination began on the crime scene investigator who collected and processed key evidence. The state was trying to prove that Boone intentionally killed her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, when she zipped up the suitcase he got into before going off to bed.
S1, EP7 "Environmental Suffocation"
The State's medical examiner took the stand. Dr. Sara Zydowicz conducted the autopsy of Jorge Torres. Prosecutors told jurors Torres died of environmental suffocation when he lied in a suitcase for at least 11 hours. Next, the jury shifted their attention on the physical evidence prosecutors believed proved Boone killed her boyfriend. This testimony came from the DNA analyst assigned to this case.
S1, EP8 "Cellphone Extraction"
Cellphone data extraction made its way into this trial. Prosecutors wanted to show the jury beyond reasonable doubt that Sarah Boone intentionally killed Jorge Torres, her boyfriend at the time, by keeping him zipped up in a suitcase and then leaving him to die overnight. The defendant apparently video recorded her boyfriend stuck in the suitcase pleading to get out. It was in two different clips on her cellphone authorities seized in their murder investigation.
S1, EP4 "The 911 Call"
Jurors listened to the 911 operator walk Sarah Boone performing CPR on Jorge Torres. This was just minutes after opening up the suitcase Torres was zipped up in and finding him unresponsive. Prosecutors introduced the jury to bodycam footage of police arriving on the scene and questioning Boone.
S1, EP3 "Drama At Home"
More of the drama in the torrid relationship between Jorge Torres and Sarah Boone spilled out in testimony. Prosecutors called in former neighbors of the couple. They told the jury that they heard constant yelling and arguing from across the apartment unit's very thin walls. Torres was charged a total of four times for domestic battery against Boone. In each of those times she bailed him out of jail.
S1, EP2 "Alcohol-Induced Murder"
Alcoholism. That's how Sarah Boone's defense began their opening statements. Her lead attorney James Owens told jurors about the alcohol addiction she and her Jorge Torres dealt with and how it often mixed in with domestic violence. Owens argued that the suitcase Torres was zipped in was a physical restraint to block a potential attack in Boone's attempt at self-defense. Domestic violence was a running theme in the relationship between the defendant and the victim.
S1, EP1 "Deadly Game Of Hide-And-Seek"
Opening statements began in the trial where Sarah Boone was accused of intentionally zipping up a suitcase with her then boyfriend inside and killing him. According to prosecutors a deadly game of hide-and-seek led to the death of Jorge Torres. This happened after the couple were allegedly drinking several bottles of wine.
