A Florida woman accused of suffocating her boyfriend in a suitcase was found guilty of murder on Friday after a 10-day trial.

Sarah Boone, 46, was arrested and charged in the February 2020 death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, 42. Winter Park, Floridaapartment.

After 90 minutes of deliberation, jurors agreed on a verdict against her Friday night. She previously pleaded not guilty to the charges second degree murder.

Prosecutors say Boone stuffed Torres into a suitcase during a drunken game of hide-and-seek, hit him with a baseball bat and then left him overnight until he died of asphyxiation.

Graphic cell phone video of Torres struggling in the green suitcase was shown and remained central during the processalongside the couple’s dysfunctional relationship.

In the video of Torres in the suitcase, he can be heard saying, “Sarah, I can’t breathe, baby.”

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“That’s up to you,” she replies.

“Sarah, I can’t breathe,” he said again.

“That’s up to you,” Boone replied.

On February 24, 2020, at 1:01 p.m., Boone called 911 to report that her boyfriend, Torres Jr., was dead in their apartment.

In audio, obtained by WOFLshe is heard saying, “My lover is dead.”

She told 911 dispatchers that she and her boyfriend “were playing last night and we put him in a suitcase and we were playing.”

“It’s a matter of hiding,” she said.

She said she “passed out” and woke up to find Torres unresponsive and not breathing in the suitcase.

“I don’t know what happened,” she said. “He had blood from his mouth. It’s purple.”

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Boone said he tried to give her CPR.

“Nothing happened. He’s purple,” she said.

She is expected to be sentenced Dec. 2 and faces up to life in prison, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said. in a release.

In her defense, Boone took the stand during the trial in her own defense, claiming she had no intention of killing Torres.

She also claimed that her actions were in self-defense and claimed that Torres had previously abused her and did not intend to hurt him.

Orange County prosecutors disagreed, writing in a statement that her testimony was “contradicted by statements she made and video evidence showing her taunting the victim as he begged her to be released from the suitcase.” .

Fox News Digital’s Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.

Source of the original article: Florida ‘suitcase killer’ learns fate after boyfriend’s slaying, as 911 call captures victim’s condition