In the prosecution of suitcase-killer Sarah Boone, the prosecution provided jury with what they believed to be the strongest piece of evidence they could have.
A picture that police recovered from Boone’s phone shows her verbally abusing her sweetheart, Jorge Torres Jr., while he begs to leave the suitcase where he later died. Boone is charged with second-degree crime.
” Yeah, that’s what you do when you choke me”, she tells Torres in the video when he says he ca n’t breathe. ” …For everything you’ve done to me. F*** you. Ridiculous”.
The film may be the best insight into what actually happened that night given Boone’s numerous contradictory remarks to police. The prosecution’s claims that Torres was killed in self-defense are being undermined by her steps.
” Sarah”, Torres keeps repeating from the backpack. ” That’s my name, do n’t wear it out”, she says.
Lawyers also sought on Monday to highlight contradictions in the statements Boone gave to authorities, which they are expected to eventually refute in contrast to Boone’s lately adopted state of self-defense. Bonnen initially told police that Torres ‘ death was an accident.
The jury was shown Boone’s two conversations with killing police from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. She claims that she and Torres were laughing during the first meeting and that she never said anything unfavorable while inside the suitcase. She added that neither Torres nor she were crazy.
In the second interview the day afterward, where Boone is shown the video from her smartphone, which she claims she does n’t remember taking, several of these claims are challenged. She blames drinking use for this. Torres is obviously in stress in the movie Boone views.
The nearly two-hour-long second interview begins with Boone and the detectives talking about how she did n’t intentionally leave Torres to die because she did n’t completely open the suitcase, leaving enough room for him to poke two fingers through, which she believed would allow him to escape.
She also swears on her fresh brother’s life that Torres ‘ death was unexpected.
In the second interview, Boone claims that nothing real happened between them that day despite detective inquiries regarding additional injuries that were discovered on Torres ‘ body.
Dr. Sara Zydowicz, the medical examiner who conducted Torres ‘ examination and testified Monday, claimed his most recent wounds at the time of his death included bruises on both his hands, the remaining part of his back, and his arms.
Lawyers questioned whether these accidents were consistent with being pushed down a flight of stairs or struck with a baseball pitcher. Zydowicz said it was feasible.
Prosecution on Friday had called one of Boone’s previous house neighbors, Brandon Moats, to speak. He said he heard a noisy sound coming from Boone’s chamber, which was opposite to his apartment, on the day of Torres ‘ death. He also mentioned that Boone’s stair shared a ceiling with their rooms and that it sounded like something was falling down the stairs.
Other than the video, text messages Boone’s phone sent to one of Torres ‘ brothers shortly before his passing on January 1st, just a few months before his death, were another piece of electronic data shown on Monday. I’ll get Rid of him, the information say. Therefore I’ll get BETTER. UGH. TORRES”.
On Tuesday night, Boone herself is scheduled to testify.
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