According to prosecutors, Boone had zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, 42, inside a suitcase during a drunken game of hide-and-seek, hitting him with a bat, and leaving overnight where he died from asphyxiation. Prosecutors argued that Boone killed Torres with malicious intent and as an act of punishment.

Sarah Boone is expected to be sentenced for killing her boyfriend by trapping him in a suitcase on Monday. Boone, 46, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2020 death of her boyfriend, 42-year-old Jorge Torres Jr.

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