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WOMAN’S FIRST TIME IN COURT. >> GOOD MORNING. YOUR NAME? >> SARAH BOONE. MICHELLE: SARAH BOONE STOOD BEFORE A JUDGE TODAY ACCUSED OF COMMITTING ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE MURDERS IN RECENT CENTRAL FLORIDA HISTORY. ACCUSED OF ZIPPING HER BOYFRIEND INTO A SUITCASE, THEN LEAVING HIM TO SUFFOCATE TO DEATH. >> YOU WERE ARRESTED FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER. THERE IS PROBABLE CAUSE. MICHELLE: IT HAPPENED AT THE APARTMENT THE TWO SHARED OFF GOLDENROD ROAD IN WINTER PARK THIS PAST WEEKEND. HERE’S SARAH’S SIDE OF THE STORY, THAT SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND, JORGE TORRES JR., WERE PUTTING A PUZZLE TOGETHER WHILE DRINKING CHARDONNAY WINE, THEN DECIDED TO PLAY A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK. BOONE TOLD INVESTIGATORS TORRES WILLINGLY GOT INTO THE SUITCASE, THAT THEY WERE LAUGHING WHEN SHE ZIPPED IT UP. BUT BECAUSE TWO OF JORGE’S FINGERS WERE ABLE TO STICK OUT OF THE SUITCASE, BOONE THOUGHT HE COULD GET OUT. SO SHE WENT TO BED, WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING AND FOUND HER BOYFRIEND RIGHT WHERE SHE LEFT HIM, IN THE SUITCASE, DEAD. BUT THE VIDEO INVESTIGATORS GOT OFF BOONE’S CELL PHONE TELLS ANOTHER STORY. IN THE VIDEO, DEPUTIES HEAR TORRES INSIDE THE SUITCASE SAYING, “I CAN’T BREATHE.” YOU HEAR BOONE REPLY “YEAH, THAT’S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU CHOKE ME.” AND "THAT’S WHAT I FEEL WHEN YOU CHEAT ON ME." ONE OF THE LAST IMAGES ON THE PHONE WAS VIDEO OF JORGE PUSHING ON THE SUITCASE IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET OUT. AN AUTOPSY DONE ON TORRES ALSO SHOWED HE HAD INJURIES, BRUSISES TO HIS SHOULDER INTO HIS HEAD BUSTED LIP AND LONG NAIL , SCRATCHES DOWN HIS BACK. IN ORANGE COUNTY, MICHELLE MEREDITH, WESH 2 NEWS. SUMMER: IN COURT TODAY THE J

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A Central Florida woman is accused of zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase, recording his cries for help and leaving him inside until he died. Sarah Boone, 42, was taken into custody Tuesday on second-degree murder charges in the death of Jorge Torres Jr. She told investigators she and Torres had been drinking chardonnay and agreed it would be funny if he got into the suitcase and she zipped him inside. She said she passed out and awoke the next day to find Torres still inside, dead. Investigators said Boone's statements were inconsistent with videos they found on her phone showing Torres trying to free himself. The video shows Torres repeatedly kept calling out Boone’s name and telling her that he could not breathe, an arrest affidavit said. She replies by telling him it is “For everything you’ve done to me. you. Stupid.”“I can’t breathe, seriously,” he responded, according to the affidavit. “That’s on you. Oh, that’s what I feel like when you cheat on me,” she replied. In the video, detectives Torres can be seen pushing on the suitcase, trying to get out.Boone told Orange County investigators that a game of hide-and-seek led up to Torres getting into the suitcase. She hid in a shower first, but said Torres never came to look for her. After a while, she said she went back downstairs and found him. It was then, according to Torres, that they decided he should get in the suitcase, the affidavit said. Just after midnight, Boone decided she was going to lay down. She told investigators she thought Torres could get himself out of the suitcase and expected that he’d be laying down next to her shortly. She fell asleep about 20 or 30 minutes later. Boone said she heard her phone ringing several times, but assumed it was her ex-husband and did not answer. When she woke up she says she realized Torres was possibly still inside the suitcase and found him unresponsive.An autopsy report showed injuries on Torres’ body. He had long nail scratches to his mid-upper back, a large nail scratch to the back of his neck and contusions to his left shoulder, left skull and forehead. The arrest affidavit said the forehead contusions are considered blunt force trauma. During a second interview, investigators said they showed Boone the recordings that had been found on her phone. Less than halfway through the video, she told investigators she no longer wanted to watch.She told investigators the video looked “bad,” but continued to deny that she’d intentionally put her boyfriend in the suitcase. Investigators said that during the second interview Boone began to contradict her original statement and blamed the consumption of alcohol. Boone made her first appearance on a second-degree murder charge Wednesday in Orange County. She was ordered to be held without bond.