She was “shocked” by the guilty verdict and thought maybe the jury would convict her of a lesser charge, her lawyer said.

Sarah Boone was sentenced to life in prison in an Orlando courtroom Monday afternoon for suffocating her boyfriend in a suitcase, bringing a nearly five-year legal saga to a close — for now.

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.

Suitcase Killer' Sarah Boone has been sentenced to life in prison for the second-degree murder of boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr. Newsweek's Live Blog is closed.

A Florida woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse. Circuit Judge Michael Kraynick imposed the sentence in Orlando on Sarah Boone, 47, for the 2020 killing of 42-year-old Jorge Torres.

Sarah Boone -- the Florida woman found guilty of killing her boyfriend by zipping him up in a suitcase and leaving him there overnight -- was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

Sarah Boone, the Florida woman convicted of murdering her boyfriend by locking him inside a suitcase, is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday.

Sarah Boone was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found her guilty of the second-degree murder of Jorge Torres, who suffocated to death after being zipped into a suitcase

Florida woman Sarah Boone was sentenced to life in prison for letting her boyfriend suffocate in a suitcase during 'hide-and-seek' game.

Sarah Boone was convicted of second-degree murder for zipping her longtime boyfriend inside a suitcase and leaving him to die. (Scripps News)