A woman accused of leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped into a suitcase in their home has been found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury in central Florida.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A woman accused of leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped into a suitcase in their home was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury in central Florida. Four years after Sarah Boone was arrested in the death of Jorge Torres, jurors handed down the verdict against her […]

A woman accused of leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped into a suitcase in their home has been found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury in central Florida.

Sarah Boone was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Jorge Torres, four years after her initial arrest in the case. She could spend the rest of her life in prison

Sarah Boone was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Jorge Torres, four years after her initial arrest in the case. She could spend the rest of her life in prison

A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him in there to suffocate was found guilty of murder on Friday, four years after what she had initially described to authorities as a case of drunken hide-and-seek gone wrong.

The defence argued that Boone was in a toxic and abusive relationship with Torres, suffered from Battered Woman Syndrome, and killed him out of fear that he would kill her.