March 28, 2023 • 20 mins
This episode covers the murder widely known as “The Suitcase Murder”. Sarah Boone is accused of zipping her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr. in a suitcase and leaving him to die. With her trial set to start in April 2023, the hosts of Uneasy are covering what you need to know before the trial begins. Everything discussed in this episode is based on the hosts’ opinions formulated from sources such as news outlets and public court/arrest records. The accused is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. Keep up with all things Uneasy:https://linktr.ee/uneasypodcast
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Today we will be talking about Sarah Boone, who was accused of killing her boyfriend Jorge
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Torres Jr.
And you may be familiar with this case, it kind of blew up for a little bit on social
media, but it's also known as the suitcase murder, as Sarah allegedly put or left Jorge
in a suitcase and he ultimately passed away.
Sarah is charged with second degree murder.
With the trial set to start April 2023, we are going to be covering what we know and
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offer our opinions on this case.
None of the discussion in this episode are based on final court findings and are purely
our opinion.
This episode is based on national news findings and arrest or court reports and records.
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Welcome to an easy, a podcast hosted by Lexi and Cecilia.
This podcast is a collection of research based on haunting and mysterious events that will
leave you feeling genuinely uneasy.
Discretion is advised.
At the time of the alleged crime, Sarah Boone was 42, living in Winter Park, Orange County,
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Florida with her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr. who was also 42 at the time.
Jorge was divorced and he had three kids and he had a pretty unstable work history with
a pretty light to moderate criminal background.
But the couple themselves were far from perfect.
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Sarah herself is divorced and there's actually a really deep history of domestic violence
in the relationship as court documents detailed that Sarah has been charged with battery by
strangulation in 2018.
Jorge was also charged in this incident.
According to the court documents, she told investigators that she was dragged upstairs
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by Jorge and kicked in the right eye after talking to a guy at a bar.
So definitely not a good situation.
Not a healthy relationship it's seeming like from the start.
No.
Jorge at the time told investigators that she had tried to strangle him and that if
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he did not kick her off of him, she would have made him incapacitated.
In the affidavit, deputies say that they weren't able to tell who the primary aggressor
was, so this incident in 2018 didn't result in any formal charges.
There were other violent incidents that happened surrounding their relationship.
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Jorge was charged with battery three times in 2019 and in September 2020, he was arrested
after Sarah accused him of punching her in the left ear.
According to the affidavit, there was a temporary injunction for protection in place at the
time.
So they definitely did not have a healthy, loving relationship at all times.
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These are these couples that you're like, just break up, please for the benefit of everyone.
You're not a healthy relationship and it's going to save everyone so much heartache if
you just end things now, but they never seem to actually break up.
Yeah.
And I've never been in a situation that was like that, but we've said before that being
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in relationships that involve domestic violence are often, it's hard for the victim to leave.
But in this case, it almost seems like this is a recurring cycle where they're kind of
instigating each other to get involved with violent acts.
So both of them were almost the victims.
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Neighbors had even said that they had seen the police at their homes often and they would
hear the couple fighting.
Some people had said that they had spoken with Sarah and that normally she was very
nice but they would hear her yelling with Jorge at the house.
So that's how loud it was that neighbors were hearing it and they lived in kind of like
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a town home style subdivision.
On Monday, February 24th, 2020, Sarah Boone called her ex-husband at around 1250 PM and
he arrived at the home at about 10 minutes later.
After advisement from her ex-husband, Sarah called 911 and this 911 call is honestly quite
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odd because right off the bat something seems super fishy with Sarah.
And when dispatchers ask her if she needs police or medical, her response is, my boyfriend
is dead.
It was very cold, very kind of disconnected and non-emotional.
Yeah, it sounds very disassociated from what most people would be in so much distraught
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if they're related to their boyfriend's death.
Yeah, there was no tears.
But for her to also call her ex-husband, it's like, why are you bringing him into the mix?
I thought that was super weird.
And when she's asked later on about why she called her ex-husband first, she tells police
that she was just really freaked out and that he lives right down the road and she didn't
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know what to do so she called her ex-husband.
But personally, if something had happened to my significant other, my first reaction
would be to call the police.
So that's also just a fishy aspect of this entire thing.
I do have part of the 911 call here for you that I want you guys to listen to just so
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you can kind of hear where I'm getting that non-emotional disconnected feeling from.
Now tell me exactly what happened there.
My boyfriend and I were playing last night and I pet him in his case when we were playing.
Okay.
Like kind of hide and seek kind of thing.
So I fell asleep and I woke up and he was dead in the suitcase.
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So I don't know what happened.
I don't know what happened.
Like he had like blood coming out of his mouth and I don't know if like he had like an anger
in his mouth.
What?
Nothing?
Right.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Listen, we're getting help out there too.
Okay.
Is he hanging from somewhere or what ma'am?
No.
I pulled him out of the suitcase.
I tried giving him CPR.
Okay.
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So he was in a suitcase?
Yes.
And I fell asleep.
Okay.
How old is the boardroom ma'am?
42.
42.
All right.
Listen to me.
Okay.
I understand that you need to confirm this.
I understand.
You need to confirm this.
Is he awake at all?
Is he conscious at all?
No.
He's purple.
Right.
Is he breathing?
No.
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So that's just a snippet of what we have from that 911 call.
It's just like she keeps trying to reiterate the fact that they were playing and I think
that's her just trying to make sure that she is seen as innocent in this situation.
But I feel like that is all that I got from her is that they were playing and he just
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wound up magically dead in a suitcase.
Who plays hide and seek at 42 years old?
Also, you're not hiding and seeking if you know that he's in the suitcase.
Like it's just weird and it's like, oh, I fell asleep.
You fell asleep knowing that your boyfriend was zipped up in a suitcase?
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Like, ma'am.
Yeah, I wouldn't call that hide and seek or anything.
It's just really weird.
No, it is really weird.
Yeah.
And I mean, you hear on the call that she is reporting to EMS that Jorge is purple and
he's not breathing and that she takes him out of the suitcase, tries to perform CPR.
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And when police eventually arrive on the scene, the body cam footage is something super interesting
to watch because Sarah is really calm at first.
Like the police walks up to her and they're like, hey, do you live here?
And she's like, yeah, I need to talk to my property manager and make sure they know what's
going on.
That's what she said to the police at first, which instead of being like, oh my gosh, my
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boyfriend, like he's dead, like being upset about that.
She was worried about making sure the property manager knew why there were so many police
and EMS at her house.
She wants to make sure she gets her safety deposit back.
Yeah, it sounds like it, honestly.
And ultimately when the police tell her that she can't go back inside and they start asking
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her about Jorge, Sarah gets a little bit more on edge.
So I have some of the body cam footage for you to listen to that I sourced from the Law
and Crime Network.
And you'll just hear that it kind of sounds a little bit fake to me, her way of being
upset.
What's going on?
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I just got here, so fill me in.
No problem.
Like he and I are putting a puzzle together.
We've been doing some artwork together.
You are putting a puzzle together?
Yes, we have a puzzle that we started in there.
Okay.
We've been doing art, taking stuff off the wall to make new art put up there, like having
a good time with one another.
But we're drinking, we had a bottle of wine last night.
Okay.
So then it's like, we decided to play hide and seek, right?
Okay.
So he gets in the suitcase, okay?
Who's this guy?
That's my ex-husband, my former husband.
How do you know that?
He's my ex-husband.
Okay.
He lives here with you guys?
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No, I called him over here.
Okay, okay.
I didn't know what to do.
Okay.
I didn't know what to do.
Okay.
So then he came over here.
Here, let's talk in private, okay?
I called you guys.
I tried giving you CPR.
The problem is, I fell asleep.
I fell asleep.
When did you do CPR?
This morning.
This morning?
I was in the bathroom.
I fell asleep.
When did you do CPR?
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This morning.
When I found him.
Before you called?
Yes!
Yes!
It's one o'clock right now.
I tried, I was awake, but I actually got out of the bed at like 12, 30-ish, whatever.
So I came downstairs.
And I was like, oh, he's in the suitcase still!
And that's when I found him and I took him out and tried doing CPR and then I called
him and then I called you guys.
Did he get here before the fire department got here?
Who?
Your husband?
Your ex-husband?
Yes.
Okay.
Where's he with that?
Right down the street.
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Okay.
So he's in the suitcase.
Okay.
Where's he with that?
Right down the street.
Okay.
So you were playing and who zipped him up?
I did!
But then I fell asleep!
Okay, okay.
You're okay.
I wasn't here.
I'm just trying to figure out what happened.
I fell asleep!
I don't know if he's suffocated or if I got an aneurysm or a heart attack or what.
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What kind of medical conditions did you have?
None that I know of.
None that you know of?
None that I know of.
You didn't take any medicine last night?
No!
No!
None that I know of?
All we had was a bottle of wine.
Literally.
All we had was a bottle of wine.
All we had was a bottle of wine.
So you can definitely see that Sarah, or hear, that Sarah gets a lot more distressed sounding
and is really, really pushing the point that they had a good night.
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That they drank a bottle of wine, that they were doing art and a puzzle and they were
playing the game of hide and seek and that she just went upstairs and fell asleep and
realized in the morning that he was still in the suitcase.
I think the police officer brings up two really good points during that conversation.
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The first being, why is your ex-husband here?
Why did you call him before you called 911?
That's really suspicious and that's what a lot of people do when they're trying to cover
up the scene of the crime.
And the other being, okay, well it's about 1pm now, so if you went to sleep and he was
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in the suitcase, why did it take you until now, almost half a day later, to call 911?
The police officer is basically saying, girl it's 1pm, why are you just now waking up?
And we've all had those days where we don't get on bed for a really long time.
I feel you on that.
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But I mean, if I knew that my boyfriend was in a suitcase, first I would probably unzip
him.
Slash, why is he not coming to bed with you?
That's what I'm saying.
I would unzip him to be like, okay, come on.
I'm asleep by myself actually and I'm not going to unzip you at 1pm.
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I think the police officer was definitely catching on that Sarah was being super sketchy
and at this point they're just as confused as we are because they just want to figure
out what really happened.
Because at the end of the day, a 42 year old man is dead and not by normal circumstances.
He was trapped in a suitcase.
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So the next day, police returned and ended up arresting Sarah for the murder of Jorge.
And their investigation revealed some interesting discoveries.
As they looked through Sarah's phone, they find a video that she took of Jorge in the
suitcase.
That is literally not hide and seek.
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It's not hide and seek.
It is far from hide and seek because her comments were so far from playful and harmless behind
the phone.
I have a clip for you from the video that I want you to hear.
I will say it's kind of alarming knowing what you do that these were some of Jorge's last
moments.
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But she was definitely, definitely derogatory towards him.
And he's clearly saying to her, Sarah, I cannot breathe.
So I'm going to play that for you now.
For everything you've done to me.
For everything you've done to me.
Fuck you.
Sarah.
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Fuck you.
Sarah.
Stupid.
Sarah.
That's my name.
Don't wear it out.
Sarah.
I can't fucking breathe babe.
Where is he?
Yeah, that's when you do when you choke me.
Sarah.
So definitely, like I said, that video is a little heavy.
But Sarah definitely knew that he was still in the suitcase when she went to bed.
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I think it also shows in that video the toxic relationship that they had where it's that
aggressive, violent, like physical banter between each other.
And this is just what is now their normal.
Right.
And Sarah allegedly told police that Jorge could have gotten out at any point because
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he had two fingers sticking out of the zipper at all times.
But that's not pictured in the video that you just listened to.
And when investigators asked her about that, they basically were like, look, I don't see
where he could have gotten out.
I don't see fingers poking through.
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I see no holes in the zipper or room for him to move around and try to get out.
Her response to that was like, oh, it's just not pictured there in that video.
It's just not there.
But he did have two fingers.
And Sarah makes it a point to say during investigations that she did not zip her boyfriend all the
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way up, even though the video makes it very clear that he's stuck and he needs help.
Sarah has since been awaiting trial in the Orange County jail, which was originally set
to take place in January of this year.
And it's been pushed to April of 2023.
During her time in jail, she has gone through quite a laundry list of lawyers who she says
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was not her choice.
And in October 2022, she wrote a letter to her lawyer that basically saying she was upset
that he hadn't talked to her more since getting started on her case.
I read the whole letter.
It's about three pages long.
And to me, it sounds like she was just basically frustrated because at this point she'd been
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in jail for 32 months and she wants answers on her trial and the status of things.
But she did write towards the end of the letter, quote, No, too, I am patient clearly after
all the time already invested and still smiling and willing to go above and beyond whatever
I slash we need to do to properly and truthfully convey my very convoluted misunderstood side
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of everything, which I boldly told you in our meeting last month, I am dedicated, ready
to start overdue.
So she very clearly even in October was itching to get ready.
So I'm sure that this trial coming up in just a few weeks is going to be very interesting.
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Spending 30 some months, like especially like around the COVID timeframe, like a waiting
trial.
That's such a normal thing.
It is a normal thing.
It's very normal.
And I think that's a little bit of a entitlement almost entitlement.
Commit privilege thing coming from her, in my opinion, is that she thinks that she deserves
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a speedier trial than others.
But because of the pandemic, there were so many trials that just kept getting pushed
back and back and back.
So honestly, I'm not surprised that it's taken this long.
But I will say that in January, her defense asked for more time.
But also if you fire all of your like you fired your lawyers seven different times,
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of course your new lawyer is going to need time to catch up.
Yeah, basically the defense was like, hey, I need more time to build this case.
But they did state that they plan on using the battered spouse syndrome as their defense
come court in April.
Battered spouse syndrome is a form of PTSD rather than a mental illness.
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And it was previously referred to as battered women's syndrome and is a condition that
is created by sustained physical, emotional or sexual abuse from a partner.
And it results in a variety of physical and emotional symptoms.
So it's basically PTSD in the form of any kind of trauma that you're getting from domestic
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violence.
According to the Florida bar, there are typically three phases in the cycle of abuse.
Phase one being verbal abuse and minor battery incidents.
And then phase two being acute battery incidents in which the spouse was severely beaten or
abused.
And then in phase three, there's displays of regretful and loving behavior, which just
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loops you back to phase one and it's an ongoing cycle.
In a criminal case where the victim is accused of killing their spouse or abuser, the battered
spouse syndrome is not always recognized as a proper defense because it's really difficult
to prove if a spouse was abused because that doesn't necessarily imply that they will be
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acquitted of the criminal offense just because they were abused.
If they weren't being abused at the time of the incident, you can't claim self-defense.
So rather this is more used as evidence.
I think this trial could shape up to be pretty interesting.
The trial is set to start on April 10th and Sarah is facing second degree murder.
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With her maintaining her innocence, it will be pretty interesting to see how her lawyers
deliver their defense in the face of all the evidence against her.
We will continue to cover the case here on Uneasy.
Make sure to check out our social medias linked in the episode description for more timely
updates and stay tuned for a post verdict special episode wherever you find your favorite podcast.
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Tune in next week as we discuss death row inmate Andre Thomas.
He has been convicted of murder of his estranged wife, his four year old son, and her one year
old daughter saying that he heard voices telling him that he needed to kill them.
He also took out his own eyeballs and two separate incidences.
Listen wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
Today we will be talking about Sarah Boone, who was accused of killing her boyfriend Jorge
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Torres Jr.
And you may be familiar with this case, it kind of blew up for a little bit on social
media, but it's also known as the suitcase murder, as Sarah allegedly put or left Jorge
in a suitcase and he ultimately passed away.
Sarah is charged with second degree murder.
With the trial set to start April 2023, we are going to be covering what we know and
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offer our opinions on this case.
None of the discussion in this episode are based on final court findings and are purely
our opinion.
This episode is based on national news findings and arrest or court reports and records.
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Welcome to an easy, a podcast hosted by Lexi and Cecilia.
This podcast is a collection of research based on haunting and mysterious events that will
leave you feeling genuinely uneasy.
Discretion is advised.
At the time of the alleged crime, Sarah Boone was 42, living in Winter Park, Orange County,
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Florida with her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr. who was also 42 at the time.
Jorge was divorced and he had three kids and he had a pretty unstable work history with
a pretty light to moderate criminal background.
But the couple themselves were far from perfect.
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Sarah herself is divorced and there's actually a really deep history of domestic violence
in the relationship as court documents detailed that Sarah has been charged with battery by
strangulation in 2018.
Jorge was also charged in this incident.
According to the court documents, she told investigators that she was dragged upstairs
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by Jorge and kicked in the right eye after talking to a guy at a bar.
So definitely not a good situation.
Not a healthy relationship it's seeming like from the start.
No.
Jorge at the time told investigators that she had tried to strangle him and that if
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he did not kick her off of him, she would have made him incapacitated.
In the affidavit, deputies say that they weren't able to tell who the primary aggressor
was, so this incident in 2018 didn't result in any formal charges.
There were other violent incidents that happened surrounding their relationship.
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Jorge was charged with battery three times in 2019 and in September 2020, he was arrested
after Sarah accused him of punching her in the left ear.
According to the affidavit, there was a temporary injunction for protection in place at the
time.
So they definitely did not have a healthy, loving relationship at all times.
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These are these couples that you're like, just break up, please for the benefit of everyone.
You're not a healthy relationship and it's going to save everyone so much heartache if
you just end things now, but they never seem to actually break up.
Yeah.
And I've never been in a situation that was like that, but we've said before that being
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in relationships that involve domestic violence are often, it's hard for the victim to leave.
But in this case, it almost seems like this is a recurring cycle where they're kind of
instigating each other to get involved with violent acts.
So both of them were almost the victims.
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Neighbors had even said that they had seen the police at their homes often and they would
hear the couple fighting.
Some people had said that they had spoken with Sarah and that normally she was very
nice but they would hear her yelling with Jorge at the house.
So that's how loud it was that neighbors were hearing it and they lived in kind of like
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a town home style subdivision.
On Monday, February 24th, 2020, Sarah Boone called her ex-husband at around 1250 PM and
he arrived at the home at about 10 minutes later.
After advisement from her ex-husband, Sarah called 911 and this 911 call is honestly quite
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odd because right off the bat something seems super fishy with Sarah.
And when dispatchers ask her if she needs police or medical, her response is, my boyfriend
is dead.
It was very cold, very kind of disconnected and non-emotional.
Yeah, it sounds very disassociated from what most people would be in so much distraught
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if they're related to their boyfriend's death.
Yeah, there was no tears.
But for her to also call her ex-husband, it's like, why are you bringing him into the mix?
I thought that was super weird.
And when she's asked later on about why she called her ex-husband first, she tells police
that she was just really freaked out and that he lives right down the road and she didn't
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know what to do so she called her ex-husband.
But personally, if something had happened to my significant other, my first reaction
would be to call the police.
So that's also just a fishy aspect of this entire thing.
I do have part of the 911 call here for you that I want you guys to listen to just so
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you can kind of hear where I'm getting that non-emotional disconnected feeling from.
Now tell me exactly what happened there.
My boyfriend and I were playing last night and I pet him in his case when we were playing.
Okay.
Like kind of hide and seek kind of thing.
So I fell asleep and I woke up and he was dead in the suitcase.
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So I don't know what happened.
I don't know what happened.
Like he had like blood coming out of his mouth and I don't know if like he had like an anger
in his mouth.
What?
Nothing?
Right.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Listen, we're getting help out there too.
Okay.
Is he hanging from somewhere or what ma'am?
No.
I pulled him out of the suitcase.
I tried giving him CPR.
Okay.
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So he was in a suitcase?
Yes.
And I fell asleep.
Okay.
How old is the boardroom ma'am?
42.
42.
All right.
Listen to me.
Okay.
I understand that you need to confirm this.
I understand.
You need to confirm this.
Is he awake at all?
Is he conscious at all?
No.
He's purple.
Right.
Is he breathing?
No.
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So that's just a snippet of what we have from that 911 call.
It's just like she keeps trying to reiterate the fact that they were playing and I think
that's her just trying to make sure that she is seen as innocent in this situation.
But I feel like that is all that I got from her is that they were playing and he just
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wound up magically dead in a suitcase.
Who plays hide and seek at 42 years old?
Also, you're not hiding and seeking if you know that he's in the suitcase.
Like it's just weird and it's like, oh, I fell asleep.
You fell asleep knowing that your boyfriend was zipped up in a suitcase?
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Like, ma'am.
Yeah, I wouldn't call that hide and seek or anything.
It's just really weird.
No, it is really weird.
Yeah.
And I mean, you hear on the call that she is reporting to EMS that Jorge is purple and
he's not breathing and that she takes him out of the suitcase, tries to perform CPR.
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And when police eventually arrive on the scene, the body cam footage is something super interesting
to watch because Sarah is really calm at first.
Like the police walks up to her and they're like, hey, do you live here?
And she's like, yeah, I need to talk to my property manager and make sure they know what's
going on.
That's what she said to the police at first, which instead of being like, oh my gosh, my
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boyfriend, like he's dead, like being upset about that.
She was worried about making sure the property manager knew why there were so many police
and EMS at her house.
She wants to make sure she gets her safety deposit back.
Yeah, it sounds like it, honestly.
And ultimately when the police tell her that she can't go back inside and they start asking
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her about Jorge, Sarah gets a little bit more on edge.
So I have some of the body cam footage for you to listen to that I sourced from the Law
and Crime Network.
And you'll just hear that it kind of sounds a little bit fake to me, her way of being
upset.
What's going on?
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I just got here, so fill me in.
No problem.
Like he and I are putting a puzzle together.
We've been doing some artwork together.
You are putting a puzzle together?
Yes, we have a puzzle that we started in there.
Okay.
We've been doing art, taking stuff off the wall to make new art put up there, like having
a good time with one another.
But we're drinking, we had a bottle of wine last night.
Okay.
So then it's like, we decided to play hide and seek, right?
Okay.
So he gets in the suitcase, okay?
Who's this guy?
That's my ex-husband, my former husband.
How do you know that?
He's my ex-husband.
Okay.
He lives here with you guys?
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No, I called him over here.
Okay, okay.
I didn't know what to do.
Okay.
I didn't know what to do.
Okay.
So then he came over here.
Here, let's talk in private, okay?
I called you guys.
I tried giving you CPR.
The problem is, I fell asleep.
I fell asleep.
When did you do CPR?
This morning.
This morning?
I was in the bathroom.
I fell asleep.
When did you do CPR?
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This morning.
When I found him.
Before you called?
Yes!
Yes!
It's one o'clock right now.
I tried, I was awake, but I actually got out of the bed at like 12, 30-ish, whatever.
So I came downstairs.
And I was like, oh, he's in the suitcase still!
And that's when I found him and I took him out and tried doing CPR and then I called
him and then I called you guys.
Did he get here before the fire department got here?
Who?
Your husband?
Your ex-husband?
Yes.
Okay.
Where's he with that?
Right down the street.
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Okay.
So he's in the suitcase.
Okay.
Where's he with that?
Right down the street.
Okay.
So you were playing and who zipped him up?
I did!
But then I fell asleep!
Okay, okay.
You're okay.
I wasn't here.
I'm just trying to figure out what happened.
I fell asleep!
I don't know if he's suffocated or if I got an aneurysm or a heart attack or what.
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What kind of medical conditions did you have?
None that I know of.
None that you know of?
None that I know of.
You didn't take any medicine last night?
No!
No!
None that I know of?
All we had was a bottle of wine.
Literally.
All we had was a bottle of wine.
All we had was a bottle of wine.
So you can definitely see that Sarah, or hear, that Sarah gets a lot more distressed sounding
and is really, really pushing the point that they had a good night.
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That they drank a bottle of wine, that they were doing art and a puzzle and they were
playing the game of hide and seek and that she just went upstairs and fell asleep and
realized in the morning that he was still in the suitcase.
I think the police officer brings up two really good points during that conversation.
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The first being, why is your ex-husband here?
Why did you call him before you called 911?
That's really suspicious and that's what a lot of people do when they're trying to cover
up the scene of the crime.
And the other being, okay, well it's about 1pm now, so if you went to sleep and he was
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in the suitcase, why did it take you until now, almost half a day later, to call 911?
The police officer is basically saying, girl it's 1pm, why are you just now waking up?
And we've all had those days where we don't get on bed for a really long time.
I feel you on that.
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But I mean, if I knew that my boyfriend was in a suitcase, first I would probably unzip
him.
Slash, why is he not coming to bed with you?
That's what I'm saying.
I would unzip him to be like, okay, come on.
I'm asleep by myself actually and I'm not going to unzip you at 1pm.
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I think the police officer was definitely catching on that Sarah was being super sketchy
and at this point they're just as confused as we are because they just want to figure
out what really happened.
Because at the end of the day, a 42 year old man is dead and not by normal circumstances.
He was trapped in a suitcase.
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So the next day, police returned and ended up arresting Sarah for the murder of Jorge.
And their investigation revealed some interesting discoveries.
As they looked through Sarah's phone, they find a video that she took of Jorge in the
suitcase.
That is literally not hide and seek.
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It's not hide and seek.
It is far from hide and seek because her comments were so far from playful and harmless behind
the phone.
I have a clip for you from the video that I want you to hear.
I will say it's kind of alarming knowing what you do that these were some of Jorge's last
moments.
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But she was definitely, definitely derogatory towards him.
And he's clearly saying to her, Sarah, I cannot breathe.
So I'm going to play that for you now.
For everything you've done to me.
For everything you've done to me.
Fuck you.
Sarah.
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Fuck you.
Sarah.
Stupid.
Sarah.
That's my name.
Don't wear it out.
Sarah.
I can't fucking breathe babe.
Where is he?
Yeah, that's when you do when you choke me.
Sarah.
So definitely, like I said, that video is a little heavy.
But Sarah definitely knew that he was still in the suitcase when she went to bed.
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I think it also shows in that video the toxic relationship that they had where it's that
aggressive, violent, like physical banter between each other.
And this is just what is now their normal.
Right.
And Sarah allegedly told police that Jorge could have gotten out at any point because
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he had two fingers sticking out of the zipper at all times.
But that's not pictured in the video that you just listened to.
And when investigators asked her about that, they basically were like, look, I don't see
where he could have gotten out.
I don't see fingers poking through.
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I see no holes in the zipper or room for him to move around and try to get out.
Her response to that was like, oh, it's just not pictured there in that video.
It's just not there.
But he did have two fingers.
And Sarah makes it a point to say during investigations that she did not zip her boyfriend all the
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way up, even though the video makes it very clear that he's stuck and he needs help.
Sarah has since been awaiting trial in the Orange County jail, which was originally set
to take place in January of this year.
And it's been pushed to April of 2023.
During her time in jail, she has gone through quite a laundry list of lawyers who she says
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was not her choice.
And in October 2022, she wrote a letter to her lawyer that basically saying she was upset
that he hadn't talked to her more since getting started on her case.
I read the whole letter.
It's about three pages long.
And to me, it sounds like she was just basically frustrated because at this point she'd been
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in jail for 32 months and she wants answers on her trial and the status of things.
But she did write towards the end of the letter, quote, No, too, I am patient clearly after
all the time already invested and still smiling and willing to go above and beyond whatever
I slash we need to do to properly and truthfully convey my very convoluted misunderstood side
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of everything, which I boldly told you in our meeting last month, I am dedicated, ready
to start overdue.
So she very clearly even in October was itching to get ready.
So I'm sure that this trial coming up in just a few weeks is going to be very interesting.
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Spending 30 some months, like especially like around the COVID timeframe, like a waiting
trial.
That's such a normal thing.
It is a normal thing.
It's very normal.
And I think that's a little bit of a entitlement almost entitlement.
Commit privilege thing coming from her, in my opinion, is that she thinks that she deserves
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a speedier trial than others.
But because of the pandemic, there were so many trials that just kept getting pushed
back and back and back.
So honestly, I'm not surprised that it's taken this long.
But I will say that in January, her defense asked for more time.
But also if you fire all of your like you fired your lawyers seven different times,
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of course your new lawyer is going to need time to catch up.
Yeah, basically the defense was like, hey, I need more time to build this case.
But they did state that they plan on using the battered spouse syndrome as their defense
come court in April.
Battered spouse syndrome is a form of PTSD rather than a mental illness.
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And it was previously referred to as battered women's syndrome and is a condition that
is created by sustained physical, emotional or sexual abuse from a partner.
And it results in a variety of physical and emotional symptoms.
So it's basically PTSD in the form of any kind of trauma that you're getting from domestic
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violence.
According to the Florida bar, there are typically three phases in the cycle of abuse.
Phase one being verbal abuse and minor battery incidents.
And then phase two being acute battery incidents in which the spouse was severely beaten or
abused.
And then in phase three, there's displays of regretful and loving behavior, which just
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loops you back to phase one and it's an ongoing cycle.
In a criminal case where the victim is accused of killing their spouse or abuser, the battered
spouse syndrome is not always recognized as a proper defense because it's really difficult
to prove if a spouse was abused because that doesn't necessarily imply that they will be
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acquitted of the criminal offense just because they were abused.
If they weren't being abused at the time of the incident, you can't claim self-defense.
So rather this is more used as evidence.
I think this trial could shape up to be pretty interesting.
The trial is set to start on April 10th and Sarah is facing second degree murder.
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With her maintaining her innocence, it will be pretty interesting to see how her lawyers
deliver their defense in the face of all the evidence against her.
We will continue to cover the case here on Uneasy.
Make sure to check out our social medias linked in the episode description for more timely
updates and stay tuned for a post verdict special episode wherever you find your favorite podcast.
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Tune in next week as we discuss death row inmate Andre Thomas.
He has been convicted of murder of his estranged wife, his four year old son, and her one year
old daughter saying that he heard voices telling him that he needed to kill them.
He also took out his own eyeballs and two separate incidences.
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