Former FBI Agent Predicts New Trial For Florida Suitcase Killer 'Will Not' Happen

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Sarah Boone, 46, was convicted of second-degree murder of boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr., 42, during an alleged game of hide-and-seek at her Winter Park, Florida apartment in 2020. WOFL-TV

As convicted Florida suitcase killer Sarah Boone filed a motion for a new trial, one former FBI agent speculated a judge will deny the request.

"My prediction is that it will not be granted," Jennifer Coffindaffer wrote on X Monday.

Coffindaffer, whose career with the FBI spanned 25 years, offered her professional insight into the case of Boone, more than two weeks after a jury found the defendant guilty of second-degree murder following just 90 minutes of deliberation.

Boone killed her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, 42, during an inebriated game of hide-and-seek at her Winter Park, Florida, apartment in 2020, said prosecutors. Torres died of asphyxiation when Boone left him in a zipped-up suitcase.

"I zipped him up," Boone testified during her trial, according to Newsweek. "We thought it was funny, and we're joking about how he was small enough to fit inside of the suitcase."

When she noticed Torres' hand coming out of the suitcase, she admitted she struck it with a baseball bat.

Boone recorded herself teasing her boyfriend when he begged her to unzip the suitcase because he claimed he could not breathe.

He was found dead the next morning, according to investigators.

"Jorge Torres was murdered in this box," prosecutor Dave Cacciatore previously said during closing arguments, while the defense claimed Boone's actions were a justifiable use of force and that she suffered from battered spouse syndrome, WKMG-TV reported.

During the trial, the prosecution hinted toward a history of abuse perpetrated by Boone by unveiling police body cam footage from a call placed sometime before Torres' death, during which he claimed Boone often "snaps out of nowhere."

"She hits me, and I'm the one who gets locked up," Torres told the responding officer, WOFL-TV reported.

Boone will be sentenced in December. She faces up to life in prison.

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Murder, Florida, Guilty, U.S. Crime, Domestic Violence, FBI
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