#252: She Locked Her BF In A Suitcase During Sick Game of “Hide & Seek” - Murder of Jorge Torres

25:37I just don't know how she can opt out of giving CPR to her boyfriend. The fire department is like, yeah, no, give him CPR regardless of what you think, okay? Do it anyway. And at one point, she mentions that George had gurgled, which you would think would be a promising sign of life for any concerned partner. But the fire department have to practically beg her to keep giving him CPR. Sarah starts counting out loud to show the fire department over the phone like, look, see, I'm giving him CPR. And this next part is pure speculation. But just listen. A lot of people who listen to the 911 tapes, they speculate and they allege that it doesn't sound like she's giving anyone CPR.

26:15CPR takes a whole lot of force. Like every one minute of giving compressions is a full body hit workout. She's not panting at all. In fact, her breathing seems pretty friggin steady. It's like she's just counting. Yeah, maybe she's not really trying. Yeah, or she's just sitting there like one, two, three. Sarah's still on the phone with the police when they get to her apartment, and that's why we know how Sarah reacts to George's confirmed death. The police get there, and they tell Sarah that there's nothing more that they can do for George anymore. He's gone. Sarah basically responds with silence.

26:50Like, nothing. She doesn't even say anything. She just stares at the officers. but it's not even like, oh, she's in so much shock. She's staring because she's comatose. The police pull her outside and they ask her to tell them again. What happened? Start from the beginning. Don't leave anything out. And this is Sarah's, just excuse the language, but this is her batshit crazy story and it's so far-fetched and bizarre. I don't even, I don't even know what to say other than please take everything with a grain of salt. Now, there's a ton of footage on this case. there's um what sarah told the police over the phone there's what sarah told the police in front of her house while the other officers were inside taping off the apartment as an active crime scene and then there's footage of her later in an interrogation room that's like two hours long but for clarity purposes i'm going to give you the more chronological timeline of her little story but it might not have happened all in one sitting if that makes sense because she keeps repeating herself so some parts are going to be taken from when she's outside the apartment some parts are taken from the interrogation because again she just keeps repeating herself so sarah was kept outside her house for a while as the other officers are inside taping off the crime scene brian was also being questioned outside the house because remember the ex-husband he was waiting in the car for the police to arrive i think he was the way that i see it i saw some people commenting that he looks way too happy telling the police what happened and i don't think it's happiness I think it's adrenaline.

28:17I think maybe it's also the fact that he's trying to go by the book for everything because he knows Sarah. He doesn't want Sarah to try to turn it around on him. I think him not going into that apartment was the smartest thing that he ever did. He probably knows Sarah very, very well. And the fact that he's waiting outside for the police, like he is going by the book for this, you know. So most of what we know about Sarah's story were not from when she was at the scene of the crime. because, you know, this is when emotions are fresh. She just got confirmation that George is dead. The walls should be closing in on her, like her boyfriend of three years is dead.

28:54This should have been this ugly, heartbreaking moment. But instead, Sarah was fixated, preoccupied on getting her hands on a cold glass of Dr. Pepper. I'm not even kidding you. I'm not even kidding you. She was talking about being thirsty for Dr. Pepper for just way too long of this body cam footage. She says, I really need something to drink. I got my Dr. Pepper on the counter. She kept complaining that she had cotton mouth and that she just wanted to go slip inside an active crime scene where she is the alleged killer. She just wants to slip inside and grab her can of Dr. Pepper that was on the counter.

29:32The officers obviously refuse this request because, I don't know, a whole long list of reasons. but Sarah still tries to approach the house. Presumably, she's trying to duck under the crime scene tape to get her Pepsi, her little Dr. Pepper, but the officers basically tell her, back up, like back it up. The officers, I mean, it was so annoying to the point where she wouldn't even answer any questions. She's just demanding Dr. Pepper. They even ask Brian, the ex-husband, to check his car to see if he had a spare water bottle in there. He comes back empty-handed. And later, when the officer has to go back into the house, Sarah's telling her, please get me my Dr.

30:07Pepper. I have cotton mouth right now. The officer does not bring the Dr. Pepper out or water because, I mean, I don't know. I imagine anything inside of that house, I wouldn't want to bring it out or touch it. It's just, you know. Yeah, you never know what that Dr. Pepper is. Yes. It's not part of the scene. There could be evidence. There could be DNA. Exactly. Like, I just feel like there was too much going on. There's literally a dead body inside. This officer is not caring about your thirst levels. So what does Sarah do? She goes over to the corner of the house. and I wish I was making this up.

30:38She goes over there and reaches down towards like a hose spigot. Basically, it's a faucet on the outside on the ground floor apartment where you can attach one end of a hose to it and you can water some flowers. But right now, it's just a faucet and it's pretty low to the ground and it's attached to the house. It's a very uncomfortable position. Sarah straddles the bushes to get closer to the house, bends down and drinks the water from the spigot. The whole thing is kind of strange. Like your boyfriend is dead and you're just so thirsty. Like it's kind of weird. There's a speculation that she's putting on this whole show of thirst so that the officers will just let her inside where she could potentially grab her phone or do other things.

31:23Potentially delete something off her phone. We're going to get into that later. Other people think that she's just doing it for attention. The way that she talks to the officers, this whole situation, it looks like she's obsessed with attention. If you're being questioned by police, You have a paper-thin story about how you forgot you were playing hide-and-seek with your boyfriend. Let him suffocate to death after you locked him in a suitcase. I would imagine the last thing you should logically be doing is acting so nonchalant and bizarre about his death and being focused on drinking water in the most strange way possible.

31:52She also asks for a cigarette a couple of times. So to a lot of people, it feels like she just wants everyone to pay attention to her. Or she just wants to go inside to grab something from the crime scene. Now, I'm going to kind of give you, this is so out of order, but I'm going to give you a little bit of context for who Sarah is. Later in an interrogation, the police officers are talking about George's death and the abuse and all of that. And she makes it a point to mention that she has been called everything but a white woman.

32:26By George? By George, by his family, by society. The fact that she's sitting there in the middle of a murder investigation and complaining about how she has been called everything but a white woman. She's playing victim. Yeah, I think that should tell you kind of the personality of Sarah Boone. Even if that were true, even if that is a valid concern, this is literally a murder investigation right now, like someone died. So this is hopefully going to give you context for everything that happens next. And Sarah is just so nonchalant, so nonchalant. I mean, even when the police first arrive at the scene, she's not emotional.

33:01She's not crying. And in fact, when the police get there, she sees her property manager, I guess, walking around. And she's like, oh, that's my property manager. Should I go tell them what happened? This is the most bizarre reaction ever. And this is right after the police arrive. And they're like, your boyfriend is dead. That's so weird because she knows that she's the suspect right now. Yes. I think she's so nonchalant. i think she's overly confident that she can get away yes because the whole time she thinks that her justification of it was unintentional i fell asleep is more than enough i don't know what kind of reality she lives in but to her she felt like that was enough she just that's her whole thing during the whole interrogation she just keeps scheming but it was unintentional as if the cops are gonna be like you know what you're right it's so weird so she's like should i go tell my property manager what just happened?

33:55They're like, no, we'll do that later. That's not the point right now. So anyway, let's get into Sarah's story about what happened and why George was in the suitcase. And it actually starts with her relationship to George, which just the way she describes it is conflicting at best. She said, you know, we've been doing really good, like really good lately. I don't think you guys understand. He used to come at me. He would come at me and he would get belligerently drunk and I have proof of the abuse on my phone but recently we've been good like our last fight was a month ago when he hit me with a curtain rod okay we're not really off to a great start but it keeps going Sarah says that they've been good but then goes on to give a list of injuries that he had ever given her and she sits there and she's like bloody fingers a split forehead he split my nose and oh I've got this and she pulls up her little jeans and she shows her ankle I don't know if Brian told you about this but I had to have surgery it got really bad where I had to go for like four or five times again to the hospital for checkups.

34:51The police officer asks her straight up, like, why are you still with George then? Which I personally don't like this question to be asked to domestic violence victims, but I get why they would do this in a murder investigation. And I find her response to be interesting. For the first time, Sarah gets emotional and it has nothing to do with George. They're like, why are you still with George after all of this? And Sarah says, I really love him. I really do. And I feel like I could just help him. which I did because he's come a long way really he came a long way from where he was with everything he's been dealing with I've really helped him she starts getting a little bit more aggressive slapping her leg as she's talking like I bailed him out of jail three times I've gotten every single hearing in every single arrangement everything I did for him I've gotten to see all of his public defenders I've gone to the state I've done everything for him because I'm trying to help him because I have, I had hope in him and he was trying.

35:48He was really, really, really trying. You know, he just starts to think about things and he gets really overwhelmed. And it's like the next thing you know, he's drinking. And I'm like, oh man, I know where this is going to go. So I'm going to go upstairs and read a book or I'm going to go for a bike ride or something because, and she starts getting aggressive again, because I don't want to drink. I don't want to drink. Now, this is wild, but Sarah talks about how great of a mom she is and how she hates drinking because she wants to stay sharp to take care of her son and basically says George is not as great as her.

36:23Basically, she goes on to say, you know, because I have to wake up the next morning and do things. I have to tend to Logan. I have to take him to school. I have all these things to do, which side note, Logan is not his real name. It's a different name in the interrogation if you watch the full clip. I didn't want to use his real name. Anyway, I have all these things to do. And I guess George doesn't know how to maintain himself. Whereas I can do 50 things at once. And I still know 50 more things I need to get done. He can't process like that. So he would literally, well, not literally, but have smoke come out of his ears.

36:56So the next thing you know, he doesn't want to deal with it. So he drinks. Like the whole thing, George just passed away he died because of you and the fact that you're comparing yourself to george and how you're this great person and how you're helping i just it's so narcissistic i don't even know what to say it's so gross it i mean i can't even i didn't even know people could do that with a straight face and like really put their heart and soul into it then she goes on to vent about how george's ex-wife was quote bonkers she starts getting riled up again and superheated just ranting about how George's ex-wife constantly asked him for money, how she stressed him out.

37:36And like, there's a part where she's like, all she wants is like money, money, money, money. She then proceeds to praise herself for buying George puzzles and paint because it helps him take his mind off the stress. So he doesn't drink. The police straight up ask her, what does George's ex-wife have anything to do with this? Let's go back to the night in question. So when asked about the night in question, Sarah says so last night we were hanging out listening to music which i don't particularly like george's music taste she says and i quote because it's rough around the edges again just constantly dissing the victim for no reason just putting herself up on this pedestal and she naturally guided them into painting instead instead of listening to this rough around the edges music she wanted to paint it's a soothing activity that they both enjoy they would hang up their little paint around the house.

38:26It was a way for them to connect. So as they're painting, they're sharing a bottle of wine, talking about their relationship, laughing, having a good time. According to Sarah, at least, she said that they were playing movie trailers in the background. They're having good conversation. Sarah said that the interactions were happy. They made her happy. They felt like they were on the same page for once. However, she was adamant to keep this in mind because her story changes later she was so set that she did not get drunk she said i don't get drunk i can't get drunk honestly number one i don't want to get drunk i don't like feeling out of control i was not drunk no i was not drunk so a million times she's reiterating she doesn't like to get drunk she wasn't drunk she can say lies with such confidence it's really bizarre how do you say that with a straight face yes and the fact that she's just basically shit talking the victim with such a straight face and then putting herself on a pedestal is beyond me like how do people do that in a serious way so this is very conflicting for the police because brian sarah's ex-husband had already told them at the crime scene that sarah has no self-control when it comes to drinking like she's the type if she gets one sip she has to drink till she passes out there's no stopping her.

39:43The police were inclined to believe Brian over Sarah, but they let her keep going. She said while they were doing arts and crafts, they went out on the porch to drink some more wine and what mainly George was drinking and smoking cigarettes. And after it got dark outside, they thought, why don't we do a spontaneous game of hide and seek? George allegedly said, tag, you're it to Sarah. And this is strange, but Sarah said since she was it, since she was the seeker, she went upstairs to the shower to hide. I mean, I guess she's trying to say like she went up to the shower to count, but George never came upstairs to look for her.

40:17So she got bored, came back downstairs, and she went up to George who saw a suitcase lying down on the floor downstairs in the living room. The suitcase was originally never there. Apparently the suitcase lived in the closet, but George had taken it out earlier to donate some of Logan's clothes. So donate some of Sarah's kid's clothes that he had grown out of. Sarah claimed George thought it would be hilarious if he got in there to hide from her while they were playing hide and seek. He just needed her help in hiding. So he crawled in the suitcase on his own accord, allegedly, and he thought it would be funny.

40:50That's what Sarah said. She said that she went along with him and thought to herself, I'm just going to joke with him and zip him up. She claimed that they were both laughing about it. Giggle, gaggle, hee hee, so funny. But then she fell asleep. She said, I zipped him up. I made sure to leave a little hole for his fingers to get through so that he could unzip it from the inside. And later she would change this part of the story and state that the zipper was broken so that there was also a paperclip on the inside for George to use to open the suitcase. Which like, side note, that doesn't even make sense to me.

41:20Because if the zipper is broken, why would there be a paperclip on the inside? If the zipper is broken, wouldn't you clip the paperclip to the outside zipper so that you could pull it open? And usually the inside of the zipper tab is very flat and smooth. Like how do you attach a paperclip to it? Yeah. I mean, maybe there's a way and I just can't envision it. but it's weird. George hid in the suitcase and Sarah said that she started thinking about something else and just completely forgot about him. Wandered upstairs and waited for him to come to bed. Just think about the mental cartwheels. She thinks about something else, forgets about him, goes to bed and is like, I wonder when George is coming up.

41:54And she stated, and I quote, the problem is, the problem is I fell asleep. She said that she fell asleep before he joined her in the bed. She was so exhausted from the night before she didn't even wake up until about noon or so and even when she woke up she laid in bed for a little while before coming downstairs which is why she missed all of her ex-husband's phone calls that morning she didn't discover george's body until it's too late she said she came downstairs and that's when she realized oh fuck he's still in the suitcase still she's touching her face as she tells this to the police like this like oh my god oh fuck she's still in the suitcase still like both of her hands are up near her cheeks.

42:35She's acting shocked and stressed, but I don't really see the emotion translating naturally. Like it feels, it feels incredibly forced. Her eyebrows are crinkled. She's touching her face, but it almost seems like a caricature of like, I was so shocked at myself. The police questioned her further on that statement because I don't know, like, what the hell are you saying? And she whines. I fell asleep. Like she whines. She whines about how all they did was do puzzles, arts and crafts, share a bottle of wine and play hide and seek. And that's all that happened. She repeats, that's all that happened.

43:10She tells the same story over and over and over again. And each time it becomes even more unbelievable. She reiterates that she forgot he was in the suitcase, went upstairs, fell asleep at around 1230. The way she says she forgot he was in the suitcase is just bizarre. Like just the way she keeps trying to put that into the police. At one point, she even states to homicide detectives, all they did was play hide and seek, and I quote, I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. The police ask her, why did you choose to call your ex-husband before you called the police? Because it was actually on his urging that she called the police.

43:48She just says, I don't know what else to do. She also states that she did perform CPR all morning after calling the police. She's a lot more rambly about all of this, but so far this is her version of events of what happened the night of George's murder and death. But she goes on to paint herself as the victim during the interrogation. Something I found interesting to note is Sarah says me and I way more than she references George in the entire interrogation. She's very quick to tell officers that she was scared for her life now that George was dead. And they ask her why? And she said that George's family hate her.

44:24They They terrify her. They call her the blue-eyed white devil. She stated his family would never believe it was accidental and that they were going to kill her for it. She literally tells detectives, I just want you guys to know I'm afraid for my life. Can you fucking believe? Yeah. Someone died because of you and you turned around and starting to make it about yourself. And tell the detectives, you're so scared you might lose your life. It's so beyond me. Basically telling the detectives, You guys need to help protect me. She keeps telling them and reiterating, they're going to kill me. They're going to kill me.

44:58They're going to kill me. This was not intentional. They're not going to understand that. They're not going to accept that. They're going to kill me. She also verifies that the officers won't be calling and letting Georgia's family know without telling her first. She's like, oh, you guys are going to tell me first before you tell them, right? It's so weird. But she claims that she needs to know when they're going to tell Georgia's family because they live nearby and she needs to go into hiding or something. personally I don't think that's why I think that she might not be able to tell this lie to them because the police don't know her so maybe she feels like she can control the narrative she can paint herself to be this person that she's not the ultimate victim but maybe she knows that that wouldn't fly with George's family and she tells them I hope you guys know again I'm really scared she also asks if they tell his family today or tomorrow and when the detectives tell her that they need to alert George's family today as it's the law, Sarah starts running her hands through her hair as if it's the world's biggest inconvenience to her.

45:58It's also just so strange that she keeps telling them like, what are you going to tell the parents? She asks like, what are you going to tell them? What are you going to tell them? What are you going to say is the reason for the death? It's the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. She also keeps reiterating that none of this was intentional and that she's scared. She states outright, they're going to think I killed him. They've always, always just said that. They call me the blue-eyed white dragon. That's what they call me. They don't want him with me. So he's basically no longer around his family because he chooses me over them.

46:30Even though I've encouraged him numerous times to go over to his family. And she goes on to rant about how she has nobody to stay with tonight to be safe. Basically saying like she thinks George's family are going to hunt her down and kill her tonight. And she says, my parents, my grandparents, they're all dead. I have nobody. She says she's all alone. She goes on to rant more about George's ex-wife, the mother of his children, calling her evil and telling the police how she won't let George see his own children or talk to his own children. It's just, I really don't think that she's in a position to be criticizing anybody else when you are the reason that someone is dead.

47:08Sarah goes on to later contradict herself by stating that George talked to his daughter that night that he died, which he does every single night. So does his ex-wife not allow him to talk to the kids or what? I think at this point, Sarah's just trying to throw anyone under the bus, even though they can't even be at the scene of the crime. She's just trying to divert the blame, or at least divert the police officer's attention off of her, or just make her seem like some sort of victim. Other notable parts were, Sarah's asking the homicide detectives what they know so far. She's like asking for updates, as if she's part of the team.

47:38She straight up asks, so like, why was he purple? And that is, she asks in that nonchalant way. So like, why was he purple? And even when the officers are trying to explain to her why he's purple and how painful his death must have been, how he suffocated to death and the lack of oxygen made his face purple. She looks like she's listening to the most casual conversation about the human anatomy. Like, she's like, oh, her literal boyfriend suffocated to death because of her. That's why his face was purple. And she's like, oh, like suffocation. OK, that's why it's purple. I'm like getting riled up.

48:12There's also points where she just asks, oh, am I supposed to just wait outside? the crime scene right now she also asks if everyone that needs to show up at the crime scene on the police's end is already here like it's such a weird reaction to your boyfriend's death and even your hand in your loved one's death she's like so like everyone that needs to be here are they here or is anybody else having to show up and i can't even make this up like i think that if this body cam footage wasn't released i feel like maybe the police would have been exaggerating it just sounds bizarre

48:47Other bizarre moments in the interrogation include Sarah constantly praising herself for helping George out of his dark place while calling George a volcano that was about to erupt. She tells the officers that she asks George just to tell her what's going on with him. She said, you know, I tell him, unburden himself. Put it on me. I'll sit there and try and figure it out for you like I have for almost everything. Not a worry. Just tell me. Get it out of you. She said things like, nobody knew George better than I did. I can say that I knew George better than he knew himself. Like, listen, these are things that I would be so pissed off to hear if I was George's loved ones.

49:26If I was kids, if I was family members, you have the audacity to do what you did and lock him in a suitcase. And now you want to say that you knew George better than anyone, that you were the one helping him. She goes on to say, I helped him. I took care of him. I miss him a lot. And I didn't even sleep last night. I miss him so much. So this is the day after. The interrogation is the day after. So the morning they found him and then a whole night has passed. She's like, I couldn't even sleep last night. Again, just the way that she makes it about herself and how she helped him, took care of him.

49:59It's just really gross. She even states that her being interrogated is her trying to help George. She's like, I'm here right now. I'm still trying to help him. And the police ask her, you know, they're trying to give her an out. They're like, not out in the sense that they're going to let her go, but they're trying to give her an out for her to confess to the murder. So the police ask her, you know, it's okay, but he was abusive. Maybe it was just too much. Like, we wouldn't blame you if you stopped caring for him at one point. And Sarah responds, I never stopped caring for him. I never stopped.

50:32That's what I'm here for. I never stopped. I'm here right now and I'm still trying to help him. She goes on to brag about how George's probation officer had called her personally to tell her how grateful she was that George had someone like Sarah in her life. She said, a 42-minute phone call. The probation officer was praising me for working so hard and helping fixing him. Another key infuriating moment was Sarah looks an officer in the eye and literally says, I don't think you guys understand who I am. I mean, I've always been a straight-A student. side note this woman is in her 40s now i've always been a straight a student i'm an outstanding mother to my son i excel at everything she says that she literally says that verbatim i'm not even i'm not exaggerating so the police clearly they want to know more about sarah and i mean to a degree they have to find out evidence that she truly didn't forget about george in the suitcase because you can't just go to court and be like look she's a narcissist look at her she thinks she excels at everything obviously except hide and seek but you know they have to give them something more substantial so they bring in brian again sarah's ex-husband and he was able to paint a very good picture of who sarah was she's incredibly flaky when it comes to taking care of their son she's a heavy drinker irresponsible i mean these were the main reasons that they were divorced to begin with she would get violent when she was drunk and the police were intrigued by that they were like tell us more about that what do you mean violent did it ever get physical well she can get a bit violent when she drinks like not to this extent of like murdering someone i don't know what happened exactly but yeah she that was part of it when she got drunk so how does sarah act when she's drunk i mean she starts just getting really angry when she drinks a lot she said last night she fell asleep talking about george's murder and uh you know there were plenty of times where she would pass out after drinking.

52:25Okay, so would she like be in the middle of something and just be out cold? Or would she go to bed? So personal opinion, I think the police are trying to get an idea of what was in character for Sarah when she drank a lot. Would she just pass out literally on the spot, just knock out cold? That could explain why she didn't hear Georgia's screams or why she forgot about him. They're trying to get an idea of her behavior patterns while she's drunk because it could be useful later in court. Brian responds, yeah, it wasn't anything like she would fall over or anything, but if she was able to lie down, then she was just out.

52:58Meaning that if she got so drunk, she zipped him up and just accidentally passed out from being drunk and therefore was unable to zip him up from the suitcase. Like that doesn't seem plausible. She made her way to the bed. Upstairs. Then Brian tells the cops a little bit about Sarah and George's relationship. He says that they were both toxic, both abusive. He tried to stay away from both of them as much as he could. There were constant domestic violence reports and then they would bail each other out and then it would repeat. They would get drunk, get into a fight, get upset, call the cops and it was just really bad.

53:32George had been working at an ace hardware store but Sarah had been unemployed for about two years. Brian was paying alimony. That's how she survived and she would constantly call to ask for more money. So Sarah does not excel at everything. She's not a great outstanding mother. She's probably not even was a straight A student. She's also not a good person. Like that much is clear. But the police need to make sure that they have a strong case to prove that she murdered George, that she knew what she was doing, that it was part of her plan. And a big piece of that evidence that supported their theory, the police theory, was this not so innocent game of hide and seek.

54:09You know, I mean, even Sarah's shitty story was probably evidence. Like, the logic was just non-existent in her story. But a big piece, bigger piece, was George's autopsy. It concluded that George had scratches on his neck and back, a bruise on his shoulder and around his eyes, a cut lip and a swollen mouth and scalp like his skull was swollen. Sarah would later tell officers all the injuries were either from sex or he had fallen off his bike earlier that day. she also states that george is notorious for running into the wall and there's like no context about that it's it's just really weird she states that she hasn't laid a hand on him and she gets very adamant and very passionate so the day of the murder sarah states that they had wild sex george fell off his bike ran into a wall and that's like what sarah is claiming she said that it's mind-blowing to her why he would have these injuries because all they did was paint do puzzles hang out and have a good time.

55:04She repeated, I have not touched him. I have not touched him. I have not touched him. But the police don't really believe her. They think that this is all evidence of some sort of blunt force trauma. Now, the internet theory about what happened is they believe that the suitcase was upstairs. Sarah put George inside or convinced him to get inside. We're going to get into theories later about why. And then push the suitcase down the stairs, which would explain all the injuries. Oh my gosh. and the police argue, you know, it's just unexplainable how he got these injuries, and you were the only one with him, Sarah.

55:38And she says, I have no idea. Like, 100 % right-handed God. I have no idea how he got them. Nobody touched anybody. Nobody touched anybody. The police went around asking neighbors to see if they heard anything at all, and they had. Not only that, but the neighbors really, really, really, really, really hated Sarah. They said that she would come home drunk every night, which goes against this whole picture she's painting of herself. She would come home in the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes she wouldn't even go to her apartment. Sometimes she would just crash on neighbors' porches. So this again contradicted her, saying that she never got drunk.

56:10She said that she likes to have her wits about her. Sometimes Sarah would be out in the hallway trying to make small talk with neighbors. They all avoided her. They really did not like her. Anyway, the night of George's murder, Sarah's next-door neighbor said that he heard a series of really loud thumps at around 10.30 p.m. that night. He said that thumps were much louder than what he normally heard from their unit, which he heard a lot from their unit typically. But he still didn't pay it too much attention because like I said, Sarah's unit was known for a lot of chaos. There were typically noise disturbances and weird sounds coming from her unit.

56:44But this confirmed again the theory that the police had that George's injuries were from some sort of struggle or potentially her throwing the suitcase down the stairs with him inside of it. Which means there are even more holes now to Sarah's cute little story of just innocently playing hide and seek. But the biggest piece of evidence that the police had is what you saw in the beginning of this episode. The police had a video from Sarah's phone that Sarah had taken of George after she zipped him up in the suitcase. She took a video on her phone of him zipped up in the suitcase. And he's not giggling.

57:18He's not laughing. And she's like, we were just having a good time. He he ha haing. None of that is happening. The police confront her with the video and they ask, Do you remember taking any videos or pictures that night? No, I don't think so. I mean, maybe I take a picture of the dog. Are you sure? They go through who had access to her phone, who could go through her phone. Sarah confirms again that she had no recollection of anything being on her phone from Sunday night, the night that Georgia died. She said, maybe, maybe there's videos of George and the dogs dancing, but other than that, nothing I remember.

57:49Okay. Is she like super drunk? Is that why she couldn't remember? Later, she uses that excuse. I think that she thought she deleted it and they weren't going to find it okay well we found something on your phone and I just want to show it to you the officers pull up the video that Sarah took of George in the suitcase remember and they pull it up in their computer on like a CD disc so it's not her phone keep this in mind and this is the video where George is suffocating and screaming her name and she's just laughing but before they can even play it the computer battery dies and it's like a whole thing so the officer leaves Sarah's alone with another officer and she comes back and is getting the computer ready when Sarah says, you guys are scaring me.

58:28Is the video long? Because I don't know how much more I can take of this. She hunches her shoulders, looks down at her hands and continues rambling while the police get the video ready. And she says, do I have to watch this? Like I continuously throw up and I don't sleep and I don't want to see it if that's okay. Well, it's on your phone, Sarah. You can either explain it or we take it for what it is. Is it long? Because I don't know how much I can take. so she knows what's up now like yeah and they tell her and i feel like she has no excuses at this point yeah so she'd rather not even deal with it oh and it gets so cringe like i know that's such a light word to use for such a heavy situation but it's so gross how she behaves in this just listen okay so she's they tell her it's two minutes long now the police press play and sarah realizes what she's watching and she immediately tells them i don't want to watch it police.

59:20The detectives don't care. They let it run and even played the second video that she took, which is just more of the same thing. And Sarah says, guys, this is killing me right now. Which how do you have the audacity to say that? Both of the videos are online and they're really heartbreaking. Sarah tells the police that none of this was malicious. She said it wasn't intentional. She even gets up and tries to, this is the cringe part. She gets up and is pointing at the computer screen. She's like, there, there's a hole in the zipper for him to get out. and the police are like we don't see it we don't see it and if there's a hole why is he pressing up against the suitcase trying to get out and why is he screaming your name why is he telling you he can't breathe we don't hear him laughing you said you guys were joking and having a blast sarah argues i don't know what to tell you i just don't know what you want me to tell you and now they're they're starting to crack down on her and they're saying you know he's begging for you to let him out you're laughing in the beginning and then in the end it sounds kind of like Sarah sits back in her chair and she declares, nope, not malicious.

1:00:22The officers point out, you literally tell him, fuck you in the video. Like what part of that is not malicious? Nope, not malicious. Okay. Well then what does fuck you mean to you? My intention was not to leave him in there. Please understand that my intention was not to leave him in there. Sarah, you told me that you guys were both joking and laughing. And in the video he's not laughing nowhere in the video is he laughing or joking in fact he's begging you're the only one that's laughing you're the one saying derogatory comments like you're mad nope please don't and i don't mean to sound negative like i don't know if i can say this but it's like you guys are trying to feed me basically insinuating that she's being set up by the police right now i'm so frustrated like this interrogation i was just filled with rage watching the whole thing because it's just out of this world.

1:01:13Sarah claims that she doesn't remember making that video because she was drunk, which suddenly she's drunk. It contradicts everything that she said earlier that she doesn't like to drink because she likes to have her wits about her. The police point it out. And she keeps arguing, well, I was drunk. I was drunk. I mean, what? Later, when she realizes that she's been caught, it's still about her. She says, this is horrific, okay? Horrific, horrific. I don't think I will ever be right because of this. Dealing with everything else that I have in my life right now, and now this? This was not my intention.

1:01:48I will put my hand on the Bible. I would never do this to him. But you did, Sarah. Not intentional. But you intentionally went up to bed. I just didn't. I was waiting for him. The detectives push further, asking her why she went upstairs to bed, why she didn't let him out, where was the hole she said she left in the zipper, because you can't see the hole in either of the two videos. Sarah gets so frustrated, she basically explodes on the officers, which I'm pretty sure is exactly what they wanted. And she keeps accusing them of trying to portray her as something and someone that she is not. And she says, you guys are killing me right now.

1:02:23These are all evidence, right? Yeah. Can be used on court and people can see it and make a judgment based on that. And just the way that, I don't even know how to describe this. The fact that someone is dead, her loved one is dead, her boyfriend is dead because of her, and she still has the audacity to sit there and say things like, you guys are killing me right now i'm like wait what is going on and she says see it all backfired on me like it's all backfired on me and i understand the severity of it i just they tell her he's dead it's awful i know i know okay and i'll tell you this like right now too i will never drink alcohol again okay like i will never drink alcohol again wow you realize you're the person who killed him, right?

1:03:08Not intentionally. I would never do that to George. But you did. Y 'all are making me out to be a person that I am not. She says that she was drinking and that it's the alcohol's fault. But she just wouldn't accept any blame for what she did, even though there's video proof of it. She said it wasn't fair that the police were trying to say that she intentionally did this. She only talked about herself the entire time of the two hours. If she talked about George, it was basically shit talking George and then talking about how she was helping him. she couldn't accept that she did anything wrong even when the detectives poked literal gaping holes in her story i don't even know how you don't have the shame to just be like okay yeah that's a good point they will never admit fault never always deny deny deny but it's it's so much more embarrassing and gross when you don't do that it's counterintuitive because they have these massive egos and you actually look stupider by doing this yeah so she did however agree to give dna she let detectives take swabs of the dna under her fingernails which is why a lot of people on the internet think that the the struggle wasn't in person she pushed him down that's why she was so willing to give dna because maybe there weren't let you know the markings inside of her fingernails February 25th, 2020, the day after she made the 911 call, Sarah Boone was arrested for the murder of her boyfriend.

1:04:31She was charged with second degree murder. Second degree is where there is intent to kill, but it's not as premeditated. Like there's not a whole plan in place, which I feel like this is a whole plan. And you know, this doesn't make sense to me because we've done so many cases where the premeditation can happen five seconds before the crime. This feels like it happened, And even if it happened five seconds before the crime, 10 minutes, an hour, like it feels. There's definitely premeditation in this. On the way to jail, just listen to the audacity here. While Sarah is being transported to jail, she asks her transport officer.

1:05:06Think of a list of things you would imagine Sarah Boone could have the audacity to ask for. It's going to be about her. Yeah. That's what I thought too, right? But this is so specific. She asks for a spacious cell. she trapped her boyfriend in a suitcase the size of an oven and she's demanding a spacious cell she said it's because she gets panic attacks in small spaces

1:05:36i i don't even know what to say to that like you just stuffed someone inside of a suitcase like what about when he was begging for his life and you just said fuck you you don't think that he would have liked something a little bit more spacious. Like that is wild to me that she would have the nerve of all things to ask for that. So Sarah's in jail. She gets arrested right before the pandemic hits in the US. So her court process is excruciatingly slow for her. I mean, personally, I think the more time that she spends in limbo, like the more time she has to think about how she forced her boyfriend into a to suffocate to death in a suitcase, the better.

1:06:13She went through six lawyers in the course of two years and allegedly she just had beef with all of them okay so despite calling their offices every single day and sending each of them a handful of letters Sarah was very upset that none of them really talked to her that much in one of the earlier emails or letters Sarah writes to her lawyer because she hasn't heard from him in a little over a month in the first paragraph she says as of today October 3rd you have been my court-appointed attorney for almost three months 12 weeks and 14 days and only spoken to me three times. She states that she knows that she's not his only client and that he's been healing from a back injury but she also says I'm still unaware of the difficulties you are having in communicating with me.

1:06:54With no communication makes my end more difficult, drawn out and painful. Please remember how long I've been in here. She goes off on a mini tangent of how many birthdays of her sons that she's missed which like by the time that she wrote this letter she had been in jail for 32 months but she writes in the letter that she missed four of her son's birthdays which like is the math math thing here like how many birthdays can you have in two and a half years but that's what she wrote in the letter so she's evil and dumb which is arguably one of the worst combinations one can be and i know maybe this would be a moment to feel any sympathy for sarah like a mom missing her son's life events but even when she was free she didn't have a problem ditching her son.

1:07:37Sarah's next letter was sent to a judge four weeks later, complaining about how her attorney wasn't talking to her. She says that her constitutional rights were being waived without her knowledge and permission. Yeah, what about George's constitutional right to life and liberty? She continues, and in this letter, Sarah writes that according to her calculations, she's been represented by the last attorney for 3 ,528 hours and has only spent two hours talking to him. She talks about how she's gotten like the whole math thing that she's doing. She talks about how she's gotten letters all the way from England and how everyone with internet access knows more about the case than she does.

1:08:13And how the sensational the trial is going to be and how she's not going to be able to get a fair trial anywhere. And the words that she kept using about not knowing what's going on were, and I quote, still in the dark. Most of the letters end with paragraphs of how she's never going to give up fighting for her justice. She writes, my reason is hope, never ending, no matter what. Hope, please don't give up. I have not and will not ever. She will never have remorse about what she did. Yeah. And what's real stupid about it is remorse is one of the biggest things. If she ever were able to get probation that they look for.

1:08:50So I feel like it's honestly a good thing, but it's crazy. Like never, ever. So her newest attorney has recently revealed that he's going to go for the battered spouse defense. The idea of the battered spouse defense or battered woman syndrome, as it used to be more frequently called, is that if a victim is in an abusive household, there's a constant fear of danger. So therefore, it's justified in a sense that they are eliminating the threat, even if there might not be imminent danger. So it's a bit different from a self-defense defense because for self-defense, you literally have to be in immediate danger.

1:09:26Like someone has to be holding a knife to your throat. You have to fear for your life in that very moment, which Sarah surely did not while they were innocently playing hide and seek, according to her. So they're arguing that she was in fear for her life every second of every moment she lived with George because he was abusive. It was to be expected that she would probably take this approach or at least her attorney would take this approach because it'd be very difficult to cast doubt on her being the killer. Like, what are you going to do? Her attorney is going to try to convince the court that Sarah killed George because she was afraid that one of these days, he would kill her first.

1:09:57So even though her taking this defense was to be expected, the internet had a lot of things to say about it. There are a ton of Reddit threads on this case about the crime itself, but also a lot on the interrogation tapes. And there's a ton of speculations on what exactly happened. Now, side note, Reddit is not a credible source. So do that with what you will. But this is just what the internet is saying. According to the internet, there were rumors that a lot of Sarah's previous attorneys, because she's been through six at this point, they dropped her because she refused to take this battered woman defense.

1:10:31For the first couple of attorneys, she kept feeling like the not intentional justification was enough. She felt like she could go to court with that. And the jury would be like, but it wasn't intentional. Yeah. Now, this is one of the main reasons that I bring up Reddit. netizens dug up Sarah's 2016 Facebook post where she posted a picture of a four-year-old kid zipped in a suitcase. What? Yeah, we're not sure if it's her son in the suitcase, but her son was four in 2016. Commentators speculate that the suitcase was like this established punishment in their home. So maybe Sarah would lock her son in the suitcase as a way to punish him.

1:11:09Maybe Sarah locked George in the suitcase to punish him for being abusive with her. and I would imagine maybe George was like okay I'm gonna spend like a minute in the suitcase so he let her lock her up in there but maybe this is speculation she threw him down the stairs in the suitcase and then recorded it and wouldn't let him out because I just don't see the hide and seek thing playing out I just don't see how he would have done that police were able to find out about this 2016 incident and they stated that it was consensual which like I don't know how it's consensual when you're talking about locking a four-year-old in a suitcase but i guess they were like they just don't want to pursue it legally is all i don't know if it's going to be brought up in court i don't know if it can be nothing is going to be done about that so far from what i know twitter also blew up with threads about sarah only being charged with second degree murder and not first degree they're like really come on who leaves someone in a space where getting air is almost impossible without intending for them to die that's kind of what we have now and we will just have to wait until the trial starts in August for the whole story to come out and hopefully the trial will bring justice and closure to George and his family.

1:12:19I don't know if the truth of what happened that night may never come to light but at the end of the day, how Sarah killed George is not the important part. The important part is that she killed him and now George Torres, a father, a brother, a son is never going to become the better man that he was trying so hard to be. and I think that's the saddest part of this story like he was not a perfect victim I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect victim he was obviously flawed there were things that he clearly should not have done but I think it's sad the fact that he was trying so hard and then she just took it all away I just wish she had a chance to do better without Sarah please let me know your thoughts on this case and if you're watching the video version on YouTube on Rotten Mango or on Spotify Rotten Mango video what are your thoughts on the video footage A lot of people were saying that she just looks so guilty in the videos.

1:13:09Like, do you think the same thing? Do you feel like maybe we shouldn't go there because innocent until proven guilty? I would just be very interested to know. And with that being said, please stay safe. And I will see you guys on Wednesday for the main episode. Bye.