Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Sarah Boone Deep Dive: Suitcase Murder | Vinnie Politan Investigates" video.
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Glad @CourtTV discussed the brutal reality of Jorge Torres' prolonged and horrendous suffering, locked inside the suitcase as his oxygen ran out, while his girlfriend mocked his distress and repeatedly denied his desperate pleas to release him. This crime is right up there among the worst categories of sadistic, cruel and depraved murders.
I've followed this story for the last 4 years (and seen Sarah Boone's outrageous, entitled conduct in custody - which judging by her dramatic weight gain, sure didn't put her off her food). But until watching this report tonight, I wasn't aware the suitcase flipped over and moved some distance from its original position on the lounge floor, between the two Smartphone videos recorded by the defendant. I think Boone will have a very hard time explaining that away in court.
The flipping of the suitcase and it's progress around 2 feet across the room, could not have been achieved by Torres himself. It had to have been done deliberately by Sarah Boone, and it had to take a significant amount of effort on her part, to achieve. 4 years ago she was a slight woman, I'd guess around 30lbs lighter. She must have expended considerable effort, and I am guessing mostly used her legs/a combination of legs and upper body, to overturn that heavy suitcase containing an adult man.
Let's not forget she was drunk at the time too, as her slurred words on video confirm. Why, in her drunken, unsteady state, was it so important to her to turn that suitcase over? The answer is sadly obvious, and utterly chilling - she was getting pleasure from torturing Jorge Torres, and escalating his suffering inside the horrific, zippered tomb from which she knew he could not escape. She had him totally defenceless and at her mercy, and she planned to enjoy every minute.
The starkly different position of the suitcase between videos, proves that this murder involved prior, sadistic torture. It also supports the Prosecution case that it absolutely WAS murder, and not some 'unfortunate accident', as she claims. Her motive was obvious, to make her hated boyfriend suffer her deadly revenge, for his prior alleged sins against her of domestic violence and infidelity.
Jorge Torres' autopsy revealed multiple injuries, most notably a severe and heavily bleeding wound to his head, plus other bleeding cuts and abrasions, severe bruising, and black eyes. During her initial police questioning, Boone pleaded total ignorance of those injuries. Prosecutors concluded they occurred when she pushed him down the stairs, inside the suitcase. That was likely her first, serious assault on him, before filming the subsequent, infamous cellphone videos taunting him.
Boone denies pushing him down the stairs, claiming he got into the suitcase on the ground floor. But the fact she flipped the case with him inside it, as proven on the video images, again supports the prosecution case that he sustained his nasty injuries from a prior tumble down her stairs inside the case, which she did not film.
We will never know how or why Jorge Torres made the deadly mistake of climbing into that case. The evidence of torture captured on video suggests to me this was a premeditated crime, and that Sarah Boone slyly tricked him into the suitcase on some lighthearted pretext, with a very sinister, hidden agenda.
I believe he entered the case upstairs, not downstairs as she claims (suitcases are typically stored in bedrooms after all). Once he was zipped inside and she was satisfied he was trapped and helpless, she committed her first assault on him, pushing the case down the stairs, from the very top to the very bottom, with all her might. It was such a violent and forceful descent, a neighbour heard it and thought Boone was moving heavy furniture. That alone could have killed him, had he suffered a neck injury for example, banged his head, or had any kind of cardiac event on the way down.
Sarah Boone's blatant lack of remorse immediately after discovering her partner's body next day, and her ongoing lack of grief for his terrible suffering and death, confirm exactly how ruthless she is. Her number one concern, first, last and in the middle, is always herself. It was only too predictable she asked the officers in the interview room if she could get back the 'expensive' ring she'd given Jorge (at the time he was wearing it while lying lifeless on a slab at the morgue). When told no, she expressed anger that his family, who she hated, would get to keep it. This was not a grieving woman begging for an item of jewellery for sentimental value. It was all about the ring's monetary value. You got the distinct impression if she could have visited his lifeless corpse and yanked it from his cold, dead finger, she'd have done it in a heartbeat.
Boone really thought she could not only torture and kill her boyfriend, but film herself doing it, and walk away a free woman just by telling cops: "It was unintentional". Her arrogance and delusion are off the scale, and will be on full display at her imminent murder trial. She's so far removed from reality, I'd bet money she'll make the huge mistake of taking the stand, assuming she'll charm the jurors. It's gonna be a wild ride!
This is a woman who cynically uses the fact she's a mother, to present herself to detectives (and others), as a responsible, caring and decent human being. But she's fooling no one. She's shown scant concern for her only child since her arrest for this now infamous suitcase murder. The homicide aside, Boone is an alcoholic, domestic abuser and chronic narcissist. Frankly it's no mystery whatsoever that her son's father, won full custody of him. Thank God he did!
Jorge Torres' death was an unimaginable tragedy, which his children and other loved ones must live with for the rest of their lives. But if there's one silver lining to emerge from this vile crime, it's that Sarah Boone's innocent little boy will be forever spared her toxic presence in his life.
Jorge paid the ultimate price for his abusive relationship. But he was an adult, and he made a choice to be with Boone. Her son however, had no choice. I bet his life has much improved in the 4 years she's been held in custody. Poor kid likely receives a ton of mail from Mommie-Dearest the serial letter-writer, in that same, crazy oversized scrawl she harasses the judge with. But mail can be burned, trashed or returned to sender. An abusive parent can show-up on your doorstep any time, and ruin your day.
I think Sarah Boone's imminent Guilty verdict and Life sentence for murder will be a huge relief to her son and her ex-husband. They will be totally free of her, for the first time ever. I wish them both speedy healing, and all the very best for a brighter, Boone-free future.
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Agreed, Boone's home videos are truly, incredibly disturbing. She had so many chances to let Jorge out of that horrific zippered tomb, let him stretch and breathe, and let him live. But time and time again, she deliberately and determinedly chose not to free him.
This wasn't negligence, or any kind of accident. She didn't fall asleep in a drunken stupor on the couch, wake up, horrified at 5am and let him out in a panic, before immediately dialling 911 (and God knows, that would have been bad enough).
Instead, she deliberately went upstairs to bed, leaving him trapped in the suitcase totally alone in the darkness and silence, on the ground floor. And there he stayed, until finally, who knows when, death ended his suffering. He must have been utterly terrified when the awful truth hit him, that his girlfriend wasn't coming to his aid.
Sarah Boone finally got up the following lunch time and found him - dead for some time, purple in the face, with rigor mortis. And let's not forget, she had abandoned him to climb the stairs to bed, after repeatedly ignoring his pleas to free him because he couldn't breathe. It's all there on the shocking videos she made - videos that are about to destroy her outrageous 'Not Guilty' plea in court!
It's total BS she thought Jorge could release himself. She knew damn fine he could not, he told her many times, as proven by her own videos. If he could get himself out of the suitcase, why would he beg her over and over to release him? Why, with increasing desperation, would he tell her: "Sarah - I can't breathe"?
It makes no sense at all. She knew he was trapped inside that horrific, confined case, could not breathe, and had no hope of escape without her intervention. Yet she did not intervene - she went up to bed.
Boone's not guilty plea is a huge mistake. I can't wait to see her own warped decisions sink her in court. We all know what she did - thanks to her nasty little videos, we've seen her crime unfold with our own eyes (the videos alone prove her aim was to torture and humiliate her hated boyfriend).
You would not do such a sadistic, cruel thing to a dog, least of all your own partner. She deserves to die behind bars and I really hope when she's found guilty and sentenced, she does not get parole. This was murder of the most heinous and depraved kind.
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@19:10 The medical expert is wrong here, and Vinnie didn't correct her. She mistakenly states that Photo One, ie the still image depicting the FIRST position of the suitcase, is the photo on the RIGHT.
From that wrong conclusion, she goes on to say the case was flipped over so that the zipper was underneath victim Jorge Torres, and that SECOND photo is seen on the LEFT. In fact the opposite is true.
Photo One, depicting the FIRST, starting position of the suitcase, is the image on the LEFT, when it's partially laying on the rug, with the zipper underneath Jorges. The first cellphone video Boone made, which was shown at the beginning of this episode confirms it, and clearly shows that first, original position of the suitcase, sitting on the rug with the zipper positioned beneath it, @ 3:32.
Boone then flipped the case over to lay some distance away from the rug, with the zipper now positioned at the top, above the victim, as seen on Photo Two, which is the SECOND still image on the RIGHT of the screen.
Vinnie wasn't concentrating here!
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@teresathayn5170 Doesn't surprise me at all, the woman is nuts. I feel her ex and their little boy have at least had a very good result from this horrible tragedy - Sarah Boone is going to prison for life, and both are free of her.
She's an alcoholic, narcissistic abuser on such an extreme scale, she's killed someone. I think it was always going to happen, sooner or later. Her child did not need that pathologically self-serving, destructive woman messing up his life.
Poor kid, I bet she sends him umpteen letters each week from jail, in the same, crazy handwriting she harasses the judge with. Letters can be ignored, burned or trashed - it's harder to get rid of an abusive parent who keeps turning up on your doorstep uninvited. Thankfully her son will know exactly where she is from now on - safely behind bars where she can't bother him. I wish him and his father all the very best for their Boone-free future.
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@LakeGirl24 Thank you for that. Far too often sloppy mistakes creep in, even on supposedly professional true crime channels like @CourtTV. It's generally when the presenter/guests haven't done enough research on the case under discussion.
There's another mistake @19:10 when the medical expert mis-identifies the two still images of the suitcase taken from Sarah Boone's videos.
PHOTO ONE depicting the FIRST position of the suitcase is not the image on the Right, as she incorrectly says. From that wrong conclusion, she goes on to make another mistake and say Boone flipped the suitcase over so the zipper was underneath victim Jorge Torres, and that the PHOTO TWO, the SECOND position of the suitcase, is seen on the Left. In fact the opposite is true.
PHOTO ONE, depicting the original, FIRST position of the suitcase is the image on the LEFT. As we clearly saw in the disturbing Sarah Boone cellphone video which that screenshot was taken from (shown at the beginning of this show @ 3:32), the suitcase is first, partially laying on the rug with the zipper underneath Jorges.
PHOTO TWO, showing the SECOND position of the suitcase after Sarah Boone flipped it over, is the still image on the RIGHT of the screen @19:10. We can see the case was flipped over to land some distance across the floor and away from the rug, with the zipper now positioned uppermost, above victim Jorge Torres.
Vinnie should have picked up on this and corrected the guest.
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