Sarah Boone: Motions Hearing 10/2/2024

The trial for Sarah Boone, the Florida woman accused of zipping up her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him there to die during an alleged game of hide-and-seek in 2020, is now set to begin on 10/07/2024. This is the latest hearing 10/02/2024 The trial was set to begin on Monday, Jan. 29, but was ultimately canceled court records show. The start of the trial has been pushed back multiple times over the past nearly four years after several public defenders filed motions to withdraw from representing Boone. her Current Lawyer James Owens is now representing her. On Feb. 25, 2020, Boone, then 42, was arrested by Orange County deputies after detectives said 42-year-old Jorge Torres Jr. died after being zipped into a suitcase and left inside for hours. The incident reportedly happened at the couple's Winter Park home, near Aloma Avenue and Goldenrod Road.