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Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP2 "Alcohol-Induced Murder"Alcoholism. That's how Sarah Boone's defense began their opening statements. Her lead attorney James Owens told jurors about the alcohol addiction she and her Jorge Torres dealt with and how it often mixed in with domestic violence. Owens argued that the suitcase Torres was zipped in was a physical restraint to block a potential attack in Boone's attempt at self-defense. Domestic violence was a running theme in the relationship between the defendant and the victim.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP3 "Drama At Home"More of the drama in the torrid relationship between Jorge Torres and Sarah Boone spilled out in testimony. Prosecutors called in former neighbors of the couple. They told the jury that they heard constant yelling and arguing from across the apartment unit's very thin walls. Torres was charged a total of four times for domestic battery against Boone. In each of those times she bailed him out of jail.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP4 "The 911 Call"Jurors listened to the 911 operator walk Sarah Boone performing CPR on Jorge Torres. This was just minutes after opening up the suitcase Torres was zipped up in and finding him unresponsive. Prosecutors introduced the jury to bodycam footage of police arriving on the scene and questioning Boone.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP5 "Responding Officers To The Scene"The unedited version of the police bodycam questioning Sarah Boone on what happened played in court. Prosecutors claimed she intentionally killed her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, using a suitcase in a deadly game of hide-and-seek. They introduced police bodycam video from two responding officers to the crime scene. At the time of his death Torres' height was five feet three inches, and he weighed only 103 pounds.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP6 "Crime Scene Investigation"Crime scene photos displayed for jurors. As officers gathered information and collected key evidence they were learning about the alcohol-induced game of hide-and-seek that led to Jorge Torres death. Cross-examination began on the crime scene investigator who collected and processed key evidence. The state was trying to prove that Boone intentionally killed her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, when she zipped up the suitcase he got into before going off to bed.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP7 "Environmental Suffocation"The State's medical examiner took the stand. Dr. Sara Zydowicz conducted the autopsy of Jorge Torres. Prosecutors told jurors Torres died of environmental suffocation when he lied in a suitcase for at least 11 hours. Next, the jury shifted their attention on the physical evidence prosecutors believed proved Boone killed her boyfriend. This testimony came from the DNA analyst assigned to this case.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP8 "Cellphone Extraction"Cellphone data extraction made its way into this trial. Prosecutors wanted to show the jury beyond reasonable doubt that Sarah Boone intentionally killed Jorge Torres, her boyfriend at the time, by keeping him zipped up in a suitcase and then leaving him to die overnight. The defendant apparently video recorded her boyfriend stuck in the suitcase pleading to get out. It was in two different clips on her cellphone authorities seized in their murder investigation.
Killer Girlfriend Murder Trial
"Tangled Up With Three Men"Jurors learn about the jealousy and anger between the men in Ezra McCandless' life; the state reveals text messages between the three that included threats, violent incidents, sexual assault and even suicide references.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP34 "Dead In Her Car"Jade Janks had more to say on the stand. During a long direct examination, she told jurors her side of the story of events that led to Tom Merriman's overdose. Was he asleep or was he dead? That's what the defendant recalled when she came across the body of Tom Merriman lying there in her car. Janks tried to convince the jury on her side story on what led to her stepdad's death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP35 "Jade Janks Under Cross-Examination"Jade Janks faced cross-examination on the witness stand. She admitted that she didn't tell any close friends or relatives about finding those nude photos on her stepdad, Tom Merriman's computer. Instead, she reached out to a complete stranger she met on Facebook about the whole ordeal. Janks recalled her emotional and mental state in the eight days of the discovery of the nude photos and the victim's death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP36 "Walk Us Through On What Happened"The lead prosecutor was not done probing Jade Janks on the stand. She was testifying for her own defense. She admitted to the jury that she did cover up stepfather's remains after he died. After going over the timeline of events leading up to Tom Merriman's death, the state had Janks go through and explain her text messages. Jurors listened to the defendant while weighing her credibility.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP37 "Closing Arguments"Closing arguments began after the Defense rested their case. Jade Janks, the defendant, was the last witness on the stand. The lead prosecutor narrated a murder story to jurors by pointing out, She needs to get help to bring him inside to make it look like an overdose. Janks' lesser charges included second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP38 "Motive, Means, And Opportunity"State's closing arguments with their thesis to the jury that Jade Janks ambushed, drugged, strangled and suffocated Tom Merriman to death. The lead prosecutor pushed the jury to take in all the physical and circumstantial evidence they presented. He highlighted the importance of understanding the motive, means and opportunity in this case. According to the stand, Janks had two plans. Plan A was homicide. Plan B was suicide.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP39 "Defense's Final Remarks To Jurors"Jurors listened to the defense's closing arguments. Jade Janks' lead attorney poked holes in the state's case against her especially his main assertion that a homicide in Tom Merriman's death never even happened. Lead defense attorney Marc Carlos dismissed the state's two main claims against her during closing arguments. One, was that Merriman was murdered, and two, that his own stepdaughter collaborated with several men to try to drug, suffocate, and strangle him to death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP40 "No Proof Of Murder"A murder plot makes no sense was what Marc Carlos, lead defense attorney, during closing arguments. The defense ripped the prosecution's case that Tom Merriman's death was part of a murder plot that involved his stepdaughter-neighbor and several men she tried to recruit as potential hitmen. The defense delivered the final phase of their closing arguments arguing that the state failed to prove not only that Janks was responsible in a premeditated murder but that a homicide even occurred.
Killer Girlfriend Murder Trial
"Identifying DNA Profiles"The DNA expert tested key items he swabbed to show who was involved at the crime scene; according to the State, the physical evidence proved Ezra McCandless could not have killed Alex Woodworth in self-defense.
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