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Killer Girlfriend Murder Trial
"Rape Charge To Fatal Stabbing"The state presents a police report in which McCandless accused a man of rape previously; prosecutors want jurors to learn more about the claim that she made just weeks before she killed Alex Woodworth.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP1 "Deadly Game Of Hide-And-Seek"Opening statements began in the trial where Sarah Boone was accused of intentionally zipping up a suitcase with her then boyfriend inside and killing him. According to prosecutors a deadly game of hide-and-seek led to the death of Jorge Torres. This happened after the couple were allegedly drinking several bottles of wine.
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.
Killer Girlfriend Murder Trial
"DNA Analysis"The DNA analyst told jurors about the swabbing he did on key physical evidence at the crime scene where Alex Woodworth was killed. His body had 16 stab wounds and was found hanging out the back of Ezra McCandless's car.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP33 "In The Eight Days To Murder"Jade Janks was emotional as she told the jury that she saw more than 100 nude photos of herself on her stepdad's computer. She claimed that Tom Merriman even cropped some of the pictures of her and divided them up into different folders based on her different body parts. Eight days after she discovered the nude photos on her stepdad's computer Merriman died. During her long testimony to jurors, Janks' defense team wanted her to narrate the days and hours leading up to Tom Merriman's death.
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.
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