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Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP9 "Police Interview"The Defense had specific questions for a digital forensics examiner. It was under cross-examination and jurors were learning of the digital evidence that linked the defendant to the death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, inside their apartment. Next, the police interrogation of Sarah Boone was introduced to the jury. On the stand, was the lead investigator on this case. Hours after Jorge Torres was found dead inside a suitcase, police immediately began questioning her on all that had transpired.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP10 "Gathering Incriminating Evidence"Jurors heard for the first time from Sarah Boone. Prosecutors brought in the police interrogation where she initially told detectives the events that led up to Jorge Torres' death. Jurors listened to her talk about what she remembered happened. In recorded cellphone footage Torres' voice could be heard from inside the suitcase that we was trapped in. He was heard calling out Boone's name and telling her he could not breathe. The State wanted to use this as evidence of intentional murder.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP11 "The Interrogation"Jurors watched more unedited portions of her police interview she gave after Jorge Torres, her boyfriend. At the time detectives were still investigating his death as a potential homicide. In the interrogation, Boone gave police more background of her turbulent, drama-filled relationship she had with Torres in the years and months before he died. Boone sounded like her boyfriend's death was just an accident that happened while they were having fun drinking and playing games.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP12 "Sarah Boone Breaks Down"In her second police interview Sarah Boone was more animated. The jury saw her on the video recording crying and screaming at detectives. Police wanted a confession out of her after they determined she intentionally kept her boyfriend zipped up in a suitcase for hours. This second interrogation happened on two days after Jorge Torres lost his life suffocating in a suitcase. Police declared his death a homicide.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP13 "Denial Of Intentionality"Jurors watched Sarah Boone deny any intention to the murder of her boyfriend in her second police interrogation. Detectives were in the beginning of their investigation trying to figure out what led to Jorge Torres being found dead in a suitcase. The first police interview happened at the crime scene. The next day after police did the initial part of their investigation that concluded it was a homicide and was seeking a confession out of her for her role in the murder.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP14 "Lead Detective's Conduct"Cross-examination began on lead detective Chelsey Koepsell. It came after the jury listened and watched the police interrogation of the defendant two days after Jorge Torres suffocated to death inside of a suitcase. Jurors learned of the police procedure in the early part of the murder investigation of Jorge Torres. Detective Koepsell recalled taking Sarah Boone's cellphone without her consent because there was incriminating evidence on it.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP15 "Defendant Takes The Stand"Sarah Boone took the stand in her own murder trial. It came after the prosecution rested their case against her for intentionally killing Jorge Torres, her boyfriend, she was living with. Jurors listened to the defendant give them the backstory of how she met Torres and began their intimate relationship. Domestic violence was her defense. But she testified that during the very hours Torres was suffocating in the suitcase she simply had enough wine and fell asleep.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP16 "Suitcase Carrying Death"I'm always afraid and always scared. That's what Sarah Boone told jurors on the witness stand. She tried to explain away the cell phone video she recorded while Jorge Torres was inside the suitcase pleading to get out because he couldn't breathe. Battered women's syndrome was a big part of her case. Boone testified that initially it was funny when her boyfriend was able to even fit inside that small suitcase. But then she claimed that she only left him in it because she feared for her life.
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.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP1 "Victim's Friends On The Stand"Jurors had been learning about the evidence against the defendant, Ali Abulaban. He was accused of the premeditated murder of his estranged wife, Ana, and her friend Rayburn Barron. Both were shot in the face at close range. A close friend of Ana Abulaban took the stand. He had insights in the marital drama of the Abulabans.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP2 "Best Friend Elaborates"According to her friend, physical, mental, and verbal abuse had been a part of Ana Abulaban's home life with her husband before she died. Jurors would learn more about the domestic violence allegations in this case, which the state claimed led to the death of Ana and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Julia Stuntz's emotional testimony elaborated on the physical and emotional abuse her friend endured in her marriage.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP3 "Julia Stuntz"The jury learned more about the issues in the relationship between the defendant and his wife, Ana. Months before she and her friend Rayburn Barron were killed, she was allegedly beaten, harassed, and even stalked by Ali. And she was forced to go to the police several times. The defense had questions for his wife's best friend. Julia Stuntz knew all about the drama between the two which included allegations of him trashing the apartment after he was kicked out, spying on her, and stalking her.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP4 "More Friends Speak Out"Another close friend of Ana Abulaban took the stand. Prosecutors wanted to portray the defendant, Ali Abulaban, as an abusive, jealous, out-of-control husband whose behavior led him to plot and kill his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Jurors heard from not one, but two close friends of Ana's who testified about the bruises on her face and arms allegedly caused by her estranged husband, Ali.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP5 "Ongoing Domestic Abuse"The allegations of abuse were crucial to the State's case against TikTok star-turned murder suspect Ali Abulaban. Before he was accused of shooting his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron, Ali was allegedly abusive toward Ana before their eventual separation. According to Ana's friends, she wanted to leave her husband. But she felt that she couldn't because divorce is discouraged in Filipino culture. Also, if she had divorced him, she could be deported, leaving her daughter with Ali.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP6 "Rayburn Barron's Friend"Jurors learned about the physical abuse allegations against Ali Abulaban, along with accusations that he stalked his estrange wife Ana, and even spied on her. He was accused of first-degree murder in her death and that of her friend, Rayburn Barron. Friends of both victims gave the jury context as to what was actually going on in the home of Ali and Ana Abulaban. She chose to separate. But in the end, Ana would be shot to death and Ali was accused of her murder.