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Florida Woman Locks Boyfriend in Suitcase and Leaves Him to Die · The Mind of a Man

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  Speaker 1: Stupid sarah that's my name don't wear it up.
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  Speaker 2: You zipped him in there yes thought he would be funny.
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  Speaker 1: A little it was we both were laughing about it
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  Speaker 1: and then i fell asleep sarah i can't breathe that's
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  Speaker 1: on you sarah i can't breathe it's.
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  Speaker 3: On you i did not not intentionally kill him.
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  Speaker 4: This is 42-year-old Sarah Boone, who recorded herself committing a
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  Speaker 4: crime so heinous and so unusual that it caught the
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  Speaker 4: world by storm.
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  Speaker 5: Accused of zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase, then leaving
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  Speaker 5: him to suffocate to death. And then turn around and
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  Speaker 5: film a man while he is struggling to breathe. As
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  Speaker 5: she leaves her lover to die, to die in a suitcase.
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  Speaker 4: Police in Winter Park, Florida were quite familiar with Sarah
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  Speaker 4: Boone and her on-again, off-again boyfriend of approximately three years,
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  Speaker 4: George Torres. Sarah had grown up in Orlando, Florida and
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  Speaker 4: graduated from Edgewater High School in 1996. Little has been
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  Speaker 4: revealed about her youth, though according to her psychologist at
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  Speaker 4: her eventual trial, she had a tumultuous childhood and an
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  Speaker 4: unhealthy relationship with her parents. Despite this, from photos and
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  Speaker 4: video of her early life, she seemed to be a
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  Speaker 4: bright girl. whole life ahead of her. In 2006, she
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  Speaker 4: married her first husband, Brian Boone, and had her son, Lucas,
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  Speaker 4: soon after. According to Brian, their relationship had been less
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  Speaker 4: than ideal. He said that Sarah had a severe alcohol
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  Speaker 4: addiction following the birth of her son, resulting in her
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  Speaker 4: spending many nights at nearby bars until three in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: In addition, there was another big problem brought on when
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  Speaker 4: she drank.
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  Speaker 1: You said when she drinks that she can get physically aggressive.
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  Speaker 6: She can. I mean, she did it to me a
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  Speaker 6: lot where she'd hit me and stuff like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: she's tiny.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean hit, though?
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  Speaker 2: Like, open hand smack you or, like, try and punch you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she'd punch me. I mean, more arms. She many,
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  Speaker 6: many times would use her claws. I mean, scratches on
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  Speaker 6: my neck at times, on my arms. I mean, things
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  Speaker 6: like that where she'd dig with her claws. Okay. I...
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  Speaker 6: The two separated in mid-2016.
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  Speaker 4: According to Brian, this was due to Sarah's infidelity, violence,
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  Speaker 4: and her inability to quit drinking. Prior to their separation,
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  Speaker 4: she was already romantically seeing George Torres, an artist and
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  Speaker 4: father of three from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following the divorce, Brian
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  Speaker 4: bought Sarah out of their family house, and she moved
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  Speaker 4: into this townhome with George. Though Brian and Sarah had
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  Speaker 4: split custody of their son, Brian told investigators that she
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  Speaker 4: wasn't the most responsible parent. Despite their divorce, Brian continued
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  Speaker 4: to be a refuge for Sarah. His alimony supported her lifestyle,
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  Speaker 4: and for at least the two years prior to 2020,
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  Speaker 4: she wasn't employed. George maintained a job at a local
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  Speaker 4: Ace Hardware, but at the time of his death, the
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  Speaker 4: shop had closed, leaving him without a source of income.
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  Speaker 4: When the couple fought, as they frequently did, Sarah would
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  Speaker 4: go to Brian for money to bail George out of jail.
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  Speaker 4: Both the police and Brian were used to getting calls
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  Speaker 4: from Sarah. But the calls they received on the afternoon
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  Speaker 4: of February 24th, 2020 was absolutely out of the norm,
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  Speaker 4: even for the volatile couple.
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  Speaker 6: 9-1-1, what is the location of the emergency?
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  Speaker 8: 4748 France Court, apartment 3. 4748, what's the street name? France, F-R-A-N-T-V.
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  Speaker 8: And the apartment number? 3. Is this a police or medical?
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  Speaker 8: My boyfriend is dead. Okay, send a line for the
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  Speaker 8: fire department. Do not hang up.
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  Speaker 6: Alright, great. Now tell me exactly what happened there.
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  Speaker 8: My boyfriend and I were playing last night and I
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  Speaker 8: put him in a case and we were playing. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Like kind of hide and seek kind of thing, so...
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  Speaker 8: I fell asleep, and I woke up, and he was
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  Speaker 8: dead in the suitcase, so I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, what's your apartment number?
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  Speaker 8: Three.
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  Speaker 6: Apartment three?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, like he had, like, blood coming out of his mouth,
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  Speaker 8: and I don't know if, like, he had, like, an
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  Speaker 8: aneurysm or something.
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  Speaker 6: Right, okay, all right, okay. Listen, we're getting help out there, too.
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  Speaker 6: All right, okay. Okay. Right now? Okay, yeah, listen, we're
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  Speaker 6: on our way out there. You're at 407-716- 8-6-8-4. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: is he hanging from somewhere or what, ma'am?
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  Speaker 8: No, I pulled him out of the suitcase. I tried
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  Speaker 8: giving him CPR.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so he was in a suitcase?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, how old is the boyfriend, ma'am? 42-year-old man. All right. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: we're sending help out there. Sheriff's Office, are you out there? Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to me. Okay. I just need to confirm this.
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  Speaker 6: I understand. I just need to confirm this. Is he
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  Speaker 6: awake at all? Is he conscious at all?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 6: He's purple. Is he breathing?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I need you to get him on the floor and
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  Speaker 6: flatten his back for me, okay?
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  Speaker 8: I did. I did. I tried giving him CPR.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 8: I tried giving him CPR.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, well, we're... He's purple now, but nothing happened.
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  Speaker 8: He's purple.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, listen to me. This is a defibrillator, but I
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  Speaker 6: need you to get it for me, okay?
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 6: Do you have an AED available?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 6: All right, are you right by him now?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 6: Are you right by him now?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, lay him flat on his... Okay, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, listen. So, listen,
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  Speaker 6: is he cold and stiff?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Well, he's not necessarily cold, but he's stiff.
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  Speaker 6: Right, okay. And he's purple. All right, listen to me.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to me. I want you to lay him flat
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  Speaker 6: on his back for me on the floor. I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 6: Removing the pillows, okay.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I did.
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  Speaker 6: All right, okay.
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  Speaker 8: He's stiff and purple.
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  Speaker 6: Right, okay, listen. Okay, man, that's fine. We're still going
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  Speaker 6: to do compressions on him, okay?
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  Speaker 9: All right?
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  Speaker 6: Place the heel of your hand on his breastbone, right
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  Speaker 6: inside of the chest, right between the nipples.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Put your other hand on top of that hand.
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  Speaker 8: Betty, I'm telling you. Just by looking at him, you
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  Speaker 8: can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Please!
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  Speaker 8: Okay, he just gurgled.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, listen to me. Alright, I want you to
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  Speaker 6: place the heel of your hand, okay, right between his chest,
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  Speaker 6: right between his breastbones. Put your other hand on top
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  Speaker 6: of that hand. We want to pump his chest to
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  Speaker 6: me hard and fast. Go into this twice per second.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing it again. Okay, no, no, just keep on pumping.
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  Speaker 6: That's all you need to do for me. Keep on
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  Speaker 6: pumping his chest for me. I don't need you to
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  Speaker 6: stop and talk or anything. I just want you to
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  Speaker 6: count out loud for me, okay?
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  Speaker 8: One, two, three, four, five.
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  Speaker 4: Sarah's behavior immediately struck the dispatcher as odd. People do
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  Speaker 4: unreasonable things when they're in a crisis, yet the fact
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  Speaker 4: that Sarah wasn't out of breath and was continuously talking
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  Speaker 4: through compressions was a red flag. Even for seasoned EMTs,
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  Speaker 4: delivering CPR is an exhausting process. On top of that,
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  Speaker 4: her statement that she'd already attempted CPR prior to calling
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  Speaker 4: 911 didn't add up with her description of what was
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  Speaker 4: happening at the scene. If she really had given CPR,
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  Speaker 4: the gurgle she claimed to have heard would have happened
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  Speaker 4: as she was giving him his first series of compressions.
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  Speaker 4: There were enough red flags waving without even addressing the
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  Speaker 4: biggest signal that Sarah wasn't being entirely truthful. The fact
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  Speaker 4: that her story made little sense, and that she was
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  Speaker 4: so adamant to repeatedly state that they were playing and
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  Speaker 4: having a good time. Police rushed to the scene, where
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  Speaker 4: things rapidly grew even stranger.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Next time, the property manager, I don't know, has to
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  Speaker 1: go tell him really quick, or just so he knows
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  Speaker 1: what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Where is he at?
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  Speaker 8: He walked that way.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take care of that for.
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  Speaker 8: You, okay?
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  Speaker 6: I had a cigarette.
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  Speaker 8: I'll get it for you, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Wait one second, okay?
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  Speaker 8: I really need.
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  Speaker 4: As you can see, Sarah's concerns are about everything under
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  Speaker 4: the sun, except for her dead boyfriend in the condo
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  Speaker 4: that they share together. First responders on the scene later
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  Speaker 4: commented that Sarah's attitude was unsettling and that her tears
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  Speaker 4: appeared to them to be forced and unnatural.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? I just got here, so fill me in.
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  Speaker 1: No problem. He and I are putting a puzzle together.
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  Speaker 1: We've been doing some artwork together.
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  Speaker 2: You are putting a puzzle together?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we have a puzzle that we started in there.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We've been doing art, trying to take the stuff off
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  Speaker 1: the wall to make new art put up there, like
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  Speaker 1: having a good time with one another.
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  Speaker 8: But we're drinking.
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  Speaker 1: We had a bottle of wine last night. Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: then it's like we decided to play hide and seek, right?
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So he gets in the suitcase, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Who is this guy?
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  Speaker 3: That's my ex-boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: My former husband.
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  Speaker 2: How did he... He lived here with you guys?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 1: I called him over here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So then he came over here.
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  Speaker 2: Here, let's talk in private, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I called you guys. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 8: Tried giving you CPR.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is, is.
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  Speaker 2: I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 1: I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 2: When did you do CPR? This morning.
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  Speaker 1: When I found it.
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  Speaker 8: Before you called?
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  Speaker 9: Yes!
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  Speaker 8: It's 1 o'clock right now.
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  Speaker 1: I tried... I was awake, but I actually got out
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  Speaker 1: of the bed at like 12, 30-ish, whatever. So I
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  Speaker 1: came downstairs, and I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the suitcase still.
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  Speaker 8: That's when I found him, and I took him out,
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  Speaker 8: and I tried doing CPR, and then I called him,
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  Speaker 8: and then I.
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  Speaker 1: Called you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Did he get here before the fire department got here?
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  Speaker 9: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Your husband?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Where did he live at?
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  Speaker 8: Right down the street.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So you were playing, and who zipped him up?
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  Speaker 1: I did, but then I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay. You're okay.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out what happened.
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  Speaker 7: I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's suffocated or if he had
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  Speaker 1: an aneurysm or a heart attack or what.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of medical conditions did he have?
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  Speaker 1: None that I know of.
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  Speaker 2: None that you know of. None that I know of.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't take any medicine last night?
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  Speaker 1: No, no. All we had was a bottle of wine. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: just a bottle of wine.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Doing puzzle artwork. Then we decided to play hide and seek. Mm-hmm. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: the responders on the scene are confused by Sarah's description
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  Speaker 1: of events.
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  Speaker 4: She actually called Brian prior to calling the police. According
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  Speaker 4: to him, Sarah attempted to get him to come to
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  Speaker 4: the house, but after seeing George's legs on the floor,
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  Speaker 4: he told her he wasn't comfortable coming in and stepped outside.
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  Speaker 4: He told her to call the police. Once again, people
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  Speaker 4: do strange things when they're panicking, but Sarah's behavior here
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  Speaker 4: has struck many as something much worse. Cold and calculating.
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  Speaker 4: Many have speculated that Sarah was attempting to get Brian
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  Speaker 4: to help cover up what had happened. Regardless of that
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  Speaker 4: being her intention or not, her lack of urgency to
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  Speaker 4: call 911 for the boyfriend who she claims to love
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  Speaker 4: is concerning. And her timeline gets even more unsettling.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know that I was in bed probably
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  Speaker 1: by like, what, 1230? Okay. Well, I went upstairs at least,
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  Speaker 1: and I fell asleep. Yeah. Forgetting that he was in
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  Speaker 1: the suitcase.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys were playing the hide and go seek?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And at some point you put him in the suitcase?
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  Speaker 1: No, he got in the suitcase. So he thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be funny to be put in the suitcase. So
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  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well, I'm going to joke with
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  Speaker 1: you and I'll zip you up and make him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: squirm a little bit, whatever it is. But then I
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  Speaker 1: fell asleep. I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Where was the suitcase?
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  Speaker 1: Right where it is. You got in it.
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  Speaker 2: Right down there?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You zipped him in there.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Thought it would be funny, a little joke.
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  Speaker 1: It was. We both were laughing about it. And then
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  Speaker 1: I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you fall asleep at?
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  Speaker 1: Upstairs. Upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: In your bedroom?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Totally forgetting that he was in the suitcase still.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And then you came back downstairs?
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  Speaker 1: This morning, or this afternoon, yes, when I got up.
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  Speaker 8: Around 12, 30-ish.
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  Speaker 1: I was awake, but I totally forgot that he was
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  Speaker 1: in the suitcase. He can tell you there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that I, slash we, have been going through. Jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Life, all that good stuff, so.
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  Speaker 2: I just totally began to do CPR on him.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: About what time this morning did you start doing that?
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  Speaker 1: No, it was the afternoon. It was afternoon because I
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  Speaker 1: was awake. But then I finally decided to come downstairs
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  Speaker 1: at like 1230 ish.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I forgot he was in his
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  Speaker 1: suitcase and he wasn't moving. Nothing was happening. So I
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  Speaker 1: unzipped and unzipped and took him out and started doing
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  Speaker 1: CPR on him. He was on his way over here.
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  Speaker 1: I called you when he got here.
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  Speaker 2: Once he got here, you called him?
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  Speaker 9: Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And, like, air was coming out, and he was gurgling,
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  Speaker 1: but I could just tell by looking at him.
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  Speaker 2: But you knew how to do CPR. You were doing
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  Speaker 2: that on your own?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then the person that was on the phone with
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  Speaker 1: me also, I counted with him doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And he's got no medical? He doesn't take any medication?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know medical-wise. I know he doesn't take
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  Speaker 1: any medications whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing, like I said... I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: alcohol had anything to do with it, but we had
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  Speaker 1: a bottle of wine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 6: Cheers.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to sit back down because I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Want you to... Can I have one more sip of water, please?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Go, go.
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  Speaker 4: Law enforcement are well aware of many tells that a
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  Speaker 4: person is being untruthful. In this case, Sarah is displaying
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  Speaker 4: several of them. For starters, she proposed several ways that
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  Speaker 4: George could have died inside the suitcase that relieve her
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  Speaker 4: of any guilt. Twice, She's mentioned him potentially having a
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  Speaker 4: heart attack, despite his relatively young age and lack of
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  Speaker 4: any pre-existing conditions. Then, she does another thing that strikes
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  Speaker 4: investigators as wildly suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: So, she said that I needed to tell you guys
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  Speaker 1: about his family. Like, who do I talk to about that?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do that once we walk through and see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to.
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  Speaker 6: We're not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be here for a while. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a while.
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid for my life.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to know that.
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  Speaker 6: I am afraid for my life.
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  Speaker 1: His family has never liked me. I'm the blue-eyed white devil,
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  Speaker 1: is what they call me. So they've never liked me.
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  Speaker 1: They've never taken me in.
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  Speaker 8: They've never accepted me.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'll put it that way. Have you called any of them?
• 15:28
  Speaker 8: We talked to his daughters yesterday.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: No, I mean... Like, about this?
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: No.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Okay. So no one's going to know until we will
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: be making that notification.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: They're going to kill me.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Do they live local?
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: They're down the road.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: They're going to kill me.
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: Kids are going to kill me in Philadelphia. They're going
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: to kill me.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: This was not intentional.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: And they're not going to understand that.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: They're not going to accept it.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to do a thorough investigation, and we will take.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: We will definitely... Make sure that you don't feel scared when.
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: We leave here.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: For almost the entirety of Sarah's interactions with law enforcement,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: she made statements about George's family threatening her and wanting
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: to kill her. The reality, however, was something else entirely.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: But it was basically verbal threats that she would give
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: every time that George would call his children.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: At the time of George's death, his youngest daughter was
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: just 13. He had an amicable split with his wife
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: of more than a decade, and he was frequently in
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: contact with his children. However, according to his family, Sarah
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: restricted his access to them using these verbal threats. And
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: a look at her text messages shows just how unstable
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: her relationship was with his family. That being said, as
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: both the defense and the prosecution reviewed her text messages
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: at trial, there were no visible threats made from his family,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: though some harsh words were exchanged. On June 11, 2019,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: during one of several breakup periods, Sarah sent this message
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: to George's mother. You tell your son he's not welcome here.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Taken off the lease and bound. Worthless. Don't show his
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: ugly f * * * ed up face around here again.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Police will be called. Ask him if it was worth it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: And riding my bike he has. Stay Hispanic. That's all
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: you are. And he can't watch the f * *
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: * ing porn he wants to from the phone mom
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: gave him. A few days prior, this exchange took place
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: with his oldest daughter, Anna. You're rude as hell, but okay.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Your dad is a POS, but okay. At least you
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: know and will stop calling.
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: Feudal.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: GTFO is you're a piece of shit, but that's God's business,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: not mine. Have a good day, c * * t. Or,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: since you like to switch up, I'll do the same.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Don't text me back either, fake a * *. Oh no,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I think you mixed me up with your mom. Going
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: to sleep. That's what you do all day to me.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Make me bored and sleepy. Be brave.
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: Alone.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I like it. In addition, the family has claimed multiple
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: times that they've never referred to Sarah as the Blue
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Eyes White Dragon like she would continue to claim throughout
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: the investigation. As far as the investigation into Sarah's written
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: communication with George's family, no threats were ever made against
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: her in any way. As the scene was being cleared,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Sarah willingly provided her phone to detectives to look over.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: She told them that she had been terrified of George
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: for most of their relationship and that he was cruel, violent,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: and dominated her life. A look at her cell phone, however,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: painted a much less black-and-white picture than one toxic partner
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: and one innocent, blameless one. But it seems Sarah didn't
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: think of that before heading into her interrogation, or about
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: what the autopsy would show.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: So, this morning we went to his autopsy, and we
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: were informed of some injuries that he has by the doctor. So,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I wonder... So, he's got.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Scratch marks to his back. I know what that's from.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: And it's called a contusion.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Do you know what a contusion is?
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: So, like, basically you're.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Getting hit and then, you know, you get a mark
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: from it, you'll get bruising, like someone hit you or
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: something like that. It's called a contusion. So he had
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: some injuries to his left shoulder.
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: He had.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: He had a cut near his lip. We could see
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: his mouth was a little swollen.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: I haven't laid a hand on him. Okay.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Also, too, he fell off my son's bike.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: So I don't know.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: And he's notorious for running into the wall or the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: hall tree.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: What about the scratches? Because there's also sex?
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, because there's also like a scratch on like the
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: back of his neck. Like kind of like going, but
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: it's like.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Going straight across.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: I have no idea what that's from.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And they're all recent. Like, they occurred recently. It wasn't
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: something that occurred post or that occurred a week ago
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: or two days.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Ago, three days ago.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: They definitely occurred, you know, the night leading up to
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: when he was.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: In all honesty, all honesty, we have not.
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: Gotten into it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: He also had, like on the left side of his forehead,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: he had basically bruising and on like his head and skull.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I have no idea. As if something hit him. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: have not touched him. I have not touched him. I
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: have not touched him. Then how would you get those injuries?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Tell me and we'll both know.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Sarah has only been in the interrogation room for four minutes,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: and she's already gotten so defensive that she's raising her voice.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: But the detectives have plenty of evidence that some violence occurred.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: The medical examiner detailed blunt force trauma injuries to the
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: forehead and mouth, on the left side of his back,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: and on George's forearms. All of the injuries appeared to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: have happened around the same time. After about half an
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: hour of Sarah rambling about George's ex-wife, his lack of employment,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: and her relationship's recent stability, the detectives have something to
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: show her.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I have something that I want to show
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you that we found, and it was from your phone.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Can you see it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Can you move it around a little.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: Bit?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: No, I don't remember that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: For everything you've.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: Done to me.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: This is the video that detectives are showing Sarah. Though
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: she seems more concerned about the dying battery than the
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: footage of her taunting her dying boyfriend, this is the
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: footage they discovered from the night of George's murder. Be warned,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: it's disturbing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Sour.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: For everything you've done to me.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Sour.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: For everything you've done to me.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Sour. F * * * you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Sour. F * * * you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Sour.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: Stupid.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Sour.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: That's my name. Don't wear it up.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Sarah, I can't breathe, babe.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Seriously.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when you do when you choke me.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: Sarah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Sarah.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Sarah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Sarah, I can't breathe, babe.
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: That's on you.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Sarah, I can't breathe.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It's on mute.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Sarah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Riggle around some.
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: I want to get a video for it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Extra.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Because I got this. Sarah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: Riggle around some.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Sarah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: Sarah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Sarah. I can't breathe, babe.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: That's what I feel like when you drink on me.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Sarah.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Please, Sarah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You should probably shut up.
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: Sarah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Shh.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I love you so much.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: Sarah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: The disturbing nature of the footage is apparently too much
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: for Sarah, despite being the person who filmed it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Let me just grab something. I was just simply asking
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: because you had a look on your face when she
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: asked you if you've ever done that before.
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: You look kind of shocked.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: No.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Why did you say it like that? Like, I don't
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: think you all understand who I am.
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: Well, tell me.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've always been a straight-A student. I am
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: an outstanding mother to my son.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: I excel at everything.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I would not do that. You wouldn't lock somebody in
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: a suitcase?
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't completely lock it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: I mean, I opened it with one finger.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I left enough in there for him to get out.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And I wasn't planning on going upstairs and going to sleep. Okay.
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: No, it's just the.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: Way you said it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You guys are scaring me.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Well, we just want you to watch this. It came
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: from your phone. Don't you want to know what's on it?
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Is it long?
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Because I don't know how much I can.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Take.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: I don't know how much I can take.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Do I have to watch this?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I continuously throw up. I don't sleep.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: I don't want to see it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: That's okay. Well, it's on your phone. And you can
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: either explain it or we take it for what it is.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah. We're just trying to give you the opportunity to
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: tell us what's going on.
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: That's it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's that long?
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: Two minutes.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: For everything you've done to me.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: For everything you've done to me.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Fuck you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: That's you.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Your voice.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: Sarah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: That's my name.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: Don't wear it up.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Sarah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: I can't fucking breathe, babe.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Sarah. Yeah, that's when you do when you choke me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Sarah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Sarah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: I don't want to watch that, please.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Sarah. Last time we talked to you, you said that
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: You put.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Him in the suitcase. He had two fingers hanging out.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: I flipped him over.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I flipped him over, and that's where it was. There's
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: two different videos and a still picture where, yeah, it
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: shows you flipping him in different positions and him saying
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that he can't breathe and you saying, fuck you. So
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: this is upside down. So in order for him to
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: have gotten into it, it was flipped up.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: It was flipped up normal. Yeah. Like as if you're
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: packing something. So this is upside down.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Guys, this is killing me right now.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: But that wasn't the end of the evidence that law
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: enforcement found on Sarah's phone. As the interrogation pressed on,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Sarah began to claim that George was cruel to her.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: But the footage on her phone painted a very different picture.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I told you not to step foot in the bedroom.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: So what do you do?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: In January, just a month before George's death, Sarah recorded
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: this on her phone.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Are you going to be nice tonight?
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I promise you.
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: Go for a walk.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: By myself?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: No.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Go for a walk. No, I'm just going to chill out.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: I don't want to hear it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: You drink too much and you're upset.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I don't drink too much.
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: Go get your f * * * ing card shaped.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: What are.
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: You talking about?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Your retard paper.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Don't hit women.
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: Have I hit you? No.
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: So where.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Are you going with this?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I'm turning this off.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: Tell me whatever it is you have off.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: I don't get it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: You can film me, take a picture of whatever you want.
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: I'm not doing anything to you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: No, I never do.
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: I'm not doing anything to.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: You, Sarah.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: That's my name.
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: Don't wear it out.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: Salita.
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: No, I never do. That's my name.
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: Don't wear it out.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Both parties are clearly intoxicated in the footage, but to detectives,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: it was a clear sign that the toxic behavior was
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: coming from both parties. As they scrolled back in our
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: camera history, even more came to light. Like this recording
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: taken on December 29th, 2019. So you remember this?
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: So you remember this.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Are you drunk right now?
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: How much alcohol did you drink? You're slurring your words.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: You're sleeping up against the door right now.
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: Did I.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: Not tell you to not bother me? So what is
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: it you come up and do?
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: What time is it right now?
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: It's 1.20 a.m. I don't mind you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: I haven't bothered you since then.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I just spoke to you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: But didn't I tell you before at 9.30 to not
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: bother me at all?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Because why? Because I've been up since 4 a.m. since
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: yesterday when you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: F * * * ed with me.
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I want it to be documented that I'm leaning you
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: which means that you're getting out. You're getting out.
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: You're getting out. And the reason why you.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: Were living downstairs and weak enough to get drunk was because.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: You don't give a shit about me.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: You don't listen to what I say.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Special things that I keep on my.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Front page of my phone so I remember to tell
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: you about it because of how special and fun it is.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I always bother you.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: I always bore you.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: You don't listen to me.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Yesterday was my first day at work, remember?
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: And I ended up 90% hearing about your day and
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: 10% about mine.
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: You don't bother me or anything.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Sometimes you just overwhelm me.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: That's the problem.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: You overwhelm me. By telling you.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: About my first day at work?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: No, dude.
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: You just overwhelm me about every other day at school.
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: It's not just, you know, first day at work.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: So I'm overwhelming you by telling you about the fourth
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: highest paid baseball player?
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: That's a client of ours?
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I'm not starstruck.
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: I don't.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Even know who the guy is.
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: I don't either.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: So the reason why, so you fully admit now that
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: you didn't care and you did brush me off in the.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Car, midway sentence, because you're not into baseball.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I want to go to sleep.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: Go downstairs. I'm leaving you and I'm going to try
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: and cancel plane tickets. Because I don't do special things
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: for people like you. that are doing this, like, to.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Me, after I asked you, at 1.21 in the morning,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: I wanted to be asleep.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: I wanted to stay asleep, which is why.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: I got out of the bed at 8.30. I told
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: you not to step foot in the bedroom. So what
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: do you do?
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: Nonetheless, you're drunk.
• 33:17
  Speaker 11: The amount of alcohol, I know how much was alcohol.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I know how much was alcohol.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: That's why you're I could smell you in the bed
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: before you actually got me up. I can smell you
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: from here.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: You're despicable.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: How am I despicable?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Am I even doing anything?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Leave me alone.
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Sarah, repeatedly screaming at George while he's sitting on the ground,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: almost too intoxicated to sit up, provides some important retrospective
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: insight into incidents that had occurred in the history of
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: their relationship. Like this incident on June 15th, 2019, when
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Sarah called the police on George for allegedly hurting her.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not getting arrested.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: No, I'm getting a statement from you. You're not being arrested.
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: Okay, look, I'll come over and see you in like five.
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: Come on, miss. Thanks, ladies.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: They know.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Let's get this done.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: They know.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: Ma'am, would you come in here so we can do
• 34:44
  Speaker 11: your statement, please? And stop this.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Sit down at the table and let's get your statement
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: filled out.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't believe I would ever do it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I'm going to shut the door.
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  Speaker 8: Is that okay?
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: This kind of laughter and taunting isn't the behavior you'd
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: expect from someone who claims to have been attacked by
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: their boyfriend. And her statement that George didn't believe she'd
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: do this doesn't hold a lot of water. At this point,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: the two had five arrests on their record for domestic
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: violence against one another over the course of their relationship.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: and had split up and gotten back together countless times.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: In fact, a bit over a week before this, on
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: June 2nd, the two were separated. Angry that he refused
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: to come visit her, Sarah ripped up George's birth certificate
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: and texted him a photo, even going so far as
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: to say, look what you made me do. On June 18th,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: law enforcement was called back to Sarah's house to find
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: George there, despite the fact that a no-contact order had
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: been issued.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: What's up, bro?
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: It's the guys!
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: It is?
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  Speaker 1: So what happened?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on now? Did this just happen?
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: No.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, I see. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: We're in his hand.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: We dropped it.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: So who called?
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Who called?
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: So what's happened? They're asking you, not me.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: You speak to him, I'll speak to you in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Come here.
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  Speaker 11: So, you're guessing it's all for a reason, right?
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 5: You realize it's here, right?
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 6: I had a drink.
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  Speaker 3: I had a drink.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: I had a drink. I had a drink.
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  Speaker 4: George was detained for violating the no contact order, even
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: though he maintained that he was invited over the house
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: by Sarah to hang out, and that Sarah claimed the same. Yet,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: It was Sarah who called 911 to inform police that
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: he was at her house. To many, it seems like
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: the entire thing was a ploy to get George in
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: more trouble. All the while, Sarah appears to have been
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: trying to get herself out of any trouble. Like this
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: footage found on her phone of her coaching George what
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: to say at trial regarding an altercation the two got into.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: I'm going to go to court, and I'm going to
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: tell the judge. Listen, my fiancée has nothing to do
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: with it.
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  Speaker 6: It's all my fault.
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  Speaker 9: We were both drinking and got out of hand. It's
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: an isolated situation. It has never happened before. I love
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: my fiance. She's a good woman. Never been in trouble
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: in her life. She has a seven-year-old son that she
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: loves and cherishes. She has two dogs.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: One is blind.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: One is deaf.
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: She goes around and she's driving and sees an animal
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: that's injured. She'll stop They don't know the street, no
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: matter what kind of traffic it is, just to make
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: sure that that animal doesn't get injured any more than
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: where it already has. We both love each other. We
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: both live together. Yes, every relationship has their arguments. But
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: we are not the type of people that you've got
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: to portray.
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  Speaker 11: Us to.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Be.
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  Speaker 11: She especially.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Especially her.
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: So please, if you can, dismiss this case.
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: Drop it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: She is not the type of person.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Good person.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Footage found and their arrest history, along with Sarah's interrogation,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: gave detectives their own theories on their relationship. Though the
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: relationship was volatile and clearly violent, Sarah was also an
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: aggressor in it. It's important to note that before the
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: footage was shown to Sarah, she had not once mentioned
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: to detectives any fear she had of George or any
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: violence committed by him. When the case went to trial, however,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: she presented a completely different story about what took place
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: the night of George's death. At trial, she reportedly spoke
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: about George's violence toward her. She maintained her story that
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: she zipped George up in the suitcase as a joke,
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: but claimed that while in the suitcase, George became irate.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: She was fearful for her life.
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  Speaker 10: Between these two movies, how did he express his anger
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: with you?
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  Speaker 1: He told me that I was going to die.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: Now this is happening after he's already told you several
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: times he cannot breathe in the suitcase, correct?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 10: And he's been in there for whatever brief amount of
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: time it took you to zip him up and the
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: laughter stops and then you go over and begin to film, correct?
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Correct.
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  Speaker 10: And your purpose of filming is to kind of teach
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: him a lesson. This is your chance to say something
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: to him when he can't say anything back to you, correct?
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: No.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Then correct me.
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: There was no lesson to be learned.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: It was just I wanted.
• 40:59
  Speaker 11: Him to.
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  Speaker 5: Try to understand how I felt so maybe he could
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: progress in being a better person.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: The next day.
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: So you wanted him to understand how you felt in
• 41:14
  Speaker 10: the past, and that's not teaching a lesson?
• 41:18
  Speaker 11: I just wanted him to understand.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Ultimately, these claims seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Because after just an hour of deliberation, the jury came
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: back with their verdict.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Will the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: the second degree as charged in the affirmation?
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: It's worth noting that Sarah was offered a plea deal
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: that would have allowed her to serve less than 15
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: years in prison.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Instead.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: she rejected the deal in favor of a trial. On
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: December 2nd, 2024, she was sentenced to life in prison.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: In her closing statements, she told the jury, I forgive
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: myself for falling in love with a monster.