This is a true crime in real time update from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast.

I'm Tony Bruske. Let me ask you this. How do you explain someone's behavior when everything they do,

everything they say, seems more like the thinking of a child than that of a grown adult?

Is it innocence, naivety? Or is it something much darker,

an immaturity that masks the capacity for real cruelty? That's exactly what we're trying to

understand today as we dig into the story of Sarah Boone, a woman accused of zipping her boyfriend, Hork Torres Jr., into a suitcase after a night of drinking.

Sarah says it was all a game, hide-and-seek gone wrong.

She says she simply fell asleep.

But here's the thing.

While Torres was still trapped inside, Boone was recording videos on her phone,

videos where she's laughing, taunting him, and ignoring his desperate cries for air.

What kind of mindset leads to a decision like that?

And perhaps more importantly, what comes after?

You might expect remorse, regret, some kind of understanding of the gravity of the

situation. Instead, Sarah's focus in court has been snacks. That's right. Candy, chips, and juice pouches.

She even asked the judge if someone from the court could bring her cookies. It makes you wonder,

how much of Sarah's behavior is tied to trauma, or is it something deeper? Emotional regression?

Is she thinking like a child trapped in the body of an adult? Or is this all just an elaborate

performance? An attempt to minimize her actions?

This is where things get complicated.

And that's why this case has everyone scratching their heads.

On top of it all, her defense team plans to argue that Boone is a victim herself,

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