According to prosecutors, Boone had zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, 42, inside a suitcase during a drunken game of hide-and-seek, hitting him with a bat, and leaving overnight where he died from asphyxiation. Prosecutors argued that Boone killed Torres with malicious intent and as an act of punishment.

Sarah Boone was sentenced to life in prison in an Orlando courtroom Monday afternoon for suffocating her boyfriend in a suitcase, bringing a nearly five-year legal saga to a close — for now.