Sarah Boone, 47, faces a charge of second-degree murder, accused of leaving her boyfriend — Jorge Torres Jr., 42 — to die of asphyxiation in a zipped-up suitcase in 2020 during what she called a drunken game of hide-and-seek. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.

The murder trial of accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone got underway in earnest Friday — after 4 1/2 years of delays and four days spent picking a jury — with Boone under significant pressure to take the stand in her own defense.

Sarah Boone is expected to testify on Tuesday in the second-degree murder trial against her. She is charged in the February 2020 death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, who was found dead inside a zipped suitcase.