A Florida woman who said she was playing a game of hide-and-seek with her boyfriend when she zipped him up in a suitcase where he later suffocated to death has been convicted of second-degree murder.

Sarah Boone, a 47-year-old resident of Winter Park, told police that she and her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., were drinking the evening of Feb. 23, 2020, when Torres voluntarily got inside the suitcase and that they were joking when she zipped it up.

They argued, and she went upstairs and went to sleep believing that he could get himself out, she told police, according to a criminal complaint. When she got up the next morning, she discovered that he was still inside the suitcase and had died.

Prosecutors said she knew that he could not get out of the suitcase on his own and caused his death. A jury found her guilty of second-degree murder on Friday.

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"I zipped him up. We thought it was funny and were joking about how he was small enough to fit inside of the suitcase," Boone told jurors. "We were laughing about it."

Boone said during her trial that she started filming on her cellphone and decided to have a conversation with Torres while he was confined in the suitcase so that she could express her feelings. Torres had abused her in the past, she alleged.

The approximately two-minute video was shown in the courtroom. In the video, Torres said repeatedly that he couldn't breathe, and Boone can be heard laughing.

"That's what you do when you choke me," Boone responded.

"That's on you," she responded another time Torres said he couldn't breathe from within the suitcase.

After she stopped filming, Boone said that she and Torres argued while he was still inside the suitcase, and things got heated. Torres threatened her, Boone said. She said she feared he was going to break out of the suitcase, and he was able to get his hand out. She said in court she feared he would hurt her if he got out of the suitcase and that he was angry. She grabbed a baseball bat and hit his hand to get it back inside.

Torres had bruising on his hand and contusions to his skull along with a "busted" lip during his autopsy, according to the criminal complaint against Boone and testimony in court.

Boone told jurors she didn't believe he could die in the suitcase and was not trying to kill him. She said when she woke up the next morning, she looked for him all throughout the apartment before looking and finding him still in the suitcase.

Boone faces up to life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced in early December, court records show.