going to happen. i also do it even if we're like in the car together and she's like, oh, i want to pay. i'm like, okay, but i'm still going to get out and pump your gas for you. like, i don't want her to touch anything gas related. and that's right. and then i ask for it too. yeah, most of the time, scrape the dead bugs off. yeah. he's thinking, i gotta do this for my wife. i know, really, i do. all right, you guys, thank you very much to our panel. that does it for like it or not. remember we would love to hear some of your potential topics for the i'm anna garcia. right now on true crime news. >> the terror i can't breathe. that's on you zipped into a suitcase and left to die. >> the trial begins in the shocking case of sarah boone. >> he thought it would be funny to be put in the suitcase. but then i fell asleep. >> did she callously murder her boyfriend? i didn't mean to leave him there. or was it self-defense? she was

psychologically and physically abused by mr. torres. questions the jury will have to answer as the alleged suitcase killer faces justice. he has 8.2 million followers on tiktok. i said social media star mr. prada now under arrest in connection to the murder of a well-known baton rouge therapist. plus 600,000 pain pills prescribed to patients dead and an undercover sting to bring down a deadly doctor feelgood. >> what type of meds and how much does it cost? >> your daily source for true crime starts right now. hi everyone and thanks for joining us. we begin with an update on an almost unbelievable case that we brought you right here on true crime news. sarah boone, the alleged suitcase killer, is headed to court to stand trial. her ninth. yes, you heard that right. her ninth attorney will try to convince a jury that she

didn't mean to kill him when she zipped him up in a piece of luggage that became like a tomb. sarah, i can't breathing. >> that's on you. >> she captured the entire event on her own cell phone, and it's disturbing. >> sarah, it's on you. >> now. 46 year old single mom sarah boone is finally facing trial on second degree murder charges for zippering. her boyfriend, george torres junior, inside the luggage that ended up suffocating him. i can't 3-3 seranthony. >> yeah, that's when you do and you choke me. >> it all happened. apparently, after the couple was playing a strange game of hide and seek. >> he thought it would be funny to be put in the suitcase, so i was like, okay, well, i'm going to joke with you. but then i

fell asleep. >> but prosecutors say this was no accident. they hope to prove their claim that sarah had a depraved mind without regard for jorge's life. and his death was a pattern of violence between them. in fact, five years ago, torres was arrested for domestic battery against sarah, three times. and earlier, boone was arrested for strangling and hitting torres in a dispute where police were unable to determine who was the primary aggressor. >> the video is a big issue in the case. >> now jim owens, sarah's 9-3 defense attorney, says that despite her own claims to police that jorge's death was unintentional. i didn't mean to leave him there. >> that's what i'm trying to tell you. >> but she's also claiming his death was an act of self-defense. she was psychologically and physically abused by mr. torres.

>> how is your purported defense applicable? >> legally? >> last week, judge michael kraynick did his best to keep a trial date on track, shutting down a request by sarah for a professional hair and makeup artist for her court appearances. and with that, trial, will proceed. >> you know, i had a reputation of taking the most complex cases of dealing with difficult clients. >> in august, sarah boone wrote to our true crime news producer saying, the world has been having fun with my case since day one. i am nothing more than an oddity to be jeered at and joked about. the surprise is that i keep walking out of the ring in one piece, and a smile on my face. joining me now to discuss this case, former prosecutor and host of the true crime news sidebar podcast, josh

ritter. josh, thanks for being here. it's always good to see you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> sarah boone is claiming that this is self-defense, but originally she said it was just an accident. we were playing a drinking game. >> well, her defense is now tried to combine self-defense with this idea of battered spouse or battered woman syndrome, and saying that because of this cycle of abuse that was taking place in that home, she was constantly in fear. but how do you explain that when you were speaking to police, both through that body cam and later on at the station that you never mentioned this fear that you are now claiming was the overwhelming reason as to why you didn't spare this man's life. he was begging to be let out of that suitcase. she was the only one in the position to do anything about it, and she was laughing and videotaping him while it was happening. sarah. >> stupid. >> the fact that she videotaped it and it's so disturbing. i can't imagine a jury having sympathy at that point. >> a jury may view that it does look like an accident on those

same tapes. her voice also does appear to be very slurred. it sounds like someone who's heavily intoxicated. >> yeah, that's when you do. when you choke me. >> so there is this built in defense of the idea that she may have just been too drunk and went to sleep, not realizing the dangerousness of the situation of leaving him in there. you could see a pathway where maybe a juror or two might buy into that theory, but that is certainly not the theory. they're going into trial with a lot of things bother me about this case, but what really upsets me are these court shenanigans that sarah boone is distracting us with, when, at the end of the day, there is a man who is dead and his family wants justice, and we don't talk about george torres jr. >> we talk about sarah boone's antics today. and that's the part i think that is just really wearing thin. >> you are absolutely right. so much of this case has been about her antics in court, her sparring with the judge. very little of it has been about this man who basically was tortured to death. that's all going to

change. the second that jury is sworn in, the second they start taking witnesses, it's going to be much more about george torres. >> thank you. josh, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> we'll be following the trial closely and bring you updates. give us your opinion in our poll. do you think sarah boone acted in self-defense? let us know what you think on true crime news.com. now we turn to our next story. a popular tiktok star arrested in connection with the murder of a doctor on tikto. he's known as mr. prada. with more than 8 million followers. >> life is a prison. get me out. >> but now the social media star has millions following the story of his arrest in the brutal murder of a popular doctor seen here on a personal video from his website, out of wounds. >> though, come great growth and self-improvement. >> taryon thomas, aka mr. prada, is charged with second degree murder in the death of louisiana therapist nicholas abraham, who

was found bludgeoned to death and wrapped in a tarp on the side of the highway. the case has brought renewed attention to one of mr. prada's viral videos, where he practicing for his mug shot. doctor nicholas abraham, known as doctor nick, treated patients with substance abuse and depression, although their connection is still unknown. mr. prada did talk about his mental health struggles online. >> i never seen anybody that's bipolar before, abraham was seen on surveillance cameras going into the tiktok personality's apartment. >> mr. prada no stranger to the camera, is later seen dragging something wrapped in a blue tarp and putting it into the doctor's car. the next day, doctor nick's body is found. cause of death. blunt force trauma. police got a search warrant for mr. prada's apartment and found blood weapons. and it even looked like he had tried to clean up the

crime scene after fleeing police in doctor nick's car, thomas crashed into a cop car and escaped. u.s. marshals traveled 400 miles where they tracked him down in dallas and booked him. coming up next on true crime news, the matthew perry case has put doctors who feed their patients addiction in the spotlight, and new york prosecutors say doctor michael belfiore, aka doctor death was a pill pushing physician. >> give me some oxycodo . i'm gonna give you something to sleep. >> who's coming in the driveway? daddy. >> my goodness, my daughter is being treated for leukemia. i hope that she lives a long, great, happy life and that she will never forget how mom and daddy love her. saint jude. i mean, this is what's keeping my

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he had an evil mind. >> he is new york osteopath michael belfiore to the dea. he's doctor death, writing 5000 prescriptions totaling 600,000 pain pills in just a little more than three years. caught in an undercover sting. >> give me some oxycodone. i'll give you something to sleep. >> belfiore faced 26 counts of illegally prescribing dangerously addictive painkillers and causing the overdose deaths of two of his patients. one, john eubanks, a united states marine. >> he was a superhero. >> you know, i just i never would have thought that that would have happened. >> you know, the lal system catching up with belfiore after complaints from pharmacies led to an undercover dea investigation, confidential informants said he illegally prescribed drugs to addicts who would turn around and sell the pills. >> first off, every prescription that i wrote was for a

legitimate medical purpose, the doctor pleading his innocence in an interview just after he was charged, admitting he wrote more than a whopping 5000 oxycodone prescriptions in just three and a half years. at the time, i was seeing 30 to 50 patients a day somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 some odd days out of the year. i see a lot of patients and prosecutors say eubanks was the first casualty after his deployment, he began seeing doctor belfiore complaining of back, neck and spine pain. >> belfiore prescribed increasing doses of oxycodone, a highly addictive opioid, as well as anxiety meds and muscle relaxers. >> he was coming in for months and months and months with pain that was was well under control, the doctor prescribing eubanks nearly 3000 pills over the course of 17 months. that was working very, very well with him. >> but eubanks died of acute mixed drug intoxication, according to his autopsy.

prosecutors claim belfiore ignored at least 40 red flags that eubanks might have been abusing the meds, including lab tests that showed the presence of thc and xanax in his system. neither one prescribed by belfiore. >> it's unacceptable. it's something that you shouldn't be doing. >> another red flag eubanks may have been sharing or selling his pills, telling the doctor he was out of medication early and saying he needed new prescriptions because his pills were stolen. >> things happen. things happen to patients. i've had patients who said that their dogs ate the medication. and so i says, i don't believe you. and they come in with the chewed bottle. >> the government drew a direct connection between belfiore practices and eubanks death. but belfiore, his attorney, says there's no proof eubanks didn't die from overdosing on someone else's pills or abusing the ones prescribed they don't come in and say, hey, doctor, you know

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for prosecution. tell me about the buschmann. >> go across your back, down your back. >> you are watching a federal agent playing an injured patient on the prowl for powerful painkillers. >> what type of meds and how much? >> but based on this undercover footage, i get into physical therapy. >> i can get you real mris. real fascinating. >> feds say doctor belfiore's actions were lethal. two patients died under his watch. >> the rogue doctor can do a lot of damage. >> patients don't walk in here wearing a t shirt saying hi. i'm an addict. they don't carry cards that say i'm an addict. they don't wear buttons that say i'm an addict. >> but one patient described himself as an alcoholic. edward martin, an electrician who showed legitimate evidence of nerve injury. the doctor prescribing him 248 pills in only two visits. martin died shortly after receiving his second round of pills. he was found on his bed with, with, with chopped pills, and he had

snorted the medication. >> the instructions on the bottle did not say chop up the pills and snort them. >> but prosecutors say belfiore's most egregious act was giving painkillers to an alcoholic. >> i chose not to treat the alcohol problem. i chose to refer the alcohol problem to addiction specialists. >> prosecutors called the doctor a drug dealer. >> sure, you can call me whatever they want. prove it. >> in court, prosecutors laid out their case against doctor michael belfiore. they called his medical practice reckless, even deadly. >> that's easy for them to say. >> he faced 26 counts and up to life in prison. but proving a doctor is a pill pusher, responsible for the death of at least two patients would not be easy. >> charges related to the death of someone. the prosecutor is going to have to prove that they acted very, very recklessly. >> i fix you and i fix you the right way.

>> prosecutors used this video in court to prove their case. watch as an undercover agent visits belfiore. >> tell me about the back pain. >> the agent fakes back pain. and on his first visit, it doesn't give you some oxycodone. >> i'm going to give you some muscle relaxers. i'm going to give you some. what's we call it the anti-inflammatories. i'm going to give you something to sleep. >> the agent scores. he pays cash and walks out with his prescriptions. >> we just came out of doctor belfiore's office. >> in six visits, the agent laid out cold, hard cash and got prescriptions for 540 pills. belfiore's attorney says the undercover video is misleading. it just represents an office visit, that's all. >> over the next three d'backs sulser guillorme, the state calls and says, why are we giving you medication? right this way, at least i can get i can say something. it was taken out of context. >> belfiore's attorney claimed pharmaceutical companies like purdue were to blame for

misleading doctors about the potential dangers of opioids. >> i think he's being scapegoated, unfortunately, and i think it's a total misapplication of the law. >> belfiore believes it's a mystery as to whose drugs actually killed the victims. in the case of ed martin. the autopsy report stated he died from an overdose of oxycodone, but a bottle of oxycontin was found on his body. the reports don't state who wrote the prescription for it. pharmacist, please. >> one second. >> belfiore says an audiotape of a conversation with the pharmacy that dispensed martin's prescriptions proves he didn't write the prescription for oxycontin. >> was he ever issued oxycontin at all? >> one second. okay. >> no, he was not. >> belfiore was offered a plea deal by prosecutors but rejected it, saying he would be pleading guilty to something he didn't do, that he was not running a

pill mill out of his office. >> if i'm guilty of something, it was because i believe somebody who said that they were in trouble. >> but after a five week trial in federal court, belfiore was found guilty of illegally distributing oxycodone and causing the deaths of john eubanks and edward martin. the judge sentencing him to 23 years behind bars and ordering him to pay $17,000 in restitution. >> it's a gross abuse of power, responsibility and trust. give at guy 100 pills a ay f the next year and let him take them. and that should be his punishment. >> whether because of discomfor, lack of mobility, your lifestyle or occupation, you sit inactively way too many hours a day. introducing ellipse. the premium quality automatic seated exerciser that strengthens legs, increases mobility and boosts circulation without physical strain or impact. >> it is so quiet that none of my coworkers even know i'm using it. >> strengthen and tone your

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the case goes cold until cops get their big break. >> did you kill her or not? >> on the next true crime news. for the latest breaking crime news, go to true crime news.com. watch more exclusive content on our youtube channel. listen to our podcast and follow us at my true crime news. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. see you next time, everyone. crime (slow dramatic music) - what exactly could you see in that surveillance video? - i could see what looked like a person slumped over to the side inside of that car. - [nancy] grainy images captured the suspect fleeing the scene of the crime. - her headlights were still on and the headlights were actually facing the camera system. i lost sight of him and you couldn't see anything else at that point. (siren wailing) - [nancy] police searching for answers. - [officer] step out with your hands up. hands on your head. hands up. (dog barking) step out with your hands up.