Lucas

Sarah Boone discussed Lucas, her son with Brian Boone, when explaining their shared-custody arrangements and her scheduled school pickup on February 24, 2020. In police interviews played for the jury, she said she had called Lucas the preceding evening and that Brian repeatedly called the next day to confirm pickup arrangements. During the February 25 interview, detectives asked whether she would leave Lucas in a suitcase; she said no. She also expressed concern about police arriving while Lucas was home and asked for his seized laptop back.

Lucas's belongings and safety featured in testimony and closing argument. Boone testified that Brian had helped set up the television Lucas used for cartoons and games, and described Torres subsequently threatening her and damaging it. Julie Harper testified that Boone had reported violence in front of her child and sometimes asked Brian not to bring Lucas to the apartment; Harper said she had not received DCF records. The court struck a rephrased question about Boone's recorded promise on Lucas's life and directed William Jay to keep the characterization aligned with her statement that it was not intentional. In closing, James Owens pointed to Lucas's undisturbed bookshelf in a photograph to challenge the suggestion that Torres had been pushed down the stairs in the suitcase.