By KELLY WHEELER
A 22-year-old military wife from Fallbrook who authorities said was killed after she was kidnapped and forced to participate in a bondage and sadomasochistic sex ring was strangled before her naked body was dumped in southwest Riverside County, a deputy medical examiner testified today.
Brittany Killgore. (Courtesy photo)
Dr. Craig Nelson testified in a preliminary hearing for Louis Ray Perez, 46, Dorothy Maraglino, 37, and 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez that the victim, Brittany Killgore, died after being strangled with some sort of ligature.
Killgore, who had filed for divorce from her Marine husband and was preparing to move back to Pennsylvania, also had a deep cut from a saw below her left knee, suggesting attempted dismemberment after she died, Nelson testified.
Nelson couldn’t say whether the victim was tortured.
Perez, a Camp Pendleton Marine sergeant, his girlfriend Maraglino and Lopez are charged with murder, conspiracy, kidnapping and torture.
Killgore’s body was found near Lake Skinner last April 17, four days after she agreed to go on a dinner cruise with Perez.
A friend testified that Killgore texted the word “help” shortly after leaving with Perez. Perez told the friend in a subsequent phone call that he dropped Killgore at a bar and saw her go off with “two guys,” according to the friend’s testimony.
Perez allegedly took Killgore to his Fallbrook home — where authorities said they found ropes, whips, a Taser, a nightstick, spiked gloves and a “sex dungeon” — before texting Lopez and Maraglino to join him.
At some point, Perez decided to kill Killgore, authorities allege.
All three defendants were involved in sexual behavior that included bondage, torture and master, servant and slave role-playing, and Killgore was an “unwilling participant” in those activities, sheriff’s detective Susan Fiske alleged in search warrant affidavits.
The preliminary hearing will resume tomorrow.
When it is over, Judge K. Michael Kirkman will determine whether enough evidence was presented for the defendants to stand trial.
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It appears the police did a very thourough job with evidence and I am sure there will not be a problem getting these sick “things” to stand trial.
They are not even human and do not even deserve a trial. They need the same abuse she recieved and to the point of death, except they would like and welcome it.
What goes so horribly wrong in someones minds that they can do things like this and not have a “stop” button somewhere in their brain to press if they think about doing such things?
These things are actually very common. Of course, murder and kidnapping is never “normal” or acceptable. But as long as all parties consent and nobody is injured, what they engaged in is perfectly normal and quite commonly done. There are hundreds of people with similar interests in San Diego, many of them fellow Marines.
You will find many of them in an organization called TNG that forms kind of a community for people with these interests. These three were very well known there, and as far as I know frequently went to San Diego for community events. Understandably, today TNG distances themselves from these three. To be clear, as far as I know, just as the prosecutor stated, neither Mr. nor Mrs. Killgore were involved with this community.
I am sure I am speaking on behalf of every one of the people engaged in BDSM when I say that my heart goes out to her husband, Mr. Killgore, and to the family of the victim, as well as to the families of those who perpetrated the act.