By KELLY WHEELER
A Camp Pendleton Marine and two women were ordered today to stand trial on murder, torture and other charges stemming from the death of a military wife from Fallbrook, whose body was found in Riverside County.
Brittany Killgore
Authorities believe Brittany Killgore was killed after being kidnapped and forced to participate in a bondage and sadomasochistic sex ring.
After a six-day preliminary hearing, Vista Judge K. Michael Kirkman found that enough evidence was presented for Louis Ray Perez, 46, Dorothy Maraglino, 37, and 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez to proceed to trial on charges of murder, torture, conspiracy, attempted sexual battery and kidnapping.
Brittany Killgore’s body was found near Lake Skinner last April 17, four days after the 22-year-old victim agreed to go on a dinner cruise with Perez.
A deputy medical examiner testified that Killgore was strangled with some sort of ligature before being dumped near the Riverside County lake.
The victim also had a deep cut from a saw below her left knee, suggesting attempted dismemberment after she died, Dr. Craig Nelson testified.
Killgore had just filed for divorce from her Marine husband — who was deployed to Afghanistan at the time — and was preparing to move back to Pennsylvania. Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore was cleared of any wrongdoing in his wife’s death.
The victim’s best friend said she and Killgore became acquainted with the defendants in 2011 but never participated in their alternative lifestyle.
Another friend testified that Killgore texted the word “help” shortly after leaving with Perez, who told the friend in a subsequent phone call that he dropped Killgore at a bar and saw her go off with “two guys.”
Perez allegedly took Killgore to Maraglino’s home in Fallbrook, where authorities said they found ropes, whips, a Taser, a nightstick, spiked gloves and a “sex dungeon.”
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.
A document written by Maraglino and found during a search of her Fallbrook home indicated she was a “willing participant” in whipping, beating and asphyxiation and any “loss of life should be considered an accident,” sheriff’s Detective Brian Patterson testified today.
In another letter, Maraglino wrote of a fantasy in which a person’s throat is slit from behind, Patterson testified.
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Thank God, and I didnt doubt that they had plenty of evidence. The San Diego police, Sheriff’s Department did a exemplerary job on this case from the 2nd it started.
I hope and pray all of their hard work leads to a fast conviction and sentence of death/life in prison for all parties. Dont let anyone plea down please! These are the sickest of people and I would not be surprised if others have died the same type of horrible death at their hands.
This young woman was petrified, horrified, tortured alive and when she was dead they glorified in it as that is what they live for. In some cases there just should not be these 10 years to wait until they actually get put to death for a crime like this.