Brittany Killgore was killed 3 years ago in California.
By Raif Karerat
Three members of a sadomasochistic “master-slave” sex ring have been found guilty of conspiring to lure a 22-year-old military wife out of her home three years ago before torturing and killing her three years ago in Fallbrook, Calif.
Louis Ray Perez, 49, Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 40, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 28, were found guilty of murder, kidnapping, torture and attempted sexual battery by restraint on Wednesday.
The victim, Brittany Killgore, had just filed for divorce from her Marine husband, who was deployed to Afghanistan, when she was allegedly lured to a meeting with Perez. Killgore had agreed to go on a dinner cruise with Perez in exchange for his helping her move out of her apartment, prosecutors attested.
Her nude body was found four days later near Lake Skinner in Riverside County on April 13, 2012.
According to Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza, a stun baton found in the back of Perez’s SUV had the victim’s DNA on it. A plastic sheet in the back of Perez’s car also had the victim’s blood on it, Espinoza told the jury, according to Fox affiliate KSWB.
The trio killed Killgore “for their own sadistic pleasure,” Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza added, per the Los Angeles Times.
Perez had boasted that he planned to hold a sadomasochism session that weekend, according to evidence submitted during the preliminary hearing. Prosecutors asserted that Perez took Killgore to his Fallbrook home and texted Lopez and Maraglino to join him.
Perez had a dominant-submissive relationship with Maraglino. Lopez was identified by several witnesses as Maraglino’s slave, reported the San Diego Tribune.
At the house, investigators found “sex apparatuses, toys, and a sex dungeon,” according to a search warrant. Among the items found were ropes, whips, a Taser, a nightstick, and spiked gloves.