22 yr old Brittany Killgore missing/Body found, Louis Ray Perez, 46, Dorothy Maraglino 47 & Jessica Lopez 25 arrested/Read the latest court orders/3.18.13 Judge orders defendants to trial for Brittany's murder, trial set for 9.30.13

Police are searching a remote California canyon Tuesday for clues in the disappearance of a Marine's wife, while a second Marine believed to be the last person to see the missing woman is in custody on an unrelated charge.
Authorities say they believe 22-year-old Brittany Dawn Killgore, of Fallbrook, Calif., was with Louis Ray Perez, an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, shortly before she disappeared Friday.
Perez, 45, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of possessing a stolen AR-15 assault rifle in an unrelated case. Investigators say he is " very uncooperative" in the investigation into Killgore's disappearance. They would not discuss the relationship between Killgore and Perez, Fox affiliate KSWB-TV reported.
The woman's husband, Cory Killgore, a Marine also stationed at Camp Pendleton, is currently serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The North County Times said records show Brittany Killgore filed for divorce from her husband last week. Police said Cory Killgore is not suspected of being involved in his wife's disappearance, and arrangements were reportedly being made to send him home.
Killgore was last seen around 5 p.m. on Friday and her cellphone was found in the Gaslamp District of San Diego on Saturday, Fox affiliate KSWB-TV reported.
Investigators on Tuesday combed De Luz Canyon, north of Fallbrook, for any signs of the woman, who the believe is the victim of foul play. Authorities have not said what led them to search the canyon.
Perez, meanwhile, is being held at San Diego Central Jail on $500,000 bail.
Killgore and her husband, who are from Missouri, married in the summer of 2010 and moved into a second-story apartment near Camp Pendleton's gates about a month later, U-T San Diego reported.
Killgore, who has brown hair and brown eyes, was wearing a dark purple evening gown with shiny floral patterns on it at the time of her disappearance. She may have traveled to the Gaslamp area of downtown San Diego the night she disappeared, officials said.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is being urged to call the Sheriff's Homicide Detail at 858-974-2321.

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Police arrest woman after finding body in search for Marine's missing wife

SAN DIEGO – Authorities arrested a woman Tuesday for investigation of murder after finding a body in their search for the missing wife of a U.S. Marine.
The body has not yet been identified as 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, who has been missing since Friday night, San Diego County sheriff's Capt. Duncan Frasier said.
Police provided no details on a possible motive or any evidence that led to the arrest.
Police arrested 27-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez at a motel in San Diego. She was under guard at University of California, San Diego Medical Center with unspecified injuries.
Frasier said she would be taken to jail and booked on suspicion of murder after treatment.
Police say they were also investigating another Marine, Louis Ray Perez, 45, the last person seen with Killgore. Authorities have not disclosed the nature of their relationship.
Perez was arrested Sunday on an unrelated charge of possessing a stolen AR-15 rifle from Camp Pendleton. He remained jailed on $500,000 bail and has refused to cooperate with investigators.
"He is being actively investigated in this disappearance," said Frasier, who declined at a news conference to provide further details on the body or exactly where it was found in Riverside.
The news came after it was announced that Killgore's estranged husband -- a Marine in Afghanistan -- will return to California on emergency leave as authorities try to determine whether she met with foul play.
Killgore went missing after filing for divorce last week from Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore.
Her cellphone was found in the Gaslamp District of downtown San Diego, but authorities said it was unclear whether she actually left Fallbrook, where she lives.
Cory Killgore, 22, could be back at Camp Pendleton by the end of the week, said 1st Lt. Alex Lim, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Division.
"One of his loved ones is missing and I can only hope the best for him," Lim said.
Authorities have said Killgore is not suspected in the disappearance of his wife.
Brittany Killgore lives in northern San Diego County, not far from Camp Pendleton.
Cory Killgore was deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year as a vehicle operator.
"Everyone attempts to move at the speed of light in Afghanistan when there's a bonafide emergency," Lim said about Killgore's return to California. "It's always been `mission first, Marine always."'

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This case is getting stranger! That poor husband! And of course his wife.

Brittany Kilgore Suspect's Suicide Note Led Investigators To Body

Investigators in San Diego County say they have arrested a second suspect in the case of Brittany Killgore, a missing 22-year-old woman last seen in San Diego on Friday.

The suspect, Jessica Lynn Lopez, 27, left an apparent suicide note in her motel room that authorities said indicated what happened to the 22-year-old Fallbrook woman and where her body was located, 10News.com reported.

A female body was found by a road worker in Riverside County near Lake Skinner, on Tuesday, according to NBCSanDiego.com.

Although authorities could not say whether the body was Killgore's, San Diego County Sheriff's Department Capt. Duncan Fraser told 10News.com that Lopez' arrest provided officials with the leads that led them to the body.

Lopez was taken into custody at a San Diego motel and was expected to be booked on suspicion of murder.

Captain Fraser declined to discuss Lopez's alleged connection to the case, but told news crews the suspect had been admitted to UCSD Medical Center under guard and was expected to be booked on a murder charge upon her release,KFMB-TV reported.

Lopez's arrest comes two days after the arrest of another suspect, Louis Ray Perez, 45, who was the last person seen with Killgore.

He was arrested Sunday on an unrelated charge of possessing a AR-15 rifle stolen from Camp Pendleton and remained jailed on $500,000 bail. Perez has refused to cooperate with investigators, who say he is being "actively investigated" in the case.

San Diego Sheriffs spokesman Lt. Larry Nesbit said that investigators have questioned Perez about Killgore's disappearance, but he was not cooperative.

"Based on the totality of the circumstances -- the fact that (Kilgore) is in constant contact with her friends, she has not been heard from since Friday, the fact that Mr. Perez was less than forthcoming in his interview with us, we believe there is foul play involved in this case," Nesbit told KTLA-TV.

Killgore, a 5-foot-7-inch, roughly 130-pound brunette with brown eyes, was wearing a dark-purple evening gown with shiny floral patterns at the time of her disappearance, which occurred a few days after she filed for divorce from her husband Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, a Camp Pendleton-stationed husband reportedly serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Among the suspicious circumstances in the case was the fact that her cell phone was found by trolley security guards in the Gaslamp District of downtown San Diego, even though investigators do not believe she had gone there herself on the night she vanished.

Cpl. Killgore is reportedly coming back to California on emergency leave as authorities try to determine whether his estranged wife met with foul play, but a neighbor of the couple, Simeon Pagdilao, said he told Cpl. Killgore that he thought Brittany Killgore may have been unfaithful.

"I told him, when I went to go see him, that there was noises upstairs that my wife was hearing at night and she thought he was still there, and then we found out that he was actually deployed," Pagdilao told KFMB-TV.

Authorities have said Killgore is not suspected in the disappearance of his wife.

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Coroner: Woman found dead is Marine's wife who disappeared from San Diego County

VISTA, Calif. – A body found in Southern California is a Marine's wife who disappeared five days ago, authorities said Wednesday.
Coroner's investigators determined the woman discovered near a lake in Riverside County on Tuesday is 22-year-old Brittany Dawn Killgore, sheriff's officials said in a statement.
Authorities say they have arrested Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, woman on suspicion of murder and are investigating Louis Ray Perez as a person of interest.
Lopez was scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.
A gun charge was filed against Perez, 45, the last person seen with Killgore.
Killgore had been missing since last week shortly after she filed for divorce from her husband, a 22-year-old Marine deployed to Afghanistan.
The body was found Tuesday in brush 25 miles northeast of Killgore's Fallbrook home.
Perez pleaded not guilty to stealing an assault weapon from a man. He is being held on $500,000 bond. His attorney Jeffrey Reichert said his client has no criminal history, is married and has lived in San Diego County for 10 years.
Investigators say Killgore's husband, Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, was flying back to California after learning his wife was missing. Sheriff's authorities say he is not suspected in his wife's disappearance.
The couple from Missouri was married in July 2010. Brittany Killgore filed for divorce April 10 and listed "irreconcilable differences" as the reason. She gave no details on the paperwork.
Her cellphone was found in the Gaslamp District of downtown San Diego, but authorities said it was unclear whether she actually left Fallbrook.
Darryl J. Wrest of Rolla, Mo., confirmed Brittany Killgore is his daughter but said he was not commenting on anything at this time. Killgore's other family members also declined to comment.

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I can't hardly wait to hear more details regarding this case.

Brittany Killgore's body identified, was she part of sex ring?

.....According to a 10News report, at least one neighbor of Brittany Killgore's in Fallbrook said Killgore had been mixed up in some unusual behavior while her husband was serving overseas. Investigators are now trying to determine whether Lopez and Killgore were both possibly involved in some unusual behavior.

The neighbor said it was no secret that the females were involved in a dangerous sex industry.

"They were into the… sex slave things," commented the neighbor. "I tried not to judge… but that's what they were into."

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I found this article and was reading the comments posted to the article. I thought it was quite interesting.

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The comments first. There are more comments to this article. Take them as other people's comments. lol

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People are SO quick to judge (sigh). The divorce was filed as a mutual agreement between the two. The Killgore's grew up together and have remained FRIENDS! ABC really needs to do their homework instead of listening to gossip spreading neighbors, especially when 5 of them stated they were a loving couple & 1, whom wants to remain nameless (wonder why?) states she was having an affair. Both Mr. & Mrs. Killgore agreed to live separate lives and remain cordial & indifferent over 8 months ago. This has NOTHING to do with war or ANYONE fighting for our country, nor race or creed! The marine caught with the assault rifle was running a sex slave operation w/military wives who had no children & who's husbands were deployed. The 27 yr old who's been arrested (as you'll find out) was forced to kill Mrs. Killgore and knew if she herself committed suicide Mr. Lopez would have no recourse against her. Mrs. Killgore was flying home to see her new niece as correctly stated by NBC San Diego. The Killgore's had not even divided their belongings nor had any intentions of doing so until Mr. Killgore returned from duty abroad. Do some research on sex slaves, you'll find the women are MADE to wear what they're told to wear and act accordingly. When Lopez found out Ms. Killgore was returning home his only choice was to eradicate her & any knowledge she may have been harboring. It ONLY makes sense if you THINK logically.
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Misty
This is a US Military base. Its not a third world country...no one on this base was FORCED into a sex slave operation. If anything they were in an S&M prostitution ring. Sex slaves is a bit much. But if so, the pimp is a US Marine who by your claim is targeting the wives of his subordinates. Hes going to be popular in the brig.
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First part of the article, the rest is at the above link.

Neighbor: Possible Link Between Suspect, Missing Woman

Jessica Lopez Arrested In Connection With Fallbrook Woman's Disappearance; Body Found In Riverside County May Be Linked To Case

POSTED: 3:32 pm PDT April 17, 2012
UPDATED: 12:05 am PDT April 18, 2012


On Tuesday, investigators searching for Killgore, who disappeared Friday under suspicious circumstances, found a body in Riverside County.

The discovery of the remains off Borel and Warren roads, roughly a mile north of Lake Skinner, was made about 2:30 p.m., San Diego County Sheriff's Department Capt. Duncan Fraser said. It was not immediately clear if the body was that of 22-year-old Killgore of Fallbrook, whose whereabouts have been unknown for four days.

Killgore, whose husband is deployed overseas, disappeared Friday evening, allegedly after meeting up with 45-year-old Louis Ray Perez, a Camp Pendleton-based Marine who subsequently was jailed on an unrelated weapon charge.

Homicide detectives were investigating Killgore's disappearance and believed there was "a strong likelihood" she was a "victim of foul play," sheriff's Lt. Larry Nesbit said earlier.

According to San Diego County sheriff's officials, 27-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez was taken into custody at a hotel on Rosecrans Street in San Diego and was expected to be booked on suspicion of murder.

Fraser declined to discuss Lopez's alleged connection to the case. He told news crews the suspect was admitted to UCSD Medical Center under guard and was expected to be booked on a murder charge upon her release from the Hillcrest hospital. Fraser also would not say why Lopez had required medical care.

While it is unknown what led investigators to Lopez's motel room, 10News has learned that when authorities arrived, they found Lopez with multiple cuts. It is believed Lopez intended to kill herself and left a note that indicated what happened to Killgore and where her body was.

10News reporter Steve Fiorina spoke with a neighbor who knew both women. The neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said Lopez was trying to leave town with a friend.

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April 19, 2012



The suspect in the killing of Marine wife Brittany Killgore entered a not guilty plea in court today and was ordered to be held on $3 million bail.

Jessica Lopez, 25, was charged with first degree murder today in the death of Brittany Killgore, 22, of Fallbrook, Calif. Killgore's body was found dumped near Lake Skinner in Riverside County, Calif., the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.

Lopez was arrested at a Ramada Inn in San Diego Tuesday and then treated for an undisclosed medical condition at a hospital before she was taken into custody.

Key to the case was an apparent suicide note at the arrest scene that detailed the 22-year-old Killgore's fate and the location of her body, according to ABC News affiliate KGTV in San Diego.

Darryl Wrest, Killgore's father said the family was "devastated and ask to be left alone to grieve at this time."

"Brittany is my daughter. I am here to speak for Brittany as her voice was taken from her. Brittany was a beautiful, kind, caring, young woman trying to find her way in this world. Family and friends love and miss Brittany beyond words. Brittany, was a victim, she did nothing wrong," Wrest said in a statement issued at an afternoon news conference. "There have been stories and comments made from people who do not know my daughter and have their own agendas or opinions. These stories have absolutely no basis in fact. Please leave my daughter in peace, she does not deserve to be a victim of lies and innuendo anymore than she deserved to be murdered."

Dean Broyles, the Lopez family attorney, told the Associated Press there is "speculation, a lot of innuendo, a lot of weak allegations and charges out there."

The Lopez family said they are praying for the "family of Brittany Killgore and ask that the Lord comfort them during their time of grief and anguish."

"We ask that you pray for all those impacted by this tragic situation, including our family. We are dealing with a lot as a family right now. We love our daughter Iessica and have nothing to share with you at this time," the Lopez family said according to a statement released through an attorney KGTV reported.

According to legal records, Lopez once lived with Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, who is considered a person of interest in the case and is behind bars on unrelated charges. Police believe the 45-year-old Marine may have been the last person to see Killgore alive.

Perez is being investigated and has not been cooperative in his interview, according to Lt. Larry Nesbit of the San Diego Sheriff's Office.

The Marine was arraigned Wednesday on an unrelated charge of possession of an AR-15 assault rifle. He is being held on $500,000 bail and has not been charged in Killgore's murder.

Authorities have not commented on the connection between Killgore, Lopez and Perez.

The slain woman's grandmother, Cheryl Coble, told the Park Hills Daily Journal in Missouri that Killgore, Perez and his girlfriend were supposed to go on a dinner cruise Friday night but the girlfriend backed out. Coble said she was unsure if her granddaughter made it to the cruise.

Killgore told friends she was going to spend Friday evening in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. However, authorities believe she never made it. Her cell phone was recovered in the area by San Diego trolley security, triggering an investigation.

Killgore filed for a divorce from her husband, Cory Killgore, also 22, just days before she disappeared Friday evening. Cory Killgore was returning from Afghanistan this week following the news of his wife's disappearance.


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Killgore's father, Darryl Wrest, who lives in Pennsylvania, read an emotional statement at the San Diego County Sheriff's headquarters in Kearny Mesa, the North County Times reported.

"I am here to speak for Brittany, as her voice was taken from her,” Wrest said. "Brittney was a victim, she did nothing wrong," Wrest said. "There have been stories and comments made from people who do not know my daughter and have their own agendas or opinions. These stories have absolutely no basis in fact. Please leave my daughter in peace, she does not deserve to be a victim of lies and innuendo any more than she deserved to be murdered.”

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FALLBROOK — Clues to the killing of a young military wife may reside in a pale yellow Fallbrook Street house in need of a fresh coat of paint.

Authorities have twice searched this Fallbrook Street house looking for clues in the disappearance and death of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore. — J. Harry Jones
That’s where 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez, a caretaker for the elderly, and 45-year-old Louis Ray Perez, a Camp Pendleton Marine with a self-described appetite for sadomasochism and bondage, have both lived, along with Perez’s “sex slave,” who owns the Fallbrook home.

And that’s where homicide investigators have scoured for evidence during two middle-of-the night searches, hunting for answers as to how and why Brittany Dawn Killgore ended up in a roadside ditch in Riverside County last week.

While it is not yet clear how their lives intersected, a picture is emerging of Killgore, a 22-year-old from the Ozarks region of Missouri, and the two people under investigation in her death. So far, no evidence has been revealed that links either Killgore or Lopez to Perez's sexual activities.

Lopez has pleaded not guilty to murder and remains jailed in lieu of $3 million bail, while Perez is being held on unrelated charges of possessing an assault rifle stolen from the military. He is considered a “person of interest” in the killing, authorities said.

Save for a couple of traffic tickets, neither has a criminal record.

The slaying remains shrouded in mystery, captivating a national audience and shining a spotlight on the lives of three North County people involved.

The military wife

Brittany Killgore was a newlywed when she followed her Marine husband to Fallbrook in August 2010 after he finished boot camp.

“damn it was the best thing i did in my entire life,” husband Cory Killgore wrote on his Facebook page, “other then asking Brittany to marry me of course. so Semper Fi, im Devil Dog.”

The couple traded the forested hills of Rolla, Mo., a town of 20,000 people with the slogan “The Middle of Everywhere,” for a second-story home at La Galiana de Cortez Apartments, just outside Camp Pendleton’s gates.

The Sheriff's Department issued a missing person's bulletin for Brittany Killgore on April 15. Her body was found April 17 at Lake Skinner in Riverside County. — Sheriff's Department
But the marriage eventually hit trouble. The pair separated in January, about the time Lance Cpl. Killgore, a motor transport operator, deployed to Afghanistan. On April 10 — three days before Brittany disappeared — she filed for divorce while her husband was still overseas.

The divorce file in Vista Superior Court does not indicate what went wrong.

Her husband was granted leave from his tour of duty last week and is mourning her death with friends and family in San Diego.

Her father, Darryl Wrest, who also arrived last week in San Diego from the family’s new home in Pennsylvania, described his daughter as a “beautiful, kind, caring young woman trying to find her way in this world.”

The apartment managers at Killgore’s Fallbrook apartment described her as nice, quiet and reserved.

Online blog entries she wrote as a 17-year-old reveal the hopes and dreams and the ups and downs of a typical teenager on the cusp of adulthood.

She wrote of wanting to travel the world, fall in love and go to college. About her love of cupcakes and her penchant for the occasional crude joke.

“I have so much to do,” she said.

She also wrote about a brief battle with depression, the loss of her grandparents, moving from state to state, and dropping out of school.

The ‘person of interest’

Louis Perez, the staff sergeant being investigated as a “person of interest” in the case, lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., at one time, before moving to Arizona next to the Marine Air Corps Station Yuma.

Assigned to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Perez has been “gainfully employed” by the military for 16 years and has been in San Diego for 10 years, his lawyer said.

He is also married. During his arraignment Wednesday on the weapons charges, a court official called out his wife’s name to the crowd, but no one answered. Attempts to reach her by phone were unsuccessful.

Perez does have a girlfriend — Lopez’s 36-year-old female roommate who owns the two-story house in which they have all lived in at one time.

Authorities have not implicated her in the investigation, and when a reporter reached her on a cellphone she didn’t want to talk about the case.

An online profile on a sadomasochistic and bondage website revealed that she and Perez are deeply involved in the alternative sexual lifestyle.

Perez, who also goes by the alias “Ivan,” described himself as “lord and master” of his household, and his girlfriend as his “slave, lover, confidant and partner.” The profile said the couple is seeking other local couples or women to join their household.

Photos on the online profile include one of him on a motorcycle and others of him with his girlfriend. Perez included his date of birth and listed his occupation as the “DOD” — a common abbreviation for the Department of Defense.

In a separate profile on another website, his girlfriend wrote that she is “an Alpha slave to Master Ivan.”

“We have a poly home in which I own two slave girls,” she said. “Life is good.”

The next-door neighbors of the Fallbrook house said they knew that sex parties were sometimes held there. Authorities, however, have not mentioned anything about such activity or any connection to Killgore.

Her father chastised such media reports as being “from people who do not know my daughter and have their own agendas or opinions.”

“These stories have absolutely no basis in fact,” he told reporters on Thursday.

On the same day, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis stressed that a great deal of unsubstantiated information has been disseminated in the media, but she refused to elaborate on what has been said that was wrong.

The murder suspect

Jessica Lopez moved out of her parents’ Escondido home shortly after graduating from San Pasqual High School. She worked with the elderly as a caregiver, said Dean Broyles, a neighbor and attorney for her parents.

Her family said in a statement that they are praying for Killgore’s family and asked for privacy.

“We are dealing with a lot as a family right now. We love our daughter Jessica. … We trust that everything will be revealed in due course,” the statement said.


When Lopez was contacted by sheriff’s investigators at a Point Loma Ramada Inn on Tuesday, they found her with self-inflicted lacerations. A suicide note was also discovered. She was hospitalized before being booked into jail late that night.

At her arraignment Thursday, several red marks could be seen crisscrossing her neck.

The disappearance

Authorities have released little about the circumstances surrounding Killgore’s death.

She was last seen April 13 — on Lopez’s 25th birthday — wearing a deep purple evening gown with a glittery floral pattern. Investigators have not said what the dressy occasion was, but Killgore’s grandmother told a Missouri newspaper that she was supposed to go on a dinner cruise with Perez and his girlfriend.

But the girlfriend backed out at the last minute, Cheryl Coble told the Daily Journal in Park Hills, Mo.

Killgore was reported missing the following day when her cellphone was found in the Gaslamp Quarter. Detectives don’t believe she ever made to downtown San Diego.

The investigation led authorities first to Perez, who was the last person she was believed to have been with.

He was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle stolen from the military and was uncooperative with detectives questioning him about Killgore, said sheriff’s homicide Lt. Larry Nesbit.

On Tuesday, the investigation focused on Lopez, who was arrested at the motel. Hours later, Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and volunteers began to scour the rural area east of Murrieta near Lake Skinner for signs of Killgore’s body.

A maintenance worker clearing brush in the area was asked to keep an eye out for anything unusual, and shortly after that he came across her body.

The Medical Examiner’s Office has not released her cause of death.

Both Lopez and Perez have court dates set for next month.
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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - News 8 has learned new information about the woman charged with killing 22-year-old Brittany Killgore and the man investigators call a person of interest in the case.

Using an alias of "Ivan", 45-year-old Camp Pendelton Marine Louis Perez placed a personal ad on a racy website looking for a quote "sex slave."

News 8's Adrienne Moore files this video report with details on what his online profile reveals.
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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Sexually explicit website postings are linked to a person of interest in the murder of a young marine wife.

News 8 has uncovered personal ads on bondage websites posted by 45-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine Louis Perez. Investigators say he is a person of interest in the death of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, but he's being held on unrelated weapons charges.

With an active investigation, authorities aren't saying what connection, if any, Louis Perez's alternative lifestyle played in Killgore's murder.

The face of Perez is featured on alternative sex websites, catering to bondage, where the Marine goes by the alias Ivan and posted this:

"I am lord and master, dom and daddy of my house. My slave, Ms. Dee, is a slave to no one, but myself."

News 8 is not showing Dee's face in the video reports or releasing her real name, because authorities have in no way connected her to the disappearance of Brittany Killgore.

The 22-year old Marine wife's nude body was found Tuesday in a rural area of Riverside County. Following the discovery, 25-year-old Jessica Lopez was arrested and charged with murder.

Lopez lived in a Fallbrook home, which is an address also shared by Perez. However, records show the home is owned by Dee, who also posts on a bondage website under the username Twisted 2 Plus You. She describes herself as "an alpha slave to master Ivan. We have a poly home in which I own two slave girls. Life is good."

Meanwhile, Killgore's grandmother told a small newspaper in Missouri that Brittany was supposed to go on a dinner cruise with Perez the night she disappeared.

Authorities aren't commenting on the status of their relationship.

"Those questions will be answered at some later point in time. We're not prepared to answer them now in anymore detail," said Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza.

Killgore has not been connected to any sexually based websites and her father insists rumors suggesting any participation on her part are false, saying:

"She does not deserve to be a victim of lies and innuendo anymore than she deserved to be murdered."

Lopez remains behind bars as of this report. Her bail is set at $3 million. Perez is also in custody with bail set at $500,000.
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Arrest made in Marine wife's death near San Diego

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine charged with stealing an assault weapon was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder in the death of another Marine's wife, authorities said.

Louis Ray Perez was taken into custody on the additional charge a week after the body of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore was found in brush near a Southern California lake.

Sheriff's investigators identified the 45-year-old Perez as a person of interest shortly after the body was discovered.

The San Diego County district attorney's office said the case was under review.

Another suspect, Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, pleaded not guilty to murder last week in Killgore's death. She is being held on $3 million bail.

Authorities have not said whether Lopez and Perez knew each other or whether they knew the victim.

Jeff Reichert, Perez's attorney, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Perez has been in the military for 16 years, has no criminal history, is married and has lived in the San Diego area for about 10 years, Reichert said in court last week. He is being held on $500,000 bail in Vista, north of San Diego.

Perez was arrested on the weapons charge the day after Killgore disappeared. Prosecutors said he stole the weapon from a man in early February but have not indicated whether they believe it was used to kill Killgore.

Her body was found near Lake Skinner in Riverside County about 25 miles northeast of her modest apartment complex in Fallbrook, a town of 38,000 people known for its avocado orchards, rolling hills and proximity to Camp Pendleton.

She died less than a week after filing for divorce from Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, a Marine who was in Afghanistan when she disappeared. She cited irreconcilable differences in her divorce filing, which gave no other details.

Cory Killgore has not been named as a suspect or person of interest in the killing. The couple married in July 2010.

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New evidence disclosed in death of Marine's wife

VISTA, Calif. – Brittany Killgore was hoping to unwind for three days after filing for divorce from her Marine husband serving in Afghanistan.

Prosecutors believe things quickly went wrong when she met another Marine for a night out.

"She sent a text saying, `Help,"' Patrick Espinoza, a deputy district attorney in San Diego County, said Thursday. "She was missing from that point on."

Authorities said Killgore's body was found in brush near Lake Skinner on April 17, hours after paramedics were called to a San Diego motel and found another woman with self-inflicted cuts and a suicide note.

Killgore's message to an unidentified friend was disclosed at an arraignment for Louis Ray Perez, 45, who pleaded not guilty to murder.

The brief hearing offered the most details yet of what authorities believe happened to the 22-year-old Killgore after she disappeared on April 13.

Espinoza said investigators found Killgore's blood and a weapon in Perez's car. He also said Perez told investigators he dropped off Killgore in downtown San Diego's bustling Gaslamp District, but investigators concluded that he lied about his whereabouts and stayed about 60 miles north in Fallbrook, where Killgore lived.

Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, the woman authorities said was found by paramedics at the motel, also has pleaded not guilty to murder.

The prosecutor said Lopez and Perez once lived together but didn't indicate when or where. Lopez currently lives a mile from Killgore's second-floor apartment overlooking Camp Pendleton.

Espinoza didn't disclose a possible motive or other details about the death during the hearing, and he later declined to elaborate on the investigation.

It's still unclear how Killgore died and whether the unspecified weapon authorities said they found in Perez's car was used in the killing.

Perez's attorney, Jeff Reichert, said Lopez's suicide note shows "very, very clearly" that she killed Killgore and that his client was not involved.

"The court has information in its hands that exonerates my client on this charge," Reichert said.

However, details of the note were not released, and Superior Court Judge Kimberlee Lagotta ordered it to be sealed

Perez, a Marine for 16 years who is married and has lived in the San Diego area for 10 years, has also pleaded not guilty to stealing an assault weapon. The prosecutor said Perez stole the weapon and a motorcycle from a trailer at Camp Pendleton.

The death has shaken many at Camp Pendleton and neighboring Fallbrook, known for its rolling hills and avocado orchards. The Killgores lived in one of several apartment complexes on Ammunition Road that advertise special rates for military members and is close to a base entrance.

Killgore recently separated from Marine Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was in Afghanistan when she disappeared. She cited irreconcilable differences in her divorce filing but gave no other details.

Cory Killgore made his first public comments about his wife's death in a statement released Thursday by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

"My wife Brittany was beautiful beyond words and her murder has left me devastated," the statement said. "My duty to her memory is now to ensure her good reputation remains intact, and help law enforcement and prosecutors secure justice for the person or persons who took her away from me."

Cory Killgore has not been named as a suspect or person of interest in the killing. The couple married in July 2010.

The judge set bail at $3 million each for Perez and Lopez and scheduled a preliminary hearing for May 30. If convicted, they could face maximum sentences of life in prison.

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(CBS/AP) VISTA, Calif. - New details have emerged in the case of Brittany Killgore at an initial hearing for the man arrested in connection with her death.

Prosecutors believe things quickly went wrong for the 22-year-old wife of Marine Cory Killgore when she met another Marine for a night out.

"She sent a text saying, "Help," Patrick Espinoza, a deputy district attorney in San Diego County, said Thursday. "She was missing from that point on."

Authorities said Killgore's body was found in brush near Lake Skinner on April 17. It was just hours after paramedics were called to a San Diego motel and found another woman with self-inflicted cuts and a suicide note.

Killgore's text message to an unnamed friend was disclosed at an arraignment for Louis Ray Perez, 45, who pleaded not guilty to murder.

The brief hearing offered the most details yet of what authorities believe happened to Killgore after she disappeared on April 13.

Espinoza said investigators found Killgore's blood and a weapon in Perez's car. He also said Perez told investigators he dropped off Killgore in downtown San Diego's bustling Gaslamp District, but investigators concluded that he lied about his whereabouts and stayed about 60 miles north in Fallbrook. This is where Killgore lived.

Meanwhile, Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, the woman authorities said was found by paramedics at the motel, has also pleaded not guilty to murder.

The prosecutor said Lopez and Perez once lived together but didn't indicate when or where. Lopez currently lives a mile from Killgore's second-floor apartment overlooking Camp Pendleton.

Espinoza didn't disclose a possible motive or other details about the death during the hearing and he later declined to elaborate on the investigation.

It's still unclear how Killgore died and whether the unspecified weapon authorities said they found in Perez's car was used in the killing. Perez's attorney, Jeff Reichert, said Lopez's suicide note shows "very, very clearly" that she killed Killgore and that his client was not involved.

"The court has information in its hands that exonerates my client on this charge," Reichert said.

However, details of the note were not released and Superior Court Judge Kimberlee Lagotta ordered it to be sealed.

Killgore recently separated from Marine Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was in Afghanistan when she disappeared. She cited irreconcilable differences in her divorce filing but gave no other details.

Cory Killgore made his first public comments about his wife's death in a statement released Thursday by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

"My wife Brittany was beautiful beyond words and her murder has left me devastated," the statement said. "My duty to her memory is now to ensure her good reputation remains intact and help law enforcement and prosecutors secure justice for the person or persons who took her away from me."

Cory Killgore has not been named as a suspect or person of interest in the killing. The couple married in July 2010.

The judge set bail at $3 million each for Perez and Lopez and scheduled a preliminary hearing for May 30. If convicted, they could face maximum sentences of life in prison.

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San Diego Sex Slave Community Distances Itself From Killgore Murder

Walter Mencken, April 25, 2012

As the details surrounding the murder of 22-year-old local military ex-wife Brittany Killgore continue to emerge, San Diego's sex slaves are reportedly asking their masters for permission to speak out in protest against unsavory associations between themselves and Killgore's alleged killer.

"Yes, the last person seen with Killgore before her death was a Dom [Marine Louis Ray Perez] who went by the name Ivan and kept a poly house with his chief slave Dee," grants Lacey Paine, spokeswoman for Submissive Liberation As Virtual Empowerment [SLAVE], a Sub advocacy group.

"Yes, Dee wrote that she lived with two slaves of her own. And yes, the woman arrested for Killgore's murder [Jessica Lynn Lopez] shared a home with Ivan and Dee. But that doesn't mean that sex slaves are murderers. We do not deserve to be a victim of lies and innuendo anymore than Killgore deserved to be murdered."

"It's frustrating," continued Paine. "Just because I like to be humiliated in the bedroom does not mean I like to see my community trashed in the media. People tend to assume that, just because I like to be completely encased in skintight vinyl and then locked in a metal box that forces me to adopt the fetal position for hours at a time before being unpacked, stripped, strapped into a sex swing and fitted with nipple clamps as a prelude to intercourse, I'm some kind of weirdo."

"But I'm not," she protested. "I'm really quite conventional in many respects. In fact, you might say I do a lot of my thinking 'inside the box.'"

"Get it?" concluded Paine. "Inside the box?"

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There are some REAL sicko's out there!!!!!

People tend to assume that, just because I like to be completely encased in skintight vinyl and then locked in a metal box that forces me to adopt the fetal position for hours at a time before being unpacked, stripped, strapped into a sex swing and fitted with nipple clamps as a prelude to intercourse, I'm some kind of weirdo."

You don't mean it! Why would they ever think that?!!

My thoughts Exactly!!!!!!

"But I'm not," she protested. "I'm really quite conventional in many respects. In fact, you might say I do a lot of my thinking 'inside the box.'"

"Get it?" concluded Paine. "Inside the box?"

So not funny

Not funny at all. :jaw dropping:

Several media reported a possible connection between the slain Fallbrook woman and the alternative sexual lifestyle of her alleged killers, and her husband urged the public to ignore the rumors.
By Peter Surowski April 26, 2012

The Marine husband of a Fallbrook woman who was killed and dumped near Lake Skinner urged the public today not to believe gossip about his late wife.

"As my father‐in‐law said, please honor my wife's name and don't succumb to salacious gossip and rumor," Cory Killgore wrote in a letter released today through the San Diego Sheriff's Department. "Brittany was a beautiful, good person, who did not deserve this."

He was likely responding to reports that his late wife was involved with sadomasochism with Jessica Lopez and Louis Perez, the two suspects arrested in the case.

Perez has a profile on several websites catering to alternative sexual lifestyles, according to the Union-Tribune. His username is "Ivan" and he brags of having a sex slave.

"I am lord and master, dom and daddy of my house. My slave, Ms. Dee, is a slave to no one, but myself," he wrote in his profile.

Dee owns the Fallbrook home in which Perez and Lopez lived. Dee also has a profile on a similar website and goes by the name "Twisted 2 Plus You." She states on the website she is "an alpha slave to master Ivan. We have a poly home in which I own two slave girls. Life is good," according to CBS8.

Killgore was not connected to Perez's sexual lifestyle in any way, and the victim's father denounced the reports. "She does not deserve to be a victim of lies and innuendo anymore than she deserved to be murdered," he said, according to CBS8.

Killgore filed divorce paperwork about a week before she was killed, according to court records. Her husband nonetheless spoke glowingly of her.

"My wife Brittany, was beautiful beyond words and her murder has left me devastated," he wrote. "My duty to her memory is now to ensure her good reputation remains intact, and help law enforcement and prosecutors secure justice for the person, or persons who took her away from me."

The Marine was brought back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan when his wife turned up missing. He is now searching for a way to turn this tragedy into something positive.

"Brittany's death cannot be in vain – at this point, I don't know how to use this tragedy for good, but others have found their way and I hope to do the same," he wrote. "Brittany meant too much to do any less."

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Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the death of Brittany Killgore. Two suspects have already been charged in Killgore's death.

(CNN) -- A third suspect has been arrested in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, authorities said.

Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 36, was taken into custody Thursday night in connection with the death of Brittany Killgore, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
Authorities did not say what charges Maraglino will face.

Investigators found Killgore's body on April 17 in a rural part of Riverside County.

Authorities have already arrested Marine Staff Sgt. Luis Ray Perez, on a suspicion of murder charge. They have also arrested Jessica Lynn Lopez and charged her with first-degree murder. Both suspects have pleaded not guilty.

Killgore's connection with the suspects has been unclear.

Brittany Killgore had recently filed for divorce from her husband, who was serving with an artillery unit in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, investigators said. Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, her husband, was granted an emergency leave to return to the United States when he learned about his wife.

"My wife, Brittany, was beautiful beyond words and her murder has left me devastated. My duty to her memory is now to ensure her good reputation remains intact, and help law enforcement and prosecutors secure justice for the person or persons who took her away from me," Cory Killgore said in April.

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FALLBROOK: Third person arrested in Killgore death to be arraigned Monday

A third person arrested in connection with the slaying of Brittany Killgore, a Fallbrook woman who went missing last month and was later found dead, is set to be arraigned Monday on suspicion of murder, online jail records show.

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore on Thursday night announced the arrest of Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 36, saying sheriff's investigators had taken her into custody around 6:30 p.m., with the assistance of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS.

According to neighbors and public records, Maraglino lived at in an East Fallbrook Street house with two suspects in the young Marine wife's death: U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez, 45, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25.

Perez and Lopez have pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Killgore was found dead April 17, in a rural stretch east of Temecula. Investigators located her body after Lopez left a note in a failed suicide attempt earlier that day.

Investigators said Maraglino's arrest was as a result of information and evidence obtained during the investigation into Killgore's death. At the time, they stopped short of saying she was suspected of murder.

However, Maraglino was booked into jail around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, and online jail records indicate she is being held on suspicion of murder. There were no other suspected crimes listed on her jail records.

Lopez and Perez remained jailed Friday in lieu of at least $3 million bail each. The two are in court May 30 for a preliminary hearing, at which time a judge will determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to take them to trial.

Killgore filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Marine Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, on April 10 while he was deployed in Afghanistan, according to court records. Investigators have said he is not a suspect in his wife's death.

Brittany Killgore was last seen about 5 p.m. April 13, detectives have said. She was with Perez. Her cellphone was found the next day in the Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego.

Brittany Killgore's grandmother told a reporter at a newspaper in Farmington, Mo., that Killgore was supposed to go out with Perez and another woman on a dinner cruise the night she was last seen.

Killgore's mother called police after a stranger called her from Killgore's phone.

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Suspects in Marine wife's case linked through home
By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press
Friday, May. 11, 2012 | 03:25 PM

SAN DIEGO -- A woman arrested in the killing of a Marine's wife is in foreclosure proceedings on a home listed as a residence by another Marine and woman who have been charged with murder in the case, property records show.

Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino bought the yellow stucco home in Fallbrook in December 2009, records show. Bank of America filed a default notice two weeks ago, saying she owed $12,862.

Maraglino, 36, was arrested at a hotel in downtown San Diego late Thursday and booked on suspicion of murder in the death of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said.

She was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Vista. Sheriff's records do not indicate whether the suspect has an attorney.

Tanya Sierra, a spokeswoman for the San Diego County district attorney's office, said Friday that no decision had been made on whether to file charges against Maraglino.

Louis Ray Perez, 45, a Marine staff sergeant, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 27, have pleaded not guilty to the murder. Prosecutors have said the two lived together at one time but have not said when or where. Records show both have listed the Fallbrook home as their residence.

Maraglino has had a registered business named Rwayom Minote since July 2008. State records do not describe the nature of the San Diego company.

Authorities have not indicated a motive for the slaying.

Gore said late Thursday that Maraglino's arrest was the result of evidence obtained during the investigation. He did not elaborate.

A sheriff's department spokeswoman, Melissa Aquino, declined to comment on the case Friday.

Maraglino's house is a mile from Killgore's apartment in Fallbrook, a town of 38,000 people known for its avocado orchards and proximity to Camp Pendleton.

Killgore was last seen April 13 in a purple evening gown, three days after she filed for divorce from Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was serving in Afghanistan at the time.

Prosecutors say Killgore met Perez for a night out but things quickly went wrong.

"She sent a text saying, 'Help,'" Patrick Espinoza, a San Diego County deputy district attorney, said at Perez's arraignment last month. "She was missing from that point on."

Investigators found Killgore's blood and a weapon in Perez's car, according to prosecutors. Perez told investigators he dropped off Killgore in downtown San Diego's bustling Gaslamp District, but investigators concluded that he lied about his whereabouts and stayed about 60 miles north in Fallbrook.

Cory Killgore has not been named as a suspect or person of interest in the killing and has said he is devastated by his wife's death. The couple married in July 2010.

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Arraignment for a third person arrested in connection with the slaying of Brittany Killgore, a Fallbrook woman missing for three days before her body was found, will take place Tuesday.

The third suspect, Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 36, was originally set to be arraigned Monday. Prosecutors have until Tuesday to charge or release her from jail, where she was being held without bail.

Maraglino was arrested in a San Diego hotel room Thursday night, according to the San Diego Sheriff's Department.

According to neighbors and public records, Maraglino owned an East Fallbrook Street house and lived with the two other suspects in the young Marine wife's death: U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez, 45, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25.

Perez and Lopez have pleaded not guilty to murder charges.

Lopez and Perez remained jailed in lieu of at least $3 million bail each. They are due in court May 30 for a preliminary hearing, at which time a judge will determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to take them to trial.

Maraglino bought the Fallbrook home in December 2009, records show. Bank of America filed a default notice two weeks ago, saying she owed $12,862.

It is not entirely clear how Killgore was linked to the trio.

Killgore filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Marine Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, on April 10 while he was deployed in Afghanistan, according to court records. Investigators have said he is not a suspect in his wife's death.

Brittany Killgore was last seen about 5 p.m. April 13, detectives have said. She was with Perez. Her cellphone was found the next day in the Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego.

Brittany Killgore's grandmother told a reporter at a newspaper in Farmington, Mo., that Killgore was supposed to go out with Perez and another woman on a dinner cruise the night she was last seen.

Killgore's mother called police April 14 after a stranger called her from Killgore's phone.

Her body was found April 17 in a rural stretch east of Temecula.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 5:17 PM
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Dorothy Maraglino, 36, in court on Tuesday for her arraignment in the killing of Brittany Killgore. (She looks very pregnant!!)

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The beautiful wife of a U.S. Marine slain last month thought she was heading to a dinner cruise in the hours before her death, prosecutors said in court on Tuesday.

The alleged ruse was revealed as Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino appeared in court to face a murder charge in the death of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, NBC San Diego reports.

Killgore’s body was found April 17 in brush near a Southern California lake, just days after she filed for divorce from her husband.

Prosecutors said Maraglino, 36, called Killgore on April 13 to convince her to go on the boat cruise.

Killgore, who knew Maraglino didn’t like her, initially didn’t want to go — but was convinced by Maraglino’s boyfriend, U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez, according to prosecutors.

Perez is married to a different woman, according to the Associated Press.

Four days later, Killgore got into a car with Perez, 45. Prosecutors claim that she was in the car with him when she texted “help” to a friend — the last time anyone is known to have heard from her.

Perez allegedly texted Maraglino and they met at a house where they both lived at one point, along with 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez. It was there Killgore was allegedly killed, according to the AP.

Perez and Lopez have both plead not guilty to Killogore’s murder.

Authorities say that hours before they found Killgore’s body, paramedics responded to a call at a San Diego motel, where they found Lopez with self-inflicted cuts and a suicide note.

In the note, Lopez refers to Maraglino as “Mistress” and Lopez as “Master,” according to NBC San Diego.

“Master I am so sorry I dragged you into this,” the note reportedly reads. “I thought I was defending the family and it would be simple like Dexter.”

The note is thought to refer to the popular TV show “Dexter,” about a serial killer, NBC San Diego reports.

Last month, Perez was linked to postings on bondage websites where he identified himself as “lord and master, dom and daddy of my house,” according to CBS News 8.

Prosecutors said a weapon and blood were found in Perez’ car, according to the AP.

Before her murder, Killgore had separated from her husband, Marine Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was in Afghanistan when she disappeared and is not a suspect.

Jessica Lynn Lopez pleads not guilty to murder in death of Marine's wife

By Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

DIEGO - The woman accused in the death of Brittany Killgore, a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife whose body was found near a Southern California lake, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Thursday.

Bail was set at $3 million at Jessica Lynn Lopez's arraignment in Vista Superior Court, north of San Diego. She could get life in prison if convicted.

Paramedics reportedly found Lopez, 25, in a hotel room with self-inflicted wounds and a suicide note on Tuesday hours before authorities discovered Killgore's remains. No further details were released about the note.

Another Marine, Louis Ray Perez, 45, remains a person of interest in the case. Investigators say he was the last person seen with Killgore.

Brittany Killgore disappeared on April 13, four days after she filed for divorce from her husband, Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was deployed to Afghanistan seven months ago. Cory Killgore has not been named as a suspect or person of interest and is returning to California after learning about the case.

Perez was being held on $500,000 bail after pleading not guilty Wednesday to stealing an assault weapon. Authorities say he took the weapon from a man in early February.

It was unclear if the weapon might have been connected to the killing of Killgore.

Perez has been in the military for 16 years, has no criminal history and is married, said Jeffrey Reichert, his attorney.

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lisette wrote:

People tend to assume that, just because I like to be completely encased in skintight vinyl and then locked in a metal box that forces me to adopt the fetal position for hours at a time before being unpacked, stripped, strapped into a sex swing and fitted with nipple clamps as a prelude to intercourse, I'm some kind of weirdo."

You don't mean it! Why would they ever think that?!!

I guess I missed reading a lot on this thread. I do agree with your comments lisette.

Written by
J. Harry Jones
12:31 p.m., May 22, 2012
Updated 2:01 p.m.

VISTA — A preliminary hearing for the three Fallbrook residents charged with the murder last month of Marine wife Brittany Killgore will not take place until late this summer, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The hearing, when many details of the investigation that led to the arrest of Louis Perez, 45, Jessica Lopez, 25, and Dorothy Maraglino, 36, are expected to be revealed, was scheduled for next week. The new hearing date is Aug. 21.

During a brief conference in Vista Superior Court, Judge Kimberlee Lagotta also agreed to continue to seal a suicide note written by Lopez that detectives found when they arrested her April 17 inside a Point Loma motel room four days after Killgore disappeared.

The note led later that day to the discovery of the 22-year-old Killgore’s body near Lake Skinner in southwestern Riverside County.

Among reasons given by Lagotta to keep the note from the public was for the sake of the “privacy and dignity” of the victim.

Perez’s attorney, Jeff Reichert, asked the judge to unseal the note in which Lopez takes full responsibility for Killgore’s death and, he said, exonerates the other two defendants.

Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza told Lagotta that U-T San Diego has already obtained a copy of the suicide note and published excerpts, but he worries that a “less respectable” news organization might not be so circumspect about what parts of the note to make public.

Lagotta also lifted orders prohibiting the publication of photographs of Perez and Lopez. Espinoza told the judge that there are no identity issues now in the case. Lawyers for Perez and Lopez objected but to no avail.

Lopez’s attorney, Sloan Ostbye, also asked the judge to order the Sheriff’s Department to keep Lopez and Maraglino separate while they are incarcerated at the Las Colinas jail in Santee.

She said when Maraglino was arrested two weeks ago and brought to the jail — the only women’s jail in the county — “my client was woken up by a detective and taken into a room” where Maraglino was present.

“They were left to have a chat of some sort,” Ostbye said. “I want to make sure that these two individuals are kept separate at Las Colinas,”

The judge agreed to the request.

All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to a murder charge and each is jailed in lieu of $3 million bail.

Killgore disappeared the evening of April 13 after having last been seen with Perez, officials said.

According to online profiles posted by Maraglino and Perez, the two practiced sadomasochism and bondage. Maraglino is described online as Perez’s “sex slave.”

Lopez lived with the two in a small house owned by Maraglino in Fallbrook.

Authorities have revealed no link between Killgore and that alternative lifestyle. Espinoza has stressed in court that Killgore was “an innocent victim."

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That is an interesting article. So the prosecutor thinks that Killgore was murdered in the house that Lopez, Louis Perez and Maraglino, who owned the home lived in together.

It will be interesting to see how this case turns out.

Media Wants Search Warrants Unsealed In Brittany Killgore Murder Case
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
By Beth Ford Roth

Several media outlets are asking a San Diego County judge to unseal search warrants in the murder investigation of Camp Pendleton Marine wife Brittany Killgore.

The Associated Press, which is one of the 10 media organizations seeking to unseal the warrants, reports San Diego County Superior Court Judge Ruston Maino told attorneys today he needed to review the warrants before he could make a ruling.

The judge scheduled another hearing on the issue for next Wednesday.

As Home Post has previously reported, three people, including a Camp Pendleton Marine, have been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the death of Killgore, who was 22-years-old at the time of her death.

The three suspects, Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 36, Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 45, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, lived together in Maraglino's Temecula home.

Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza has alleged Perez murdered Killgore after Maraglino convinced the young Marine wife to attend a dinner cruise with Perez on April 13, the last night Killgore was seen alive. Her body was found in Riverside County on April 17.

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Brittany Killgore Murder: Judge To Rule On Releasing Warrants In Marine Wife Killing Probe Wednesday

AP | By JULIE WATSON
Posted: 06/27/2012 9:37 am

Judge Runston Maino will rule Wednesday on whether at least 18 search warrants regarding the murder of Marine wife Brittany Killgore, 22, will be unsealed.

VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A judge is expected to rule Wednesday on whether to unseal search warrants in the investigation into the death of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife whose body was found near a Southern California lake in April.

San Diego County Superior Court Judge Runston Maino planned to issue his decision at a hearing Wednesday in Vista, Calif.

Ten news organizations, including The Associated Press, are seeking access to at least 18 warrants in the investigation. The warrants were approved by judges in three different courthouses.

Three roommates have pleaded not guilty to murder: Louis Ray Perez, Jessica Lynn Lopez and Dorothy Maraglino. Prosecutors say 22-year-old Brittany Killgore disappeared after agreeing to go on a dinner cruise with Perez, who is also a Marine.

Investigators have not revealed a possible motive for the killing.

U-T San Diego obtained a suicide note from Lopez, who turned 25 on the day Killgore disappeared. Lopez was found by paramedics four days later in a San Diego motel with what authorities called minor, self-inflicted cuts.

In the note, Lopez describes grabbing Killgore's ankle when she entered their Fallbrook home, slamming her into the stairs, shooting her with a stun gun and strangling her with a rope. Lopez wrote that she drove to the beach to dump handcuffs and a knife in a portable toilet, according to the newspaper. She claimed she drove to the lake to dispose of Killgore's body.

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BY JULIE WATSON
Associated Press

VISTA, CALIF. -- A judge agreed Wednesday to unseal three of 22 search warrants that were served during an investigation into the death of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife.

San Diego County Superior Court Judge Runston Maino said the warrants will be unsealed at 5 p.m. on July 5, giving attorneys in the case time to appeal his decision before the information becomes public.

He added he's limiting the warrants' release to only three because the information in many of them is redundant.

Roommates Louis Ray Perez, Jessica Lynn Lopez and Dorothy Maraglino have pleaded not guilty to murder.

Prosecutors say 22-year-old Brittany Killgore disappeared after agreeing to go on a dinner cruise with Perez, who is also a Marine. Her body was found near a Southern California lake in April.

Investigators have not revealed a possible motive for the killing.

Ten news organizations, including The Associated Press, sought access to the warrants in the investigation.

Maino said the three warrants to be unsealed would be representative of all that were served and would include a suicide letter written by Lopez.

Before they are released, he plans to redact names of some of the witnesses and other personal information.

Lawyers for Lopez and Maraglino argued that the warrants' release would prevent their clients from receiving a fair trial. Perez's attorney, Jeff Reichert, has supported unsealing the warrants. At a hearing before another judge in April, he said Lopez's note shows "very, very clearly" that she killed Killgore and that his client was not involved.

U-T San Diego obtained the suicide note from Lopez, who turned 25 on the day Killgore disappeared. Lopez was found by paramedics four days later in a San Diego motel with what authorities called minor, self-inflicted cuts.

In the note, Lopez describes grabbing Killgore's ankle when she entered their Fallbrook home, slamming her into the stairs, shooting her with a stun gun and strangling her with a rope. Lopez wrote that she drove to the beach to dump handcuffs and a knife in a portable toilet, according to the newspaper. She claimed she drove to the lake to dispose of Killgore's body.

A person familiar with the case confirmed the note's descriptions to The Associated Press. That person spoke on condition of anonymity because the note is still under seal.

The judge noted Wednesday that much of the information in the warrants has already been made public by the media.

The San Diego County district attorney's office argued that unsealing the documents may jeopardize the defendants' right to a fair trial, damage an ongoing investigation and violate the victim's privacy.

Guylyn Cummins, the attorney representing the news organizations, argued that speculative fears about pre-trial publicity does not stand as an argument for keeping the warrants sealed, especially in a city with a jury pool as large as San Diego's.

"The media is unaware of any compelling interest that has been demonstrated by anyone to support secrecy of the search warrants in this case," she said.

All three defendants were being held on $3 million bail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Aug. 21.

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An appeals court on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to unseal three search warrants arising from the investigation into the slaying of Marine wife Brittany Killgore, who went missing just days before she was to leave her Fallbrook home and move back home to Missouri this spring.

The warrants contain details about the circumstances surrounding the death of Killgore, 22, of Fallbrook, whose body was found in rural Riverside County on April 17, three days after she was reported missing. The warrants also contain details about the three Fallbrook roommates accused of conspiring to kill the young woman.

In late June, Superior Court Judge Runstin G. Maino ordered three of at least 22 search warrants in the case unsealed in response to legal action taken by area news outlets, including the North County Times.

But Maino put that order on hold, to give prosecutors and defense attorneys time to seek an order from a higher court to block the release.

On Wednesday, however, the 4th District Court of Appeals gave the OK for the warrants to be released.

In court, prosecutor Patrick Espinoza said Killgore was "an innocent victim," lured to her death in a plot hatched because a woman among the trio of Fallbrook roommates didn't like her.

Espinoza's comments came during the arraignment for Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, the woman whose dislike of Killgore led to Killgore's death, according to Espinoza's statements in court.

Aside from Maraglino, roommates Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez and Jessica Lynn Lopez, a former longtime Escondido resident, were accused in Killgore's death.

All three have pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder. Each faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
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Brittany Killgore, Slain Wife Of Marine, Targeted By Sex Ring, According To Warrants

By JULIE WATSON and ELLIOT SPAGAT 07/18/12 10:55 PM ET

SAN DIEGO — A woman charged with murdering a Marine's wife said she strangled the victim to keep her from another Marine who ran a kinky sex ring, according to search warrants unsealed Wednesday.

The documents shed light on a possible motive in the killing of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, whose body was found in April near a Southern California lake. A judge ordered the warrants unsealed at the request of news organizations including The Associated Press.

Jessica Lopez said in a seven-page letter that she acted after the victim told her that she had a "whole night planned" with Louis Ray Perez.

Lopez, 25, said she then shot Killgore with a stun gun, wrapped a rope around a neck, buried her face in a pillow and strangled her.

"She barely moved but she just wouldn't die, the miserable whore," the letter said.

Lopez said she made "a few attempts to chop her up" with Perez's power tools and doused Killgore's body in bleach to get rid of evidence before dumping the nude body near Lake Skinner, near Riverside.

The documents give no indication that Killgore knew about the sex ring and prosecutors have described her as an innocent victim. Detectives said she accepted Perez's invitation to a San Diego dinner cruise after Perez helped her move that afternoon. The warrants do not say how Killgore met the suspects.

Killgore was last seen April 13 in a borrowed purple evening gown, three days after she filed for divorce from Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was serving in Afghanistan at the time.

Lopez wrote that she believed Killgore was trying to come between her, Perez, 45, and Dorothy Maraglino, 36. The three suspects lived together at a home in Fallbrook, north of San Diego. All three have pleaded not guilty to murder.

Detectives found what they said looked like a "sex room/dungeon" in the Fallbrook home, with "several bondage type apparatuses; toys and tools." A former girlfriend of Perez told authorities she engaged in "bondage, whipping, spanking and cutting" with him and that another woman was once prevented from leaving the "sex dungeon."

In her letter, Lopez called Perez the "Master" and told police he wasn't responsible for the killing. Detectives found it in a San Diego hotel where Lopez was discovered with self-inflicted cuts four days after Killgore disappeared.

The handwritten letter – below a mirror that was scrawled with the word "PIGS READ THIS" – accused police of "complete incompetence." It is laced with profanity and poor punctuation.

"Master I am so sorry I dragged you into this," it reads. "I thought I was defending the family and it would be simple like Dexter (a serial killer in a television show). To Mistress I have always lived to be your slave & pet I'm sorry my last act is to leave this world without permission but I cannot bear your grief & my guilt at seeing Master go through this from my choice."

The letter says where the body was dumped, telling police they would likely find handcuff marks on the wrists. It says the handcuffs and a knife were disposed at a beach restroom in Oceanside.

Sloan Ostbye, Lopez's attorney, didn't immediately respond to a phone message Wednesday. She joined the San Diego County district attorney's office in an appeal to keep the documents sealed, calling much of her client's letter "false or at least misleading and possibly delusional."

Three days after Killgore vanished, detectives searched Perez's mud-caked Ford Explorer and found a plastic bag with a stun gun, latex gloves and Killgore's blood. Perez's DNA was found on the stun gun.

The documents describe an elaborate ruse for Perez to conceal his whereabouts on the night Killgore vanished.

The Marine told detectives he picked up Killgore for the dinner cruise but instead dropped her off at a downtown San Diego nightclub. He said he couldn't find her at the club after parking and returned home.

Killgore's and Perez's cell phones remained in Fallbrook that night, contradicting his statement that he was in San Diego, according to authorities.

Killgore sent a text message to a friend that said, "Help," at 7:50 p.m., about 13 minutes after Perez picked her up. The friend asked if she was OK and insisted she call. About two hours later, the friend got a response, "Yes I love this party," which fueled suspicions because Killgore always texted `yeah' instead of `yes' and had said nothing about going to a party.

A transient found Killgore's phone at his feet when he woke up in the doorway of a downtown San Diego hotel that night. A San Diego County sheriff's detective said he believed Perez drove downtown to get rid of the phone.

All three defendants are being held on $3 million bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled Aug. 21.

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New Details Released In Brittany Killgore Investigation

Eva Knott, July 18, 2012

A friend reported Brittany missing to San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies on Saturday, April 14. Deputy Brenemen took a missing person report at 2 p.m. that afternoon.

The friend said Brittany was supposed to go with Louis Perez to downtown San Diego, to the Gas Lamp area, the prior evening, Friday. Brittany reportedly left her apartment and got into Perez’ vehicle and left, and no one heard or saw her after that.

Deputy Brenemen phoned Louis Perez and requested a meeting, and Perez arrived in a white Ford Explorer. Perez had mud on his shoes, and the deputy noted a large amount of new-looking mud on the undercarriage and wheel wells of the vehicle. It was noted that the seat cover on the passenger side of the Ford was missing, but there was still a cover on the driver’s side. The passenger seat had impressions where a cover used to be, in the investigator’s opinion. The deputy noticed a rifle case, and inside he found an AR15 assault rifle that had been reported stolen; Perez said he bought it from “an unknown person.” Also found in the vehicle was a plastic wand-type lighter, and an empty bottle of lighter fluid on the passenger floor board, and a large folding knife tucked into the visor. There was an MCX shopping bag in the rear compartment, inside that was another plastic bag, and a pair of blue latex gloves, and a “stun baton” and some trash. Attached to the stun gun they found one human hair. The gloves and plastic bag tested positive for blood, later DNA matched to Brittany. Perez’ DNA was found on the stun gun.

Perez told the deputy he was helping Brittany pack her belongings to move, about 4 p.m. the afternoon of Friday April 13, at her place in Fallbrook. Perez said he asked Brittany to go out on a dinner-dance boat with him, but she said she was too tired. He left, but then at about 5:10 p.m., Brittany sent him a text saying she wanted to go to downtown San Diego with him after all, he told the deputy.

Brittany went to her friend’s apartment to borrow a purple floral dress with sequins, and when she left she told her friend she was going home to “get ready to leave with Perez.”

But the worried friend told investigators that just thirteen minutes after Perez picked Brittany up, she got a text from Brittany’s phone which said: “Help.” The friend texted back: “What?” and “R u okay” and “Brittany are u okay. I am freaking out here.”
It wasn’t until 8:05 p.m. that the friend finally got a text back from Brittany’s phone, it said: “Yes I love this party.” But the friend was immediately suspicious because Brittany never used the word “yes” in her texts – she used “yeah.” The worried friend kept sending texts, asking Brittany to phone her, but Brittany never called her.

Someone told investigators that he saw Perez back his truck down the driveway of the home he stayed at, in Fallbrook, “around dusk time.” This is the same time the message “help” came from Brittany’s phone. Perez reportedly backed up to a large sailboat located at the very back of the property, and then opened the rear cargo hatch of his vehicle. The witness noticed a ladder leaning up against the mostly-white boat – the boat was propped up above the ground -- the witness said he had not noticed a ladder there before. And the witness had never seen Perez back into the driveway before, it was a circular drive and usually backing up would not be necessary.

Perez told detectives he picked up Killgore at her apartment about 7:30 p.m. – deputies noticed this would have been too late to make the dinner-dance boat. He said he drove straight to downtown San Diego, and dropped Brittany off in front of the Whiskey Girl Night Club while he found a place to park. It took him about ten or fifteen minutes to park and walk to the night club, and then Perez said “he was unable to locate Killgore.” He didn’t bother to actually go inside any nightclub while he looked for her, but said he did look for about thirty minutes, and then he left and “headed home.” At one point, he said he turned around to go back to look for her again, but then he went home for the night, without ever finding her.

Investigators collected text messages from Perez’ cell to Killgore’s cell phone, these started at 9:20 p.m. The texts were: “Your friends are calling me worried” and “OK now I am worried too” and “Musical too loud call me back” and “Go outside & call me baxk.” At no time did Killgore’s phone respond to any of those texts.

Cell phone records showed both Perez’ and Brittany’s phones were using towers in Fallbrook during the time he said they were downtown.

Perez said he stayed that night at Dorothy Maraglino’s home in downtown Fallbrook. He said this is his “current girlfriend” and this home is “one of his permanent residences.” Dorothy said Perez came to her home between 10 p.m. and midnight that night, and that he stayed there and never left, until the deputy phoned him.

Perez said the mud on his vehicle must have gotten there when he collected firewood on Camp Pendleton. He was in the Marines at the time. Or maybe it got there when he went for a run on the beach.

Brittany’s cell phone was found by a transient in downtown San Diego. The transient said when he awoke in a doorway of the Comfort Inn on G Street, the cell phone was lying at his feet.

For two weeks, detectives searched Dorothy Maraglino’s home. She had a roommate, Jessica Lopez, who lived there too. Deputies noted ashes in the fireplace. Searchers found one room “set up as some type of sex dungeon.” There were “sex apparatuses, toys and tools,” which they collected. Dorothy and Jessica said they had sexual activities which included master, servant and slave role playing. Dorothy told one investigator that she was a “Dominatrix.” Perez said he liked to spank women. An ex-girlfriend of Perez told investigators that at one time they held a female in a room, the sex dungeon, and would not allow her to leave unless they gave her permission.

Detectives got a grocery store receipt from the local Albertson’s out of a trash can, dated April 13 2012, 8 p.m., it showed a credit card number and a preferred member number on it. Store surveillance video showed Jessica handing Dorothy a credit card and Dorothy paid for the items they were purchasing. During this time, Perez sent a text to Dorothy asking, “Kitten?” And she replied, “Hi” and “Sorry I was in the back of the store.” Later, Perez sent a message to Dorothy to “Come home” -- the detective noted this last message was twenty-one minutes after Brittany had sent the text message, “help.” Dorothy drove a truck with license plates that said, “IVNSKTN.”

On April 17, 2012: about 9:38 a.m., investigators went to the Ramada Inn in the Point Loma area of San Diego. They were told that Dorothy Maraglino had checked into room #105. Detectives knocked on that door, but a woman's slurred voice said she was tired and did not want to come to the door. The detectives asked and then demanded that the door be opened, then they got a pass key to open it. But an interior lock only allowed the door to open a few inches -- but one deputy yelled out that she could see blood so a detective kicked the door all the way open. A woman was just exiting the bathroom when cops busted in, she was naked from the waist up. The woman identified herself as “Rosalin,” but cops later determined it was Jessica Lopez. They took her out into a hallway while they searched the hotel room, and she asked if she could cover her breasts and one detective “told her please do so.”

Deputies noticed multiple cuts on Jessica’s neck and left arm, and blood. There was blood on the bed sheets and on the carpet and bathroom floor. There were large knives found in the bathroom, and an empty bottle of Chambord liqueur on the counter there. Bottles of medication were found.

On the mirror above a dressing table was written: “PIGS READ THIS.” Just below, on the dressing table, was a seven page handwritten document. The letter began “I’m sorry Mistress, I know you would have stopped me…You have the WRONG f\'ing PERSON.” Perez was held in custody at the time. The letter also said, “I hid the body of that whore in almost plain sight.” The writer communicated that she disposed of the body in the area of Lake Skinner. The note was signed by Jessica Lopez AKA Rosalin Loraine Idalgo. Next to this document were three sealed envelopes, addressed to Master Ivan at the San Diego Jail, and “To my parents,” and to “KGFV at 100 Park Boulevard in San Diego.”

Lopez told investigators that she secretly put a copy of the same letter into Dorothy Maraglino’s bags before she left the hotel room.

Surveillance video from the hotel confirmed Dorothy Maraglino and checked in at the front desk the night of April 16, 2012. Dorothy and Jessica carried bags into the hotel room together. Later that night Dorothy took a shuttle to the airport. Detectives phoned her there, she said she was “currently in Virginia at a family function.” Detectives started to ask about the night Brittany disappeared and “She became angry and disconnected the phone call.” Detectives flew out to Virginia, but she wouldn’t communicate with them.

At 2:23 p.m. on April 17, 2012, the body of a naked, white female was found on the side of the road, east of Lake Skinner, in Riverside County, north of San Diego County. This was 23 miles from Fallbrook, where investigators believe Brittany was killed. “Killgore had injuries on her neck that were consistent with her being strangled with a ligature.” There were also signs that someone made “attempt at dismembering her.” These abuses to her body were described in the handwritten note investigators found in Dorothy and Jessica's hotel room. An autopsy the next day declared Brittany Killgore's cause of death “homicidal violence.”

On May 10 2012, Dorothy Maraglino was arrested. Investigators stated they couldn’t find her cell phone, it “has been missing since the early stages of this investigation.”

Louis Ray Perez, Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, and Jessica Lynn Lopez all have pleaded not guilty to one count of murder. They are all in custody.

This information was taken from four sworn statements of these investigators: Brian Patterson, and Will Althenhof and Norman Hubbert, all with SD County Sheriff. Their statements were dated April 16, April 19, May 1 and May 24, 2012.

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Warrant includes note, clues about Killgore's death

1 hour ago • By MORGAN COOK

The text of an apparent suicide note written by one of three suspects in the slaying of Marine wife Brittany Killgore offers a rambling account of how she, and not the other two suspects, killed the young Fallbrook woman ---- and why.

A search warrant unsealed by court order on Wednesday includes the text of the note, which sheriff's deputies say they found April 17 in the downtown San Diego hotel room where the suspect, Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, was found bleeding from self-inflicted cuts. The note was signed with Lopez's name, along with several aliases.

Along with a detailed account of Killgore's death, the note describes the dynamic of her domestic life with co-defendants Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 45, and Grace Marie Maraglino, 37, at the home the three suspects shared in Fallbrook.

Perez, Lopez and Maraglino have pleaded not guilty to murder charges.

Some of the details included in the angry, profanity-laced note directly conflict with evidence gathered by sheriff's homicide detectives, according to the search warrants. Other details in the note appeared to jibe with physical evidence, and a homicide investigator wrote that he thought the note "contains some facts in reference to how Killgore was murdered."

Part confession, part love story, part last will and testament, the note seems intended to exonerate Perez and Maraglino.

"You have the WRONG (expletive) PERSON," the note said, referencing Perez's April 15 arrest.

The note does not mention Perez or Maraglino by name, but refers to them as "Master" and "Mistress" ---- an apparent reference to an alternative sexual lifestyle in which the three roommates maintained dominating and submissive relationships.

A profile using a photo of Perez referred to him as "Lord & Master, Dom & Daddy of My house," on a website called Bondage.com. The profile also mentions his slave, who was described as "Mistress and care giver of the household and manages it according to My wishes."

Two people who appear to be Perez and Maraglino appeared in a photograph attached to the profile, which was created on Jan. 24, 2009.

There is no indication in the search warrants that Killgore was involved in the suspects' alternative sexual lifestyles, but a homicide detective said he suspected it may have played a role in Killgore's slaying.

"... Because of Perez, Maraglino, and Lopez's unusual sexual fetishes I believe they may have accosted Killgore for these reasons," sheriff's Detective Will Altenhof wrote in the warrant.

According to the apparent suicide note, Lopez's motives for strangling Killgore to death seemed centered on a desire to keep Killgore from pursuing a romantic relationship with Perez, which Lopez feared would jeopardize the three roommates' relationship.

"I had already lost Mistress once when a (expletive) came between her & Master," the note said, according to the warrant. "I know what I had to do."

The note transcribed in the warrant said Killgore visited the roommates' house, demanding to see Perez, who was sleeping inside. The note said Lopez knocked Killgore down, bound her ankles, wrists and mouth with tape, and strangled her with a rope. Lopez then tried to "chop her up like Dexter with Masters power tools ..."

A second reference to "Dexter" appears in the note, describing Lopez wrapping a desk in cellophane before killing Killgore.

The reference appears to be to a television show in which the main character, a serial killer named Dexter, targets people he believes to be criminals.

Injuries on Killgore's neck were consistent with her being strangled with a ligature, Altenhof wrote in the warrant. He also wrote that injuries on Killgore's wrist and leg were consistent with someone using a tool such as a saw in an attempt to dismember her.

The apparent suicide note goes on to describe where Lopez allegedly dumped Killgore's body near Lake Skinner in Riverside County ---- the area where investigators found Killgore's body April 17.

The final section of the note bequeaths some of Lopez's belongings to others.

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Search warrants unsealed Wednesday suggest that Brittany Kilgore may have died as the three roommates accused in her murder tried to satisfy their sexual fetishes, CBS Los Angeles reports.

Detectives found a "sex dungeon" containing "bondage type sex appratuses, toys and tools" at the home of the two women and man who have been charged with murder in the April death of 22-year-old Killgore. Her body was found near a Southern California lake.

Investigators believe all three suspects were with Killgore at their home in Fallbrook, north of San Diego, shortly after the victim sent a desperate text message to a friend: "Help."

Killgore was last seen April 13 in a borrowed purple evening gown, three days after she filed for divorce from Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore, who was serving in Afghanistan at the time. The documents say her body was found with neck injuries consistent with strangulation and marks on her wrist and leg that suggested someone tried to use a saw or other tool to dismember her.

A San Diego County sheriff's detective said in one affidavit that the trio may have targeted Killgore for their "unusual sexual fetishes." Louis Ray Perez and Dorothy Maraglino told authorities they were involved in "master, servant and slave role playing."

The third suspect, Jessica Lopez, said she strangled the victim, fearing Killgore would upend a kinky sex ring by seducing her "Master," according to the warrants. Lopez wrote in a seven-page letter that she believed Killgore was trying to come between her, Perez and Maraglino. All three have pleaded not guilty.

In her letter Lopez, who calls Perez her "Master," shoulders full blame for the killing. She writes that she acted after the victim told her that she had a "whole night planned" with Perez, comments suggesting jealousy was a motive.
Lopez, 25, said she shot the victim with a stun gun, wrapped a rope around a neck, buried her face in a pillow and strangled her.

Lopez said she made "a few attempts to chop her up" with Perez's power tools and doused Killgore's body in bleach to get rid of evidence before dumping the nude body near Lake Skinner, near Riverside.

The documents give no indication that Killgore knew about the sex ring and prosecutors call her an innocent victim. Detectives said she accepted Perez's invitation to a San Diego dinner cruise after Perez helped her move that afternoon. The warrants do not say how Killgore met the suspects.

Sloan Ostbye, Lopez's attorney, didn't immediately respond to a phone message Wednesday. She joined the San Diego County district attorney's office in an appeal to keep the documents sealed, calling much of her client's letter "false or at least misleading and possibly delusional."

In her letter, Lopez called Perez the "Master" and told police he wasn't responsible for the killing. Detectives found the letter in a San Diego hotel where Lopez was discovered with self-inflicted cuts four days after Killgore disappeared.

The letter indicates where the body was dumped, telling police they would likely find handcuff marks on the wrists. It says the handcuffs and a knife were disposed of at a beach restroom in Oceanside.

Three days after Killgore vanished, detectives searched Perez's mud-caked Ford Explorer and found a plastic bag with a stun gun, latex gloves and Killgore's blood. Perez's DNA was found on the stun gun.
The documents describe an elaborate ruse for Perez to conceal his whereabouts on the night Killgore vanished.

The Marine told detectives he picked up Killgore for the dinner cruise but instead dropped her off at a downtown San Diego nightclub. He said he couldn't find her at the club after parking and returned home.

Killgore's and Perez's cell phones remained in Fallbrook that night, contradicting his statement that he was in San Diego, according to authorities.

Killgore sent a text message to a friend that said, "Help," at 7:50 p.m., about 13 minutes after Perez picked her up. The friend asked if she was OK and insisted she call. About two hours later, the friend got a response, "Yes I love this party," which fueled suspicions because Killgore always texted `yeah' instead of `yes' and had said nothing about going to a party.

A transient found Killgore's phone at his feet when he woke up in the doorway of a downtown San Diego hotel that night. A San Diego County sheriff's detective said he believed Perez drove downtown to get rid of the phone.

All three defendants are being held on $3 million bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 21.


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this sounds like the Bashara case.

Forget the shades of gray in Fallbrook murder case

Written by
Logan Jenkins
6 a.m., July 22, 2012

Several weeks ago, I had the distinct displeasure of reading all seven pages of the terrifyingly obscene confession letter that figures prominently in the alleged murder of Brittany Killgore.

In this hysterical screed from hell, Jessica Lynn Lopez represents a sadomasochistic world in which her devotion to her wrongly accused “master” and “mistress” led her to strangle a 22-year-old woman — and futilely attempt to dismember the body the way she’d seen it done on TV.

Much about this Fallbrook murder case remains murky, and the ultimate judgment must be a jury’s, but this much is clear: The three murder defendants — Lopez, 25; Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez, 45; and Dorothy Maraglino, 37 — were ardent players in the sleazy S&M demimonde, a psychologically aberrant territory pioneered so memorably by the Marquis de Sade and Count Sacher-Masoch.

According to released arrest warrants, a “sex dungeon” was part of the interior decoration of the rundown little house in Fallbrook that the trio shared.

Sex dungeon?

I wonder if I’m the only person in North County who finds it passing strange that, as we’re forced to consider the dark side of S&M in Fallbrook, women around the world of all ages are delighting in “Fifty Shades of Grey,” a guilty (at least to the literate) literary pleasure that explores the romantic side of dominance and submission, bondage and whipping.

I’ve overheard more than one animated conversation of respectable women, including my smart wife (who’s read the whole triology), about the relative merits of this or that actor to play Christian in the movie or this or that actress to play Anastasia.

I confess, I’ve read only the sample selection on the Kindle (before the steamy parts are unbound, so to speak). I gather that the whole merchandise line of S&M (the toys, the sex dungeon, etc.) is put on display as Christian and Anastasia figure out how to give new meaning to the old expression: “the ties that bind.”

Is there a direct relationship between the sordid enclave in Fallbrook, the alleged stage for the murder of an innocent Marine’s wife, and the luxurious storybook seduction of a Seattle college student by a breathtakingly handsome, but deeply twisted, master of the software universe?

None that I’d argue, especially to my wife.

One’s black-and-white nonfiction, a brutal murder followed by a lurid confession that, by all appearances, is a work of fiction either written or transcribed by a demented person about to kill herself in a motel room.

The other is fictional romance, to millions of female readers as richly comforting as a gray cashmere blanket.

And yet ...

There is an intersection between art and life that can be awfully uncomfortable for those of us who’d like to believe there’s none. (The "Batman" Joker connection in the Colorado massacre is a case in point.)

In her crazed letter, Lopez describes going “Dexter” on Killgore’s body, trying to dismember it with power tools.

The reference is, of course, to “Dexter,” the hit TV series about an attractive serial killer who cuts up and neatly disposes of people who are, in his view, evil.

In the same vein, who knows what role S&M pornography played in the murder of Killgore? In the course of trial, that question and others like it may be posed, if not answered, in front of a jury.

Of course, Christian and Anastasia will be far from the courtroom questioning. It’s doubtful their culturally resonant names will ever be mentioned.

Their upscale pleasures and pain exist on another level completely. They are the beautiful people in the S&M universe, a lovely poster couple for the beautification of dark impulses.

In North County, on the other hand, we’re stuck with S&M’s dregs, unlovely deviants whose guilt, it should be stated, has yet to be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.

But moving forward to a preliminary trial next month, you’d best not expect any tastefully erotic shades of gray.

No, if I’m reading right, this case will come down to the ugly dark side of sex and power.

Hide the children.

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Marine wife slaying throws spotlight on bondage scene
POLICE SAY ' 'FETISHES' MOTIVE FOR KILLGORE KILLERS

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The disappearance and gruesome slaying of Brittany Killgore, 22, whose naked body was dumped in a ditch in April while her Marine husband was fighting in Afghanistan, has drawn worldwide attention ---- largely because of the sexual kinks of her three suspected killers.

In court documents released last month, police described a sex dungeon and bondage toys, and suggested that the Fallbrook suspects killed Killgore to satisfy their sexual desires. The documents mentioned no evidence that Killgore was involved in their practices.

The case has heightened fears of misunderstanding or persecution in the local bondage community, especially when the best-selling novels in America are those in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy, an erotic series that includes acts of bondage, binding and disciplining for pleasure.

Members of the local bondage community ---- who organize primarily through niche social media websites, discreet clubs, and parties at neighborhood homes or specialty businesses ---- fear being seen as crazy or violent.

Psychologists and sex educators said that bondage relationships can be healthy and are somewhat common, though they often remain hidden from public view.

Such secrets are usually exposed only when something has gone terribly wrong, experts said.

Terribly wrong

Court documents detail the living arrangement and lifestyle of the three people charged with Killgore's murder: Louis Ray Perez, his pregnant girlfriend Dorothy Maraglino, and the couple's "sex slave," Jessica Lopez. They all lived in the same Fallbrook house.

In a request for a search warrant targeting the house, a detective wrote that "because of Perez, Maraglino and Lopez's unusual sexual fetishes I believe they may have accosted Killgore for these reasons."

Investigators seized as evidence sex toys and bondage equipment during searches of the home, the document said.

Police first arrested Perez. They later caught Lopez in a bloody hotel room as she was apparently in the middle of a suicide attempt.

A would-be suicide note signed with Lopez's name was found in the room. It included a confession to killing Killgore, attempting to saw off her hands, and dumping her body near a lake in Riverside County. The note also gave a glimpse of the threesome's practices.

"To Mistress," the letter said, "I have always lived to be your slave & pet. I'm sorry my last act is to leave this world without permission but I cannot bear your grief & my guilt at seeing Master go through this from my choice. I do not regret my choice, only the consequences. I die in honor, cloaked in my loyalty to my house, family, & that which is just."

The letter also made repeated mentions of trying to emulate "Dexter," the title character of a popular Showtime television series, in slaying Killgore and disposing of her body. "Dexter" is a calculating serial killer who targets people he considers to be immoral or criminal.

Based on the details made public to date, the suspects' sexual desires seem somewhat irrelevant to the killing, said Mary Andres, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Southern California who studies sexuality.

The psychologist has not spoken with anyone directly involved in the Killgore case. However, she said that Lopez's letter seemed to indicate that the suspects' bondage relationship fed Lopez's desperate hunger for a sense of family and stability.

Perez and Maraglino, as the dominant "Master" and "Mistress," took on authoritarian, parental-type roles. Lopez, as the submissive slave of the couple, filled a childlike role, and received boundaries and plenty of attention, Andres said.

Lopez may have seen Killgore as a threat to that family structure, Andres said.

Balance

The suspects' 24-hour bondage relationship involving three people, as described in court documents, is rare, Andres said.

A classic example of a functional bondage relationship is that of a high-powered businesswoman who comes home to her relaxed, artistic husband.

"She's the powerhouse of the relationship outside of the house, but when she comes home, she submits to him," Andres said. "Instead of coming home and resenting her husband for not being man enough, they play these roles where he is man enough."

Andres and other experts say the dominant-submissive relationship is a permanent lifestyle for some.

For others, bondage, domination and sado-masochism are a weekend diversion. They are a few hours of handcuffs, humiliation and spankings to relieve the tension and lift the spirits before Monday morning's stressful business meeting.

A bondage club near Los Angeles International Airport charges weary travelers $200 an hour for the sting of a dominant's discipline, according to its website. Customers can spend the night in the dungeon for an additional fee. Sex is prohibited.

Some consider BDSM inextricably linked to sex. Others consider it almost entirely non-sexual. It could involve a pair of fluffy handcuffs or an entire dungeon full of tools and toys, suspension devices, ropes, chains, whips and flogs. For those who enjoy it, the pain and humiliation blur with pleasure.

The most important aspect is the exchange of power. It satisfies something deeper than sexuality, adherents said.

The submissive person enjoys the freedom from responsibilities. The dominant person enjoys the dual roles of disciplining and nurturing the submissive.

But before anything happens, it's common practice to draw up a detailed contract to make sure neither party is subjected to anything that would make him or her uncomfortable.

Consensual, safe, sane

Most bondage groups embrace the mantra: consensual, safe and sane.

The relationship among Perez, Maraglino and Lopez described in court documents appeared to be consensual.

But safe or sane? Definitely not, said local sex coach Sayaka Adachi, who reviewed a copy of the apparent suicide letter after its release.

The bondage community is intensely private and fiercely accepting of just about any kink or desire a person could have. But it has standards, Adachi said.

Members self-regulate. Anyone who violates any of those three principles can be blacklisted.

She said the conservative suburbia of North County is far kinkier than it might like to admit.

Adachi, who holds a doctorate degree in human sexuality, is teaching a bondage class called "Fifty Shades of Curiosity" to groups of enthusiastic newcomers, spurred by a swell of interest in BDSM.

"The more conservative the people are, the kinkier they tend to be," she said. "But not out in the open."

'Very ordinary'

Several men and women involved in local BDSM communities declined to speak with a reporter over the past three weeks, saying they feared media attention.

Two women, however, agreed to speak on condition of anonymity: a 22-year-old professional submissive who calls herself Kitty and a 28-year-old "switch" ---- one who plays both dominant and submissive roles ---- who calls herself Mistress Bella.

Kitty said she has been involved in BDSM since she was 15. Bella said she has been involved since she was 17. Both said they had normal, healthy childhoods.

They said the bondage community does not tolerate anyone who causes real harm or injury to another.

"Hurting, on the other hand ---- that's what they're there for," Bella said.

Bella said she has "owned" a slave in the past. She would give the slave tasks and check to ensure they were completed. If not, Bella would punish her slave next time they met.

San Diego-based Club X is a social group that networks and supports those involved in BDSM or other fetishes.

"Our lives really are very ordinary," Club X board member "lyla" wrote in an email. "People who expect to find our days and nights filled with fantasy are quickly disillusioned. Safe, Sane and Consensual is about knowing the difference between fantasy and reality."

'What's really perverse'

Many in the community lament the popularity of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series. Its descriptions of BDSM practices are off, and the bondage-practicing characters have serious past trauma and psychological problems, fitting stereotypes that real practitioners have long sought to dispel.

On the other hand, the books can serve as conversation starters for the curious, Andres said. There is certainly a demand for such conversation-starters in North County.

About 1,200 people waited in line for hours at a Costco store in Carlsbad last month to get their copies of "Fifty Shades of Grey" signed, in person, by British author E.L. James. Store employees had to turn away more fans.

Experts said that America's culture swings between oppression and exploitation of sexuality. So the exposure of the bondage lifestyle opens up a door for fascination, as well as a door for condemnation.

Jonathan Alexander, a professor who studies sexuality and rhetoric at UC Irvine, said sensational headlines and horror stories like Killgore's slaying gain traction because they send the message: "See what happens if you experiment, or exceed the norm? It's going to go drastically bad."

"Ultimately," he said, "what's really perverse is not the sex people engage in, but how we talk about sex ---- not wanting to talk about it, but somehow desperately interested in it at the same time."

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