March 11, 2013
The three suspects in the murder of Brittany
Killgore, a Marine's wife whose naked and mutilated body was found
on the side of a California road, are scheduled to appear in court today for a
preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for them to stand
trial.
Camp Pendleton
Marine Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 46, Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 37, and Jessica
Lynn Lopez, 25, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Killgore
in April 2012. The defendants also face conspiracy, kidnapping and torture
charges.
The hearing, which
is being held in Vista Superior Court in Chula Vista, Calif., is expected to
last five days. All three suspects have pleaded not guilty.
Killgore, 22, of Fallbrook, Calif., disappeared April 13, 2012, after telling friends she was going out in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. Her body was found four days later, dumped near Lake Skinner in Riverside County, Calif.
Investigators said
the suspects, who had all lived together at one point in Fallbrook, had
interests in BDSM and had kidnapped Killgore, an unwilling participant, to act
out their fantasies.
Perez
picked up Killgore for a dinner cruise, prosecutors said, but instead took her
to his home against her will. He allegedly texted Lopez and Maraglino to join
them at the home, where there were ropes, whips, a taser, a nightstick, spiked
gloves and a sex dungeon, ABC News' San Diego affiliate KGTV reported.
Four days later,
investigators got a break in the case after paramedics were called to a San
Diego hotel, where Jessica Lynn Lopez was found with self-inflicted cuts,
prosecutors said.
Key to the case was
an apparent suicide note found in Lopez's hotel room at the time of her
arrest that described Killgore's fate and gave the location of her body. Hours
later, authorities located the mutilated remains.
Killgore filed for
a divorce from her husband, Cory Killgore, days before she disappeared.
Killgore was in Afghanistan at the time of his wife's murder and is not
considered a suspect.
An unidentified informant says that Killgore looks and sounds
like a transgender female to him.
If it looks like a transgender female, sounds like a transgender female, and acts like a transgender female. . . DOES A BEAR SHIT IN THE WOODS?
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