Two north San Diego County residents convicted in the grisly 2012 torture and slaying of a young military wife were sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
Former U.S. Marine staff sergeant Louis Perez, 49, along with Dorothy Grace Maraglino, 40, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 28, were convicted last month in the killing of Fallbrook residentPerez and Maraglino were sentenced to life behind bars Thursday, while Lopez is expected to be sentenced in January 2016.
Killgore's body was found naked and strangled in a Riverside County ravine four days after she was reported missing in April 2012. According to prosecutors, one of the most chilling details of the case included Killgore’s last text message to a friend —"Help" — sent shortly after getting into Perez’s truck. Perez was the last person to see Killgore alive, according to prosecutors, on April 13, 2012.
Higgins also read a statement on behalf of Killgore's father, who described the last time he saw his daughter and how the family was busy planning his daughter's move back home when she was killed. The father's statement went on to describe the pain he feels on a daily basis when he thinks about the torture his daughter experienced during her slaying.
At trial, prosecutors said Perez, Maraglino and Lopez lived together in a home in Fallbrook where police discovered a sex dungeon with whips, ropes, sex apparatuses, spiked collars and a Taser, among other items, used in their lifestyle of bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.
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