Two of three sadomasochists found guilty in the sex slaying of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The third suspect charged in Killgore’s brutal death will be sentenced come January.
In the spring of 2012, their victim was reportedly planning to leave her husband -- a soldier serving in Afghanistan -- when she was lured by acquaintance Louis Perez to an agonizing death.
Killgore’s last known text to one of her friends at Camp Pendleton where she lived at the time was a single-worded message for “help.”
Sadomasochist ringleader Perez had offered to assist Killgore with moving her belongings from the military base, after first taking her to dinner.
Instead, the former marine used a stun-gun, duct tape and other restraints to kidnap the young woman so that he and two deviant females could sexually assault her.
During that sadistic gang-rape and torture session Brittany Killgore died. Her naked corpse was discovered almost a week later dumped beside a lake.
Killgore’s sexual homicide is remarkably similar to another one that occurred later that same year in New Hampshire:
In October 2012, college student Elizabeth Marriott was victimized and slain after unknowingly accepting an invitation to lunch with a female classmate whose older live-in boyfriend was into heavy S&M.
The couple was tried and sentenced in the 19-year-old sophomore’s sex assault and death, even though her body has never been recovered.
Based on their original statements, prosecutors believe that the two jointly detained, raped and strangled Marriott when she refused to willingly comply with their BDSM plans.
They then crammed her remains into a suitcase and threw it into a fast-flowing river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Trials, Sentencing, Sex Crimes
